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Victor Campenaerts wins the Eneco Tour

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Victor Campenaerts won the Eneco Tour, his first multi-day race victory, after taking the lead into the final stage. The 34-year-old Belgian said he had been prepared to leave the race and drive back to Belgium if his partner Nel went into labor, as they are expecting their second child. He said the final stage was expected to end in a bunch sprint, making it relatively straightforward to retain the leader’s jersey, and that he could now attend the birth.

Campenaerts joined Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025 primarily to support Jonas Vingegaard. He said winning the Eneco Tour was significant, although victories in the Tour de France or Giro d’Italia would rank higher for him, and described the team’s support during the race as a privilege.

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Eneco Tour cycling race

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The six-day Eneco Tour brought women’s and men’s races together on the same routes, beginning with a prologue in The Hague in which starts by women and men alternated. Lieke Nooijen won the women’s prologue and later reclaimed the overall lead by winning the Tilburg time trial. She retained the lead after Femke Markus won the Sittard-Watersley stage and Letizia Borghesi won the VAM mountain stage. Nooijen began the final stage around Arnhem with a 38-second advantage over Markus. Jakob Söderqvist led the men’s classification after winning both the prologue and the Tilburg time trial, but Victor Campenaerts was reported as the men’s leader at the start of the final stage. No final overall results were reported. Organisers equalised prize money for the women’s and men’s races after criticism that the original amounts differed. During the women’s final stage, a video report showed a major crash in the peloton, without giving further details on injuries or its effect on the race.

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Per Strand Hagenes wins Paris-Tours

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Per Strand Hagenes of Visma-Lease a Bike won the 120th edition of Paris-Tours, a 216.2-kilometre race. The Norwegian attacked from a reduced and unsettled leading group in the final kilometre and held on to win. Jasper Stuyven finished second and Hagenes’s teammate Christophe Laporte third. Laporte had won the race in 2024.

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Bauke Mollema's retirement at the Tour of Lombardy

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Bauke Mollema ended his professional cycling career at the Tour of Lombardy, his final race after 19 seasons. The 39-year-old Dutch rider, who won the Italian classic in 2019, finished 114th and last among the classified finishers in the 239-kilometre race from Bergamo to Como. He was 21 minutes and 16 seconds behind winner Paul Seixas, according to one report. Mollema said after the race that he was exhausted and glad it was over. He became emotional during his farewell. Before the start, he and four other retiring riders—Pello Bilbao, Rudy Mollard, Odd Christian Eiking and Ion Izagirre—were honoured with a guard of honour and a framed picture. Mollema said he does not yet know what he will do after cycling and wants to spend time with his family and enjoy life.