Saturn’s Petra Rossner scored her third successive stage win at the women’s Tour of the Netherlands on Thursday, taking the first of the day’s two stages, a wind-blown 85-kilometer road race in Bergeijk.

Rossner, who earned stage wins on both Tuesday and Wednesday, now leads the six-day, seven-stage event by 16 seconds over Vlaanderen’s Debbie Mansveld and 29 over Acca Due’s Diana Ziliute. That lead may endangered, however, later on Thursday as competitors take on a 26-kilometer time-trial, one of Ziliute’s specialities. With such a slim margin in the overall standings between the top five riders on GC, the morning's race continued with the ongoing battle time bonuses at the day’s intermediary and final sprints. Rossner’s Saturn squad rode patrol at the front of the field ensuring that the stage would finish in a sprint.

Rossner won both the intermediate sprint and the final sprint. Saturn’s Anna Millward finished second in the stage as well. Rossner also leads the sprint classification (Green Jersey).

Stage 5A
1. Petra Rossner (G), Saturn; 2. Anna Millward (Aus), Saturn; 3. Debbie Mansveld, (Nl), Vlaanderen.

Overall after stage 5A
1. Rossner; 2. Mansveld, at 0:16; 3. Diana Ziliute (Rus), at 0:29.