As it happened: Yellow jersey confirmed with second stage win on Tour de France Femmes stage 9

Bonjour and welcome to our live updates of the ninth and final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.

Here's a look at the profile of today's stage, taking the riders from Praz-sur-Arly to Châtel with a finish on the uncategorised climb to the ski resort at Pré la Joux.

The main difficulty of the day will be the hors catégorie Col de Joux Plane (11.6km at 8.5%), along with other challenging ascents in the category one climbs of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse (6.2km at 7.1%) and the Col du Corbier (5.9km at 8.5%).

With depleted energy reserves among many squads in the peloton, few teams will look to control the stage, which could present the perfect opportunity for a large breakaway to go up the road and take the victory.

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At least two non-starters today. Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) has to leave the race despite making the time cut yesterday by just 11".

Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ) is the other rider to leave the race. Her team only has 3 riders left. And, with Susanne Andersen (Uno-X Mobility) missing the time cut yesterday that sees her team down to just two riders and out of the team classification.

Gigantic crowds welcomed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) as she heads into the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.

Neutral start

The riders have started the neutralised zone of 2km with a huge day for French cycling ahead. Winning the last three stages with Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) and Ferrand-Prévot as well as four riders in the top 10 of GC.

Puncture

Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime)

This may delay the start of the stage with 1km of neutral to go.

124.1km to go

The riders start the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 with an attack coming immediately by Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime).

Wiebes has 8" on the peloton as she tries to get to the intermediate sprint and confirm her green jersey win. She is about 50km away from it.

Counter attack

Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Henrietta Christie (EF Educaton-Oatly), Millie Couzens (Fenix-Deceuninck) and several others try a counter move to join Wiebes but they are caught.

Counter attack

Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez)
Julie Bego (Cofidis)
Barbara Malcotti (Human Powered Health)

They bridge to Wiebes as multiple other riders are trying ti bridge including the ever active Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL) who has just jumped across the gap.

The counter was too big and it has killed off the break with the peloton coming back together again.

Attack!

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)
Femke Gerritse (SD Worx-Protime)

Four other riders trying to join them then the chasing peloton.

Van der Breggen and Gerritse have a gap of 14" over the peloton.

Counter attack

Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek)
Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime)

If they bridge the 14" gap to the leaders, there will be three SD Worx-Protime riders in a four rider break.

Brand and Kopecky are 5" off Van der Breggen and Gerritse with the peloton 25" back with 111km to go.

Multiple riders are struggling to follow on the fast descent down to the valley floor as Brand and Kopecky are close to catching Van der Breggen and Gerritse.

Four riders now lead with three of them being SD Worx-Protime riders.

There has been a split in the peloton with Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal) being the biggest name caught out.

Multiple riders have a gap off the front of the peloton as well including Lorena Wiebes as SD Worx-Protime clearly have a very attacking plan today.

Polka dot jersey Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) and white jersey Nienke Vinke (Picnic-PostNL) are in the first split of the peloton along with Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal), Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez), Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto), Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) and many other GC riders.

Gigante makes it back to the group that includes Ferrand-Prevot and Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck). This is a nightmare start for these three riders. Visma-Lease a Bike desperately chasing as they are 25" off the back of the main peloton.

Breakaway caught by the peloton with the yellow jersey group now 22" off the back.

100km to go

AG Insurance-Soudal and Visma-Lease a Bike are working flat out to try and bring Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante back as FDJ-Suez and EF Education-Oatly work hard to stop them.

However, Justine Ghekiere and Kim Le Court of AG Insurance-Soudal are slowing the group and interfering with the pacing.

Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante group make it back into the ploton again. Panic over for now for Visma-Lease a Bike and AG Insurance-Soudal.

Onto the 6.2km category 1 climb of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse goes the race with an average gradient of 7.1%. The first of three climbs that will decide the QoM jersey.

The temperature today is currently 24.7°c.

Attack

Silke Smulders (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)
Liane Lippert (Movistar)
Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health)
Anna van der Breggen (Visma-Lease a Bke)

Multiple riders going out of the back of the peloton including several from FDJ-Suez and Visma-Lease a Bike.

Break is caught but Van der Breggen is shredding the peloton. Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) ups the pace further.

Attack

Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)
Magdeleine Vallieres (EF Education-Oatly)

They are quickly dragged back. Several riders in the GC fight right up to the front of the peloton including Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) and Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek).

Attack

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)
Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek)

The former world champion attacks for the umpteenth time today but it is being closed down by Labous leading th GC group as the peloton is now absolutely tiny.

Visma-Lease a Bike and AG Insurance-Soudal did a great job to get Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante back into the peloton but their leaders are completely isolated in the GC group at the front of the race.

Chabbey has been dropped by the leaders. Wiebes and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) also dropped. Just 17 riders at the front of the race.

Attack

Guess who!

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)

She finally goes solo as Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) start to struggling in the GC group.

Van der Breggen has 31" over the GC group. A group of the white jersey, Vinke, is 1'12" down and then the Chabbey, Wiebes group is 1'37" down. Several individual riders in the gaps between the groups.

Labous continues to lead the GC group and managing the lad that Van der Breggen gets but it is expanding to 40".

Just 1km to the top of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse climb. 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point(s) available but no-one really involved in the competition are in the front of the race.

90km to go

Maeva Squiban has managed to bridge to the GC group and has a massive opportunity to take major points in the QoM standings.

QoM (Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 10pts
2. Maeva Squiban (FRA) UAE Team ADQ 8pts
3. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez 6pts
4. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (NED) Visma-Lease a Bike 4pts
5. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto 2pts

Van der Breggen extends her lead over the GC group to 1'15" as Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) rejoins the GC group.

Vollering tried to help her teammate and QoM jersey Chabbey in the QoM sprint against Squiban but she was unable to outsprint the young French rider.

Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) joins Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) on the front of the GC group who are 1'33" behind the lone leader, Van der Breggen.

Bauernfeind leading the GC group down the descent and immediately there is a split as some riders get caught behind Gigante who is starting to struggle.

Bauernfeind is pushing on solo from the GC group to force FDJ-Suez to do more chasing while making it look like she was working.

Attack

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)
Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly)

That is very quickly closed down and that sees Muzic and Bauernfeind go back to the front again.

Gigante is in the GC group after the descent. Much better from her this time. Just 16 riders in the GC group who are 1'46" behind Van der Breggen at the front of the race.

Van der Breggen wins the intermediate sprint in Morillon. Vollering could possibly move into third on the points standings if she takes 2nd but will she waste the energy?

A large group joins the GC group including Wiebes who quickly moves to the front of the bunch and she takes the 20 points in 2nd place in the intermediate sprint. She timed catching the GC group perfectly.

Intermediate sprint (Morillon)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 25pts
2. Lorena Wiebes (NED) SD Worx-Protime 20pts
3. Amber Kraak (NED) FDJ-Suez 17pts
4. Mischa Bredewold (NED) SD Worx-Protime 15pts
5. Lauretta Hanson (AUS) Lidl-Trek 13pts

70km to go

Van der Breggen has just under two minutes on the peloton as they start the monster HC climb of the 11.6km Col de Joux-Plane which has an average of 8.5%.

Some absolutely huge crowds at the base of the Joux-Plane greeting Van der Breggen.

AG Insurance-Soudal come to the front of the peloton.

Crash!

Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly)
Magdeleine Vallieres (EF Education-Oatly)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)

The latter didn't properly go down and is already back in the peloton. Kerbaol is about 40" off the back.

Just 8 points between Chabbey and Squiban in the QoM standings. Big points available at the top of the climb as well with 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point(s) available.

AG Insurance-Soudal have closed the gap up to Van der Breggen to 1'30".

Squiban has been dropped from the peloton. Chabbey's jersey is safe for now.

Nienke Vinke (Picnic-PostNL) has been dropped by the peloton. The white jersey has a comfortable lead of almost 9 minutes over Julie Bego (Cofidis).

Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) is ripping the GC group apart as Evita Muzic is distanced. She is closing into on Van der Breggen too.

Attack

Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike)

That sees only 5 riders able to follow the top 2 in the race.

Labous is now in difficulty at the back of the GC group.

GC group are 1'09" behind

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)
Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinny (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)
Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek)
Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez)
Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team ADQ)

The pace drops off substantially and sees Brand get back on and immediately go on the attack. That prompts Labous to go to the front and close her down again.

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Abandon

Alba Teruel (Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi)

Brand is now working hard for Fisher-Black in the GC group.

The group of Rooijakkers and Malcotti is joined by the group of Kerbaol, Muzic and Vinke who are 2'15" back from the leader and 34" from the GC group.

Excellent ride by Emilie Morier (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93) who is in the Kerbaol, Rooijakkers group just 40" off the GC group.

Van der Breggen is 5km from the top of the Joux-Plane. She has 1'56" on the GC group and 2'37" on the Kerbaol group.

Attack

Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)

She goes again to try and go clear before the decent and drops Labous and Wlodarczyk.

It was all about teamwork for Gigante yesterday to take 2nd on the stage and GC but today, after her team worked hard to get her back in after an early scare, she has been on her own.

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Gigante leads Ferrand-Prevot, Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Fisher-Black.

They are 1'28" down on Van der Breggen who is 4km from the top of the Joux-Plane.

60km to go

Van der Breggen has 1'21" on the GC group who have just been rejoined by Labous and Wlodarczyk who are doing a superb ride.

Attack

Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team ADQ)

She s quickly closed down as Labous is distanced again but she gets back in once again.

Kerbaol and Rooijakkers group are almost two minutes behind the GC group now.

Labous is doing a brilliant ride on the front of the GC group. Just keeping the pace high and actually reducing the gap to Van der Breggen to 1'10" again.

Kerbaol and Rooijakkers' group are now over three minutes behind the GC group.

Anna van der Breggen leads over the top of the Joux-Plane.

Attack

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)

The Dutch rider goes but she can't distance anyone aside from Labous and Wlodarczyk.

Vollering is really pushing the pace in the GC group but no-one is being troubled by it just yet.

Attack!

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)

She goes with Niewiadoma-Phinney, Ferrand-Prevot and Fisher-Black able too follow with Gigante gapped momentarily. However, the pace slackens. Wlodarczyk and Labous get back in again.

Attack

Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez)

The French rider sits in 10th overall but has a lot of time to pull back.

Niewiadoma-Phinney is really pushing the pace in the GC group now as Gigante is now losing touch again. Labous has been caught again.

Labous and Gigante dropped by GC group on the descent.

QoM (Col de Joux-Plane)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 15pts
2. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez 12pts
3. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto 10pts
4. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) Lidl-Trek 8pts
5. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike 6pts
6. Sarah Gigante (AUS) AG Insurance-Soudal 4pts
7. Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) UAE Team ADQ 2pts
8. Juliette Labous (FRA) FDJ-Suez 1pt

Labous and Gigante got back on during a little kicker but the Australian climber is immediately dropped as they go downhill again.

Wlodarczyk and Labous have made it back into the GC group again.

Attack

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)

She is pushing her rivals very hard on this extremely technical descent.

50km to go

Van der Breggen has 45" on the GC group then GIgante on her own. Kerbaol is flying down the descent now but is at 3'23".

Gigante is 22" off the back of the GC group.

Van der Breggen is in Morzine with a little kicker to come for her before the descent down to the final categorised climb of the Col du Corbier.

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40km to go

Van der Breggen has 40" on the GC group, 1'36" on Gigante and 4'02" back to the group of Kerbaol.

Gigante is continuing to lose time on her GC rivals and is losing her second place in the standings to Vollering.

Van der Breggen has just started the final categorised climb of the race, the category 1 Col du Corbier which is 5.9km long with an average gradient of 8.5%.

The GC group are reducing the gap to Van der Breggen to just 17" with over a minute back to Gigante.

5km to the top of the Col du Corbier and just 16" split Van der Breggen and the GC group.

Gigante is now two minutes down on the GC group. Her overall hopes may be done.

The Col du Corbier is a brutal climb as the GC group have caught Anna van der Breggen after a huge solo effort.

Van der Breggen has been dropped by the GC group almost immediately after being caught.

Gigante is not able to close the gap to the leaders. She is still over 2 minutes down on her rivals. She is currently dropping off the podium and is even in trouble from Wlodarczyk who is moving up to 5th as things stand.

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Niewiadoma-Phinney helping Labous on the front of the GC group as she rides onto the podium of the race with Gigante continuing to lose time.

30km to go

Gigante is still 2'02" down on the GC group but has just caught Van der Breggen. She looks exhausted.

Gigante passes and drops Van der Breggen. Up front, the GC group have 1km to the top of the Col du Corbier.

Labous has been left on the front as Niewiadoma-Phinney sits back in the group again.

Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) has won the polka dot jersey as no-one in the lead group is a danger to her in the QoM standings. She just needs to finish in the time limit.

QoM (Col du Corbier)

1. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez 10pts
2. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike 8pts
3. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAm-ZondaCrypto 6pts
4. Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) UAE Team ADQ 4pts
5. Juliette Labous (FRA) FDJ-Suez 2pts
6. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) Lidl-Trek 1pt

Gigante goes over the top of the climb 2'10" down on her GC rivals as Niewiadoma-Phinney is leading the group down the descent.

Wlodarczyk and Labous are distanced in the GC group as Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney battle to lead down the descent.

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Vollering getting frustrated with Ferrand-Prevot and Fisher-Black as they are doing no work at all. Wlodarczyk and Labous get back into the group yet again.

Almost three minutes back to Gigante who is close to dropping out of the top 5 in the overall standings.

20km to go

The GC leaders have 2'52" on Gigante, 3'50" to Van der Bregen, 6'43" to Kerbaol and 8'28" to Vinke.

The leading group are taking their last opportunity to take on bidons and some gels before the final fight in the GC battle and, also, the battle for the stage.

Former white jersey, Julie Bego (Cofidis), is almost 23 minutes out of the back in one of the last groups on the road. She has given her all in the white jersey battle but she shall be tumbling down the order after today.

Labous is now working hard on the front of the lead group with over three minutes back to Gigante now. Van der Breggen is actually closing in on the Australian again.

It is all down to Labous to the line. There will surely be some attacks to come from the likes of Fisher-Black but she is riding flat out for her leader, Vollering.

The race has calmed right down as the leaders have set into a pattern of just following each other.

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) has been awarded the most combative rider award on this final stage after a superb solo attack.

10km to go

Labous leads the leading group of six under the 10km to go banner with 2'49" back to Gigante, 5'13" to Van der Breggen and 7'19" over the group including Kerbaol and Rooijakkers.

It is a lonely ride to the finish for Sarah Gigante as she continues to try and salvage her podium finish at the race. It doesn't look likely, though as she is still 2'42" down on her rivals in the leading group.

7km of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 remain...

Attack!

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)

Niewiadoma-Phinney, Ferrand-Prevot, Fisher-Black and Welodarczyk all follow as Labous is distanced.

Attack!

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike)

The yellow jersey launches with Fisher-Black and the rest following but the yellow jersey goes clear with 6km to go.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot goes solo in the yellow jersey and riding towards an incredible victory and a first French win of the Tour de France since the 80s!

Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney join Fisher-Black as Wlodarczyk is distanced. Ferrand-Prevot quickly pulls out a 10" gap.

5km to go

Ferrand-Prevot is absolutely flying and she is leaving the chasers behind as they head to Chatel and the final stage finish.

3km to go and the gap goes out to 15" as Ferrand-Prevot is going to take her second stage win and France's fourth in a row! As well as the overall title.

2km to go. Ferrand-Prevot has 16" on Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Fisher-Black then 31" to Wlodarczyk and 1'15" to Labous.

Ferrand-Prevot is riding away from her rivals to a historic win of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.

She is riding to become the first rider in history to win the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix in the same year!

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot has 24" on Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Fisher-Black, 39" on Wlodarczyk and 1'32" on Labous. Gigante is now at 3'43".

Flamme Rouge!

The final kilometre of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 and it is the yellow jersey of Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike) who is riding to the stage win and the overall title.

500 metres to go for Ferrand-Prevot.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of Visma-Lease a Bike wins stage 9 and the overall of the Tour de France Femmes 2025!

Vollering blasts to 2nd on the stage and in the overall with Niewiadoma-Phinney taking 3rd on the stage and GC as well. Fisher-Black takes 4th and Wlodarczyk in 5th.

Labous comes in for 6th on the stage and possibly moving up to 6th or 7th in the final GC as well.

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot becomes the fourth different winner in the race's four year running in it's current incarnation after Annemiek van Vleuten, Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney.

Sarah Gigante finished 3'53" down on Ferrand-Prevot and has dropped to 6th in the final overall standings.

Stage 9 top 10

1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike 3:38'23"
2. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez +20"
3. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto +23"
4. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) Lidl-Trek S.T.
5. Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) UAE Team ADQ +33"
6. Juliette Labous (FRA) FDJ-Suez +1'49"
7. Sarah Gigante (AUS) AG Insuranc-Soudal +3'53"
8. Cedrine Kerbaol (FRA) EF Education-Oatly +9'22"
9. Pauliena Rooijakkers (NED) Fenix-Deceuninck +9'23"
10. Nadia Gontova (CAN) Winspace-Orange-Seal +9'26"

Final GC

1. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Vism-Lease a Bike 29:54'24"
2. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez +3'42"
3. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto +4'09"
4. Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) UAE Team ADQ +5'45"
5. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) Lidl-Trek +6'25"
6. Sarah Gigante (AUS) AG Insurance-Soudal +6'40"
7. Juliette Labous (FRA) FDJ-Suez +9'13"
8. Cedrine Kerbaol (FRA) EF Education-Oatly +13'43"
9. Pauliena Rooijakkers (NED) Fenix-Deceuninck +13'59"
10. Evita Muzic (FRA) FDJ-Suez +15'50"

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot explained to the media that she had lost contact with the peloton on the first descent of the day, in part due to the pressures of being in the yellow jersey, but that she was happy to have won the final stage and the overall classification.

"I'm so, so happy. I was a bit too far back on the first downhill, and I think I was a bit scared with the pressure of this [yellow] jersey. My teammates had to ride, and they did a massive effort to bring me back to the front. After that, I said, 'Now I have to stick to the front and try to stay there.'

"This morning, I told the DS that I would like to win in yellow, and he said, 'If you could make it, then why not?' I attacked on the last climb and could make it to the finish. I am so, so happy."

The 33-year-old Frenchwoman who had only returned from mountainbiking to road racing this season became the first French winner of a Tour since Catherine Marsal in the 1990 Tour de la CEE féminin, Jeannie Longo in the Tour de France féminin in 1987, 1988, and 1989, and 40 years after Bernard Hinault's victory in the 1985 men's Tour de France.

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), who had crashed on stage 3, finished second on stage 9 and jumped up to second overall, for the second year in a row.

The former Tour de France winner in 2023 came into this season with a clear goal of winning the title again, but she will have to wait for next year to try again.

Vollering and her teammate Juliette Labous sat at the top of the climb in Châtel to catch their breath after such a demanding nine days of racing.

Last year's Tour de France winner, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney, finished third overall. She moved up onto the podium spot during the final day of racing after Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal) was distanced on the final descent, with the Australian dropping to sixth overall.

Niewiadoma-Phinney appears to be pleased with her performance, especially after two demanding days of racing in the Alps, as she stands on the podium.

And here is Pauline Ferrand-Prévot accepting her yellow jersey and overall victory on the final podium of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.

There are massive crowds at Châtel here to see a glimpse of their national hero win such a prestigious event.

Ferrand-Prévot has won the cross-country MTB gold medal at the Paris Olympics last summer, and in her return to road racing this year, she won Paris-Roubaix and now the Tour de France.

She is also seen with her parents at the podium ceremony, in tears, as they celebrate her success.