The Women's time trial of the 2012

Dutch National Time Trial Championships The Dutch National Time Trial Championship is a time trial race that takes place inside the Dutch National Cycling Championship, and decides the best cyclist in this type of race. The first edition took place in 1991. The first race winner of the ...

cycling event took place on 20 June 2012 in and around

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. The first women started at 17:00. The course was 22.65 km. The time trial started in

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, the

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of Emmen, besides the African savanna. It was the first time in history a cycle race started in a

. Riders rode along the zebras, giraffes, rhinos and hippos.

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() became for the second time in her career Dutch national time trial Champion. She won also the title in

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finished 14 seconds ahead of

Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI ...

(

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) and 67 seconds of

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(Rabobank).

Results

Final classification

*Age at the day of the competition. Results from uci.ch and knwu.nl

Starting order

Startlist from knwu.nl.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:2012 Dutch National Time Trial Championships - Women's time trial Dutch National Time Trial Championships 2012 in women's road cycling