The third edition of the modern incarnation of the women’s Tour de France – 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift – will host eight stages across seven days between August 12 and August 18.
Organisers offer a total of 946.3km of racing that includes three flat stages for the sprinters, one individual time trial, two hilly stages, two mountain stages and a crowning conclusion atop the iconic Alpe d’Huez.
The routes for both the 2024 editions of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift were officially presented in Paris on October 25 by race directors Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse.
The 2024 Tour de France Femmes has changed dates, shifting from late July to mid-August to accommodate the Olympic Games that will be held from July 26-August 11 in Paris.
The Grand Départ will be held in the Netherlands with host cities in Rotterdam, The Hague, Dordrecht and Valkenburg.
The route will then take the peloton to Liège and Bastogne, iconic locations of the Ardennes Classics, before reaching France on the fourth day of racing.
The race will then travel southward toward the Alps for two back-to-back mountain stages that finish at Le Grand-Bornand and conclude atop Alpe d’Huez.
Organisers of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes, ASO, had already confirmed that the event would begin in the Netherlands, entering host cities Rotterdam, The Hague, Dordrecht and Valkenburg.
The Grand Départ will begin on August 12, with the opening stage held from Rotterdam to The Hague with a flat 124km.
There will also be a double day of racing on August 13, where the stage 2 road race will bring the peloton from Dordrecht and into Rotterdam for a flat 67km race.
The racing will continue in the afternoon on the same day for stage 3, which will showcase a short 6.3km individual time trial that starts and finishes in Rotterdam.
On August 14, stage 4 will start in Valkenburg and bring the peloton into Liège for a 122km hilly race. The route is reminiscent of the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, part of the famed Ardennes Classics. On this course, the peloton will take on the Cauberg before battling on the côte de la Redoute and Roche-aux-Faucons
Bastogne will host the start of stage 5 on August 15, and the peloton will race 150km along a flat route and then cross into France for the finish in Amnéville.
Stage 6 will begin in Remiremont on August 16 and take the peloton on a 160km hilly route into Morteau.
The race then heads into the Alps with stage 7, the longest…
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