Baloise Ladies Tour: Lucinda Brand grabs race lead with stage 3b time trial victory

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Charlotte Kool finishes 19th drops to fifth place on penultimate stage

Lucinda Brand (Trek Segafredo)
Lucinda Brand (Trek Segafredo) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek) set the fastest time at the individual time trial to win stage 3b Saturday at the Baloise Women's Tour.  The Dutch rider clocked a time of 22:43 on the 17.1km course and took over the top of the general classification with one stage to go.

Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma) finished second on the stage, 13 seconds from the winner and Emma Norsgaard (Movistar) took third. 

Brand leads the general classification on Norsgaard and Henderson, both tied at 24 seconds in arrears. 

Winner of four stages and leader going into the time trial, Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich), finished 19th on stage 3b, and dropped to fifth place overall, 1:05 back.

The  Baloise Women's Tour concludes on Sunday with the 121.1km flat stage 4 in Deinze. 

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Lyne Lamoureux
Lyne Lamoureux

Lyne has been involved in professional cycling for more than 15 years in both news reporting and sports marketing. She founded Podium Insight in 2008, quickly becoming a trusted source for news of the North American professional cycling world. She was the first to successfully use social media to consistently provide timely and live race updates for all fans. She is proud to have covered men's and women's news equally during her tenure at the helm of the site. Her writing has appeared on Cyclingnews and other news sites. 

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