Simac Ladies Tour 2025
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Simac Ladies Tour: Lorena Wiebes dominates with fifth sprint victory on stage 6 finale and claims overall title
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Simac Ladies Tour: Zoe Bäckstedt storms to stage 5 time trial victory as Lorena Wiebes retains overall lead
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Simac Ladies Tour stage 4: Lorena Wiebes continues clean sweep with stage 4 sprint win
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Date | September 2-7, 2025 |
Start location | Leuven |
Finish location | Lichtenvoorde |
Distance | 658.2 km |
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Previous winner | Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) |






Stage 6: Lorena Wiebes dominates with fifth sprint victory on stage 6 finale and claims overall title
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), once again, dominated the sprint with a fifth victory on stage 6 at the Simac Ladies Tour, where she also claimed the overall title for the second time in her career.
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.
Stage 4: Lorena Wiebes continues clean sweep with sprint win
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) swept to a fourth consecutive win on stage 4 of the Simac Ladies Tour, meaning she has claimed every stage in the 2025 race so far.
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.
Stage 3: Lorena Wiebes wins as echelons tear field apart
No one could answer Lorena Wiebes' (SD Worx-Protime) dominant sprint as she took another commanding victory on stage 3 at the Simac Ladies Tour.
The European Champion was part of a 17-rider front echelon that split off the peloton through strong crosswinds in the first 40km of the race, and that gained more than seven minutes on the rest of the peloton.
Stage 2: Lorena Wiebes wins two in a row
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) took her second consecutive victory at the Simac Ladies Tour following a day which saw the peloton repeatedly split in crosswinds, as Clara Copponi (Lidl-Trek), who finished in second, and Megan Jastrab (Team Picnic-PostNL), who rounded out the podium in third.
Stage 1: Lorena Wiebes smashes opening stage 1 sprint
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.
Join Cyclingnews' coverage of the 2025 Simac Ladies Tour with race reports, results, photo galleries, news and race analysis.
Simac Ladies Tour route
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
Date | Stage | Start time | Finish time |
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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 |
Simac Ladies Tour start list
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Top News on the Race
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Simac Ladies Tour jury mistake, confusion puts Lorena Wiebes out of European Champion's jersey on stage 3
SD Worx-Protime sprinter wears team-issued jersey into Zeewolde, set to wear green points jersey on stage 4 -
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Lieke Nooijen confirms rising time trial talent after beating big names at Simac Ladies Tour
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Niewiadoma's all-out approach to Cauberg comes up short at Simac Ladies Tour
'I had to bow down to Lotte and Wiebes' says Canyon-SRAM rider, pleased with third place on stage 4
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Simac Ladies Tour long-range stage 3 break caught but still gathers rewards
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'It would be very nice to get my first WorldTour victory photo in this jersey' says new world champion at Simac Ladies Tour
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