ASO have unveiled the official route of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes that can cowl 1,165km throughout 9 days of racing, beginning in Brittany on July 26 and travelling into the Alps to conclude atop Châtel on August 3.
The route doesn’t embrace a time trial, however there are many alternatives for each sort of rider with two flat phases, three hilly phases, two medium-mountain phases and a end with two back-to-back excessive mountain phases with key climbs over the Col de Madeleine, Col de Joux Aircraft, and a finale mountaintop finale at Châtel.
Though the occasion is months away, Cyclingnews seems to be on the riders who might seemingly be competing for his or her respective groups and who might contest for the coveted yellow jersey.
We’ll maintain you updated on every rider’s type rating all through the 2025 season because the Ladies’s WorldTour calendar heads towards the fourth version of the Tour de France Femmes.
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1. Kasia Niewiadoma
Kasia Niewiadoma gained the 2024 Tour de France by what she referred to as a ‘magical 4 seconds’ after holding off the stage 8 winner Demi Vollering atop Alpe d’Huez to maintain the yellow jersey in a dramatic finale.
It was a major second in biking that marked the smallest margin of victory in each the ladies’s and males’s Tour de France historical past, beating the document set within the 1989 Tour de France as Greg Lemond beat Laurent Fignon by eight seconds to win.
Niewiadoma has mentioned that she approves of the “balanced” route for the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, regardless of there not being a time trial, and that she goals to be the primary rider to win the brand new model of the ladies’s Tour de France twice in a row.
She additionally stood on the rostrum within the first two editions; third total (and gained the mountains classification) in 2023 and third total in 2022.
Canyon-SRAM-zondacrypto produce other playing cards to play and help riders for Niewiadoma within the mountains with Neve Bradbury, Ricarda Bauernfeind, Antonia Niedermaier and new signing Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, doubtlessly giving the crew much more fireplace energy in 2025.
2. Demi Vollering
Demi Vollering wore the yellow jersey on the 2024 Tour de France Femmes for 3 phases, securing it after the stage 3 time trial in Rotterdam however then abruptly dropping it to Kasia Niewiadoma after a crash on stage 5 into Amnéville.
Vollering tried to realize again the time misplaced within the finale stage 8 with an assault on the mid-stage Col du Glandon, which led to her win atop Alpe d’Huez, however it was not sufficient to carry off Niewiadoma, who gained the general title by simply 4 seconds.
She strikes from SD Worx-Protime to race for FDJ-SUEZ in 2025 and may have one other shot at successful the Tour de France Femmes and can seemingly line up because the GC chief after successful the yellow jersey within the 2023 version.
Nonetheless, the crew may have a number of playing cards to play with French riders Évita Muzic, who was fourth total on the 2024 Tour de France Femmes, and FDJ-SUEZ new-signing Juliette Labous, who completed fourth total within the 2022 version.
3. Gaia Realini
Gaia Realini has change into one of many prime riders on this planet within the final two seasons, displaying her prowess on difficult summits.
She has confirmed as a lot throughout her time with Lidl-Trek with third at Flèche Wallonne, third total at UAE Tour, La Vuelta Femenina and Giro d’Italia Ladies, all in 2023. She was additionally third total on the Tour de Romandie and fifth total on the Tour de France Femmes in 2024.
The rider who joined Lidl-Trek from Isolmant-Premac-Vittoria firstly of 2023 made her debut on the Tour de France Femmes in 2024 the place she took a management position. Nonetheless, she was caught up in an premature crash and required a motorcycle change on the opening stage, then docked 20 seconds for drafting behind the car for too lengthy to get again as much as the peloton. She used her climbing strengths through the last mountain phases and he or she completed fifth total 2:19 behind Niewiadoma.
As Giro d’Italia winner and fellow Tour de France contender Elisa Longo Borghini has moved to UAE Crew ADQ in 2025, Realini can be a possible candidate to as soon as once more lead the Lidl-Trek crew on the Tour de France Femmes, alongside new signings Niamh Fisher-Black, who joins the crew from SD Worx-Protime, and Riejanne Markus, who joins the crew from Visma-Lease a Bike.
4. Elisa Longo Borghini
Elisa Longo Borghini has been a deserving chief for Lidl-Trek on the Tour de France Femmes within the first two editions, though her sixth place total in 2022 turned to a DNF in 2023 after being recognized with a pores and skin an infection.
In 2024, Longo Borghini had considered one of her strongest seasons, successful the Tour of Flanders, and taking podiums at La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. She was additionally third total at La Vuelta Femenina and Tour de Suisse Ladies, gained the nationwide championships, after which secured the maglia rosa a the Giro d’Italia Ladies.
Her season took a flip after that historic win, and he or she was disillusioned along with her top-10 performances on the Olympic Video games, however issues went additional astray earlier than the beginning of the Tour de France Femmes when it was introduced that she would not be lining up after a pre-race crash.
In 2025, Longo Borghini can be racing with UAE Crew ADQ, in what was a shock switch. She will even be in a management position for the Spring Classics and Grand Excursions, so look ahead to her to put a major concentrate on the Tour de France Femmes.
5. Évita Muzic
Évita Muzic will stay one of many co-leaders of FDJ-SUEZ, even when the crew have additionally signed Demi Vollering and Juliette Labous in 2025.
She has confirmed her strengths on the French Grand Tour, ending eighth total in 2022 and fourth total in 2024. Her position as a contender for the Tour de France Femmes is barely enhanced by the highly effective addition of riders like Vollering and Labous, and the crew is prone to line up with all three playing cards to play through the nine-day race.
Previously two seasons alone, she has risen to the event at lots of the greatest races, sixth total at La Vuelta Femenina in 2023 and fifth in 2024, the place she gained the stage to La Laguna Negra. Vinuesa and completed second on the stage to Valdesquí. Comunidad de Madrid.
She additionally completed second total at Vuelta a Burgos and had a powerful fourth place at La Flèche Wallonne, typically racing head-to-head towards the likes of Vollering, all in 2024.
She confirmed that she was one of many strongest and most constant climbers on the Tour de France Femmes the place she completed fifth into Le Grand Bornand and third atop Alpe d’Huez, to safe fourth place within the total classification.
6. Pauliena Rooijakkers
Pauliena Rooijakkers turned heads on the 2024 Tour de France when she completed third total, simply behind the four-second battle between total winner Kasia Niewiadoma and runner-up Demi Vollering.
She made the transfer from Canyon-SRAM to Fenix-Deceuninck in 2024, which gave her a stable alternative to compete as a sole basic classification chief in lots of the massive races on the WorldTour.
She has had sturdy outcomes to again up this position in earlier years with second total at Itzulia Ladies in 2022 and a number of prime performances throughout hilly one-day races.
Nonetheless, 2024 was her finest 12 months along with her new crew ending sixth total on the UAE Tour, sixth at Flèche Wallonne, ninth total at La Vuelta Femenina, fourth total on the Giro d’Italia Ladies and third total on the Tour de France Femmes.
Whereas Fenix-Deceuninck had one other contender in Puck Pieterse, who gained one of the best younger rider classification, Rooijakkers was probably the most constant within the mountains and was a part of the ultimate three chasing Vollering on Alpe d’Huez together with Niewiadoma and Muzic.
With climbing on the menu for the 2 last phases of the Tour de France Femmes in 2025, look ahead to Rooijakkers as soon as once more to indicate her consistency and play her tactical playing cards into Châtel.
7. Anna van der Breggen
Anna van der Breggen confirmed that she’ll make a surprising return to highway racing in 2025, three years after retiring.
She gained the highway race on the Olympics in 2016, three world titles within the highway race in 2018 after which within the time trial and highway race in 2020. Different profession highlights embrace a document seven consecutive victories at La Flèche Wallonne, 4 total titles on the Giro d’Italia, and Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold, and twice winner of Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
She hung up her wheels on the finish of the 2021 season to tackle a directeur sportif position at SD Worx-Protime. However she’ll be again in 2025, racing in SD Worx-Protime colors the place she might doubtlessly decide up the place she left off as one of many prime riders on this planet.
The crew have misplaced Demi Vollering to FDJ-SUEZ, however they retained reigning world champion Lotte Kopecky on a long-term deal via to the top of 2028.
Profitable the Tour de France would fill a niche in Van der Breggen’s intensive palmares, and he or she definitely has the racing expertise to again up a yellow-jersey bid, however we cannot know till she begins racing once more how her type will turn into the spring and summer time season.
8. Juliette Labous
Juliette Labous has change into a French fan favorite at her residence Tour de France and a podium hopeful, as soon as once more, for the 2025 version.
She is a quiet contender, having slowly however steadily risen to change into among the best riders on this planet over the earlier eight seasons with the varied variations of crew Sunweb, Crew DSM and now Crew dsm-firmenich PostNL.
With the switch to FDJ-SUEZ in 2025, Labous can be considered one of three contenders alongside Vollering and Muzic.
She has completed fourth, fifth and ninth total on the Tour de France Femmes within the earlier three editions, additionally incomes the Virage Juliette as followers and members of Le Vélo Membership Morteau Montbenoit celebrated with a bend on the Côte des Fins devoted in her identify on stage 6 in 2024.
She has made a aware effort over latest years to enhance her energy on the climbs and within the time trial, which has made her a extra full rider suited to the longer stage races. These efforts have paid off with the general victory at Vuelta a Burgos in 2022 and the summit stage 7 victory atop Passo del Maniva on the Giro d’Italia Ladies, after which there was a telling second place total on the Giro in 2023.
In 2024, she completed fourth total at La Vuelta Femenina, third total at Itzulia Ladies, fifth at Tour de Suisse and Giro d’Italia Ladies, and simply off the rostrum on the Olympics time trial in Paris, after which went on to take ninth total on the Tour.
9. Sarah Gigante
Sarah Gigante debuted on the Tour de France Femmes in 2024 the place she completed seventh total, regardless of dealing with a number of challenges alongside the way in which.
She knew that the sprinter-friendly and technical Grand Départ in Rotterdam can be troublesome to navigate, and he or she had misplaced practically three minutes by the point the race reached France.
She slowly gained locations because the race hit the mountains, and whereas she was eleventh on the ascent to Le Grand Bornand, she made up for that on her climb to the highest of Alpe d’Huez on the ultimate stage ending eighth and shifting up from seventeenth to seventh total.
With a much less technical Grand Départ and a wider number of mountains throughout the latter half of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, we might see Gigante enhance on her total placings within the hunt for the yellow jersey.
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal has each Gigante and Ashleigh Moolman Pasio as playing cards to play for the final classification in 2025.
Moolman Pasio completed sixth total within the 2023 version, however couldn’t compete in 2024 as a result of she was nonetheless recovering from a fractured T10 vertebra sustained in a high-speed crash on stage 1 of the Volta a Catalunya Femenina. She introduced that she has re-signed with AG Insurance coverage-Soudal and would concentrate on the Tour for 2025 and 2026.
10. Marion Bunel
Marion Bunel departed St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 and has jumped as much as the WorldTour with Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025 the place she might play a management position on the Tour de France Femmes.
The crew has additionally signed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who returns to highway racing after a sparking mountain bike profession, so the 2 French riders might be co-leaders at their residence race.
Bunel turned heads when she completed fifth on the Jabel Hafeet ascent to take fifth total on the UAE Tour in 2024. She went on to ninth at Tour de Romandie and gained the general title on the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes and second total on the Tour de l’Ardeche.
With a powerful crew to help her within the mountains and with skilled riders like Marianne Vos and Ferrand-Prévot on her aspect, Bunel might change into the revelation of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.
11. Mavi García
Mavi Garcia has been one of many riders we have anticipated to be among the many GC standings throughout La Vuelta Femenina, Giro d’Italia Ladies and on the Tour de France Femmes lately.
The previous Spanish Champion excels throughout hilly terrain and in robust, tactical racing typically making certain that she is able to combat for a breakaway or end among the many choice on main ascents.
Though she did not have her finest season in 2024, she improved forward of the summer time stage races, having completed fourth total at Itzulia Ladies and only in the near past successful the Vuelta Ciclista Andalucia. She additionally completed ninth total on the Giro d’Italia Ladies, sixth within the highway race on the Olympic Video games and fifth total on the Tour de Romandie.
Her finest place on the Tour de France Femmes was tenth in 2022, however she is prone to lead the Liv-AlUla-Jayco crew as soon as once more within the occasion in 2025.
12. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Ferrand-Prévot retired from cross-country mountain biking after successful the gold medal on the Olympic Video games in Paris and he or she returned to highway racing on the World Championships in Zürich in 2024.
She introduced that she can be racing with Visma-Lease a Bike on a three-year contract from 2025-2027, and has her sights set on competing on the Tour de France Femmes.
Though she hasn’t raced a full highway season since 2018, outdoors of competing on the French Street Championships in 2019 and 2021, Ferrand-Prévot can be a key rider to observe for nearly each race she strains up at in 2025.
The French rider made historical past within the 2014-2015 season on the age of 23 when she grew to become the primary bicycle owner to carry world titles within the three disciplines concurrently. She gained the elite girls’s highway race world title in 2014 Ponferrada, the XCO cross-country world title in 2015 in Vallnord, and the cyclo-cross world title in 2015 in Tabor. Since then, she has amassed a complete of 15 elite world titles throughout highway, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel.
In stage racing, Ferrand-Prévot has gained the general title at Emakumeen Bira and completed second total on the Giro d’Italia Ladies, two of the most important stage races on this planet for girls in 2014 whereas racing for Rabobank-Liv alongside Vos and Van der Breggen. She competed for Rabobank-Liv for six seasons, 2012-2016 earlier than shifting over to Canyon-SRAM for 4 seasons, 2017-2020.
Given her expertise and historical past in highway racing, she can’t be discounted as a contender for an total place on the Tour de France Femmes.
