Amalie Dideriksen (Trek-Segafredo) had her sights set on Tuesday's first stage of the Tour of Scandinavia, as a sprint finish to Helsingør suited the 2016 world champion. Her team went all out for the local Danish sprinter, but Dideriksen had to start her sprint much earlier as Chloe Hosking, who was leading out 300 meters from the finish, was shaken off. Dideriksen could not keep up with the speed and finished in 6th place.

"You have to open when you can. I believed that until they passed me. Then I tried to get on Marianne's wheel, but someone (Megan Yastrab) was already there. It's just a shame it didn't work out," Dideriksen said after the stage.

At the start in Kongens Nytorv in central Copenhagen (just a few kilometers from his home in Amager), Dideriksen said he was not in great shape, but hoped the race on his home roads would give him a boost. In the final, Trek-Segafredo riders lined up at the front of the peloton, and she had the full support of her team.

"Of course it would be great to be on the podium and that was our goal," she said. 'Everyone was super motivated to get a chance on Danish soil. I'm proud of the race as a team and I think we did really well. It was just that the sprint was a little too long.

She also enjoyed Denmark's first women's World Tour race day. A month after the highly successful Tour de France men's Danish Grande Pearl, it was time for the women's peloton to test the Danish road.

"It was so big," Dideriksen said. 'I'd never seen anything like this before, and it was great to see the Danes along the way. I smiled a lot."

During the pre-stage team presentation at Kongens Nytorv, a large crowd cheered on all the riders, and naturally, Danish star Dideliksen, national champion and Tour de France femme stage winner Cecilie Uttrup-Ludwig (FDJ Suez Futuroscope) was given the biggest cheer.

Henrik Jess Jensen, president of the Danish Cycling Federation DCU, which co-sponsored the first stage of the Tour of Scandinavia, was pleased with the success of the stage. Roy Moberg (race director of the Tour of Scandinavia) and I had coffee six years ago and we decided to do something together. I believe that next year we will have more than one stage of the Tour of Scandinavia in Denmark," said Jess Jensen.

The Tour of Scandinavia will continue with a Swedish stage on Wednesday, followed by four stages in Norway.