Dylan Groenwegen of LottoNL-Jumbo has won the opening stage of the Eneco Tour.
This race which straddles both Belgium and The Netherlands started with a 187.4km stage that started and finished in Bolsward.
There was a strong field for this race and out of the peloton - Matteo Bono, Laurens De Vreese, Bert Van Lerberghe, Brian Van Goethem and Frederik Backaert got away and took a lead of four minutes.
Van Lerberghe took the first Primus Checkpoint with 158kms to go as the gap started to drop.
With fifty kilometres left, the gap was down to 2.30 but the break were able to stay clear to contest the Golden Kilometre sprints with 20kms left.
Backaert took the first two and Dr Vreese the third as the gap continued to fade away and with three kilometres left, the peloton had caught them.
That set up the sprint and it was LottoNL-Jumbo's Dylan Groenewegen who won ahead in 4.14.00 ahead of Nacer Bouhanni, Peter Sagan, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Alexander Kristoff.
The 23-year-old Groenewegen leads the race by four seconds ahead of Bouhanni and Backaert.