Demi Vollering (FDJ United-SUEZ) rides solo toward the win (Image credit: Getty Images)

Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) won the women's Tour of Flanders in style, attacking on the Oude Kwaremont with 18km to go for a solo victory. Behind Vollering, Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Premier Tech) dropped Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) on the Paterberg, but the Frenchwoman returned on the run-in to the finish. After cooperating to hold off the chasing group, Ferrand-Prévot came past Pieterse in the sprint for second place.

A front group of 20 riders had formed on the Koppenberg, and Vollering's teammates Franzi Koch, Elise Chabbey, and Célia Gery worked hard to keep the pace high into the Oude Kruisberg, where Koch pushed hard before Vollering attacked on the Hotond climb that immediately followed.

Pieterse, Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), Ferrand-Prévot, and Koch could just follow the European champion's acceleration, but there was a regrouping on the descent before the Oude Kwaremont.

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