Lisa Klein (Canyon-SRAM) took her first-ever stage race overall win on Sunday at the Healthy Ageing Tour in the Netherlands. The 22-year-old German rider won the title by eight seconds over Ellen van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo) and by 31 seconds ahead of Kirsten Wild (WNT-Rotor). `I`m overwhelmed and incredibly happy. I still really can`t believe it. My first victory as a professional [that wasn`t a prologue or youth jersey] and it`s a stage race win,` Klein said in a team statement. Klein took the overall lead of the four-day, five-stage race after placing second to Van Dijk in the stage 4a time trial on Saturday, fulfilling a major goal. `I came into this tour with the goal of winning the ITT stage. It was ambitious, but that`s what I had in my mind. In the end, my second place there set me up for this stage race win. I`m ecstatic,` Klein said.ADVERTISEMENT With help from her teammates, she defended the lead in the remaining two road stages, stage 4b on Saturday afternoon and stage 5 on Sunday. `We were a small team, but I`m really proud of my teammates,` Klein said. `It`s the first time I`ve been in a position of wearing a leader`s jersey on the final stage and having to defend it. I have to admit, I was nervous and probably impatient at times today which wasted some energy. But in the end we made it.` The team`s Christa Riffel and newcomer Ella Harris crashed in the opening stage. Harris is scheduled to have surgery to correct a broken collarbone this week.
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