Date |
July 26-August 3 |
Distance |
1165km |
Start Location |
Vannes, Brittany |
Finish Location |
Châtel, Alps |
Category |
Women's WorldTour |
Previous Edition - Winner |
Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) |
Tour de France Femmes 2025 results
Stage 9: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot claims historic overall victory with back-to-back mountain stage wins into Châtel / As it happened
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) won the 2025 Tour de France Femmes in style by winning the final stage on Sunday. Attacking in the yellow jersey she had conquered on the Col de la Madeleine the day before, Ferrand-Prévot raced up the climb through the ski resort of Châtel, leaving the other favourites in the front group behind and riding to the finish in Châtel Pré la Joux for another solo victory. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) and Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto) finished third on the day.
Ferrand-Prévot won the overall title by 3:42 ahead of runner-up Vollering and 4:09 ahead of third-placed Niewiadoma-Phinney.
Stage 8: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot smashes competition on Col de la Madeleine to win queen stage and move into overall lead / As it happened
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) won stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes, the queen stage finishing atop the Col de la Madeleine, taking the GC lead with one stage to go, obliterating her rivals in the overall classification. Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal) finished second on the stage, 1:45 minutes back, moving up to second overall. From the early breakaway, Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek) finished third, 2:15 minutes down.
In the overall classification, Ferrand-Prévot now enjoys a lead of 2:37 minutes over Gigante, with Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) in third place 3:18 minutes behind. Last year's winner Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-Sram zondacrypto) is now in fourth place at 3:40 back.
Stage 7: Maeva Squiban repeats solo victory with dramatic back-to-back long-range attacks / As it happened
For a second day in a row, Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) raised her arms at the finish line for a solo victory at the Tour de France Femmes. She followed her first-ever Women's WorldTour stage victory on Thursday with another searing late attack from the front group and this time descended alone into Chambéry for another win. Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) repeated with second place, finishing just ahead of Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health). Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) closed the gap among the second chase group to retain the yellow jersey.
Stage 6: Maeva Squiban takes biggest victory of career with 32km solo attack / As it happened
Maëva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) won stage 6 of the Tour de France Femmes after a 32km solo move. She attacked out of the peloton, which contained the overall favourites, but as no threat on GC, she was able to build a big lead.
The young French rider maintained her effort on the mainly downhill, undulating roads to Ambert to win with a big margin, 1:09 ahead of solo chaser Juliette Labous, and 1:13 in front of the main bunch, which was led in by race leader Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal). Le Court extended her overall lead by eight seconds thanks to gaining bonus seconds in the finale.
Stage 5: Kim Le Court-Pienaar awarded victory ahead of Demi Vollering in photo-finish sprint and reclaims yellow jersey / As it happened
Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) won stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes, beating Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) and Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) in the sprint of a group of seven that formed on the Maupuy climb in Guéret.
Since Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished 33 seconds down in the second group, Le Court-Pienaar also takes back the yellow jersey as the new GC leader. Le Court-Pienaar now leads the overall classification by 18 seconds ahead of Vos' teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) and 23 seconds ahead of Demi Vollering (FDJ-SUEZ) as the race heads into stage 6 on Thursday.
Stage 4: Lorena Wiebes goes two-for-two against Marianne Vos for another sprint victory / As it happened
For a second day in a row, Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) out-sprinted Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike), this time winning stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes in Poitiers while wearing the green points jersey. Lara Gillespie (UAE Team ADQ) trailed in the bunch sprint for third. Vos was rewarded in the end by retaining the yellow jersey for a third day.
Stage 3: Lorena Wiebes wins furious sprint as Kim Le Court and Demi Vollering caught out in late-race crash / As it happened
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) held off Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) to win stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 in a carnage-filled finish in Angers. Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) finished third. Vos took back the yellow jersey from Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), who was caught behind a late-race crash with just over 3km to go and split in the field, also causing Demi Vollering (FDJ-SUEZ), placed fifth overall, to go down and lose time.
Stage 2: Mavi García holds on solo ahead of charging bunch for biggest victory of career at 41 / As it happened
It should have been a stage for Lorena Wiebes but instead, it was Mavi Garcia (Jayco-AlUla) who seized the day in Quimper, attacking solo with 10km to go and narrowly holding off the chasers. Kim Le Court claimed the maillot jaune with a well-timed sprint for third on the stage, and with the time bonus moved into the race lead on the same time as Marianne Vos.
Stage 1: Marianne Vos overtakes teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to take stage win and first yellow jersey in Plumelec / As it happened
In a dramatic finish in Plumelec, Marianne Vos came from behind just as her Visma-Lease a Bike teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was being caught in sight of the line to snatch the victory ahead of Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal).
2025 Tour de France Femmes Information
ASO and race directors Marion Rousse and Christian Prudhomme revealed the details of the route of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on Tuesday, October 29.
The fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes will be held from July 26 to August 3, with nine days of racing. The event delivers new heights with a 1,165km route that crosses through four regions and a total elevation gain of 17,240 metres.
The event will begin with a Grand Départ in Brittany, and there will be two flat stages, three hilly stages, two medium-mountain stages and finish with two back-to-back high mountain stages with major climbs over the Col de Madeleine, Col de Joux Plane, and a mountaintop finale at Châtel.
Cyclingnews will have live coverage of all eight stages of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, along with race reports, galleries, results, and exclusive features and news.
2025 Tour de France Femmes schedule
Date |
Stage |
Start/Finish |
Distance |
Start/Finish time (CET) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
July 26 |
Stage 1 |
Vannes to Plumelec |
79km |
17:25-19:27 |
July 27 |
Stage 2 |
Brest to Quimper |
110km |
12:10-15:04 |
July 28 |
Stage 3 |
La Gacilly to Angers |
162km |
13:50-17:33 |
July 29 |
Stage 4 |
Saumur to Poitiers |
128km |
14:35-17:35 |
July 30 |
Stage 5 |
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou to Guéret |
165.8km |
13:20-17:32 |
July 31 |
Stage 6 |
Clermont-Ferrand to Ambert |
123.7km |
14:00-17:33 |
August 1 |
Stage 7 |
Bourg-en-Bresse to Chambéry |
159.7km |
13:30-17:30 |
August 2 |
Stage 8 |
Chambéry to Saint François Longchamp (Col de Madeleine) |
111.9km |
13:45-17:15 |
August 3 |
Stage 9 |
Praz-sur-Arly to Châtel Les Portes du Soleil |
124.1km |
15:20-18:45 |
Tour de France Femmes History
- You’ve come a long way, baby - Vital statistics show sea change in women’s cycling
- Marianne Martin: Remembering the magic of the 1984 women's Tour de France
- La Grande Boucle, La Course and the return of the women's Tour de France
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.
Champions included Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen and Chloe Hosking in the first three editions from 2014 to 2016. Annemiek van Vleuten won in 2017 and 2018, followed by Vos in 2019, Lizzie Deignan in 2020 and Demi Vollering in 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.
Tour de France men's race director Christian Prudhomme made a long-awaited confirmation that Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) would launch a women's Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022 with Marion Rousse as the event's race director.
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 came down to a final chase up l'Alpe d'Huez, with Vollering narrowly missing gaining enough time to unseat Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM). The four-second margin of victory made the edition the closest in Tour de France history - men or women.
2025 Tour de France Femmes route
The 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is set to cover nine days of bike racing, entirely in France, from July 26 to August 3, making it the longest yet of any edition of the new version of the women's Tour de France and will feature main ascents Col de Madeleine, Col de Joux Plane, and a mountaintop finale at Châtel.
Full route details for the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
2025 Tour de France Femmes - Riders to watch
Cyclingnews examines the riders who will lead their respective teams and contest for the coveted yellow jersey at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes in our Tour de France Femmes 2025 - The GC favourites form guide.
