The first edition of the rebirth of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, launched under the organisation of ASO, was an eight-day race that began on the Champs-Élysées in Paris and ended 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 was held across eight days with a route that began on July 23 in Clermont-Ferrand and finished on July 30 in Pau, won by Demi Vollering (SD Worx).
The third edition of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes was held after the Paris Olympic Games with eight stages across seven days between Monday, August 12 and Sunday, August 18, with an iconic finish atop Alpe d'Huez. While Vollering won the stage, it was Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) won the overall title by just four seconds over the Dutch rider to secure the yellow jersey of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes.
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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.
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La Course by Le Tour de France
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.
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Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale
Pos.
Rider Name (Country) Team
2009
Emma Pooley (Great Britain)
2008
Christinane Soeder (Austira)
2007
Nicole Cooke (Great Britian)
2006
Nicole Cooke (Great Britian)
2005
Priska Doppman (Switzerland)
2004
Race not held
2003
Joane Somarriba (Spain)
2002
Zinaida Stahurskaia (Belarus)
2001
Joane Somarriba (Spain)
2000
Joane Somarriba (Spain)
1999
Diana Ziliute (Lithuania)
1998
Edita Pucinskaite (Lithuania)
Tour Cycliste Féminin
A women's stage race in France, not run by ASO, took place as the Tour Cycliste Féminin in 1992-1997, before changing names to Grande Boucle Féminine from 1998-2009.
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Tour Cyciste Féminin
Pos.
Rider Name (Country)
1997
Fabiana Luperini (Italy)
1996
Fabiana Luperini (Italy)
1995
Fabiana Luperini (Italy)
1994
Valentina Moorsel (Netherlands)
1993
Leontien van Moorsel (Netherlands)
1992
Leontien van Moorsel (Netherlands)
Women's Tour de France: 1984-1989
The women's peloton raced their first official launch of the women's Tour de France stage race until 1984 won by American Marianne Martin. It was an 18-day race held simultaneously as the men's event and along much of the same but shortened routes with shared finish lines. The Société du Tour de France, which later became part of ASO in 1992, managed both men's and women's events.
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Women's Tour de France
Pos.
Rider Name (Country)
1989
Jeannie Longo (France)
1988
Jeannie Longo (France)
1987
Jeannie Longo (France)
1986
Maria Canins (Italy)
1985
Maria Canins (Italy)
1984
Marianne Martin (United States of America)
Normandy - 1955
The men's Tour de France is rich in history, with its beginnings in 1903. A women's version found its roots much later, and under a different organisation, as a one-off multi-day race won by the Isle of Man's Millie Robinson in Normandy in 1955.
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