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2014 Holland Ladies Tour

The 2014 Boels Ladies Tour also known as the 2014 Holland Ladies Tour is the 17th edition of the Holland Ladies Tour, a women's cycle stage race in the Netherlands. The tour is part of the 2014 women's road cycling calendar and will be held from 2 September to 7 September. The tour has six stages, it starts with an individual trial over 10.1 km (6.3 mi) in Tiel and concludes with a hilly stage in Limburg. The tour has an UCI rating of 2.1.

Teams
20 teams of maximal 6 riders take part. ;UCI teams • • • • • • Alé–CipolliniHitec Products UCKAstana BePinkLotto–Belisol LadiesBigla Cycling TeamTIBCO–To The Top • ;Other teams • RC Jan van Arckel • De Jonge Renner • MIX Futurumshop Zannata-NWVG • Restore Cycling • ;National teams • Italy • United States • Belgium ==Stages==
Stages
Stage 1 (ITT) ;2 September – Varik to Tiel, on the podium in the orange leading jersey The first stage of the Boels Rental Ladies Tour was a time trial of over the dike between Varik and Tiel. The course was flat but there was head wind during the race. World Time Trial Champion Ellen van Dijk () won the time trial 12 seconds ahead of Lisa Brennauer and 24 seconds ahead of Trixi Worrack (both ). Van Dijk said after the race that the time trial was very hard and she started a bit too fast. Furthermore, she said that she was very happy with the victory. She invested a lot of time in the time trial the last period and was pleased that after several second places in time trials this year she now took home the victory. Stage 1 result & General classification Stage 2 ;3 September – Tiel to Tiel, before the finish the last two leaders Willeke Knol () en Carmen Small () were pulled back by the bunch. They were in the attack together with Anouska Koster (Futurumshop-NWVG) and Michela Pavin (Alé–Cipollini) for over . The race ended in a bunch sprint won by Lisa Brennauer () ahead of Jolien D'Hoore (Lotto–Belisol Ladies) and Marianne Vos (). Ellen van Dijk () kept her lead in the general classification. But with Brennauer taking 10 bonification seconds at the finish line, she is now less than a second in second place behind Van Dijk in the classification. Stage 3 ;4 September – Heeze to Leende, Stage 4 ;5 September – Gennep to Gennep, Stage 5 ;6 September – Wijchen to Wijchen, Stage 6 ;7 September – Bunde to Berg en Terblijt, ==Classification leadership==
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