Simac Ladies Tour 2025

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Simac Ladies Tour

Date

September 2-7, 2025

Start location

Leuven

Finish location

Lichtenvoorde

Distance

658.2 km

Previous edition

2024 Simac Ladies Tour

Previous winner

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx)

Stage 5: Zoe Bäckstedt storms to stage 5 time trial victory

For the second year running, British TT Champion Zoe Bäckstedt has taken the time trial stage of the Simac Ladies Tour, with race leader Lorena Wiebes (SDWorx-Protime) losing 33 seconds on the young Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto rider but easily retaining her top spot overall.

She beat Chiara Consonni (Canyon//SRAM Zondacrypto) into second place and Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance–Soudal Team) into third in the closest sprint finale so far.

Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx–Protime) sealed her 18th victory of the season on stage 1 of the Simac Ladies Tour in Leuven, beating Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) and breakaway rider Pfeiffer Georgi (Team Picnic PostNL). Wiebes will wear the event's first leader's jersey into stage 2 on Wednesday.

Simac Ladies Tour overview

The Simac Ladies Tour, formerly called the Holland Ladies Tour and the Boels Ladies Tour, will have its 27th edition in 2025, starting earlier this year on September 2 and ending September 7.

The six-stage Women's WorldTour stage race is held in the Netherlands and is one of the final events in the series, which concludes in October with the Tour of Guangxi.

Former winners include Lotte Kopecky, Leontien van Moorsel, Petra Rosner, Kristin Armstrong, Annemiek van Vleuten, Lorena Wiebes, to name a few, while Marianne Vos has won the overall title four times.

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Simac Ladies Tour route

ZEEWOLDE NETHERLANDS OCTOBER 10 A general view of Lotte Kopecky of Belgium and Team SD Worx Protime and the peloton passing through a landscape during the 26th Simac Ladies Tour 2024 Stage 3 a 1484km stage from Zeewolde to Zeewolde UCIWWT on October 10 2024 in Zeewolde Netherlands Photo by Luc ClaessenGetty Images

Along the road of the Simac Ladies Tour 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)

The Simac Ladies Tour 2025 route covers 658.2 kilometres across six days of racing, beginning on Tuesday with a circuit around Leuven which the peloton will tackle 11 times and of and finishing in Lichtenvoorde on Sunday.

Simac Ladies Tour 2025 Schedule

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Date

Stage

Start time

Finish time

September 2, 2025

Stage 1: Leuven-Leuven, 81.3km

13:00

14:52

September 3, 2025

Stage 2: Gennep-Gennep, 124.5km

13:00

16:00

September 4, 2025

Stage 3: Zeewolde-Zeewolde, 160.1km

12:00

15:55

September 5, 2025

Stage 4: Alkmaar-Alkmaar, 125.8km

12:00

15:00

September 6, 2025

Stage 5: Doetinchem – Westendorp, 10.2km ITT

12:15

14:30

September 7, 2025

Stage 6: Lichtenvoorde-Lichtenvoorde, 156.3km

12:00

15:40

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