Blaak leads Women's WorldTour after Amstel Gold victory - Women's news shorts

Chantal Blaak (Boels Dolmans) moved into the lead of the Women's WorldTour after winning Amstel Gold Race on Sunday. The Boels Dolmans rider leads the ranking with 538 points. Two teammates follow her in the rankings, with Amy Pieters in second at 455 points and Anna van der Breggen in third with 408 points.

Amstel Gold Race marks Blaak's first win of the series this season, which Boels Dolmans has dominated so far. Pieters won Ronde van Drenthe and Van der Breggen won Strade Bianche and Tour of Flanders. As for the other rounds, Jolien D'hoore (Mitchelton-Scott) won Driedaagse de Panne, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) won Trofeo Alfredo Binda and Marta Bastianelli (Ale Cipollini) won Gent-Wevelgem.

The Women's WorldTour will continue with Flèche Wallonne on April 18 and Liège-Bastogne-Liège on April 22.

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Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott) sprinted to third place at Amstel Gold Race after animating what turned out to be the race-winning breakaway. Spratt was one of the eight riders who went clear of a splitting peloton mid-race, and then her attacks on the final climb up Cauberg helped create the three-rider lead group that sprinted for the win.

Chantal Blaak (Boels-Dolmans) won, with Lucinda Brand (Team-Sunweb) and Spratt third.

"It took a while for a move to go and there were three or four moves that I followed before one actually stuck, and the fifth one I just latched on to the back and that was the group of eight that stayed away," Spratt said in a team press release.

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