The Holland Ladies Tour
[http://www.hollandladiestour.nl/ Official site] is a women's elite professional
road bicycle racing
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stage race
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held annually in September since 1998 in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons the
2011 race was officially titled the Profile Ladies Tour, the
2012 race the BrainWash Ladies Tour, from
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
to
2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
as the
Boels Rental
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Ladies Tour, and since
2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
as the Simac Ladies Tour. The race was not held in 2020.
Past winners
References
Recurring sporting events established in 1998
1998 establishments in the Netherlands
Cycle races in the Netherlands
Women's road bicycle races
UCI Women's World Tour races
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