2025 Amstel Gold Race Ladies Race Report: Mischa Bredewold won the Amstel Gold Race for Ladies. The Dutch rider of SD Worx-Protime was with a large leading group that surprised the favourites. Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) and Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) were second and third.
Can the late attack hold on?
Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) gets the beer
After last year’s changed Amstel Gold Race, due to an accident on the route, this year’s Amstel Gold Race for Ladies Edition of 157 kilometres was on a more ‘normal’ route. The women had an early start, just before 10am in Maastricht.
2025 Amstel Ladies map
Last year’s winner, Marianne Vos, was back again and was one of favourites, as was Lotte Kopecky and Demi Vollering.
2025 Amstel Ladies profile
There were a few difficult climbs in the early part of the race. The first serious attack came after around half an hour from Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (Fenix-Deceuninck). On the Maasberg, Solbjørk Minke (Uno-X Mobility), Gladys Verhulst-Wild (AG Insurance-Soudal), Marine Allione (Winspace Orange Seal), Manon de Boer (DD Group), Vera Tieleman (DD Group), Maud Rijnbeek (VolkerWessels), Allison Mrugal (Cynisca Cycling) and Nadia Quagliotto (Cofidis) joined the ex World cyclocross champion.
World and European champions at the start – Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes Lorena (SD Worx-Protime)
Despite a few counter-attacks, the break of the day had already taken off. But that didn’t end the chaos of the opening part of the race. Not long after, top favourite Demi Vollering crashed, but the Dutch rider was able to continue.
The start proper
The break of eight took a 2 minutes lead, but the peloton never gave up, so the escape was caught after two hours of racing, at the start of the four local laps, with the Cauberg as main difficulty. The peloton split into several bits, but it was only on the second time up the Cauberg, with about 55 kilometres to go, then the differences became bigger.
An early mechanical for Lotte Kopecky
The big favourites; Vollering, Kopecky, Vos and Elisa Longo Borghini had missed the move. Although, they all had teammates off front: FDJ-SUEZ had Juliette Labous and Amber Kraak, SD Worx-Protime had Blanka Vas, Mischa Bredewold and European champion Lorena Wiebes. Visma | Lease a Bike had Marion Brunel and Femke de Vries in the leading group, while Lidl-Trek had Anna Henderson and Ellen van Dijk.
The peloton on the Cauberg
The presence of Ashleigh Moolman (AG Insurance-Soudal), Puck Pieterse and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck), Brodie Chapman and Silvia Persico (UAE Team ADQ) and Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatly) was also interesting. Marianne Vos tried to jump across on her own, but the group of 25 was not waiting for anyone else.
Kopecky led Wiebes over the summit
Before the favourites could do anything, the gap to the peloton had grown to 1:30. The ‘Big Four’ were trapped by the presence of their teammates up front. FDJ-SUEZ tried for a while, but the initiative in the chase had to come mainly from Movistar for Liane Lippert and EF Education First-Oatly. This was to no avail and at the start of the final lap, the difference was almost 2 minutes.
Juliette Labous saw her moment come on the penultimate time on the Cauberg to thin out the large leading group. The French champion was followed by Puck Pieterse, but they were unable to build up a gap. On the Geulhemmerberg, it was those two who tried again. This time they were successful because top riders were in trouble, only Persico could make the jump to the two. The Dutch pair of Van Dijk and Bredewold kept fighting and came back to the three leaders with 12 kilometres to go. Bredewold took advantage of the situation to catch her breath. Then with 5 kilometres to go, no one could react to an attack from Ellen van Dijk. Bredewold was the only one who could jump and the two previously dropped riders were now ahead going towards the Cauberg.
The winning move?
With an 8 second lead, the two reached the important climb, after which Bredewold dropped her escape companion. Behind them, Labous was the strongest on the first steep slopes of the Cauberg, but Pieterse also came through towards the top. Together they did reach Van Dijk, but Bredewold had to keep fighting for a few metres lead to the final kilometre.
The win for Mischa Bredewold
The pursuers started to doubt in the last 500 metres. Bredewold was able to ride to her first top Classic win without any problems. She was European champion in 2023.
The sprint for second place went to Van Dijk
Race winner, Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime): “I really didn’t expect this. I was waiting for the moment that everything would fall into place. I’ve had a tough week mentally, but the team really managed to cheer me up and guide me through this difficult period. I’m so incredibly happy for the riders and staff. They know me so well. I have no idea… Top-level sport is not easy. It can be very challenging and tough at times. You put so much time and energy into it and then it just doesn’t work out. That feels unfair, even though it doesn’t work that way. It’s hard to win races. You need a team to win and that was the case today. The focus was on Lotte, but we always race as a team: creating opportunities and then seizing them. I was really struggling in the leading group, but suddenly it clicked. At one point Puck (Pieterse) and Juliette (Labous) took off. I just couldn’t follow, but Ellen (Van Dijk) then went on the counter-attack. I was able to keep up and we were able to close the gap again. I actually hate the Cauberg, but I had to go all out. This victory is so incredibly important to me. Fuck, this is the Amstel. It’s such a big race. This is really a fucking dream!”
The 2025 Ladies Amstel podium
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Amstel Gold Race Ladies Result:
1. Mischa Bredewold (Ned) SD Worx-Protime in 4:03:03
2. Ellen van Dijk (Ned) Lidl-Trek at 0:07
3. Puck Pieterse (Ned) Fenix-Deceuninck
4. Juliette (Fra) Labous FDJ-SUEZ
5. Silvia Persico (Ita) UAE Team ADQ at 0:09
6. Lorena Wiebes (Ned) SD Worx-Protime at 1:26
7. Alison Jackson (Can) EF Education-Oatly
8. Anna Henderson (GB) Lidl-Trek
9. Quinty Ton (Ned) Liv AlUla Jayco
10. Mara Roldan (Can) Team Picnic PostNL.
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