Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) claims the victory ahead of Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) on a dramatic stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes(Image credit: Getty Images)
Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) steps into yellow on stage 5(Image credit: Getty Images)
Stage winner Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) sprint to the finish line in Liège(Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering (SD Worx -Protime) celebrates at podium as she takes over the yellow jersey after stage 3 time trial win (Image credit: Getty Images)
Demi Vollering (SD Worx -Protime) clocked the fastest time on stage 3 time trial(Image credit: Getty Images)
Yellow jersey Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich PostNL) wins stage 2(Image credit: Getty Images)
Charlotte Kool is the first leader at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes(Image credit: Getty Images)
Charlotte Kool struck first at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes(Image credit: Getty Images)
Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram) held off a long range attack by Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) to win the 2024 Tour de France Femmes. Vollering powered away on the penultimate climb of Col du Glandon with only Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) able to hold her wheel, and for a short time became the virtual leader on the road.
But some difficult minutes, Niewiadoma regrouped, dug deep and was able to shorten the gap to Vollering who won the stage on Alpe d’Huez. Rooijakkers was second on the stage, and Évita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) came around Niewiadoma to take third.
Niewiadoma claimed the overall victory with four seconds on Vollering, and 10 seconds on Rooijakkers.
Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) attacked her breakaway companions on the Col de Saint-Jean-de-Sixt with 13.5km to go to solo to victory on stage 7. Ghekiere was part of a six-rider move that escaped with over 80 kilometres to go. Maëva Squiban (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) attacked from the field to take second, and Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) outsprinted Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) for third.
Niewiadoma, who was fourth on the stage, retains the yellow jersey with 27 seconds on Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) and 37 seconds on Cédrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT).
Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT) became the first French stage winner of the Tour de France Femmes, taking a daring solo move on the descent into Morteau. Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the sprint for second to move into the green points classification jersey, while Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) maintained her lead in the overall classification.
It was a dramatic day on the Tour de France Femmes, with stage 5 delivering a victory for SD Worx-Protime with Blanka Vas but the team also lost the yellow jersey after Demi Vollering crashed within the final 10km.
Vas outsprinted Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) and Liane Lippert (Movistar) to claim the stage win while an injured Vollering limped over the line in 50th place, 1:47 off the winning time. After coming second on the stage Niewiadoma took over the yellow jersey from Vollering, who now sits back in ninth place overall, 1:19 off the lead spot.
Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) delivered a stunning sprint to win stage 4 in a photo finish, beating yellow jersey Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) narrowly to the line in Liège. Pieterse, Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) escaped the peloton on the climb of the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons. Niewiadoma claimed third.
Vollering retains the yellow jersey with a 22-second lead on Pieterse, and 43 seconds on Niewiadoma.
Defending champion Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) clocked the fastest time on the 6.3km time trial in Rotterdam to win stage 3 and take over the yellow jersey. She bested ITT world champion Chloé Dygert (Canyon-SRAM), Loes Adegeest (FDJ-Suez), and Cédrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT) by five seconds.
In the general classification, Vollering has a three-second lead on her teammate Lorena Wiebes and five seconds on Dygert, Adegeest and Kerbaol.
Charlotte Kool (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) sprinted to back-to-back victories on stage 2 in Rotterdam. The yellow jersey outsprinted Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) while Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished third.
Kool remained in yellow after the first of two stages on the second day of racing, with 14 seconds on Anniina Ahtosalo (Uno-X Mobility) who is second, and Wiebes, in third.
Charlotte Kool (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) won the opening stage of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes in The Hague and so pulled on the first yellow jersey of this year's race with a superbly-timed sprint finish.
The Dutch rider took advantage of a mechanical problem that slowed expected favourite Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime). She was hit by Anniina Ahtosalo (Uno-X Mobility), losing her derailleur, her chain and so any power on the pedals.
Ahtosalo finished fast to take second and Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) was third.
2024 Tour de France Femmes Information
The route for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes was officially presented in Paris on October 25 by race director Marion Rousse.
The third edition of the modern incarnation of the women's Tour de France will be held after the Paris Olympic Games with eight stages across seven days between Monday, August 12 and Sunday, August 18.
Organisers offer a total of 946.3km of racing that includes three flat stages for the sprinters, one individual time trial, two hilly stages, two mountain stages and a crowning conclusion atop the iconic Alpe d'Huez.
Cyclingnews will have live coverage of all eight stages of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, along with race reports, galleries, results, and exclusive features and news.
2024 Tour de France Femmes Route
The peloton racing the Tour de France Femmes (Image credit: ASO)
The route for the 2024 Tour de France Femmes includes a Grand Départ in the Netherlands from August 12 to August 14, and takes place in host cities Rotterdam, The Hague, Dordrecht, and Valkenburg.
The route then crosses into the Ardennes Classics iconic cities of Liège and Bastogne before entering France and travelling into the Alps for two final mountain stages in Le Grand Bornand and Alpe d'Huez.
Stage 1: Rotterdam to The Hague, 124km
Stage 2: Dordrecht to Rotterdam, 67km
Stage 3: Rotterdam to Rotterdam, 6.3km
Stage 4: Valkenburg to Liège, 122km
Stage 5: Bastogne to Amnéville, 150km
Stage 6: Remiremont to Morteau, 160km
Stage 7: Champagnole to Le Grand-Bornand, 167km
Stage 8: Le Grand-Bornand to Alpe d'Huez, 150km
2024 Tour de France Femmes Schedule
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Date
Stage
Start Time
Finish Time
August 12
Stage 1
12:15
15:33
August 13
Stage 2
09:50
11:35
August 13
Stage 3
15:10
17:50
August 14
Stage 4
12:25
15:49
August 15
Stage 5
11:55
15:48
August 16
Stage 6
11:30
15:45
August 17
Stage 7
10:30
15:27
August 18
Stage 8
13:40
18:38
2024 Tour de France Femmes Contenders
Tour de France Femmes (Image credit: Getty Images)
Defending champion Demi Vollering (SD Worx) is likely to return to the 2024 Tour de France Femmes to try and win a second consecutive overall title after securing the yellow jersey in the 2023 edition.
Two-time podium finisher Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), gravel world champion, will line up as one of the main contenders for the overall title.
Road race world champion Lotte Kopecky (also SD Worx) won the opening stage last year and wore the yellow jersey for six days, climbed with the best to the summit of the Col du Tourmalet, and then stormed to third place in the time trial in Pau. She closed out the eight-day race by winning the green points jersey and taking second overall behind her teammate Vollering. She will be one to watch in the 2024 edition of the Tour de France Femmes.
Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich) was the top French rider in last year's Tour de France Femmes, and other riders to watch will be Évita Muzic and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig of FDJ-SUEZ as well as Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek).
Tour de France Femmes History
Tour de France winners Frenchman Laurent Fignon and Marianne Martin of the United States smile on the podium on July 22 1984 in Paris (Image credit: Getty Images)
Cyclingnews has assembled a full list of champions dating back to the first version in 1955 and the original women's Tour de France stage race held from 1984-1989 to the modern Tour de France Femmes.
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.
La Course by La Tour de France was then 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 event was held across various platforms, from a one-day to a multi-day event between 2014 and 2021.
Despite its controversy, La Course had become one of the most showcased events in 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.
Zwift announced that it would become the title sponsor of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on a five-year deal through 2026.
The first edition of the rebirth of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes was an eight-day race that began on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in conjunction with the final stage 21 of the men's Tour de France and ended on La Super Planche des Belles Filles, where Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) was crowned the overall champion.
The 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route hit new heights with 956 kilometres and a grand finale in the Pyrenees with a mountaintop finish on the iconic Tourmalet on stage 7 and a final stage 8 time trial in Pau, with Demi Vollering winning the overall title.
The 2024 Tour de France Femmes will showcase back-to-back summit finishes at Le Grand Bornand and Alpe d'Huez where the overall champion will be crowned.
