The Tour de France Femmes is about to have its longest version but and prolong to 9 levels in 2025, as revealed at a press convention on Monday in Rennes.
Racing will return to France in subsequent yr’s Grand Départ after Rotterdam performs host to the opening three levels of the upcoming race in August, with the Brittany area internet hosting the opening three days.
Brittany has hosted the Grand Départ of the lads’s race on seven events, with the newest in 2021 taking in memorable wins and stints within the yellow jersey for Julian Alaphilippe and Mathieu van der Poel.
The information was revealed on the Tour de France Femmes’ X, previously Twitter, account with particulars of the beginning and end areas in northwest France.
“Brittany will host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025,” learn a publish from the race.
“A Grand Départ from Vannes earlier than crossing the Finistère the following day, the TDFF2025 will then return to Morbihan for the third stage and a complete of 9 levels on the menu for the 2025 version!”
The race can even return to its July spot on the calendar after the lads’s Tour de France, moved again in 2024 because of the Paris Olympics.
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Editions of the ladies’s Excursions de France have been longer than 9 levels of their earlier kinds because the Tour de France Féminin and Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale for instance, nonetheless, because it has been run as a stage race by the Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), all three editions have been eight levels.
Stage 1 is because of run on Saturday July 26 from the walled city of Vannes to Plumelec, earlier than the second stage kicks off from Brest, house to final yr’s greatest younger rider on the Tour de France Femmes Cédrine Kerbaol (CeratizitWNT), to Quimper.
“I’ve goosebumps desirous about the Grand Départ de Bretagne, it may be superb,” mentioned Kerbaol. “And with a stage ranging from Brest, it is unimaginable.”
Different French stars from the Bretagne area embody six-time nationwide time trial champion Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Well being), Aude Biannic (Movistar) and Marie Le Web (FDJ-Suez).
A transfer as much as 9 levels marks a big progress of the race after being reluctant to broaden too rapidly after a profitable opening two editions.
“9 levels for the Tour de France Femmes 2025, it is a sturdy signal that exhibits the keenness across the Tour de France Femmes with Zwift and girls’s sport typically.” mentioned race director Marion Rousse.
“We’re heading in the right direction. We go from eight to 9 days of racing, however we now have to go rigorously.”
The 2024 is listed as having 7 levels however solely because of the second day taking in levels 2a and 2b in Rotterdam, a 67km highway race and 6.3km time trial. It kicks off on August 12 within the Netherlands earlier than heading south for the massive finale on August 18 as much as Alpe d’Huez.
