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PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, France — Veteran rider Annemiek van Vleuten won the women’s Tour de France, which returned after a 33-year absence, on Sunday after clinching the eighth and final stage in style.

The 39-year-old van Vleuten won the stage by 30 seconds from Dutch countrywoman Demi Vollering , who also finished the race second overall. Italian rider Silvia Persico was third in the stage, 1 minute, 43 seconds behind the winner.

In the overall standings, Movistar rider van Vleuten was 3:48 clear of Vollering (Team SD Worx) and 6:35 ahead of Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon–SRAM) in third spot.

Van Vleuten had just about enough energy to punch the air in delight when crossing the line after the 76-mile mountain stage in the Vosges mountains of eastern France. It featured two category 1 climbs, the second ascent being the stage-ending trek up La Super Planche des Belles Filles, which finished with a daunting gradient of 23%.

She entered the final stage with a lead of 3:14 seconds over Vollering.

On Saturday’s penultimate stage, Van Vleuten rose from eighth overall to take the yellow jersey from Marianne Vos with more superb climbing in the Vosges.

Van Vleuten added this victory to a long list of achievements, including three Giro d’Italia Femminile titles, Olympic gold in time trial and two world championship golds in the same discipline.

Six years ago, her career was under threat after she sustained fractures to her spine and was placed in intensive care after crashing during the women’s Olympic road race at the Brazil Games.

Vos was among the favorites, but the three-time Giro d’Italia champion ended up in 26th place overall.

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

Preview stage 7. 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.

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.

Estimated start and finish times for Tour de France Femmes stage 7: 16:25-19:15CET

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Prediction Tour de France Femmes 2023 stage 7:

*** Annemiek van Vleuten , Demi Vollering ** Elisa Longo Borghini , Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio * Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Juliette Labous, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, Ricarda Bauernfeind, Liane Lippert, Amanda Spratt

Pick : Demi Vollering

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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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‘it’s the biggest race i’ve won’: annemiek van vleuten, demi vollering, more ahead of tour de france femmes, velo caught up with some of the main contenders ahead of the second edition of the tour de france femmes avec zwift..

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CLERMONT-FERAND, France — The who’s who of the women’s peloton has descended on Clermont-Ferrand this weekend as the second edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift gets ready for take-off.

After a hugely successful debut in 2022, this year’s race plans to be bigger and better with an ascent of the Tourmalet and a race-deciding time trial.

Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) is the defending champion, but it is Demi Vollering (SD Worx) that comes into the race as the favorite.

Velo caught up with some of the riders as they prepare to roll out Sunday morning.

Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) 1st in 2022

The goal before I came here was to get the best out of myself so to be the most optimally prepared and I have to say that goal I have achieved. I think I’m here this year with the same shape as last year and the same preparation, with recharged batteries, and with the same energy to go full gas here for the yellow jersey.

I’m not so busy with what it will mean to me. A second win will not mean more to me but for me it is important to pin the number one on the race jersey for me and enjoy racing here, to be part of the battle to win the maillot jaune.

I love this race, I can say it’s the biggest race that I have won in my career. I think I would have come here with a different mindset if I hadn’t won last year as this is the last opportunity to win the Tour de France. That means that I can enjoy it more with less pressure and I can race with my heart.

Riders make the race and, of course, the Tourmalet is such an epic high mountain but I would not say that the Markstein stage, stage 7, was more easy than the Tourmalet. Maybe it was even harder with the climbs before. I noticed last year that for every mountain there is a fight, for every bonus sprint there is a fight, so that makes it hard. There is a lot of tension in the bunch.

Demi Vollering showed that she’s the number one favorite and she’s super strong, I have not been able to beat her. I beat here at the Vuelta, but that was a special occasion and on the uphill she was the strongest rider.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) 2nd in 2022

How to beat Van Vleuten? I don’t know. How do you beat the whole peloton? Of course, this is a difficult question but I think this is something we need to feel in the race and I’m happy that I have such a strong team around me and they are super motivated. I think this will come in handy. I hope that I’m stronger than last year and that I can beat her.

I have a dream to win the yellow jersey and I believe that if you have a dream that it is a dream for a reason and if you believe it’s there for a reason then it will happen. I don’t know when it will happen but I believe it will happen in the future.

This is a really difficult course, with climbing every day. As a GC rider, you cannot sit back and think that it will be an easy day. Every day something can happen and you need to be focused every day. This is really difficult for GC riders. Every day, so many different situations can happen and that depends on how the peloton will race that day. If GC riders plan to make it that day then it will be really hard and it will be a small group to the finish line. There can be so many different race situations and that makes it difficult.

I think it’s not our goal to win every stage, I don’t think that’s a good goal. I think we will do what we did already the whole season, I think we will be really motivated and go with the same mindset into the races. Hopefully, that will result in stage wins.

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step) DNF in 2022

It feels really good to be back. Whenever I think something is going to be the last then something happened, but to be honest I knew before the Tour de France Femmes last year that I was continuing that I was going to be back, which was good because it was going so well I was fifth on GC and I thought the final weekend was going to be a chance to move up onto the podium and then things went terribly wrong. So, it was a relief knowing that I would have another chance because to finish that way wouldn’t have been nice. It’s so meaningful to be because Zwift is the title sponsor and Zwift is a big part of my life.

Obviously, the Soudal Quick-Step team [at the men’s Tour de France] has been trying with a lot of bad luck so it’s great to have this result. [Kasper Asgreen] has had his own challenges and bad luck to overcome so to finally see him to get it was very cool and inspirational.

Ane Santesteban (Jayco-AlUla) 10th at the 2023 Giro d’Italia

For me, it feels better because last year I was coming from COVID so I knew I was not in my best shape. This year, I don’t feel the nerves, but I am more excited because I’m feeling good. I am coming from the Giro and the recovery has been good these last days. I’m really motivated to go for it.

If you look around, this never happens in other races. Just being here and doing interviews you see everybody is interested in our race and it’s really special for us. For me, it gives me a lot of strength and power because I feel the support of everyone. When I was doing recons, people knew when we would be passing through the climb and that gives me a lot of power. It helps to get our sport known. There are a lot more young riders who can see us and follow us in the races. It’s really helpful the grow women’s cycling.

The last two stages, it was really hot at the Giro. I took a few days to recover and in the last days I’ve been feeling good, and I am ready to race the Tour de France.

Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) 3rd in 2022

Definitely, the podium is the goal. I feel strong, but definitely, everybody feels stronger. To be honest, I’m curious and excited to get things started to see where I am standing next to my opponents, especially SD Worx, Annemiek van Vleuten and maybe Elisa Longo Borghini. I feel like I am better than I was last month in Suisse, but you never know what the others are doing. It’s definitely nice to get going and see where you are at and then you gain confidence and then you try to regain confidence.

The first days give a lot of opportunities for different riders to go for the win and as we know the Tour is iconic and everyone wants to be visible.

Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez) TT favorite

I’m a little bit nervous but I’m excited to get started tomorrow. I think every stage is exciting in its own right and they’ve done a nice job at designing the course. Each finale will be aggressive and compared to last year we’ll see smaller groups come to the finish line on more stages. I think for the viewers it’s going to be fun.

I’m looking forward to [the TT]. I don’t know what it will be like after eight days but it’s definitely one of the highlights for this Tour to do a time trial. We’ve had so few opportunities to do it in recent years but to be able to do it on the biggest stage is really cool. It’s a good time trial, it’s not completely flat, it’s not an uphill time trial but it has some climbing. It will suit someone who is a time trialist, but I think it will see some GC riders up there.

It’s going to be a predictable battle between Demi and Annemiek, but that’s not to say that the GC is done and dusted. There’s going to be a fight, particularly before the Tourmalet, there’s a potential for the leader’s jersey to move around a bit. The GC is not done until it’s done.

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'She was better' - Annemiek van Vleuten tips hat to Demi Vollering on Tour de France Femmes raid

Reigning champion concedes defeat to compatriot on Col du Tourmalet

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Annemiek van Vleuten, the reigning champion of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift , will probably not win the race for a second time. 

After Saturday’s seventh and penultimate stage , the Dutchwoman sits in third on the overall standings, trailing SD Worx’s Demi Vollering by a mighty 2-34 . The race blew apart on the mist-coated Col du Tourmalet, and the Movistar rider’s GC hopes began to disappear. 

“I’m here to win the Tour de France, and to come second, third or maybe fourth, to be honest, is super beautiful,” she said. “But after winning last year , you know that you only want to win, and it’s obvious that Demi Vollering was on another level today.”

Her compatriot was indeed a cut above the rest in the Pyrenees. After tagging escapee Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram) with 5km to go, Vollering rose through the clouds and won by almost two minutes. 

“Of course I’m disappointed,” Van Vleuten said, “but I can also accept it, because I didn’t do anything wrong.

“I raced like I always like to race, going hard and focusing on my strengths. I had the confidence today that I could win.” 

The world champion’s first attack came on the Col d’Aspin, some 35km from the line. “For me, the goal with attacking on the Aspin was not to drop everyone there, it was more to do an effort. But maybe in the end, it was not so smart,” she explained. “For my shape today, it was not the best bet. But you never know that, and I always like to race with my heart.”

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Van Vleuten then found herself alongside Vollering in the foothills of the Tourmalet, chasing the gap to Niewiadoma. “She didn’t want to ride,” the Movistar rider said. “I was like, ‘If you don’t want to ride, I also don’t ride.’ But yeah, she also had a point, she had two team-mates behind her.”

Vollering recalled a similar account of the exchange: “[Van Vleuten] said, ‘Either we ride together, or we don’t ride together and then we both lose.’ I said, ‘Ok that’s fine, I race for my team’. Luckily, my team-mates came back pretty fast. Marlen [Reusser] did a lead-out and started riding directly in front to close the gap."

While Vollering bridged across, her compatriot stayed put. Van Vleuten couldn't follow, and the steep road between them stretched longer and longer. 

“I could see my numbers went down. I didn’t have a good day,” the world champion said frankly at the summit. “Today was Aspin, Tourmalet, and she was better.”

The Tour de France Femmes will come to a close on Sunday, with a 22.6km individual time trial in Pau. 

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Tom joined Cycling Weekly as a news and features writer in the summer of 2022, having previously contributed as a freelancer. He is the host of The TT Podcast , which covers both the men's and women's pelotons and has featured a number of prominent British riders. 

An enthusiastic cyclist himself, Tom likes it most when the road goes uphill and actively seeks out double-figure gradients on his rides. 

He's also fluent in French and Spanish and holds a master's degree in International Journalism. 

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Where Annemiek van Vleuten Is Racing During Her Last Season

After dominating the sport for a decade, AVV is bowing out with a bang. Her swan song is jam-packed with big races.

Van Vleuten, now 41, came to cycling on the advice of her physician following a knee injury 14 years ago and the rest, as is often said, is history. At the age of 28 and only a year after she took up the bike, she quit her full-time office job to become a pro cyclist, and it was clear from the beginning that it was the right decision. A year later, she won the UCI Women’s World Cup.

The reigning world champion has a dream calendar of races lined up for the 2023 season. She had announced last year that the Tour de France Femmes (which she won the inaugural edition of last year) and the Giro are priorities for her once again this year, but we won’t have to wait until summer to see her crush it. Her Classics schedule features some of our favorite early season one-day races.

Annemiek Van Vleuten’s Last Season Calendar

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• Vuelta a España, May 1-7 (2022 winner)
• Dutch nationals, June 24
• Giro d’Italia, June 30 to July 9 (2022 winner)
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Demi Vollering Dethrones Van Vleuten On Tourmalet | Tour de France Femmes 2023 Stage 7

Demi Vollering was finally unleashed in the mountains today, delivering an incredibly strong climbing performance on the Tourmalet to secure the yellow jersey before the final stage in Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2023. Not even the reigning World Champion and winner of all three Grand Tours Annemiek van Vleuten could challenge Vollering.

It was the only mountain stage in the 2023 Tour whilst in the inaugural 2022 edition there were two mountain stages, albeit both less difficult than the combination of Aspin and Tourmalet. Last year Annemiek van Vleuten dominated on both climbing days and was far ahead of everyone else but in 2023 the World Champion has not been as dominant in one-day races nor the climbs. She was dropped on Covadonga by Vollering in La Vuelta, but still won the race overall thanks to earlier time gains and also won the Giro Donne, in the absence of Vollering.

Van Vleuten attacked early on the Col d’Aspin but it was not as easy as in the 2022 Tour and Katarzyna Niewiadoma, and Demi Vollering stayed on her wheel. Vollering refused to do any work and waited for the Tourmalet, while Niewiadoma took a chance and went solo on the descent.

Col du Tourmalet is a very hard climb compared to those typically included in women’s races, which would surely make huge gaps in the GC. The second part of the climb is very difficult with gradients ranging from 8-10% in every kilometre and high altitude. Niewiadoma worked hard when going solo but the shallow beginning of the Tourmalet did not help her when Reusser was chasing for Vollering behind.

Van Vleuten and Vollering were caught by the yellow jersey group of Kopecky, Moolman, Labous, Ludwig, Spratt and Santesteban. The pace was not as high as it could be on the early slopes and it helped Niewiadoma to fight for the GC podium. The big question was when Vollering would attack.

Shortly after Labous accelerated with 6 km to go, Vollering finally launched and not even Van Vleuten could challenge her. The SD Worx leader quickly caught Niewiadoma who was incredibly strong, despite being solo for a long time. Vollering lost La Vuelta due to a mid stage nature break but in the Tour she was too strong for anyone and the questionable team tactics in the earlier stages did not matter as she had the best legs in the peloton by a mile.

Vollering for the whole Tourmalet did 5.13 ᵉW/Kg for 53:42 min which is an all time great performance for a long altitude climb. But the most impressive about her effort were the last six kilometres. Vollering pushed 5.58 ᵉW/Kg for the final 21 minutes of the climb at an average altitude of 1842 metres – putting 2:34 min into Van Vleuten. Normalising this attack section to sea level power, it would be 6.01 ᵉW/Kg for 21 minutes.

With the Col d’Aspin in the legs, Vollering did one of the greatest if not the greatest climbing performance we have in our database for women’s cycling. Vollering in La Vuelta was impressive on La Covadonga with 5.35 ᵉW/Kg for 31:01 min but this a much higher level. Gaia Realini was able to follow Vollering on Covadonga and would have been well suited for Tourmalet but was not selected for the Lidl-Trek team.

10th placed Ricarda Bauernfeind lost almost seven minutes, which shows how Vollering rode up the Tourmalet. With a 1:50 min lead in GC over Niewiadoma, Vollering will head into the final stage ITT with a comfortable gap over her rivals and yellow all but secured.

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Dutch great Van Vleuten happy with life in slow lane

ALCUDIA, Spain - Retired Dutch cycling great Annemiek van Vleuten will be back in the saddle on Saturday in one of Europe's biggest Gran Fondos - a recreational long distance ride - but do not expect any trademark solo attacks.

The 41-year-old will join more than 8,000 amateurs in the Mallorca 312 -- a closed-roads event that draws keen cyclists from all across Europe and beyond.

Van Vleuten is the latest cycling great to wear the honorary bib number 312, a year after Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, winner of all three Grand Tours, had the honour.

The Olympic time trial champion, whose career included every major title in women's cycling, was known for her peloton-shredding attacks, like the more than 100 km solo that took her to the world road title in Harrogate in 2019.

Having quit last year though, she is content to live life in a slower gear.

"It's super nice to be back on the island where I trained so much during my career," Van Vleuten said at the official presentation in Playa de Muro alongside Nibali and Spanish legend Alberto Contador on Friday.

"The shape is not there any more and I'm also happy that I'm not there any more and I don't have the pressure of preparing for races. It's a different life now, I ride my bike twice a week and tomorrow I hope I make the time cut!

"It will be amazing to ride with so many people and just relax and enjoy the scenery for a change."

Van Vleuten plans to ride the full 312 km distance while some riders will opt for the 225km and 167km options.

She won the time trial at the Tokyo Olympics and was runner-up in the road race.

Last year she won the inaugural edition of La Vuelta Femenina, having won the Tour de France Femmes the year before and the Giro Donne on four occasions. REUTERS

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Preview of the 2024 Vuelta Femenina | No Van Vleuten, but spring nemesis for Vollering

A fter a turbulent spring classics season, where a strong returning Marianne Vos, a regal Lotte Kopecky, and a soaring Elisa Longo Borghini swept most of the victories away from the other top riders, it's time for the first major women's tour: the Vuelta! Demi Vollering, still seeking her first victory, is participating and will be especially determined to avenge her near-win in 2023. Who are the other favorites for the red jersey? And what course will the women face? IDLProCycling.com tells you everything you need to know!

Last year, the Vuelta Femenina was highly controversial. The fight for the red jersey was thrilling but was ultimately decided by a mistake from Vollering. Or was it due to unsportsmanlike riding by Annemiek van Vleuten? After a bathroom break at SD Worx, the leader of the general classification failed to catch up, and Van Vleuten took over the lead. She held it through a nail-biting battle of seconds on the legendary climb to Lagos de Covadonga and never relinquished it again. Vollering gained a lot of time back but fell just nine seconds short of clinching the red jersey.

Thus, Van Vleuten – as it now turns out – won her last grand tour. It was also her third overall victory in the women’s Tour of Spain. The race received a significant update in 2023, growing from five to seven stages, and this year it will expand to include an eighth stage. From 2015 to 2017, the Vuelta was a one-day race, known as the Madrid Challenge. It expanded to a two-day event in 2018 and 2019, before a third day was added in 2020. In 2021, there were four stages, and the following year, five.

Practical information Vuelta Femenina 2024

• Sunday, April 28 - Sunday, May 5, 2024
• Participants
• Classification: 2.WWT

In this article:

• Recent winners
• Route, climbs and times
• Favorites for the stage wins

Recent winners of the Vuelta Femenina 

2023: Annemiek van Vleuten

2022: Annemiek van Vleuten

2021: Annemiek van Vleuten

2020: Lisa Brennauer

2019: Lisa Brennauer

2018: Ellen van Dijk

2017: Jolien D'Hoore *

2016: Jolien D'Hoore *

2015: Shelley Olds *

* In these editions it was still a one-day race .

Vuelta Femenina 2024: Route, times and favorites for the stages

Stage 1, sunday, april 28, 2024: valencia - valencia (team time trial, 16 km).

The first stage of the Vuelta is a perfectly flat team time trial. Around Valencia, teams will cover sixteen kilometers without any significant obstacles. In addition to being flat, this challenge is also not very demanding in terms of corners: halfway through, the riders make a U-turn and head back towards the beautiful center of Valencia. An ideal day for the strong teams and well-oiled machines in the peloton!

First team starts 3:56 PM

Last team finishes approximately 5:15 PM

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SD Worx-Protime

Stage 2, Monday, April 29, 2024: Bunyol - Moncofa (118.3 km)

Stage two falls into the category of 'Spanish flat.' The riders start in Bunyol at an elevation of almost four hundred meters. A rolling course takes them to the finish line in Moncofa, facing only the Puerto de L'Oronet as a notable climb along the way. This climb is positioned far enough from the finish that the sprinters' teams are unlikely to want to lose the battle there. Thus, we are gearing up for a likely bunch sprint on day two, although some of the faster women might find themselves dropped...

79.9 km: Puerto de L'Oronet (5.9 km at 4.0%)

Start: 2:22 PM

Finish: approximately 5:15 PM

Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich PostNL)Marianne Vos (Visma | Lease a Bike)

Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco)

Stage 3, Tuesday, April 30, 2024: Lucena - Teruel (130.2 km)

Stage three could go several ways. The route is tougher than the second stage, with more elevation gain. The only official climb of the day is mid-race, but the vertical challenges don’t stop there. The course continues to undulate and roll towards the finish line in Teruel. Here, the sprinters who can handle a climb may battle it out. Alternatively, this could be a good day for breakaway riders, as the stage will be difficult to control. Multiple scenarios are possible!

68 km: Alto Fuente de Rubielos (6.0 km at 6.0%)

Start: 1:45 PM

Finish: approximately 5:16 PM

Marianne Vos (Visma | Lease a Bike)

Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek)

Emma Henderson (Visma | Lease a Bike)

Stage 4, Wednesday, May 1, 2024: Molina de Aragón - Zaragoza (142.3 km)

A stage that is almost entirely downhill is not something we often see! Yet, in the fourth stage, the riders descend nearly a thousand meters, with a few small bumps along the way. With no serious climbs to contend with, this stage is an ideal opportunity for the fast riders in the peloton. There's a good chance we'll see another battle between Marianne Vos and Charlotte Kool!

Start: 1:57 PM

Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich PostNL)

Stage 5, Thursday, May 2, 2024: Huesca - Jaca (113.9 km)

And here it is, the first mountain-top finish! We've had to wait four days for it in the women's race, but it immediately presents a significant mountain stage. The route includes two second-category climbs. Particularly, the final climb will make a difference. The ascent to Alto del Fuerte in Jaca is not long, but it is steep and will definitely create a divide in the GC. A first real opportunity for Demi Vollering? It certainly looks like it!

After 86 km: Alto del Monasterio de San Juan de la Pena (18.4 km at 3.0%)

After 113 km: Alto del Fuerte (3.0 km at 8.0%)

Start: 2:16 PM

Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime)

Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM Racing)

Stage 6, Friday, May 3, 2024: Tarazona - La Laguna Negra (132.1 km)

The day after the first uphill finish, there's another one right away. This one is much longer, though slightly less steep. We expect to see the same women leading the pack, as an average gradient of 6.7 percent can definitely create gaps.

132.1 km: La Laguna Negra (6.5 km at 6.7%)

Start: 1:41 PM

Stage 7, Saturday, May 4, 2024: San Esteban de Gormaz - Sigüenza (138.6 km)

One last chance for the fast women, though we may be thinking more of the punchers here. After a hilly day, the last few hundred meters run dirty. Timing is important to be able to compete for the day's victory here!

Start: 12:57 p.m.

Finish: approximately 4:15 p.m.

Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime)

Liane Lippert (Movistar)

Stage 8, Sunday, May 5, 2024: Distrito Telefónica - Valdesquí (89.0 km)

We wrap up the women's Vuelta with an ultra-short 89-kilometer stage, but it includes two significant climbs. The general classification could be completely overturned here. And who will take the stage win? Someone who has already lost some time? Or perhaps the most dominant rider in the pack?

33.2 km: Puerto de la Morcuera (9.1 km at 6.8%)

89.0 km: Valdesquí (12.8 km at 4.8%)

Start: 11:01 AM

Finish: approximately 1:30 PM

Favorites for the General Classification of the Vuelta Femenina 2024

In contrast to the men’s races, the dynamics in women's grand tours often point more clearly towards certain contenders. The gap in performance levels is still too significant to come up with a list of ten names that can win the Vuelta. However, let's attempt to identify some. The top favorite: Demi Vollering ! Despite a spring season without victories, she consistently showed she has the strength to compete for the win. With the climbs becoming longer and tougher, Vollering is expected to excel even more. She also benefits from the strong support of her team at SD Worx-Protime.

This holds true for Elisa Longo Borghini at Lidl-Trek, who was Vollering’s nemesis this spring. The Italian champion was stronger than Vollering at events like the Brabantse Pijl, and also demonstrated in races like Strade Bianche and Liège-Bastogne-Liège that she can match the Dutch rider on such terrains. How will she fare on longer climbs and as the tough days stack up?

Kasia Niewiadoma might be a key rival for Vollering. The Polish rider from Canyon/SRAM clinched her first victory since 2019 at the Flèche Wallonne, which must have given her a huge confidence boost heading into the grand tour season. Niewiadoma is undoubtedly one of the best climbers in the peloton. Can she compete with Vollering and Longo Borghini in the team time trial, in terms of the team?

Behind these three top names, there is a solid group of outsiders and long shots. Women who haven't yet proven they can win, but who may have the potential. Consider the young Ricarda Bauernfeind , a teammate of Niewiadoma and last year's stage winner at the Tour de France Femmes. Juliette Labous is steadily progressing at dsm-Firmenich PostNL, having achieved a second place in the 2023 Giro, for example. The French rider is definitely one to watch. Also noted are the always dangerous veteran Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance - Soudal Team) and the American climber Kristen Faulkner (EF).

Favorites for the General Classification of the Vuelta Femenina 2024, according to IDLProCycling.com

Top favorite : Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime)

Outsiders: Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM)

Long Shots : Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance - Soudal Team), Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Cannondale) and Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon/SRAM)

2024 Vuelta Femenina TV Coverage

The Women's Tour of Spain will be broadcast live daily on Eurosport ! Note that the last two days will finish earlier.

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ALCUDIA, Spain : Retired Dutch cycling great Annemiek van Vleuten will be back in the saddle on Saturday in one of Europe's biggest Gran Fondos - a recreational long distance ride - but do not expect any trademark solo attacks.

The 41-year-old will join more than 8,000 amateurs in the Mallorca 312 - a closed-roads event that draws keen cyclists from all across Europe and beyond.

Van Vleuten is the latest cycling great to wear the honorary bib number 312, a year after Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, winner of all three Grand Tours, had the honour.

The Olympic time trial champion, whose career included every major title in women's cycling, was known for her peloton-shredding attacks, like the more than 100 km solo that took her to the world road title in Harrogate in 2019.

Having quit last year though, she is content to live life in a slower gear.

"It's super nice to be back on the island where I trained so much during my career," Van Vleuten said at the official presentation in Playa de Muro alongside Nibali and Spanish legend Alberto Contador on Friday.

"The shape is not there any more and I'm also happy that I'm not there any more and I don't have the pressure of preparing for races. It's a different life now, I ride my bike twice a week and tomorrow I hope I make the time cut!

"It will be amazing to ride with so many people and just relax and enjoy the scenery for a change."

Van Vleuten plans to ride the full 312 km distance while some riders will opt for the 225km and 167km options.

She won the time trial at the Tokyo Olympics and was runner-up in the road race.

Last year she won the inaugural edition of La Vuelta Femenina, having won the Tour de France Femmes the year before and the Giro Donne on four occasions.

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The first Grand Tour test and a rare team time trial – La Vuelta Femenina

Cyclingnews highlights the talking points ahead of the eight-day stage race in Spain

The Spring Classics are officially done, and the first Grand Tour on the women's international calendar is upon us as the peloton lineup at 2024 Vuelta Femenina from April 28 to May 5. 

Although there is limited time to transition between the two very different styles of racing, many of the main contenders for the Vuelta have already been preparing in between one-day races this spring at altitude training camps to help build the strength and stamina needed for the higher mountains and back-to-back race days.

Cyclingnews highlights some of the main talking points ahead of the eight-day race.

Join Cyclingnews for coverage of the  2024 La Vuelta Femenina , and check in after each race for our full report, results, gallery, news and features.

Demi Vollering's first stage racing test

Demi Vollering heads into La Vuelta Femenina as the big favourite, and it will be the first major test of her stage racing targets. She has had a slower start to the season with speculation that that may have been planned so that she is fresher for big races later in the year.

She has only competed in one-day races so far this spring, and although she hasn't won a race yet, she has finished on the podium in four major events: Strade Bianche, Brabantse Pijl, Flèche Wallonne, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. 

This means that while she may not be in her best form, yet, and that she is on an upward trajectory as the peloton heads into stage racing season.

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Last year, Vollering won two stages on the uphill into Mirador de Peñas Llanas and atop Lagos de Covadonga, but she was nine seconds shy of taking the overall won by now-retired Annemiek van Vleuten.

Vollering went on to win the Tour de France Femmes last year, but she has not yet won the overall titles at the Giro d'Italia or the La Vuelta, which are undoubtedly two other Grand Tour career goals.

The longer climbs of La Vuelta Femenina will cater to her strengths, especially after her early-season altitude training camp, and with a stage in the Pyrenees, and three mountaintop summit finishes, Vollering could turn a podium into a victory this year.

A rare team time trial

La Vuelta Femenina has been increased to eight stages and will once again begin with a team time trial, this time in Valencia.

The team time trial is becoming increasingly rare in women's racing, outside of the mixed team relay at the European and World Championships.  No other event currently hosts this discipline on the Women's WorldTour, although there are a couple of late-season events that have not announced routes.

La Vuelta's opening team time trial will include a flat 16km, out-and-back, that will favour the most powerful teams, and with the event's first leader's jersey on the line, it is an important stage.

Due to the lack of team time trials throughout the season, some teams might not have placed an emphasis on training specifically for this discipline, while others will have fine-tuned their equipment, team cohesion, technique and strength.

Look for teams like Lidl-Trek, SD Worx-Protime , Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL, and last year's TTT winners Visma-Lease a Bike to be among those in contention for the stage win.

No Van Vleuten, but a lot of competition

Last year's champion, Annemiek van Vleuten , is now retired, and while her absence will have left a void in the peloton, there is more depth in the field this year than ever before.

If the Women's WorldTour racing so far is any indication, there hasn't been one dominant rider or team throughout the first four months of racing. 

There have been five wins from SD Worx-Protime between Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes, three wins from Visma-Lease a Bike between Marianne Vos and Rosita Reijnhout, three wins from Lidl-Trek between Elisa Balsamo and Elisa Longo Borghini, and a win apiece from AG Insurance-Soudal's Sarah Gigante, Canyon-Sram's Kasia Niewiadoma and FDJ-Suez 's Grace Brown.

La Vuelta Femenina offers eight stages that will suit a range of strengths and abilities, and it is unlikely that one rider or team will dominate the racing. 

Indeed, several riders are in contention to win this year's overall title at La Vuelta Femenina, and Cyclingnews highlights the riders to watch .

Living up to expectations

The growth of La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es may have been slow at first, starting out as a one-day race in 2015 but organisers have gradually built upon its foundation each year.

The race moved to a multi-day format with two stages in 2018 and a three-day race in 2020. Organisers added a stage in each subsequent edition until it reached seven-day race in 2023, and many believe was Grand Tour level on the women's calendar as rivalling the Tour de France Femmes and the Giro d'Italia Women.

Organisers haven't stopped there, adding an eighth stage for its 10th edition this year, and while it will not showcase Lagos de Covadonga, the peloton will tackle the significant ascent across the final four days of racing.

Three mountaintop finishes, all previously featured in men’s events, are likely to define the overall standings: Fuerte Rapitán on stage 5, Laguna Negra de Vinuesa on stage 6, and Valdesquí. Comunidad de Madrid on stage 8.

Cyclingnews highlights the full route details of 2024 La Vuelta Femenina .

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