Tour de Normandie Féminin: Ellen van Dijk wins opening time trial

Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) wins opening stage time trial to take overall lead at 2024 Tour de Normandie Féminin
Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) wins opening stage time trial to take overall lead at 2024 Tour de Normandie Féminin (Image credit: Tour de Normandie Féminin)

Three-time individual time trial World Champion Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) proved unbeatable in her specialty and won the opening stage of the Tour de Normandie Féminin on Thursday.

She took the hot seat after 62 other riders completed the 10.3km course in a time of 13:32 and secured a second ITT win in two efforts this season. She took the first leader’s jersey for the four-day stage race.

Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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