The Women's under-23 time trial at the 2009 European Road Championships took place on July 1.

Van Dijk completed the 28-kilometre course in a time of 36:41 (41.1 km/h), beating Swedish Emilia Fahlin, her teammate, by 20 seconds.

She was very happy with the result because she suffered a concussion in April and was unable to cycle for almost six weeks, lowering her expectations for success.

[1] "I am very happy, of course, I was very insecure about my fitness, but it seems I was able to succeed today, even after the lost training time.

The uphill was at a very important part of the course where you can easily lose a couple of seconds, but the wind was behind me, so that was a bit of help.