Söderqvist wins the Hague prologue and is the first leader of the Eneco Tour

ByDavid Mitchell

He Swedish Jacob Söderqvist, from the Lidl-Trek teamis the first leader of the second edition of the Eneco Tour after winning this Tuesday the short 3.1 kilometer prologue drawn in Hague.

Söderqvist23 years old, set a winning time of 3:32.330 minutes at an average of 52.56 km/h and beat the second-placed Dutchman by just 750 thousandths Wessel Mouris (Unibet Rose Rockets)and by 1,410 seconds to the 2025 winner of the inaugural edition, the Frenchman Christiphe Laporte (Visma).

This Tuesday is the seventh victory as a professional (fourth in 2026), for Söderqvist, who leads the race with a margin of one second over Mouris and Laporte. This Wednesday the first stage, 120 km long, starts and finishes in Ede.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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