Tour de France Femmes: 2022 – present
The first edition of the rebirth of the Tour de France Femmes, launched under the organisation of ASO, was an eight-day race that began on the Champs-Élysées in Paris and end on La Super Planche des Belles Filles where Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) was crowned the overall champion in 2022.
The second edition of the Tour de France Femmes in 2023 will be held across eight days with a route that begins on July 23 in Clermont-Ferrand and finish on July 30 in Pau.
Cyclingnews will have live coverage of all eight stages of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, along with race reports, galleries, results, and exclusive features and news.
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| Pos. | Rider Name (Country) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) |
La Course by Le Tour de France: 2014-2021
La Course by Le Tour de France was created in 2014 following a petition to ASO calling for a women’s Tour de France. Le Tour Entier’s petition was led by Kathryn Bertine, Marianne Vos, Emma Pooley and Chrissie Wellington and secured 97,307 signatures. The event was held across various platforms from a one-day to a multi-day event between 2014 and 2021.
La Course, though controversial, had become one of the most showcased events in the Women’s WorldTour, and although the wait was longer than anyone anticipated, it finally became the stepping stone to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022.
| Pos. | Rider Name (Country) |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Demi Vollering (Netherlands) |
| 2020 | Lizzie Deignan (Great Britain) |
| 2019 | Marianne Vos (Netherlands) |
| 2018 | Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) |
| 2017 | Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) |
| 2016 | Chloe Hosking (Australia) |
| 2015 | Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) |
| 2014 | Marianne Vos (Netherlands) |
Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale: 2000-2009
A prominent women’s stage race in France, not run by ASO, the Tour Cycliste Féminin had started in 1992, and the re-named Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale until it came to an end in 2009.
Pierre Boué organised the Tour Cycliste Féminin and the Grande Boucle, and although it was not the women’s Tour de France, it was one of the most prominent women’s stage races of that period, and widely regarded as a women’s French Grand Tour.
| Pos. | Rider Name (Country) Team |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Emma Pooley (Great Britain) |
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