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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)

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There will be eight stages and the route includes a trip up the Col du Tourmalet on penultimate day along with a time trial on the final stage.

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The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns on July 23, 2023 with eight stages, including a time trial as the finale to the race.

The 2023 edition will feature the same amount of stages as the inaugural 2022 race . In total, 2023 will be 77km shorter than last year, but next year’s longest stage at 177km is a bit longer than the longest stage in 2022 (175.6km).

“I’m very stoked that Tour de France Femmes received such great support and attention in 2022 when it all started,” says Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) who finished fourth in the 2022 edition . “It’s very promising for the future and for the next generations of young riders pursuing their dreams. As everyone knows, there is something special about the race that nobody can explain. It’s the atmosphere, the course, the organization, the fans, and above all excitement that we share amongst each other.”

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What is the route of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes?

The race covers three regions in Southern France: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie, crossing two mountain ranges in the process. The highest point—the Tourmalet pass—will be the end of the mountain stage.

If the race plays out similar to last year, with a sprinter and tactical rider like Marianne Vos dominating the flat and hilly stages, the final mountain and time trial stages could be big shakeups for the overall standings.

The stages include:

• July 23 - Flat - Clermont-Ferrand to Clermont-Ferrand - 124km
• July 24 - Hilly - Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac - 148km
• July 25 - Flat - Collonges la Rouge to Montignac Lascaux - 147km
• July 26 - Hilly - Cahors to Rodez - 177km
• July 27 - Flat - Onet le Chateau to Albi - 126km
• July 28 - Flat - Albi to Blagnac - 122km
• July 29 - Mountain - Lannemezan to Tourmalet Bagneres de Bigorre - 90km
• July 30 - Time Trial - Pau to Pau - 22km

As with last year’s race, there will be a daily coverage in the U.S. on Peacock .

In terms of prize money, we’re still not quite at equal payouts. For the women, a total of €250,000 will be awarded across the different stage, jersey and team competitions, including €50,000 to the winner of the final general classification according to ASO. (By comparison, ASO’s Tour de France men’s race boasts "a total of around 2.3 million euros will be awarded to the teams and riders, including 500,000 euros to the winner of the final individual general classification.")

However, it’s important to remember that while it feels slow , progress truly is being made—and racers are excited. “The first edition of TdFF was everything I expected it to be and so much more," says Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (SD-Worx). “ I’ve been watching the TdF from the sofa for many years and dreaming of racing it, but I didn’t quite comprehend how big it really was, until I experienced it first hand for myself. It was mind blowing being part of the inaugural event and seeing the attention it attracted from far and wide, and in real life with all the people out supporting on the roads…I have never experience anything like it in women’s cycling and I’m super excited for next years edition. For me, it was a massive disappointment not to have finished due to illness , so I feel like I have unfinished business and I’m more motivated that ever to win that iconic yellow jersey.”

“The Tour de France Femmes in 2022 was bigger than I expected. The attention, the media coverage, the fans along the side of roads. And the racing was fantastic," says Elise Chabbey of Canyon//SRAM . “That makes me believe that 2023 will be even bigger.”

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Tour de France Femmes 2024 route: Alpe d'Huez finale confirmed

Race to take place 12-18 August, with eight stages over seven days

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The 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will conclude at the summit of the iconic Alpe d'Huez climb, race organiser ASO has announced. 

The route for the third edition of the race was unveiled in a presentation inside Paris's Palais des Congrès on Wednesday. 

Next year's race will begin on 12 August, the day after the Paris Olympics, and will offer eight stages across seven days. 

Presenting the route, race director Marion Rousse said: "From Rotterdam to Alpe d'Huez, from the Netherlands to the Dutch mountain, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will count eight stages over a 946km route, visiting three countries." 

As was revealed in July, the Grand Départ will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, marking the first time the race has ventured outside of France. Two stages will then be held on day two, with a 67km road race in the morning, and a 6.3km individual time trial in the afternoon. 

Stage four pays tribute to Liège-Bastogne-Liège , starting in the Dutch city of Valkenburg and finishing across the Belgian border in Liège. The 122km stage will feature the Monument's classic climbs of the Côte de la Redoute and the Côte de la Roche aux Faucons. 

The peloton will race on French roads for the first time on stage five, with an undulating parcours into Amnéville in the Grand Est. 

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On stage six, a passage through the Vosges provides an amuse-bouche of mountains, before a challenging final weekend in the Alps. 

Stages seven and eight bring a finale of back-to-back summit finishes, starring the ski resorts of Le Grand-Bornand and Alpe d'Huez. 

The final day counts almost 4,000m of climbing, with the peloton scaling the 20km-long Col du Glandon before taking on the Alpe's 21 leg-sapping hairpins. 

"Those last two days are real mountain days," Claire Steels (Israel Premier Tech Roland), the highest placed Brit in the 2023 edition, told Cycling Weekly . "I'm really excited about consecutive, back-to-back summit finishes. Obviously finishing on Alpe d'Huez is going to make for an incredible race. 

"I think the really decisive days are going to be those last two days. That will be where the final GC will be decided." 

Last year, the Tour de France Femmes reached new heights with its first mountaintop finish, which came on the Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrénées. Demi Vollering (SD Worx) won the stage , took the yellow jersey and went on to secure the overall title . 

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Profiles . The Tour de France Femmes will take place from the 23rd to the 30th of July 2023 and is perhaps the climax of the women's season. Eight days of racing throughout France follow the Tour de France as an extremely popular race.

The race will feature 8 stages throughout the center and south of France. It will feature three hilly stages, a time-trial, a mountainous stage and three opportunities for the sprinters. Breakaways could also have their opportunities throughout the race which will receive most of the women's biggest stars in the peloton of all fields.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 - Team SD Worx versus Annemiek van Vleuten on the biggest race of the year

The Grand Depart will take place in Clermont-Ferrand this edition, with a whole stage looping around the central French city. It will be an open day, with the puncheurs and sprinters having an opportunity to ride for the first yellow jersey. It features a 1.6-kilometer climb at 7.6% before a downhill finish into town.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 1 - Hilly day opens tabs on women's peloton

The second stage will have an hilltop finish in Mauriac with 3.4 kilometers at 5.8% which should open the fight for the yellow jersey, and will be an interesting day with several riders in the mix for an explosive finale, in a day that features a climbing start and a few climbs close to the finish as attacks can come.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 2 - GC fight to explode on hilly summit finish

Stage 3 will have it's finale in Montignac-Lascaux and should be a bunch sprint. It isn't a flat day however with five categorized ascents on the day, but the pure sprinters should have here their first opportunity.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 3 - Lorena Wiebes main favourite for expected maiden bunch sprint

Stage 4 into Rodez will see a familiar finale, an explosive one after a hilly stage. he final kilometers will see three small climbs but ones that feature gradients hard enough to explode the race. The hilltop finish will see 570 meters at 10%. It will be a difficult day where the overall classification will be played, however it is likely that all will come down to the steep finale where the climbers and puncheurs will battle it out.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 4 - Massif Central provides difficult terrain for second GC battle

Stage 5 will finish in Albi, a stage that should see a sprint finish, however with possibilities for the offensive riders aswell. With a mostly downhill profile and a couple of short and sharp ascents, it could also be a reduced sprint, breakaway or late attacks to succeed. GC raids are also possible in such terrain.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 5 - Tricky day another opportunity for the breakaway

Stage 6 into Blagnac should be another opportunity for the fast women, it will be the flattest stage of the race and the most likely to be calm. The 122 kilometers between Albi and Blagnac will host the world's best when it comes to the sprints.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 6 - Without Wiebes, sprinters take on key stage for TDFF success

Stage 7 will be the queen stage, as the race heads into the Pyrenees. The 90-kilometer stage will see the ascent of the Col d'Aspin (12Km; 6.5%) to warm things up, and a very hard summit finish at the Col du Tourmalet (17Km; 7.3%), a day that will be decisive for the overall classification and see the pure climbers fight for the win.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 7 - Van Vleuten, Vollering and Kopecky fight for overall win at Col du Tourmalet

The race will finish in Pau, as the 8th stage will see an individual time-trial around the city with 22 kilometers in difference, which features two small hilltops and will see important differences in the overall classification - which can be decided here. The route is not flat with a 1.4-kilometer climb at 7.4% in it's middle, and a tricky final uphill ramp to the line.

PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 8 - Demi Vollering to seal overall win in final time-trial

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Tour de France Femmes 2022 stage 4 preview: Route map and profile as peloton goes off-road

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The 2022 Tour de France Femmes has thrown up all sorts of entertainment over the opening three days and stage four will be no different as the peloton heads off-road.

Stage one saw the Dutch sprint sensation Lorena Wiebes pip the great Marianne Vos to victory and the yellow jersey in Paris, but Vos was always going to get her hands on yellow at some stage and she hit back in spectacular style on stage two to ascend to the top of the standings.

Yesterday saw Vos involved in another sprint but this time she had no answer to the late surge of Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig. The charismatic Dane is known for her entertaining interviews, but she could barely get the words out through tears of joy ( though she still managed to swear profusely ).

There have been crashes and plenty of incidents along the way but there is no let up for the peloton today: stage four is a 127km route containing four separate sections of hilly gravel track in the second half which will burn the legs – and offer opportunities to attack.

The day begins in the medieval town of Troyes. The relatively flat opening is where a breakaway will try to escape up the road, before an intermediate sprint which Wiebes may be enticed forwards by in an effort to win the green jersey’s points classification, currently led by Vos.

Vos will be more concerned with what follows as she seeks to keep hold of the yellow jersey over difficult terrain. The first two gravel sections are categrory three and they are the steepest, each around a kilometre long averaging almost 9% gradient, before slightly gentler category-four gravel climbs.

Then there is a sting in the tail: there are bonus seconds available at the top of the day’s penultimate climb, the Cote des Bergeres, which could bring the general classification contenders like Vos to the fore, before another category-four climb which sets up the descent to the finish at Bar-sur-Aube.

Whoever arrives at the finish line first will certainly have earned their prize.

Stage four route map and profile

Start and finish time.

Stage four begins in Troyes at 12.10pm BST and is expected to culminate around 3.20pm.

How to watch on TV and stream online

Tour de France Femmes coverage can be found on Eurosport, Discovery+ and GCN+ (Global Cycling Network).

Eurosport and GCN+ will show every stage live. More on Eurosport’s coverage here and the GCN+ coverage here .

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Tour de France Femmes 2022 Route stage 6: Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Rosheim

The first 20 kilometres are a gradual build-up towards the Col d’Urbeis, a 4 kilometres climb with an average gradient of 3%. Perfect to stretch the legs.

The route descends towards a undulating run-up to the hardest part of the day. First, the riders enter the Côte de Klingenthal – 1 kilometre at 6.1% – and without a descent in between the Côte de Grendelbruch appears. This climb is 1.2 kilometres long and averages 8%.

Still more than 60 kilometres to after the Grendelbruch climb. The riders descend onto a prolonged flat section and tackle an unclassified climb shortly before crossing the finish line for the first time.

The passage in Rosheim is with 20 kilometres to go. The finishing circuit features one more climb. The Côte de Boersch – 1.3 kilometres at 6.1% – is likely to inspire a flurry of attacks. After moving through Boersch the route continues to rise false flat for 1 kilometre before dropping down into Rosheim.

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Tour de France Femmes: How to watch Stage 8 on Sunday, TV and live stream details, timings and route map

Updated 31/07/2022 at 07:25 GMT

Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar Team) holds a 3'14" advantage over Demi Vollering (SD Worx) in the general classification ahead of the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes. With the Super Planche des Belles Filles on the menu can the 39-year-old extend her advantage or can the chasing pack exert some pressure on the yellow jersey incumbent. Here’s how you can watch an unmissable stage.

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Tour de France Femmes 2022: Vos wins stage six to extend GC lead – as it happened

The Dutch superstar won her second stage of the Tour on the sixth stage into Rosheim

• Read Jeremy Whittle’s stage six report from Rosheim
• 29 Jul 2022 Top 10 on General Classification after stage six
• 29 Jul 2022 Marianne Vos wins the stage!!!
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• 29 Jul 2022 Top 10 on GC after stage five
• 29 Jul 2022 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges to Rosheim (128.6km)

Stage six report: The Tour de France Femmes leader, Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) won stage six of the race, from Saint-Die-Des-Vosges to Rosheim in the Alsace region, after outsprinting Marta Bastianelli of the UAE Team. Jeremy Whittle was there to see it ...

Stage six in summary: Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) was first past the post in the latest stage of the Tour de France Femmes , her second win of the race increasing her lead on GC to 30 seconds, with the remaining two stages in the mountains to come.

For all her talent, Vos will almost certainly lose the yellow jersey in tomorrow’s mountain stage to Le Markstein but can console herself with the fact that she has all but secured the green jersey. She has a 76 point lead over Lorena Wiebes, who would have fancied her chances of making it a hat-trick of stage wins this afternoon, were it not for a high speed fall on a descent that left her bloodied and bruised.

Top 10 on General Classification after stage six

• Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) 19hr 30min 14sec
• Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel & Service) +30sec
• Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) +30sec
• Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) +35sec
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (SD Worx) +1min 05sec
• Demi Vollering (SD Worx) +1min 11sec
• Juliette Labous (DSM) +1min 19sec
• Aneemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) +1min 28
• Cecile Ludwig (FDJ-Suez-Futurscope) +2min 02sec
• Elise Chabbey (Canyon/SRAM Racing) +2min 34sec

🇳🇱 @marianne_vos wins in Rosheim, in her Yellow Jersey 💛 Victoire en Jaune pour @marianne_vos 💛 #TDFF #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/D6UKOGBOPo — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 29, 2022

Marianne Vos wins by a bike-length: The Dutch rider breasts the metaphorical tape ahead of Marta Bastianelli (UAE Team ADQ) in second place, with Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) rolling across the line in third.

Marianne Vos wins the stage!!!

The Dutch legend wins the sprint in the yellow jersey, extending her lead on GC courtesy of the bonus seconds that were up for grabs. That was a thoroughly deserved win on the back of a fine team effort from the riders of Jumbo Visma.

1km to go: Karljin Swinkels of Jumbo Visma does her turn at the front and with 400m to go the field takes an extremely tight right turn.

2km to go: The Jumbo Visma teammates of Marianne Vos are positioned near the front of the bunch as assorted big-hitters prepare for what could be a thrilling denouement.

4km to go: Dappled in shadows, the tree-lined road is fairly narrow and the turns are tight as the bunch heads down towards the finish in almost single file.

5km to go: Le Net leads the field into a sweeping descent towards the finish with the peloton strung out behind.

6km to go: Team SD Worx take over at the front of a bunch that is about to catch Marie Le Net.

7km to go: With two kilometres to go to the beginning of a very tricky descent to the finish, Marie Le Net keeps the hammer down as Trek-Segafredo leads the chase at the front of the peloton behind.

8km to go: French FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope rider Marie Le Net is first over the final climb of the day but her lead of the peloton is just 16 seconds.

11km to go: Onwards and upwards and our breakaway group has been reduced to a trio – Marie Le Net, Jos Lowden and Anna Henderson – who are being hunted down by a peloton that is just 30 seconds behind. Le Net attacks on the final categorised climb with just 10 kilometres to go.

13km to go: Despite the struggles of their teammate Lorena Wiebes after her crash, The riders of Team DSM are doing the hard work at the front of the bunch, in an effort to set up Liane Lippert for a sprint finish.

16km to go: There is one climb left today, the Category 4 Côte de Boersch, which peaks 9.2km from the finish line and it’s more or less downhill all the way to the line. Just after the flamme rouge , signifying one kilometre to go, the road gets very narrow, which could lead to all sorts of problems in the event of a sprint finish.

18km to go: The gap from the breakaway to the yellow jersey group is 1min 06km, while the unfortunate Wiebes is a further 1min 34sec behind, cycling on her own and looking in a great deal of discomfort.

22km to go: The lead group is down to approximately 10 riders, while the Green Jersey, Lorena Wiebes has crashed on a descent. She’s sits for a while on the roadside looking very sorry for herself before getting back to her feet, remounting and setting off in pursuit of the bunch. Her shorts are torn and there is claret pouring from her right elbow.

27km to go: It’s as you were with the 14-woman breakaway but the gap is in to 45 seconds. We can hopefully expect some fireworks in the lead group from here on in. At the front of the peloton, Australian FDJ Suez Futuroscope rider Grace Brown attacks.

33km to go: A stage that promised so much in terms of excitement is delivering precious little so far – the 14-woman breakaway is being kept on a very tight rein by the chasing peloton and the gap is at 1min 11sec.

41km to go: The breakaway group go through the intermediate sprint with Tamara Dronova (Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad) taking maximum points. The gap to the bunch is 1min 20sec.

It's strung out behind as riders from teams who have missed the break try to keep it under control... The escapees enjoyed a maximum gap of 2'07" over the summit of Côte de Grendelbruch and are now holding an advantage of ~1'20" as the race enters the last 50km 🚴‍♀️ #TDFF #TDFFdata pic.twitter.com/03K1lXu2hk — letourdata (@letourdata) July 29, 2022

55km to go: The EF Education boss gets back on the blower to his woman in the breakaway, Kathrin Hammes, warning her to be careful of some tricky turns on the descent from the Cote de Grendelbruch. She moves nearer to the front of the bunch.

60km to go: Jos Louden sprints off the front of the breakaway to take the maximum three points available at the summit of the Cote de Grendelbruch. Once over the top, she sits up, reaches back into her pocket and pulls out something to eat. I thought she might pull a sly tactical stroke by putting even more distance between herself and the rest of the breakaway.

61km to go: We hear from the race radio of EF Education-Tibco-SVB rider of Kathrin Hammies, whose directeur sportif reminds her to eat and drink, eat and drink ... and do as little work as possible in the breakaway.

61km to go: The breakaway group is making its way up the category 3 Côte de Grendelbruch which is 512m high and the gap is out to 1min 46sec. They have a kilometre to go to the top.

68km to go: Jos Louden (Uno-X) takes maximum points on the second climb of the afternoon, the Category 4 Côte de Klingenthal and is followed over by Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez- Futuroscope). Behind them, Bastianelli has been reeling by a bunch that is 1min 38sec off the pace being set by the leaders.

71km to go: The gap is out to 1min 50sec and UAE Team ADQ rider Marta Bastianelli is doing her damnedest to bridge across from the peloton to the breakaway, no doubt under orders as her team missed out on a place in the original escape party.

75km to go: A group of 14 riders have opened a gap of 1min 24sec on the peloton. Please be upstanding for Audrey Cordon Ragot (Trek-Segafredo), Sheyla Gutierrez (Movistar), Christine Majerus (SD Worx), Marie Le Net (FDJ Suez Futuroscope), Anna Henderson (Jumbo-Visma), Franziska Koch (Team DSM), Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon//Sram), Ruby Roseman-Gannon (BikeExchange-Jayco), Sandra Alonso (Ceratizit-WNT), Laura Smulders (Liv Racing Xstra), Katrin Hammes (EF Education-Tibco-SVB), Jesse Vandenbulcke (Le Col-Wahoo), Joscelin Lowden (Uno-X) and Tamara Dronova (Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad).

75km to go: Maaike Boogaard was first over the first of four climbs today, the Category 4 Col d’Urbeis. She took two Queen of the Mountains points, with Femke Gerritse, who currently wears the polka dot jersey, taking the other one.

78km to go: Martina Alzini (Cofidis) has abandoned.

We join stage six with 85km to go: It’s been quite the frenetic start but the bunch remains intact although Trek-Segafredo rider Elisa Longo Borghini, in fourth place on GC, has had to work hard to get back in the peloton after suffering a mechanical. Her teammate Audrey Cordon Ragot helped pace her back to the bunch.

"Anyone wanting to take a stage victory into Rosheim has to ride this one from the front." @spannawalker talks through Stage 6 which has very little time for recovery and a technical run in to the final 5km #TDFF #TDFFdata pic.twitter.com/v96HZcQEgQ — letourdata (@letourdata) July 29, 2022

Three non-starters: Marta Lach (Ceratizit-WNT), Eleonora Gasparrini (Valcar-Travel & Service) and Marjolein Van’t Geloof (Le Col-Wahoo) failed to line up at the start today, which means the field is down to 125 riders with three stages to go.

Liebes wins stage five as almost half the field hit the deck

Stage five report: Lorena Wiebes of Team DSM won her second stage of the Tour in a sprint finish, while almost half the field were involved in a massive pile-up. Jeremy Whittle reports from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.

Top 10 on GC after stage five

• Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) 16hr 20min 58sec
• Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel & Service) +20sec
• Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) +20sec
• Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo) +34sec
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (SD Worx) +55sec
• Demi Vollering (SD Worx) +1min 01sec
• Juliette Labous (DSM) +1min 09sec
• Aneemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) +1min 18
• Cecile Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez-Futurscope) +1min 52sec
• Elise Chabbey (Canyon/SRAM Racing) +2min 24sec

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges to Rosheim (128.6km)

Following yesterday’s sprint finish at the end of a long, flat track, today’s far more punchy stage may be better suited to the breakaway specialists in the peloton ahead of tomorrow’s foray up the mountains.

While today’s course is hilly and more suited to the baroudeurs in the field, the sprinters among the bunch may well fancy their chances in what is almost certainly their final opportunity to take a stage win before a race-deciding weekend in the Vosges. While unlikely, it would not be a massive surprise to see Dutch rocket Lorena Wiebes make it a hat-trick of wins this week.

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After eight gruelling days of racing, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) etched her name into the history books as the winner of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, overcoming illness in the early stages of the race to deliver a dominant victory at the top of La Super Planche des Belles Filles.

A powerful show of climbing force on stage 7 left Van Vleuten in yellow and heading into the stage 8 finale with over three minutes on Demi Vollering (SD Worx). The SD Worx rider and her team tried everything they could to take over the top spot, from using the strength of the team to trying to exploit any weakness on the descent, but Van Vleuten's climbing prowess simply couldn’t be challenged. 

Van Vleuten came through the gravel near the top of the La Super Planche des Belles Filles and onto the steep finishing ramp solo, with plenty of time to savour a final victory in the yellow jersey of the race leader. 

Vollering was again Van Vleuten's closest competitor, taking second on the stage 30 seconds back, which also secured the runner-up position on the overall podium. Silvia Persico (Valcar Travel & Service) took third on the stage, leading in Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) who finished third on the overall. 

"It's actually a dream that comes true - winning in yellow at the top," Van Vleuten said. "It was not an easy stage, it was not an easy week. It was a super big rollercoaster for me. To finish in yellow solo - the best way."

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• Stage 7: Van Vleuten goes on mountain rampage to win stage 7 of Tour de France Femmes
• Stage 6: Marianne Vos takes sprint victory in Rosheim on stage 6 of Tour de France Femmes
• Stage 5: Lorena Wiebes strikes a second time and wins stage 5 of Tour de France Femmes
• Stage 4: Reusser wins gravel-strewn stage 4 of Tour de France Femmes
• Stage 3: Uttrup Ludwig wins in Épernay on Tour de France Femmes stage 3
• Stage 2: Marianne Vos prevails in Provins on Tour de France Femmes stage 2
• Stage 1: Wiebes beats Vos to claim stage 1 win and yellow jersey at Tour de France Femmes

Tour de France Femmes 2022 Information

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• Tour de France Femmes: La Super Planche des Belles Filles
• How to watch the 2022 Tour de France Femmes – live TV and streaming

Tour de France Femmes 2022 Route

ASO along with newly appointed race director Marion Rousse revealed the route for the eight-day race at the  Palais des Congrès  on October 14 in Paris. The eight-day race is set to start at Eiffel Tower on July 24 and end atop La Super Planche des Belles Filles on July 31.

The Tour de France Femmes will cover 1,029 kilometres and include back-to-back mountain stages, two stages for the puncheurs, a stage packed with gravel sectors, and four flat stages that could either end in bunch sprints or breakaway wins. 

To preview our Tour de France Femmes 2022 - The definitive guide to the route's key stages .

• Stage 1: Paris Eiffel Tower to Paris Champs-Élysées, 82km
• Stage 2: Meaux to Provins, 135km
• Stage 3: Reims to Épernay, 133km
• Stage 4: Troyes to Bar-sur-Aube, 126km
• Stage 5: Bar-le-Duc to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, 175km
• Stage 6: Saint-Dié-des-Vosges to Rosheim, 128km
• Stage 7: Sélestat to Le Markstein, 127km
• Stage 8: Lure to Super Planche des Belles Filles, 123km

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Tour de France Femmes History

The women's peloton raced their  first official launch of the women's Tour de France  until 1984 won by American Marianne Martin. It was an 18-day race held simultaneously as the men's event and along much of the same but shortened routes with shared finish lines. The Société du Tour de France, which later became part of ASO in 1992, managed both men's and women's events. 

The women's Tour de France ended in 1989, and while ASO went on to organise women's one-day races like La Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, La Course, and the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes (in 2021), the women's peloton had not been included as part of the official Tour de France for the past 30 years.

Other women's stage races in France, not run by ASO, took place including the Tour Cycliste Féminin, which had started in 1992, and the re-named Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, until it came to an end in 2009. 

Tour de France men's race director Christian Prudhomme, last year, made a  long-awaited confirmation  that Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) will launch a women's Tour de France avec Zwift in 2022. Zwift was announced that it will become the title sponsor of the  Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift .

The eight-day race begins on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in conjunction with the final stage 21 of the men's Tour de France and ends on La Super Planche des Belles Filles. 

The event is set to become the richest race in the women's peloton next year, with a total of €250,000 up for grabs over the course of the eight-day race and €50,000 in prize money for the winner.

La Course: A stepping stone

ASO's marquee men's Tour de France has thrived over a hundred years but the organisation had been repeatedly criticised for not offering an official women's Tour de France since the original stage race was cancelled in 1989.

La Course by La Tour de France was created in 2014 following a petition to ASO calling for a women's Tour de France. Le Tour Entier's petition was led by Kathryn Bertine, Marianne Vos, Emma Pooley and Chrissie Wellington and secured 97,307 signatures. 

The  inaugural La Course  was held as a circuit race on the Champs Elysees on the final day of the Tour de France. The sprinter-friendly format saw victories for Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen and Chloe Hosking in the first three editions.

Organisers shifted to a  two-day experiment in 2017 , which saw a summit finish on the Col d'Izoard, held on the same day as stage 18 of the men's race, followed by a handicapped time trial in Marseille. Annemiek van Vleuten won both stages and the overall title.

The race then shifted back to just  one day in 2018 , as a mountainous road race that linked Annecy and Le Grand-Bornand. Van Vleuten won that edition as well, which was held in conjunction with stage 10 of the Tour de France. The race remained a one-day event held on  circuits in Pau in 2019  won by Vos and a  hilly circuit race in 2020  in Nice won by Lizzie Deignan. 

The eighth and final edition of La Course by Le Tour de France was held as a 107.4km race from Brest to the finish line atop the Côte de la Fosse aux Loups in Landerneau.

Despite its controversy, La Course had become one of the most showcased events on the Women's WorldTour,  and although  the wait was longer than anyone anticipated, it finally became the stepping stone to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Cyclingnews will have live coverage of all eight stages of the Tour de France Femmes along with race reports, galleries, results, and exclusive features and news.

Tour de France Femmes 2022 Teams

• Canyon-Sram Racing
• EF Education-TIBCO-SVB
• FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope
• Human Powered Health Women
• Liv Racing Xstra
• Movistar Team Women
• Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad
• BikeExchange-Jayco Women
• Team DSM Women
• Jumbo-Visma
• Trek-Segafredo Women
• UAE Team ADQ
• Uno-X Pro Cycling Women
• Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
• Parkhotel Valkenburg
• Valcar-Travel & Service
• AG Insurance-NXTG
• Arkéa Pro Cycling Team
• Cofidis Women Team
• Le Col Wahoo
• Plantur-Pura
• Stade Rochelais Charente Maritime
• St Michel-Auber 93

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2024 Could Be a Make-Or-Break Year for the Tour de France Femmes

I f there’s one depressing fact I’ve learned in nearly two decades of covering women’s cycling, it’s that, sadly, there’s rarely a moment to rest on one’s laurels in this sport—and that’s particularly true for race organizers, and team owners.

Just because a race does fantastically well one year in terms of unprecedented levels of viewership and media coverage or because a team is arguably the absolute best in the world doesn’t guarantee anything. It’s all easy come, easy go. That’s why I’m nervous about the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and why I believe that this year could be the most pivotal year for the race.

But why am I worried about the Tour de France Femmes in year three? After all, viewership numbers have been high, enthusiasm hasn’t waned, and sports bars are full of fans screaming for Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma. And yet... There are a few important factors to consider.

Last year, Zwift’s Kate Verroneau told me that the second year of the TDFF was scary for her: The first year, you’re riding a wave of hype. In the second year, the race has to stand as a great race, not just a “first.” What about the third year?

“There’s no kind of resting on the fact that last year was really successful,” Veronneau said then. “I look at it and think, ‘Last year was pretty easy sell: It was the first women’s Tour de France in over 30 years. That was easy to get the media on board, easy to get sponsors on board. It was the first time that that huge of an audience watched women’s racing.”

Year two was hugely successful, but what about year three?

The sponsorship dynamics at play

First, there’s the simple fact that this is year three of Zwift’s four-year commitment to the Tour de France Femmes in partnership with ASO. That means if Zwift isn’t planning to continue its support or is going to cut back its sponsorship budget, this is the year the race needs to look for a new sponsor.

Leaving it entirely to next year, the final year in their contract, is foolhardy. So I have to imagine that there’s some buzz happening behind the scenes already. I haven’t heard any scuttlebutt about them giving up their title sponsorship position, to be clear, but considering Zwift just had a round of layoffs and a shuffle in their C-suite , who knows where they’re heading? Hopefully into another lengthy contract, but it’s unclear. My fingers are crossed.

Viewership challenges

Viewership this year will also be more important than ever. High viewership numbers mean a better chance of securing new or renewed sponsorship dollars, and TdFF viewership has been undeniably impressive. But this year is going to make that tricky. The men’s Tour de France and the Tour de France Femmes are separated this year by the Olympics. That means three weeks between the races, rather than the men’s race ending on the day the women’s race began.

In the past two years, it was easy to just continue tuning in if you’d been watching the men’s race. This year, viewers will have to actively seek it out starting August 12—the day after the Olympics finish. That is a lot of TV watching for cycling/sports fans to contend with. While serious fans will still tune in, those ‘medium’ fans may not.

The state of the cycling industry

Then, there’s the cycling industry landscape. Brands like Trek and Specialized are slashing budgets , and Shimano is reporting quarter after quarter of losses . To blithely assume that there’s a cycling company capable of taking Zwift’s place as title sponsor in the current landscape is a mistake.

I say all this not to be discouraging. It’s meant to be a rallying cry. What does this all mean for you, the person reading this?

I want to believe that this race will survive and thrive in the same way that Le Tour has for over a century. But I also know that it takes more than love to keep a race of this magnitude running. It takes cold, hard cash. It takes commitment from big businesses that often see women’s cycling as a line item that they can scrap when it’s time to tighten up their belts. It took decades to get back to a point where we have this race. It’s happened before, it’s been lost before. Let’s not let it happen again.

It’s time to get fired up and ensure that the Tour de France Femmes isn’t just a blip in the cycling history books. Mark your calendars, set a Google alert for the Tour de France Femmes, follow racers on social media, and plan watch parties—let’s make this the loudest Tour de France Femmes yet.