Ellen van Dijk wins women's Dutch time trial title

BRUGES BELGIUM SEPTEMBER 20 Ellen Van Dijk of Netherlands sprints during the 94th UCI Road World Championships 2021 Women Elite a 3030km Individual Time Trial race from KnokkeHeist to Bruges flanders2021 ITT on September 20 2021 in Bruges Belgium Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images

Ellen Van Dijk (Image credit: Getty Images)

Ellen van Dijk added another Dutch time trial title to her long list of accolades in the discipline covering the 29.4km route in 35:55. The reigning Time Trial World Champion and World Hour Record holder beat her Trek-Segafredo teammate Shirin van Anrooij by 1:03 and Jumbo-Visma's Riejanne Markus by 1:38 in Emmen. Van Anrooij's efforts also secured her the under-13 women's time trial title.

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Kirsten Frattini is an honours graduate of Kinesiology and Health Science from York University in Toronto, Canada. She has been involved in cycling from the community and grassroots level to professional cycling's WorldTour. She has worked in both print and digital publishing, and started with Cyclingnews as a North American Correspondent in 2006. Moving into a Production Editor's role in 2014, she produces and publishes international race coverage for all men's and women's races including Spring Classics, Grand Tours, World Championships and Olympic Games, and writes and edits news and features. As the Women's Editor at Cyclingnews, Kirsten also coordinates and oversees the global coverage of races, news, features and podcasts about women's professional cycling.