Holland Hills Classic

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Holland Hills Classic
Boels Rental Hills Classic logo.png
Race details
DateMay
Region Limburg, The Netherlands
DisciplineRoad race
TypeSingle day race
OrganiserStichting Holland Ladies Tour
Race directorThijs Rondhuis
Web site www.hollandhillsclassic.eu OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
History
First edition2004 (2004)
Editions13
Final edition2016 (2016)
First winnerFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Mirjam Melchers  (NED)
Most winsFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)(3 wins)
Final winnerFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lizzie Armitstead  (GBR) [1]

The Holland Hills Classic was a women's elite professional road bicycle race held annually between 2004 and 2016 in Limburg, the Netherlands. The race was categorised as a 1.1 UCI category race, and was organised by the Stichting Holland Ladies Tour, who also organised the Holland Ladies Tour.

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Sponsorship

For sponsorship reasons the race held the official titles of the Gulpen Hills Classic between 2004 and 2007, the Valkenburg Hills Classic in 2010, the Parkhotel Rooding Classic in 2011, the Parkhotel Valkenburg Hills Classic in 2012 and the Boels Rental Hills Classic from 2013 until 2016. [2]

History

In its first four years, the race was held in August with the start and finish in Gulpen. [3] From 2008 to 2013, the start and finish were held in Valkenburg aan de Geul [4] and in 2011 the race moved to the spring. From 2014, the start was in Sittard and the finish was on top of the Geulhemmerberg hill in Berg en Terblijt. [5]

In September 2016, shortly after the organisers of the Amstel Gold Race announced their inaugural women's race for 2017 on mainly the same parcours, in the same region and in the same part of the season, the main sponsor Boels Rental and race director Thijs Rondhuis said there would not be a Hills Classic in 2017. [6]

Past winners

YearFirstSecondThird
2004Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Mirjam Melchers  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Leontien van Moorsel  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Arenda Grimberg  (NED)
2005Flag of Norway.svg  Anita Valen De Vries  (NOR)Flag of Germany.svg  Trixi Worrack  (GER)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Arenda Grimberg  (NED)
2006Flag of Germany.svg  Theresa Senff  (GER)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Suzanne de Goede  (NED)
2007Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)Flag of Sweden.svg  Susanne Ljungskog  (SWE)Flag of Austria.svg  Andrea Graus  (AUT)
2008Flag of Germany.svg  Larissa Kleinmann  (GER)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Elisabeth Braam  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Vera Koedooder  (NED)
2009Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Petra Dijkman  (NED)Flag of Sweden.svg  Emma Johansson  (SWE)
2010Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Grace Verbeke  (BEL)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Chantal Blaak  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Iris Slappendel  (NED)
2011Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marieke van Wanroij  (NED)Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Jessie Daams  (BEL)
2012Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Annemiek van Vleuten  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Marianne Vos  (NED)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Sharon Laws  (GBR)
2013 Flag of South Africa.svg  Ashleigh Moolman  (RSA)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Annemiek van Vleuten  (NED)Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lizzie Armitstead  (GBR)
2014 Flag of Sweden.svg  Emma Johansson  (SWE)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Ellen van Dijk  (NED)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Amy Pieters  (NED)
2015 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lizzie Armitstead  (GBR)Flag of Sweden.svg  Emma Johansson  (SWE)Flag of Poland.svg  Katarzyna Niewiadoma  (POL)
2016 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Lizzie Armitstead  (GBR)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Annemiek van Vleuten  (NED)Flag of South Africa.svg  Ashleigh Moolman  (RSA)

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