{"id":696913,"date":"2026-07-17T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:23:13","slug":"baloise-ladies-tour-redemption-for-charlotte-kool-with-stage-2-sprint-victory-and-overall-race-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696913\/","title":{"rendered":"Baloise Ladies Tour: Redemption for Charlotte Kool with stage 2 sprint victory and overall race lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-912a6d30-81f0-11f1-9e2a-35a7b478c13c\">Charlotte Kool (Fenix-Premier Tech) made up for the previous day&#8217;s loss by taking the sprint victory on stage 2 at the Baloise Ladies Tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch sprinter, who finished second on stage 1, stormed across the line ahead of runner-up Nienke Veenhoven (Visma- Lease a Bike) and third-placed Maike van der Duin (Canyon-SRAM) in Zulte.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-912a6d30-81f0-11f1-9e2a-35a7b478c13c-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Kool&#8217;s victory means that she moved to the top of the GC standings, taking the jersey from overnight leader Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt (Canyon-SRAM), and she is now five seconds ahead. Veenhoven is in third place at seven seconds back.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos From<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] block h-[18px] w-auto shrink-0 brightness-0 invert\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/flexiimages\/gmvwmhupgi1715762145.svg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] max-h-12 w-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The second stage of the Baloise Ladies Tour was a 130.4km race in Zulte that included two circuits at the start and then three circuits at the end of the stage.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-stage-2-results\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/>Stage 2 ResultsSwipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Position<\/p>\n<p>Rider (Country) Team<\/p>\n<p>Time Gap<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Kool (Ned) Fenix-Premier Tech<\/p>\n<p>3:09:30<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Nienke Veenhoven (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike<\/p>\n<p>Row 1 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Maike Van Der Duin (Ned) Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto<\/p>\n<p>Row 2 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>4<\/p>\n<p>Clara Copponi (Fra) Lidl-Trek<\/p>\n<p>Row 3 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>5<\/p>\n<p>Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SD Worx-Protime<\/p>\n<p>Row 4 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n<p>Jane Zoe Backstedt (GBr) Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto<\/p>\n<p>Row 5 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>7<\/p>\n<p>Linda Zanetti (Swi) Uno-X Mobility<\/p>\n<p>Row 6 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>8<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Baker (Aus) Liv AlUla Jayco<\/p>\n<p>Row 7 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>9<\/p>\n<p>Lonneke Uneken (Ned) Volkerwessels<\/p>\n<p>Row 8 &#8211; Cell 2 <\/p>\n<p>10<\/p>\n<p>Femke Gerritse (Ned) SD Worx-Protime<\/p>\n<p>Row 9 &#8211; Cell 2 <a id=\"elk-general-classification-after-stage-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/>General classification after stage 2Swipe to scroll horizontally<\/p>\n<p>Position<\/p>\n<p>Rider (Country) Team<\/p>\n<p>Time Gap<\/p>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Kool (Ned) Fenix-Premier Tech<\/p>\n<p>5:58:30<\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Zoe B\u00e4ckstedt (GBr) Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto<\/p>\n<p>0:00:05<\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>Nienke Veenhoven (Ned) Visma-Lease a Bike<\/p>\n<p>0:00:07<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Kool (Fenix-Premier Tech) made up for the previous day&#8217;s loss by taking the sprint victory on stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}