The Holland Hills Classic was a women's elite professional road bicycle race held annually between 2004 and 2016 in Limburg, the Netherlands. The race was categorised as a 1.1 UCI category race, and was organised by the Stichting Holland Ladies Tour, who also organised the Holland Ladies Tour.

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Holland Hills Classic

Race details
Date	May
Region	Limburg, The Netherlands
Discipline	Road race
Type	Single day race
Organiser	Stichting Holland Ladies Tour
Race director	Thijs Rondhuis
Web site	www.hollandhillsclassic.eu
History
First edition	2004 (2004)
Editions	13
Final edition	2016 (2016)
First winner	Mirjam Melchers (NED)
Most wins	Marianne Vos (NED) (3 wins)
Final winner	Lizzie Armitstead (GBR)[1]

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For sponsorship reasons the race held the official titles of the Gulpen Hills Classic between 2004 and 2007, the Valkenburg Hills Classic in 2010, the Parkhotel Rooding Classic in 2011, the Parkhotel Valkenburg Hills Classic in 2012 and the Boels Rental Hills Classic from 2013 until 2016.^[2]

In its first four years, the race was held in August with the start and finish in Gulpen.^[3] From 2008 to 2013, the start and finish were held in Valkenburg aan de Geul^[4] and in 2011 the race moved to the spring. From 2014, the start was in Sittard and the finish was on top of the Geulhemmerberg hill in Berg en Terblijt.^[5]

In September 2016, shortly after the organisers of the Amstel Gold Race announced their inaugural women's race for 2017 on mainly the same parcours, in the same region and in the same part of the season, the main sponsor Boels Rental and race director Thijs Rondhuis said there would not be a Hills Classic in 2017.^[6]