The Team DSM rider, with the help of her team-mate and local rider Pfeiffer Georgi, won the third stage of the race comfortably ahead of Alex Manly of Team BikeExchange-Jayco and Coryn Labecki of Team Jumbo-Visma in 2 hours 51 min 27 sec.

With today’s win, Wiebes is currently in possession of the yellow jersey and has won four of the last six stages at the Women's Tour since last year.

"Today was a hard stage, with attacks from the beginning of the race," said Wiebes after the race.

"The girls did a great job reacting to them all.

"On the first climbs we were in good position and Leah [Kirchmann] and Franzi [Koch] kept the pace up because of the breakaway.

"On the second last climb I was with Charlotte [Kool] and Pfeiffer [Georgi] in the second group but when we started the last climb they brought it back to the first group.

"The peloton then split again and Megan [Jastrab] and I ended up in the group of chasers.

"Megan did a really strong effort to bring me back to the lead group and things then slowed.

"In the last five kilometres Pfeiffer and Megan came back to the front and did a great lead out in finale and I’m really happy to finish it off for them.

"I’m really proud of the girls again and all the work they did today. We will go all-in tomorrow to try and make it three."

Stage four of the Women’s Tour is scheduled to take place in Wales tomorrow and day after with riders facing a trip from Wrexham to Welshpool, featuring more than 2,100 metres of ascent over 144.7 kilometres followed by a 106.4-kilometre stage from Carmarthenshire to Black Mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park, which will see a seven-kilometre climb.