The routes for the 2023 editions of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes will be unveiled in Paris on October 27 in one of the most highly-anticipated non-racing events of the cycling calendar.
Race organisers ASO do their best to keep a lid on the details until they click play on their carefully constructed video montages in the Palais de Congrès, but reports, leaks, and rumours never fail to circulate ahead of the big reveal.
Local French newspapers are all scrambling to bring readers details of when the Tour might roll into their corner of the Hexagon, while Thomas Vergouwen at the VeloWire website is, as ever, compiling these reports and combing them with his own sleuthing to produce an overview, at least of the men’s route.
The 110th edition of the men’s Tour de France will take place from July 1-23, starting in Bilbao, Spain, and finishing in the French capital Paris. The second edition of the modern incarnation of the women’s Tour de France – the Tour de France Femmes – will start on July 23 and finish on July 30, with the start and finish locations still unknown.
Cyclingnews looks at all the rumours and potential outlines for both routes. With two weeks to go, more information will emerge ahead of the presentation, and we’ll update this story with anything significant that comes to light.
Tour de France Femmes 2023 route
What we know
If ASO has a tight lid on the Tour de France route, they have an even tighter one on the Tour de France Femmes route details.
The second edition of the new version of the women’s Tour de France will begin on July 23, on the same day as the stage 21 conclusion of the men’s race, and the route will finish at an unknown location on July 30.
The women’s race is currently scheduled to be held across eight stages again; however, it is not likely to begin on the Champs-Elysées circuits in Paris as it did in 2022.
The return of the women’s Tour de France after three decades of absence offered a historical moment in women’s cycling, and the two events – the women’s opening stage 1 and the men’s closing stage 21 – were held on the same day in Paris. Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) won the circuit race and took the first yellow jersey to kick off the eight-day women’s race. Later that evening, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) took the bunch sprint to win stage 21 of the men’s event as Jonas Vingegaard…
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