Yellow jersey winner Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) will purpose to develop into the primary girl to win back-to-back titles on the new model of the ladies’s Tour de France, an occasion that heads into its fourth version because the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2025.
Organisers ASO introduced the official route of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes on the Palais des Congrès in Paris this week. Niewiadoma stated she was disillusioned that there was no time trialling included within the nine-day race, to be held from July 26 to August 3, she accepted of the ‘balanced’ route supplied throughout flat, hilly and mountainous levels.
“It’s good to see the range of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route. There are quite a lot of alternatives for various kinds of riders. I imagine the primary stage can swimsuit our group fairly properly, trying on the little uphill end, and we may be excited to purpose for the primary yellow jersey of the Tour with one in every of my teammates,” Niewiadoma stated.
The fourth version of the race will take new heights with 9 levels, making it the longest version for the reason that rebirth of the occasion, and it’ll cross 1,165km with a complete elevation achieve of 17,240 metres.
The race will start with a Grand Départ in Brittany. There will likely be two flat levels, three hilly levels, two medium-mountain levels after which end with two back-to-back high-mountain levels. There isn’t any time trial on this 12 months’s occasion, whereas the earlier two editions noticed a time trial in Pau and a time trial in Rotterdam.
The peloton will sort out the Col de Madeleine, the very best mountain of the race, on stage 8 and the following day’s stage 9 will move the famed Col de Joux Airplane with a mountaintop finale at Châtel Châtel Les Portes du Soleil, the place the general champion will likely be topped.
“General, I used to be guessing that we’d have had longer and more durable levels daily however as a substitute, there’s a combine. Jokingly, I’m a bit of unhappy to not see a group time trial, as I used to be someway anticipating and searching ahead to that. However the Col du Madeleine will make us endure sufficient, so the sooner brief levels may steadiness issues out. I just like the 2025 course total,” Niewiadoma stated.
Niewiadoma gained the 2024 Tour de France holding off runner-up Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) by simply 4 seconds on the ultimate stage 8 atop Alpe d’Huez to safe the yellow jersey.
Niewiadoma felt that, given the brand new route, she was in a very good place to win the title for a second 12 months in a row, particularly given the mountainous finale.
“I’m excited to see the course and perceive what to work on. It’s a objective to convey the yellow jersey house once more,” she stated.
“My huge objective is to develop into a lady who wins the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift twice in a row, and I’m in the perfect place proper now to make that occur in 2025. The ultimate common classification can unfold at any level however the last three levels will likely be decisive for the general.”
