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Tour de France Femmes 2024

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns for a third year with its first foreign Grand Départ in the Netherlands and a stage to Alpe d'Huez

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Tour de France Femmes

• Dates 12 Aug - 18 Aug
• Race Length 946 kms
• Race Category Elite Women

Updated: January 29, 2024

Everything you need to know about the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2024

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is the biggest stage race in women’s professional cycling, and will take place from August 12 to August 18 in 2024, slightly after the men’s race to accommodate the Paris 2024 Olympics. As the name suggests, the Tour de France Femmes is the women’s version of the world’s most famous cycling race, the Tour de France . Though shorter, at eight stages, it takes in a similar format to the men’s event, featuring sprinting, time trials and decisive mountain stages in the iconic French mountains.

Along with the Giro d'Italia Women and the Vuelta Femenina , the Tour de France Femmes is part of the trio of races that make up the women's equivalent Grand Tours, and are the most important stage races on the calendar .

The Tour de France Femmes and its yellow jersey are the domain of the biggest names in the women’s peloton, with Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx) winning the first two editions respectively, whilst Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx), Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) have all won stages and worn the famous maillot jaune.

In 2024, the race will head into its third edition, and the next step as ASO look to build a long-lasting and growing race that will be at the centre of women’s cycling for years to come. The biggest step-up for the 2024 edition will be the race’s first foreign Grand Départ, as the Tour heads to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. What will follow will be eight varied stages over seven days of racing, before a climb-heavy finale in the Alps that will decide the third winner of the Tour de France Femmes.

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Tour de France Femmes 2024 schedule, past results & previous winners

When is the Tour de France Femmes 2024? The Tour de France Femmes will start on August 12, 2024 and finish on August 18, 2024.

Where does the Tour de France Femmes take place? The Tour de France Femmes will take place primarily in France, but in 2024 the race will start in the Netherlands, its first-ever foreign Grand Départ.

Who won the Tour de France Femmes in 2023? The 2023 race was won by Demi Vollering (SD Worx) ahead of her teammate Lotte Kopecky, and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM). Vollering took the lead with a big victory on the Col du Tourmalet.

Who won the first Tour de France Femmes? The first edition of the Tour de France Femmes in 2022 was won by Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) after a commanding performance on the mountainous final weekend.

Tour de France Femmes 2024 route: Alpe d'Huez finale awaits after Dutch départ

The route for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will feature the most famous Alpine climb of them all, Alpe d'Huez, for the first time in its history.

After departing Rotterdam, the Tour de France Femmes' first Grand Départ, the route offers something for everyone with sprint opportunities and a 6.3km-long time trial before a decisive doubleheader in the Alps.

The full route of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift was officially revealed on October 25 by race organisers ASO. Taking in three countries over seven days and eight stages, the race has a total distance of 946.3km - the shortest overall route so far in the race's history.

The most eye-catching feature of the route for the 3rd edition of the Tour de France Femmes is the inclusion of Alpe d'Huez, a somewhat logical next step after the first two editions featured the Planche des Belles Filles and Col du Tourmalet as their respective Queen stages.

However, neither offer the test that the Alpe provides. At 13.8km in length and with an average gradient of 8.5% across its 21 famous hairpins, the climb is the perfect place to determine the third owner of Tour de France Femmes' maillot jaune. Stage 8 includes 3,900m of climbing in total, with the Col du Glandon serving as the highest point across the eight stages at 1,924m.

The Tour de France Femmes will culminate atop Alpe d'Huez for the first time

It's not just the final day that will test the climbers though, with four mountain ranges included in the 2024 route: the Ardennes, Vosges, Jura and Alps. Stage 7 on the penultimate day is likely to serve as a perfect warm-up for the Queen stage, leaving the Jura and tackling five categorised climbs on the way to Le Grand-Bornand.

Before the weekend finale in the mountains though, there's Classics-style days and a short time trial to contend with for the riders.

A Dutch Grand Départ in Rotterdam, the largest port city in the world, will offer sprint opportunities from the get-go, provided crosswinds from the North Sea don't blow the race apart. A split stage on day two features a short individual time trial in the afternoon, much less decisive than last year's final day TT though. At 6.3km and tackled on wide, non-technical roads, it will be a stage for the specialists to flourish.

Leaving the Netherlands behind on stage 4, the race will enter the north of France via Belgium, with a Classics-style 122km stage from Valkenburg to Liège swamped in history. The Cauberg, Geulhemmerberg and two ascents of the Bemmelerberg are tackled early on before some of Liège-Bastogne-Liège's most iconic climbs are thrown into the mix for good measure too. Mont-Theux, the Côte de la Redoute, the Côte des Forges and the Côte de la Roche aux Faucons all feature before a downhill finish in Liège.

With this mixture of Classics-style and high mountains stages, the 2024 Tour de France Femmes is spoiling us in terms of entertainment. What it lacks in length being 14km shorter than the 2023 edition and 67km less than the inaugural route, it makes up for in diversity with opportunities for just about any rider, whether that be on the cobbles of the Ardennes or the steep slopes of Alpe d'Huez.

Who are the riders to watch at the Tour de France Femmes 2024?

As the biggest stage race on the women’s calendar, the Tour de France Femmes is the race that everyone wants to go to, and as a result we can expect a star-studded list of all the very best riders to line up in Rotterdam next August. Some will be just happy to start, but others will be targeting stage wins, a jersey, or the overall.

Atop the list of riders to watch will most certainly be defending overall champion Demi Vollering (SD Worx). In the absence of 2022 winner Annemiek van Vleuten, Vollering will be the only former winner of the race in the bunch, and will have her eyes set firmly on a second-consecutive victory. With easily the best stage racing pedigree of the current pros, and the world’s best team surrounding her, it’s not hard to imagine that the Dutchwoman will pull that feat off.

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Demi Vollering improved on her second place in 2022 to win the 2023 Tour de France Femmes

Hoping to improve on her back-to-back third-place finishes will be Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), who looks likely to be one of Vollering’s main rivals. The Polish rider excelled on the Tourmalet stage of the 2023 race, and is the kind of rider who can be there on the climbs but also - crucially - be aggressive on the punchier stages, which is important when it comes to winning a week-long race such as the Tour.

Who will win the 2024 Tour de France Femmes?

Demi Vollering

Katarzyna Niewiadoma

Juliette Labous

Elisa Longo Borghini

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Marta Cavalli

Mavi Garcia

Outside of the riders who already have wins and podium finishes under their belt, there is a big group of riders who will be hoping to step onto the Tour podium for the first time in 2024. FDJ-SUEZ will have Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Marta Cavalli to choose between, Jayco-AlUla will look to new arrival Mavi García to chase the overall, whilst dsm-firmenich will be counting on home favourite Juliette Labous, who often shines in stage races.

As a team, Lidl-Trek have perhaps the most options: will Giro d’Italia Donne podium finisher Gaia Realini make her debut? Could Elisa Longo Borghini make a proper attempt at the overall? Or will proven climber Amanda Spratt be their leader? With plenty of strength and options for stage wins too, the American team will be hoping to challenge SD Worx and Demi Vollering’s grip on this race.

Which teams are racing the Tour de France Femmes 2024?

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes will see all 15 Women’s WorldTour teams line up for the start in the Netherlands, plus the two highest-ranked Continental teams , and a selection of five other Continental teams, most likely including several French squads.

• dsm-firmenich
• Canyon-SRAM
• UAE Team ADQ
• Jumbo-Visma
• Jayco-AlUla
• Fenix-Deceuninck
• Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling
• AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step
• Israel Premier Tech Roland
• Human Powered Health
• Cofidis (TBC)
• Tashkent City (TBC)
• EF Education-Cannondale (TBC)
• Lifeplus-Wahoo (TBC)
• Arkéa Pro Cycling (TBC)
• St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 (TBC)
• Team Coop-Hitec Products (TBC)

Tour de France Femmes jerseys

The jersey winners at the 2023 Tour de France Femmes

The special jerseys and classifications at the women’s Tour de France are exactly the same as the ones on offer at the men’s race, bar a slight change in eligibility for the young riders’ jersey.

Yellow jersey (maillot jaune) - the iconic Tour de France yellow jersey is given to the overall leader of the general classification, the rider who has completed the stages so far in the shortest time possible.

Polka dot jersey (maillot à pois) - the polka dot jersey is awarded to the leader of the Queen of the Mountains competition. Rather than time, this competition is based on points, with varying tallies of points available for the first rider to the summit of each categorised climb on the route.

Green jersey (maillot vert) - the green jersey denotes the sprint competition, and is once again decided on points, with scoring available at the finishes of stages and intermediate sprints, with the finishes of flat stages carrying the bulk of the points.

White jersey (maillot blanc) - the white jersey goes to the best young rider in the general classification. At the Tour de France Femmes, a young rider is defined as those 23 and under.

What happened in the Tour de France Femmes 2023?

The Tour de France Femmes 2023 was won by Demi Vollering, who took the yellow jersey from her teammate Lotte Kopecky by winning the climactic Col du Tourmalet stage, after Kopecky had put in an impressive performance to lead the race up until that point.

After taking nearly two minutes on the Tourmalet, all Vollering had to do was defend that lead on the final-day time trial around Pau, and she duly did, finishing behind stage winner and teammate Marlen Reusser to secure her win and upgrade her second-place finish from 2022.

Though the likes of Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes did win stages, the race will also be remembered for the string of underdog wins that defined the middle of week. Young riders Yara Kastelijn and Ricarda Bauernfeind both took maiden WorldTour wins in France with impressive solo performances, whilst a spirited breakaway ride from Emma Norsgaard saw her hold off the peloton on the line to win the sixth stage.

To explore all the results, highlights and stories from the 2023 Tour de France Femmes, head over to our race home.

Tour de France Femmes history

With how prestigious the race already is, it’s easy to forget that the Tour de France Femmes avec Femmes is only two years old. Added to the calendar in 2022 after much clamour for a women’s Tour de France, the race was announced in 2021, and the first edition took place the following summer, with a sophomore, stepped-up edition coming in 2023.

Prior to the Tour de France Femmes, ASO’s offering for the women’s peloton was La Course by Le Tour, though even this was a recent invention. La Course was launched in 2014 after a campaign by Marianne Vos, Emma Pooley, Chrissie Wellington and Kathryn Bertine, and was originally a circuit race around the Champs-Élysées on the final day of the men’s Tour, though later editions were held in the mountains and elsewhere, during the men’s race. It was meant to evolve gradually into a proper stage race, but this didn’t really happen, bar one attempt at a two-day event 2017.

Perhaps fittingly, Marianne Vos won the first edition of La Course

However, the history of the women’s Tour de France goes back much further than the ASO’s involvement. We can find examples of women’s Tours de France as far back as the 1950s, and several editions of the Tour de France Féminin were held in the 1980s. These 80s races featured hard courses, often tackling most of the same stages and climbs that the men’s race did, making them long and difficult - truly Grand Tours. These races struggled to survive, though - especially once they were banned from using the ‘Tour de France’ name - and through the 90s and 2000s, races like the Route de France and the Tour de l’Ardèche were the closest the women’s peloton had to a French Grand Tour.

Read more: Tour de France Femmes: A brief history of the events which paved the way

Previous winners of the Tour de France Femmes

2023 Demi Vollering (SD Worx) 2022 Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar)

La Course by Le Tour winners

2021 Demi Vollering (SD Worx) 2020 Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) 2019 Marianne Vos (CCC Liv) 2018 Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-Scott) 2017 Annemiek van Vleuten (Orica-Scott) 2016 Chloe Hosking (Wiggle High5) 2015 Anna van der Breggen (Rabo-Liv) 2014 Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv)

Explore more about the 2024 Tour de France Femmes by clicking on the route, startlist and standings tabs up above.

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TOTAL: 946.3 km

This will be the first foreign Grand Départ .

There will be two stages in one day on Tuesday 13 August (Dordrecht-Rotterdam followed by an individual time trial in Rotterdam).

The 2024 edition will cross three countries: the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

The 2024 edition features four mountain ranges: the Ardennes, Vosges, Jura and Alps.

The distance in kilometres of the individual time trial through the streets of Rotterdam on the second day.

The number of stages:

• 1 time trial.

10 French departments feature on the race route: Meurthe- et-Moselle,Moselle, Vosges, Haute-Saône, Doubs, Jura, Ain, Haute-Savoie, Savoie and Isère (within three regions: Grand Est, Bourgogne – Franche-Comté and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes).

The number of riders at the start , comprising 22 teams of 7 racers each.

The distance in kilometres of stage 7, the longest of the race , between Champagnole and Le Grand-Bornand.

The height, in metres, of the Col du Glandon , the “roof” of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, which will be tackled on the eighth and final stage.

The total vertical gain, in metres, on stage 8 , which features the hardest climbs of this third edition of the race.

The total vertical gain , in metres, during the race.

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Tour de France Femmes 2022 team guide: Start list, star riders and kits to look out for

Updated 22/07/2022 at 11:56 GMT

Which teams have entered the Tour de France Femmes, who is riding for them and who are the favourites? Can Marianne Vos hoover up more stage wins and can Annemiek van Vleuten grab the yellow jersey after her success at Giro Donne? We look at all of that and more as we preview each and every team ahead of the start of the inaugural eight-stage race in Paris on Sunday.

Annemiek Van Vleuten, Marianne Vos, Juliette Labous, Elisa Balsamo, Marta Cavalli, quelques unes des coureuses phares de ce Tour de France Femmes 2022.

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BikeExchange-Jayco

• Kristen Faulkner
• Alexandra Manly
• Ruby Roseman-Gannon
• Ane Santesteban
• Amanda Spratt
• Urska Zigart

Canyon-Sram Racing

• Alena Amialiusik
• Elise Chabbey
• Tiffany Cromwell
• Kasia Niewiadoma
• Soraya Paladin
• Pauliena Rooijakkers

EF Education-TIBCO-SVB

• Letizia Borghesi
• Krista Doebel-Hickok
• Veronica Ewers
• Kathrin Hammes
• Emily Newsom
• Magdeleine Vallieres Mill

FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope

• Grace Brown
• Marta Cavalli
• Vittoria Guazzini
• Marie Le Net
• Evita Muzic
• Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Human Powered Health

• Nina Buijsman
• Henrietta Christie
• Antri Christoforou
• Barbara Malcotti
• Marit Raaijmakers
• Lily Williams

Jumbo-Visma

• Anna Henderson
• Coryn Labecki
• Riejanne Markus
• Noemi Rüegg
• Karlijn Swinkels
• Marianne Vos

The Jumbo-Visma 'masterpiece'

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Liv Racing Xstra

• Rachele Barbieri
• Valerie Demey
• Thalita De Jong
• Jeanne Korevaar
• Silke Smulders
• Sabrina Stultiens
• Aude Biannic
• Sheyla Gutierrez
• Emma Norsgaard
• Paula Andrea Patino
• Arlenis Sierra
• Annemiek van Vleuten

Annemiek Van Vleuten of Netherlands and Movistar Team during the 33rd Giro d'Italia Donne 2022, Team Presentation

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• Lotte Kopecky
• Christine Majerus
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio
• Marlen Reusser
• Chantal van den Broek-Blaak
• Demi Vollering

Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad

• Caroline Baur
• Hannah Buch
• Tamara Dronova-Balabolina
• Rotem Gafinovitz
• Petra Stiasny
• Olga Zabelinskaya
• Pfeiffer Georgi
• Liane Lippert
• Franziska Koch
• Charlotte Kool
• Juliette Labous
• Lorena Wiebes

Trek-Segafredo

• Elisa Balsamo
• Audrey Cordon-Ragot
• Elisa Longo Borghini
• Leah Thomas
• Shirin van Anrooij
• Ellen van Dijk

UAE Team ADQ

• Marta Bastianelli
• Sofia Bertizzolo
• Maaike Boogaard
• Eugenia Bujak
• Erica Magnaldi
• Mavi Garcia

Uno-X Pro Cycling

• Hannah Barnes
• Joss Lowden
• Hannah Ludwig
• Mie Bjorndal Ottestad
• Anne Dorthe Ysland

Continental teams

Ag insurance-nxtg.

• Julia Borgström
• Ilse Pluimers
• Gaia Masetti
• Lone Meertens
• Ally Wollaston

Arkea Pro Cycling Team

• Pauline Allin
• Yuliia Biriukova
• Morgane Coston
• Amandine Fouquenet
• Anais Morichon
• Greta Richioud

Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling

• Sandra Alonso
• Laura Asencio
• Lisa Brennauer
• Maria Giulia Confalonieri
• Kathrin Schweinberger
• Martina Alzini
• Victoire Berteau
• Alana Castrique
• Valentine Fortin
• Rachel Neylan
• Sandra Lévénez

Le Col Wahoo

• Lizzie Holden
• Eva van Agt
• Jesse Vandenbulcke
• Maika van der Duin
• Majolein van 't Geloof
• Gladys Verhulst

Parkhotel Valkenburg

• Mischa Bredewold
• Nicole Frain
• Femme Gerritse
• Femke Markus
• Quinty Schoens
• Anne van Rooijen

Plantur-Pura

• Julie De Wilde
• Kim De Baat
• Yara Kastelijn
• Christina Schweinberger
• Laura Sussemilch

Stade Rochelais Charente Maritime

• Noemie Abgrall
• Severine Eraud
• India Grangier
• Natalie Grinczer
• Frances Janse van Rensberg
• Maeva Squiban

St Michel-Auber 93

• Alison Avoine
• Sandrine Bideau
• Simone Boilard
• Coralie Demay
• Barbara Fonseca
• Margot Pompanon

Valcar-Travel & Service

• Olivia Baril
• Chiara Consonni
• Elena Camilla Gasparrini
• Silvia Persico
• Ilaria Sanguineti

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Tour de France Femmes 2023

Top 10 Tour de France Femmes 2023 1. Demi Vollering 2. Lotte Kopecky + 3.03 3. Kasia Niewiadoma s.t. 4. Annemiek van Vleuten + 3.59 5. Juliette Labous + 4.48 6. Ashleigh Moolman + 5.21 7. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig + 9.09 8. Ane Santesteban + 9.36 9. Ricarda Bauernfeind + 9.56 10. Amanda Spratt + 10.14

Read about the route and the start list of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes.

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Tour de France Femmes 2023 stages

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Startlist for 2023 Tour de France Femmes confirmed with race start on Sunday

Mathew Mitchell

• Published on July 21, 2023
• in Women's Cycling

The startlist for the 2023 Tour de France Femmes is now out, with 22 teams announcing their 7 riders to tackle the major stage race. This year’s Tour de France Femmes gets underway on Sunday in Clermont-Ferrand with a possible sprint stage with a late climb just to spoil any attempt to keep it an easy stage.

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The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2023 begins on 23 July in Clermont-Ferrand. It comprises eight stages and finishes with an individual time trial in Pau on 30 July. 

A race preview can be found here .

Tour de France Femmes Startlist Stats

Nationalities.

The country with the most riders will be the Netherlands with 27 riders. France itself sits in 2nd place with 21 riders taking part in their home race. 19 riders from Italy also mark a strong contingent. For Anglophone fans, Australia is next with 13 riders ahead of 10 British riders.

There is a wide range of ages in this year’s Tour de France Femmes. 2 riders were born in 1982, with Rachey Neylan of Cofidis the oldest rider ahead of last year’s winner Annemiek van Vleuten . At the other end of the scale, there is just 1 rider born in 2004, Lifeplus Wahoo’s Babette van der Wolf. The Dutch rider is the youngest rider in this year’s race by almost a full year to Camille Fahy.

Lidl-Trek brings the oldest average team to the Tour de France Femmes. Their 7 riders average out as 31 years, 4 months and 17 days old. Almost collectively a month older than Cofidis who have the aforementioned Rachel Neylan to bring up their average. The youngest team is dsm-firmenich at 23 years, 1 month and 7 days. They will have the likes of Charlotte Kool and Pfeiffer Georgi so youth doesn’t mean they won’t be contenders either!

2023 Tour de France Femmes Rider Startlist

Canyon-Sram 

Sarah Roy Ricarda Bauernfeind Elise Chabbey Kasia Niewiadoma Soroya Paladin Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka Alice Towers

EF Education-Tibco-SVB

Veronica Ewers Alison Jackson Kathrin Hammes Georgia Williams Letizia Borghesi Magdeleine Vallieres Sara Poidevin

Vittoria Guazzini Jade Wiel Évita Muzic Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig Loes Agedeest Grace Brown Marta Cavalli

Fenix-Deceuninck

Marthe Truyen Yara Kastelijn Christina Schweinberger Julie Van de Velde Evy Kuijpers Sanne Cant Julie De Wilde

Human Powered Health

Eri Yonamine Alice Barnes Henrietta Christie Antri Christoforou Barbara Malcotti Marjolein van’t Geloof Audrey Cordon-Ragot

Israel Premier Tech Roland 

Elizabeth Stannard Lara Vieceli Nathalie Eklund Tamara Dronova Claire Steels Fien Delbaere Elena Hartmann

Jumbo-Visma

Marianne Vos Riejanne Markus Coryn Labecki Eva van Agt Amber Kraak Anna Henderson Karlijn Swinkels

Lizzie Deignan Ilaria Sanguineti Lauretta Hanson Amanda Spratt Elisa Longo Borghini Lucinda Brand Elisa Balsamo

Liv Racing TeqFind

Caroline Andersson Rachele Barbieri Thalita De Jong Jeanne Korevaar Silke Smulders Quinty Ton Mavi García

Annemiek van Vleuten Liane Lippert Floortje Mackaij Aude Biannic Emma Norsgaard Paula Patiño Sheyla Gutiérrez

Team dsm-firmenich

Megan Jastrab Pfeiffer Georgi Léa Curinier Esmée Peperkamp Juliette Labous Elise Uijen Charlotte Kool

Demi Vollering Lotte Kopecky Lorena Wiebes Mischa Bredewold Marlen Reusser Christine Majerus Elena Cecchini

UAE Team ADQ

Alena Amialiusik Olivia Baril Silvia Persico Lizzie Holden Eleonora Gasparrini Chiara Consonni Erica Magnaldi

Uno-X Pro Cycling

Marte Berg Edseth Wilma Olausson Hannah Ludwig Maria Giulia Confalonieri Mie Bjørndal Ottestad Susanne Andersen Anouska Koster

Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling 

Kathrin Schweinberger Arianna Fidanza Sandra Alonso Nina Berton Cédrine Kerbaol Alice Maria Arzuffi Marta Lach

Lifeplus-Wahoo 

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Stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes live - 07/30/2023

Results and Highlights From the 2022 Tour de France Femmes

Stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights from this year’s race.

Final overall standings:

1. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED/MOV), 2. Demi Vollering (NED/SDW) at 3min 48sec, 3. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL/CSR) 6:35, 4. Juliette Labous (FRA/DSM) 7:28, 5. Silvia Persico (ITA/VAL) 8:00, 6. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA/TRE) 8:26, 7. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN/FDS) 8:59, 8. Evita Muzic (FRA/FDS) 13:54, 9. Veronica Ewers (USA/EFT) 15:05, 10. Mavi Garcia (ESP/UAE) 15:15

Selected: 26. Marianne Vos (NED/JUM) at 36:56

Read below for stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights of each stage.

Dutch veteran Annemiek van Vleuten produced the perfect ride on Sunday to win the women's Tour de France with a resounding victory in the eighth and final stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles.

The 39-year-old Movistar rider, who grabbed the lead with a brilliant solo performance in the mountains on Saturday, bided her time in the peloton before powering up the final climb to seal her triumph.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) finished second to claim second overall with Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) third in the final standings after a fourth place finish on Sunday's stage.

Van Vleuten, a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia and time-trial gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, began the 123-kilometre final stage with a 3min 14sec lead over Vollering which was never in danger in spite of having a mechanical problem with her bike 57kms from the finish which required a quick swap with a teammate.

The yellow jersey group reeled in the 11-rider breakaway with five kilometres to go at which point van Vleuten climbed out of her saddle and began powering her way up the final crippling climb.

She crossed the line 30secs ahead of compatriot Vollering to give her a 3min 48sec winning margin over the eight stages. Vollering at least had the consolation of winning the Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey.

Valcar rider Silvia Persico of Italy took third on the stage, crossing the line just ahead of Poland's Niewiadoma.

Dutch veteran Annemiek van Vleuten took the yellow jersey in the women's Tour de France with a crushing performance in the mountains which powered her to a remarkable solo victory on Saturday's penultimate stage.

Movistar rider van Vleuten, 39, began the day almost a minute and a half behind the leader Marianne Vos but raced solo with 62km still to go in the mountainous 127.5km stage from Selestat to Le Markstein Fellering.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) finished second, 3mins 30sec behind, with Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) winning the sprint for third.

Van Vleuten, who was sick at the start of the week and almost pulled out of the Tour, now leads by 3min 09sec ahead of Vollering and is the clear favourite to win the race when it ends with Sunday's stage eight on the Super Planche des Belles Filles.

"It has been such a roller coaster," said van Vleuten.

"I have been so sick and to win with this is unbelievable and beautiful. To finish here solo, I had to try because I was behind.

"My style is always attacking not waiting for the final (sprint)."

Van Vleuten attacked as soon as the peloton arrived at the Petit Ballon, the first of the day's torturous climbs.

"I did a reconnaissance of the stage and noticed that the Petit Ballon was a difficult climb," she said.

"After six days of waiting, surviving and recovering, I wanted to make the biggest time gaps and it meant going on the first climb. This stage suited me really well. I knew if I would be fit enough after being sick, it would be my day."

Team Jumbo–Visma rider Vos, who held the yellow jersey at the start of the day after clocking two wins and five podiums in the opening six stages, was unable to stay in touch and eventually limped in almost 25mins after van Vleuten.

Marianne Vos of Team Jumbo-Visma kept a firm grip on the leader's yellow jersey on the women's Tour de France with victory in Friday's sixth stage between Saint-Die-des-Vosges and Rosheim.

The 35-year-old Dutch rider edged out Team UAE Emirates' Marta Bastianelli and Lotte Kopecky of Team SD Worx in the sprint for the line at the end of the 128.6km stage.

Lorena Wiebes, who won the opening stage in Paris and triumphed again in Thursday's stage five, finished 7min 34sec behind her compatriot Vos after suffering a nasty fall, along with Kopecky and Alena Amialiusik, 24km from the finish.

It was a second stage win and fifth podium in the six stages of the Tour for Vos who extended her lead by 10 seconds. She is now 30 seconds ahead of Valcar's Italian rider Silvia Persico and Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Canyon/SRAM with two stages to come.

"It was quite a difficult race," said Vos.

"We had a good situation with Anna Henderson in the breakaway. It was a big breakaway and a strong chase, and (we had) the Cote de Boersch two times which caused some action... and it was also stretched out on a pretty difficult descent.

"The rest of the girls, they kept me in the front, kept me constantly out of the wind.

"They did a perfect job to keep me in front and keep the speed really high until the last corner and then I was in a good position.

"I also felt I was coming from the back so I hoped I could keep it to the line."

Saturday's seventh stage could provide a big shake-up as the Tour heads into the mountains for the first time with three big climbs and a 3,000 metres rise in altitude between Selestat and Le Markstein in the east of France.

The race ends on Sunday with a grand finale up the iconic La Super Planche des Belles Filles.

Another Dutch rider, Movistar's Annemiek van Vleuten, a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia and time trial gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, is lurking just 1min 28sec behind Vos.

All the breakaways on the Tour so far have come to nothing and the Alsace wine route on Friday was equally unforgiving as the riders took on four categorised climbs.

Trek-Segafredo pair Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Elisa Longo Borghini led a breakaway group of 14 riders which built a gap of two minutes before being largely chased down on the final climb with 10km to go.

The last survivor Marie Le Net was caught in the descent to Rosheim, four kilometres from the finish.

Vos positioned herself perfectly in the final sprint and had too much power for Bastianelli and Lopecky.

Lorena Wiebes sprinted to victory in the fifth stage of the Tour de France Femmes on Thursday in Saint-Die-des-Vosges.

The Dutch rider blew away her rivals to cross the line ahead of Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo and yellow jersey wearer Marianne Vos, claiming her second stage win after Sunday’s opener in Paris.

“I felt strong in the sprint, and I’m delighted to win it after such a long stage,” said Wiebes after the longest stage of the week at over 176.5km from Bar-le-Duc to Saint-Die.

The Team DSM rider proved she is almost unbeatable in a sprint, with only Balsamo managing to beat her twice this season. Wiebes claimed her 17th victory and the 53rd of the 23-year-old’s career.

Jumbo-Visma’s Vos took four bonus seconds thanks to her third place and gained time over all her rivals going into the final three days of racing.

“The aim is to take the green jersey,” said Wiebes of the honor going to the top sprinter.

The 35-year-old Vos, one of the great names of cycling, leads the general standings after her fifth top five finish in as many stages.

But several top sprinters lost out after being caught up in a mass crash 45km from the finish line. Belgian Lotte Kopecky was delayed and then slowed down by mechanical problems, with Danish rider Emma Norsgaard taking a hard hit to her left shoulder.

Friday’s sixth stage covers 129km to Roshelm before the weekend in the Vosges mountains.

Swiss rider Marlen Reusser won the women’s Tour de France fourth stage on Wednesday, as Dutchwoman Marianne Vos retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey while crossing the line in fifth place.

Reusser, 30, broke away with 15km left after four gravel sections in the Champagne wine region, with Evita Muzic in second place and Belarussian Alena Amialiusik in third.

“I think here in this Tour every day is hard, at least for me,” Reusser, a former doctor, told Eurosport. “This stage suited the kind of rider I am with these gravel sections... The team had a plan to do a hard race and not let it come down to an easy finale. We just said attack and one would go. I was lucky it was me.”

The 35-year-old Vos, who took over the yellow jersey with victory in Stage two on Monday keeps a 16-second advantage over her closest rivals, Italian Silvia Persico and Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

Spanish veteran Mavi Garcia lost more than one minute and 30 seconds in the general standings after issues on the uneven surface, which included crashing with a team car ,as riders suffered numerous punctures; but Vos and her fellow Jumbo-Visma riders survived unscathed.

“We spent a lot of energy to stay in front, and you had to really fight for a position before the gravel sections and the climbs as well,” Vos told reporters. “We weren’t very concerned, we had to stay in front and stay out of trouble. We did, so I’m happy about that.”

During the dust-filled gravel sections, which passed through the world-renowned vineyards in eastern France, Tuesday’s stage winner Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and yellow jersey contender Niewiadoma suffered punctures before rejoining the peloton.

With 15km to go, Reusser, the European road time-trial champion, made an attack from a big leading bunch as the riders returned to normal roads. Niewiadoma’s Canyon-SRAM teammate Amialiusik, racing as a neutral rider after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, then followed the Swiss as the group broke up. Frenchwoman Muzic, age 23, completed the breakaway.

Reusser claimed the three-second bonus atop Cote des Bergers with less than 10km to go and was first over the final climb of the day on Cote du Val Perdu, with 5km left. She dominated the closing stages and pointed at her team name on her dust-covered jersey, then held her arms wide open as she crossed the finish line in Bar-sur-Aube.

Thursday’s fifth stage is a flat 175.6km ride from Bar-le-Duc eastwards to Saint-Die-des-Vosges near the German border.

The eight-day race finishes on Sunday on La Super Planche des Belles Filles , where two-time winner Tadej Pogacar claimed stage victory during the men’s Tour earlier this month.

Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig outsprinted Marianne Vos to win Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes on Tuesday, but the veteran Dutch rider held on to the yellow jersey.

The day after a nightmare Stage 2 for her FDJ Suez Futuroscope team, marked by the abandonment of title contender Marta Cavalli, Ludwig battled back from a fall to produce a vintage performance amid the Champagne wine country.

After two relatively flat rides, the peloton had to face its first climbs as they took on the 133.6km course from Reims to Epernay.

Eleven riders slugged it out over the final stages, with Vos working hard to rejoin the leaders after being dropped. The 35-year-old, who took over the yellow jersey with victory in Stage two on Monday, sprinted hard, but it was 26-year-old Ludwig who powered through the line first.

“I wanted to help the team, keep my fighting spirit,” said Luwig, who was wearing the jersey of Danish champion. “I knew that if I had the legs, I could play for victory. But from there to do it, to become a winner of stage in the Tour de France and with this jersey... My God, what more could you ask for.”

Team Jumbo-Visma’s Vos finished two seconds behind, closely shadowed by South African Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Italians Silvia Persico and Elisa Longo Borghini, and Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

Vos leads the general classification with a 16-second lead over Valcar’s Persico and Niewiadoma of Canyon.

Annemiek van Vleuten, one of the pre-race favourites, struggled with illness and was dropped on the Mont Bernon climb 4km from the finish. The Olympic time-trial champion managed to rejoin the leading group but again fell away in the closing stages and finished 20 seconds after Ludwig. Van Vleuten, bidding to complete a Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double, said she had barely been able to eat in the last two days.

“Today was actually awesome compared to yesterday, because yesterday I was actually really, really sick,” she told Eurosport. “It started a couple of hours after the first stage, I had a stomach infection... The last thing I was thinking about was racing.”

The Dutchwoman sits ninth in the standings, 74 seconds off the pace set by Vos.

Wednesday’s fourth stage of the eight-stage race, which ends on Sunday, is a 126km ride over steep ramps and unpaved roads from Troyes to Bar-sur-Aube.

Dutch rider Marianne Vos took over the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes with victory in a three-way sprint to win the second stage from Meaux to Provins on Monday.

Team Jumbo-Visma’s Vos edged out Silvia Persico and Katarzyna Niewiadoma in the sprint to claim the yellow jersey from compatriot Lorena Wiebes, who finished 29 seconds behind in sixth place.

“It’s not revenge, it’s an absolutely wonderful day,” said Vos, who finished second behind Wiebes in Sunday’s opening stage on the Champs-Elysees.

Trek-Segafredo’s Elisa Longo Borghini, winner of Paris-Roubaix and a definite contender for the yellow jersey in France, finished fourth in the stage, two seconds back.

Less fortunate was the Italian rider Marta Cavalli, winner this year of the Amstel Gold Race and the Fleche Wallonne, and a contender for the overall title here. The 24-year-old was taken to hospital after suffering a head injury in one of three nasty crashes in a last 30 kilometres where the crosswinds and gusts of up to 45 km/h made the riders jumpy about the prospect of a break in the peloton.

“We don’t have much news from Marta, she is suffering from a head injury,” said team manager Stephen Delcourt on arrival in Provins. “We remain in contact with the doctor. She has been sent to the hospital to carry out a CT scan as a priority.”

Cavalli was already on the ground when she was hit by Australian champion Nicole Frain, who came flying through without braking. The runner-up at this year’s Giro d'Italia, Cavalli climbed back on her bike but failed to finish the stage, with the team pulling her out and sending her to hospital.

“She suffered a big shock. We didn’t want to take any risks,” said Delcourt. “She wanted to carry on but the team said no. We don’t want to play with the lives of our cyclists... We are very worried. You saw the very spectacular crash and how dangerous our sport is. We really have to be careful. I am very worried for the safety of our riders.”

It was a bad day all round for FDJ as Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, their other potential challenger, got caught up in another crash and lost more than a minute to Vos, Longo Borghini, and Niewiadoma.

In addition to Cavalli, another Italian, Gaia Masetti, also gave up, as well as the German Laura Suessemilch, who is undergoing hospital tests for possible fractures, according to her Plantur-Pura team. French rider Maeva Squiban finished the stage but “could not walk” on arrival, according to her team, Stade Rochelais, and went to get an X-ray.

The 35-year-old Vos, one of the great names in cycling with three world road championships and Olympic track gold among her many honors, this yellow jersey has a sense of unfinished business. She won on the Champs-Elysees in 2014 in the first edition of La Course, a race she helped to launch, which took place on the last day of the men’s Tour de France. As a child, she pressed her parents to take her to watch the Tour.

“We were going to Alpe d’Huez, to the sprint finishes, to Pau,” she said again at the start in Meaux on Monday. “That was how we spent our summer holidays, driving the course in our camping van.”

Vos now leads the general classification with a 10-second lead over Valcar rider Persico, with Niewiadoma of Canyon two seconds further back.

Tuesday’s Stage 3 should also suit the sprinters, with a 133.6km ride through the Champagne region from Reims to Epernay.

Lorena Wiebes outsprinted fellow Dutchwoman Marianne Vos to win the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes in Paris on Sunday and pull on the leader’s yellow jersey.

Team DSM rider Wiebes accelerated past Vos of Jumbo-Visma on the Champs-Elysees, with Belgian Lotte Kopecky third after the 81.6km run around Paris starting at the Eiffel Tower.

“The team did an amazing job,” said Wiebes. “It was a really chaotic and long sprint.”

Three-time world champion Vos had attacked early to try to win. But Wiebes was well placed on the final bend to take victory.

“It was really close but luckily I could accelerate one more time and overtake Marianne on the finish line,” added Wiebes. “I was quite relaxed before the start. We did everything as normal, we saw it as a normal race but of course I was quite nervous towards the end.”

At 23-years-old, the DSM sprinter claimed the 52nd success of her career and the 16th of the season.

Monday’s second stage of eight heads east, covering 136.4km between Meaux and Provins.

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All the big names are here. Who will claim yellow?

The official start list was released Saturday ahead of the 2nd Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

The race will change course for its second edition.

Eleven departments and three regions will be crossed during the eight stages between Clermont-Ferrand, which plays host to the grand départ on Sunday, and Pau

“Setting off from Clermont-Ferrand allows us to tackle the roads of the Puy-de-Dôme, which will be a remarkable playground on which the riders can express themselves,” said technical director Franck Perque. “It also enables us to head south towards the Pyrenees to get to grips, during the seventh stage, with the legendary mountain pass that is the Tourmalet.”

Last year, the circuit around the Champs-Elysées offered the sprinters the opportunity to get their hands on the race’s first yellow jersey.

This time, Sunday’s first stage promises to be especially open and full of suspense.

The run-in to the finish includes the Côte de Durtol slope (1.7-km long with a gradient of 7.2%), located 9.3 kilometres from the conclusion of the stage, before a descent down to the finishing line.

“It may well happen that one of the favorites steals a march on the others to take the yellow jersey,”  Perque said. “However, it is also possible for a small group to battle it out over a sprint finish. Anything could happen.”

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Tour de France Femmes 2023 preview: Full schedule and how to watch live women's Grand Tour cycling action

Reigning champion Annemiek van Vleuten is targeting another Tour de France Femmes crown, as the second modern edition of the stage race takes place on 23 July to 30 July. Here is all you need to know before the start in Clermont-Ferrand.

The second edition of the most prestigious stage race on the women’s cycling calendar is billed as being the biggest yet. Tour de France Femmes 2023 is offering a diverse route starting in the highland region of Massif Central and finishing at the foot of the Pyrenees in Pau.

The big question before this year’s race has been whether anyone can challenge defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten , who is also an Olympic gold and silver medallist and four-time world champion.

The 40-year-old Dutchwoman has already claimed La Vuelta Femenina and the Giro d’Italia Donne this season, and victory in the Tour de France Femmes would complete the set of 2023 women's Grand Tour race wins.

22 teams will be at the start line to battle over 8 stages, not just for the yellow leader’s jersey, but also the green points classification jersey, the polka-dot jersey for leader of the mountain classification and the white jersey for the best young rider under 23 years of age.

Read on to find everything you need to know about the Tour de France Femmes 2023.

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Tour de France Femmes 2023 route

Tour de France Femmes 2023 consists of eight stages with a total of 956 kilometres of racing. The peloton starts with a fairly flat stage around Clermont-Ferrand, and from the second hilly stage, the riders slowly move towards the southwest of France.

A mix of flat and hilly stages follow until the seventh stage, where the big battle among the GC favourites will be fought on the mountainous route to the iconic Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees.

The race will conclude with a 22 kilometres individual time trial around Pau.

Day-by-day route of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes stages

• Sunday 23 July: Stage 1 - Clermont-Ferrand - Clermont-Ferrand (124 km)
• Monday 24 July: Stage 2 - Clermont-Ferrand - Mauriac (152 km)
• Tuesday 25 July: Stage 3 - Collonges-la-Rouge - Montignac-Lascaux (147.2 km)
• Wednesday 26 July: Stage 4 - Cahors - Rodez (177.5 km)
• Thursday 27 July: Stage 5 - Onet-le-Château - Albi (126.1 km)
• Friday 28 July: Stage 6 - Albi - Blagnac (122.1 km)
• Saturday 29 July: Stage 7 - Lannemezan - Col du Tourmalet (89.8 km)
• Sunday 30 July: Stage 8 - Pau - Pau (22.6 km individual time trial)

Riders to watch at the Tour de France Femmes 2023

Two-time road race world champion Annemiek van Vleuten is the big favourite for the Tour de France Femmes 2023. In the Giro d’Italia Donne that finished earlier this month, the Olympic time trial champion claimed three stages and won the general classification by almost four minutes to Juliette Labous of France in second place.

The Movistar rider is in the middle of her last season before retiring, but after having claimed both the overall in the Giro d’Italia Donne and La Vuelta Femenina, the defending champion has proved that she isn't finished yet.

Last year, van Vleuten clinched the yellow jersey by taking the last two stages of the Tour de France Femmes. 3 minutes and 48 seconds was the gap to second place Demi Vollering .

The second placed rider from last year’s edition could also be the biggest threat for van Vleuten this year. Vollering completed the Ardennes hat-trick of one-day races earlier this season, winning the Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes.

The 26-year-old SD Worx rider is currently leading the UCI World Rankings, as she has secured an incredible 13 victories already this season, and the Dutch road race champion has taken a big step up since last year’s second place at this race.

At the La Vuelta Femenina, Vollering looked like she was about to be crowned the overall winner, but van Vleuten capitalized on a toilet break and gained more than a minute on the penultimate stage to ultimately win the race.

By the looks of this season’s results, we can hope to see a breathtaking Dutch battle between van Vleuten and Vollering.

Other riders, who potentially can fight for the overall victory are Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy, Juliette Labous of France, and Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Poland.

In the battle for the green jersey, the European road race champion Lorena Wiebes will be the woman to beat. The Dutchwoman has a strong team to support her in SD Worx.

Her 24-year-old compatriot Charlotte Kool of dsm-firmenich has showed earlier this season that she has the top speed to beat Wiebes in a bunch sprint.

Last year’s winner of the green jersey and arguably the greatest female cyclist of all time, Marianne Vos , also needs to be mentioned among the contenders for the points classification.

As the general classification riders will most likely battle it out on the decisive mountain stage to Col du Tourmalet, they will also be the favourites to claim the polka dot jersey after the final stage in Pau.

How to watch the 2023 Tour de France Femmes live

The Tour de France Femmes 2023 will be shown live in numerous countries. Here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

• Various European countries - Eurosport and GCN
• Belgium - RTBF and VRT
• Denmark - TV2
• France - France 3
• Ireland - TG4
• Netherlands - NOS
• Norway - TV2
• Spain - RTVE
• Switzerland - SRG-SSR
• Canada - FloBikes
• South America - ESPN
• United States - NBC Sports and Peacock

Asia Pacific

• Australia - SBS
• China - Zhibo TV
• Japan - J Sports
• New Zealand - Sky Sport
• South-East Asia - Global Cycling Network

Middle East and Africa

• The Middle East and North Africa - BeIN Sports, SSC and GCN
• Subsaharan Africa - Supersport

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Results have arrived, our guide to the 2023 tour de france femmes.

The second edition of Tour de France Femmes starts on the final day of the men's Tour de France, and it will be LOADED with exciting racing. Our guide will get you ready to follow all the action by explaining how it all works and the top contenders.

Written by: Bruce Lin

Published on: Jul 20, 2023

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The creators of the Tour de France have created the perfect solution to post-Tour withdrawals and the egregious lack of pro women’s stage racing. It's called the Tour de France Femmes!

Tour de France Femmes is in only its second year, but it’s already one of the most exciting races on the calendar. It has also brought women’s cycling to a broader audience, and while we are still a ways away from true equality, it’s a sign of the amazing strides women’s professional cycling has made in recent years. 

This year, Tour de France Femmes will once again serve up 8 dynamic stages of racing with plenty of excitement and intrigue. Here’s your guide to follow along.

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What Is the Tour de France Femmes?

• The Tour de France Femmes is the current women’s version of the legendary Tour de France . 
• It began in 2022 and is organized by the same people behind the Tour de France.
• The race will consist of 8 stages that cover 956 km / 594 mi. 
• The route is all new for 2023 and was designed to challenge the women’s peloton in new ways. 

How Does the Tour de France Femmes Work?

General Classification - Yellow Jersey

Last year’s winner: Annemiek van Vleuten

Points Classification - Green Jersey

Last year’s winner:  Marianne Vos

Mountains Classification - Polka-Dot Jersey

Last year’s winner: Demi Vollering

Young Rider Classification - White Jersey

Last year’s winner: Shirin van Anrooij

Team Classification - Yellow Helmets

Last year’s winner: Canyon–SRAM

Combativity Award - Red Number

Also known as the “Most Aggressive Rider” award. A jury decides which rider in the race was most aggressive — usually, that means attacking a lot or gambling on a breakaway. The rider with a red number on their jersey was named most aggressive the stage prior. At the end of the Tour, one rider gets the Super Combativity award.

Last year’s winner: Marianne Vos 

The 2023 Tour de France Femmes Course

However, instead of starting on the Champs-Élysées like last year, the 2023 Tour de France Femmes will start in Clermont Ferrand. This may be a good thing because the race will still be connected to the men’s race, but it won't be constrained by it. Moving the start away from Paris has allowed Race Director Marion Rousse to create a more varied, challenging, and exciting route that visits new areas of France. 

Another big addition is a final time trial for stage 8. The first edition lacked a time trial. Now that one has been added, the Tour de France Femmes is a truer reflection of the men’s version, where time trial ability can determine overall victory. This final time trial is fairly short (22km) so it shouldn’t have a huge effect on the final outcome, but it will give TT specialists an opportunity to win a stage. 

Who Will Win the 2023 Tour de France Femmes?

Annemiek van vleuten.

Demi Vollering

Other Tour de France Femmes Contenders

It’s basically Annemiek van Vleuten vs. everyone else. But there are plenty of other fast women who can throw a wrench into the works. If anything, they can definitely challenge for the podium and stage wins:

• Silvia Persico (last year’s 3rd-place finisher)
• Kasia Niewiadoma
• Juliette Labous
• Elisa Longo Borghini 
• Veronica Ewers

Why Did It Take So Long To Get a Women’s Tour de France?

More recently, the organizers of the men’s Tour de France responded to campaigns from Le Tour Entier, an activist group to improve women's racing, as well as general criticism from fans, by creating “La Course by Le Tour de France.” La Course was held between 2014 and 2021, but since it was only a one-day (sometimes two-day) race, it paled in comparison to the men’s version. 

Finally, a true stage race was created. The Tour de France Femmes had its first edition in 2022. Thanks to the prestige of the Tour de France, the Tour de France Femmes is already one of the biggest races on the women’s pro cycling calendar. Teams and media have referred to it as a women’s “Grand Tour,” but since it’s only 8 stages long (versus the men's Tour’s 21 stages), it doesn’t actually meet the UCI definition of such an event. However, as it grows and matures over the years, we may see the women finally get a real Grand Tour equivalent. 

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2024 RBC Heritage leaderboard: Scottie Scheffler nears fourth win in five starts with event to finish Monday

Weather prevented the final round from completing, but scheffler is well on his way to continuing his hot streak.

Scottie Scheffler's fourth victory in his last five tournaments will have to wait one more day. With the 2024 RBC Heritage experiencing more than a 2.5-hour weather delay Sunday, tournament action was unable to be completed before nightfall; it will instead leak into the work week. The final round at Harbour Town Golf Links will resume Monday at 8 a.m. ET with Scheffler holding a five-stroke lead at 20 under.

The world No. 1 is well clear of his nearest pursuer, Wyndham Clark, with three holes left in his tournament. Clark, meanwhile, is in the clubhouse at 15 under hoping for another runner-up check behind Scheffler. Others on the golf course like J.T. Poston, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala stand at that same number with holes to play.

Monday morning may only be a formality as Scheffler looks to be in control of just about everything -- like he has been the last two months.

Scheffler began Sunday in Hilton Head Island with one arm already slipped in the tartan jacket. Possessing a one-stroke lead, the Texan was crowned by many late Saturday evening despite the bevy of stars who had plans to upend him.

After knocking in a 6-foot par save on the 1st, Scheffler more or less turned those predictions into a reality. Chipping in for eagle on the par-5 2nd from long of the green (his 11th hole-out from off the green this season), Scheffler opened a three-stroke lead on the field and never looked back.

Charges were made by many, including a familiar foe in Clark, but none were that threatening. The reigning U.S. Open champion turned in 7-under 29 and tacked on another birdie on the 11th to get within one of Scheffler, but the pressure of perfection proved too much.

Hitting a tree with his second shot on No. 12, Clark's ball ricocheted out of bounds and led to a double bogey. Another dropped shot came on the following hole and all but secured another near miss from the U.S. Open champion.

Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Åberg, Cantlay and Theegala all hovered on the first page of the leaderboard but never truly threatened. Instead, it was Patrick Rodgers who emerged as Scheffler's greatest threat thanks to an eagle-2 at the turn. A bogey a few holes later put an end to his Cinderella story.

Remaining in the wake of mistakes was a spotless Scheffler at 19 under, four ahead of the field. Turning in 3 under, the steadiest man in the game marched forward with a heavy diet of fairways and greens before a spell of thunderstorms halted his momentum on the par-4 12th.

Inclement weather was all that could stop Scheffler as the 27-year-old returned to the golf course more than two hours later and resumed his round without a hitch. While temperatures cooled and winds freshened, Scheffler was unaffected.

He picked off a birdie on the 13th to push his lead to five before a mud ball on the 15th led to his second finding the water on the par 5. It didn't matter as Scheffler launched a pitching wedge onto the surface, spinning it left and utilizing the slope to access the tucked pin. He avoided what would have been his first dropped shot since the 3rd hole on Thursday with an emphatic par save, and he will sleep easy Sunday night knowing five strokes separate him from the field and three holes separate him from victory.

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Play called for evening

The final group is on the green on the par-5 15th meaning they will have three holes to play on Monday. Scottie Scheffler faces a par putt from 10 feet to maintain his five-stroke lead as he stands at 20 under.

Five clear with five to go!

The only thing that can stop him is the sunlight at this rate. Scottie Scheffler adds a birdie on 13 to get to 20 under and five clear of the crew at 15 under. Without the world No. 1 this tournament would be very, very good, but alas they are all fighting for first flight honors it appears.

Conditions are considerably harder for these guys. The wind has switched, it's about 10 degrees cooler and they are racing against the clock. Scottie Scheffler and Sepp Straka make par on No. 12 and head to the par-4 13th. Wyndham Clark posts the clubhouse lead at 15 under, four behind Scheffler.

Let's play ball!

Players are on the golf course and play is set to resume. Scottie Scheffler in the final pairing has about 7.5 holes remaining and one hour until sunset meaning this thing is probably going to leak into Monday unfortunately. 

Play to resume at 7 p.m.

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The expectation is this thing will be finished today as the range is open and play is set to resume in 40 minutes at 6 p.m. ET. This will leave Scottie Scheffler a couple hours to complete just about seven holes as he left off in the middle of the 12th fairway with a four-stroke lead at 19 under.

Play suspended due to weather

The horn has sounded at 4:28 p.m. ET as a large weather system (with lightning) has engulfed Harbour Town. This comes as Scottie Scheffler stands in the 12th fairway with a four-stroke lead at 19 under over a number of pursuers up ahead of him on the golf course. Players are being brought back into the clubhouse as rules officials make an assessment on when play will return.

Rain comin' down hard

Scheffler turns in 33 with three-stroke lead.

Scheffler lets a chance slide by on the short ninth and will instead settle for a 3-under 33 on his front nine. It was highlighted by his eagle-3 on the par-5 2nd and Scheffler will head to the back side with a three-stroke edge.

Theegala thriving

Theegala cards four 3s in a row to end his front nine and get within four of Scottie Scheffler. Sahith spoke yesterday about how cool it is what Scheffler is currently doing and how it is a motivating factor for someone like him to get better. It's a great perspective and Theegala continues to get better and better, but it may not be enough this week as he is four behind with nine to go.

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World Champion will finish Omnium one day before start in Rotterdam

SD Worx manager Danny Stam confirmed that World Champion Lotte Kopecky will not take part in the Tour de France Femmes this year.

Kopecky was unsure whether she could race the Tour this year because the Olympic Games in Paris finish one day before the Tour de France Femmes Grand Départ in Rotterdam. Winning a medal at the Olympic Games is one of Kopecky's top priorities this season.

"The omnium ends on Sunday afternoon, the Tour starts on Monday morning. It is almost impossible to do that properly," Stam told Sporza .

"Combining those two events would also be a very difficult task mentally."

Kopecky won the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2023 and held the maillot jaune until the penultimate stage to the Col du Tourmalet when she lost touch on the final climb and the overall lead passed to teammate Demi Vollering.

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At the Tour de France route presentation, Kopecky said she wanted to race the Tour because it has two stages that run on Belgian roads - stage 3 uses part of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège course and stage 4 departs from Bastogne.

"When I see the course, I definitely want to ride. The fact that it goes through Belgium is also a very nice thing. On the other hand, the Tour is every year while the Olympic Games are only once every four years. There are also very nice goals coming up after the Tour, so it is very unclear at the moment," said Kopecky.

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"The switch from track to road is not a problem in itself, that is not my biggest fear. The Tour in itself is simply very tough and after such an omnium you have not only been physically very deep, but also mentally."

Kopecky put an emphasis on the Spring Classics this year knowing the decision on whether to race the Tour or not would come after. She won Strade Bianche, Nokere Koerse and Paris-Roubaix this year as well as the UAE Tour Women in February.

Her schedule includes the Tour of Britain Women (6-9 June) and Giro d'Italia Women (7-14 July) before the Olympics in Paris. She will set her sights on the World Championships in Zurich in the latter part of the season.

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Laura Weislo has been with Cyclingnews since 2006 after making a switch from a career in science. As Managing Editor, she coordinates coverage for North American events and global news. As former elite-level road racer who dabbled in cyclo-cross and track, Laura has a passion for all three disciplines. When not working she likes to go camping and explore lesser traveled roads, paths and gravel tracks. Laura specialises in covering doping, anti-doping, UCI governance and performing data analysis.

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