Baloise Ladies Tour: Lorena Wiebes takes leader's jersey with dominant prologue victory

Baloise Ladies Tour 2024: Lorena Wiebes of Team SD Worx-Protime rides fastest time in the Prologue (Image credit: Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

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In her first race since the Dutch National Championships in June, Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) won the prologue at the Baloise Ladies Tour to take the event's first leader's jersey.

Wiebes covered the 2.7km individual time trial course in Hulst with the fastest time of 3:16. She beat runner-up Fien Van Eynde (Fenix-Deceuninck Development), third-placed Charlotte Kool and fourth-placed Pfeiffer Georgi (both Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), all by five seconds.

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