The current GC standings at the Tour de France Femmes 2024

It was a home victory on stage 1 of the Dutch Grand Départ at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes as Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) sprinted into the maillot jaune in The Hague and marked the second time a Dutch sprinter took the yellow jersey on the first stage. It was last done in 2022 after Kool’s then-teammate Lorena Wiebes (now SD Worx-Protime) did it on the Champs-Élysées opener.

Behind Kool, the GC was very tight as bonus seconds for the top three finishers determined the separation of most of the peloton. Stage runner-up Anniina Ahtosalo (Uno-X Mobility) was four seconds behind Kool, and Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) was six seconds down. After that, everybody was on 10 seconds, all the way down to Nafosat Kozieva (Tashkent City Women) who finished 116th out of 148 riders, 17 seconds back.