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2nd Dutch Mountainbike Tour - D2

Netherlands, April 16-18, 2004

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The Stages

  • Prologue - April 16: Norg ITT, 5 km
  • Stage 1 - April 17: Norg - Norg, 34 km
  • Stage 2 - April 17: Appelscha - Appelscha, 52 km
  • Stage 3 - April 18: Norg - Norg, 80 km

2nd Dutch Mountainbike Tour

Starting on Friday, April 16 is the second edition of the Dutch Mountain Bike Tour, a three day race in the Netherlands. The only mountain bike stage race in the country will open with a 5 km prologue time trial on Friday, followed by two stages on Saturday: Norg-Norg (34 km) and Appelscha-Appelscha (50 km). Sunday's third stage will be the hardest, consisting of 80 kilometres over cobblestones, through sand, woods, dirt and possibly mud.

A competitive field has been assembled for this year's event, including Mary McConneloug (USA), Ivonne Kraft (Germany), Mette Andersen (Denmark), Elsbeth Vink (Netherlands), Anna Baylis (Australia) and 2002 Dutch Mountain bike Tour winner Daphny van den Brand (Netherlands) in the women's category, and Thijs Al (Netherlands), Maarten Tjallingii (Netherlands), Thomas Spichtig (Switzerland), Fredrik Ericsson (Sweden) and Christian Poulsen (Denmark) in the men's division.

Start list

Coming!

Past winners

2002 Bart Brentjens (Ned)