Tour de France Femmes 2027

ASO and race director Marion Rousse revealed the route of the 2027 Tour de France Femmes at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on Thursday, October 22.

The sixth edition of the Tour de France Femmes will be held from July 30 to August 7. It will start with a Grand Départ in Leeds, in the UK, with two further stages on British soil before the six in France take the race down to the Massif Central, where the race will be decided on the iconic Puy de Dome summit finish.

Tour de France Femmes History

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Cyclingnews has assembled a full list of champions dating back to the first version in 1955 and the original women's Tour de France stage race held from 1984-1989 to the modern Tour de France Femmes.

The women's peloton raced their first official launch of the women's Tour de France 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.

The women's Tour de France ended in 1989, and while ASO went on to organise women's one-day races like La Flèche Wallonne, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, La Course, and the inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femmes (in 2021), the women's peloton had not been included as part of the official Tour de France for the past 30 years.

Other women's stage races in France, not run by ASO, took place, including the Tour Cycliste Féminin, which had started in 1992, and the re-named Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale, until it came to an end in 2009.

La Course by La Tour de France was then 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.

Champions included Marianne Vos, Anna van der Breggen and Chloe Hosking in the first three editions from 2014 to 2016. Annemiek van Vleuten won in 2017 and 2018, followed by Vos in 2019, Lizzie Deignan in 2020 and Demi Vollering in 2021.

Despite its controversy, La Course 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.

Tour de France men's race director Christian Prudhomme made a long-awaited confirmation that Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) would launch a women's Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in 2022 with Marion Rousse as the event's race director.

Zwift announced that it would become the title sponsor of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on a five-year deal through 2026.

The first edition of the rebirth of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes was an eight-day race that began on the Champs-Élysées in Paris in conjunction with the final stage 21 of the men's Tour de France and ended on La Super Planche des Belles Filles, where Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) was crowned the overall champion.

The 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift route hit new heights with 956 kilometres and a grand finale in the Pyrenees with a mountaintop finish on the iconic Tourmalet on stage 7 and a final stage 8 time trial in Pau, with Demi Vollering (SD Worx) winning the overall title.

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes came down to a final chase up l'Alpe d'Huez, with Vollering narrowly missing gaining enough time to unseat Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM). The four-second margin of victory made the edition the closest in Tour de France history - men or women.

In 2025, the Tour de France Femmes was dominated by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike), who retired from mountain biking after winning the Olympic gold medal in Paris, to focus on road racing. She won by 3:42 over Vollering and Niewiadoma.

In 2026, Vollering overcame her former misfortunes to reclaim the yellow jersey, winning in Nice for FDJ United-SUEZ after a thrilling race that had seen both Marlen Reusser (Movistar) and Niewiadoma-Phinney spend stints in yellow.

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