Date | August 1-9, 2026 |
Distance | tba |
Start Location | Switzerland |
Finish Location | tba |
Category | Women's WorldTour |
Previous Edition - Winner | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Fra) Visma-Lease a Bike |
2026 Tour de France Femmes Information
ASO and race directors Marion Rousse and Christian Prudhomme will reveal the details of the route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes at the Palais des Congrès in Paris on Thursday, October 23.
The fifth edition of the Tour de France Femmes will be held from August 1-9 with nine days of racing, starting with three stages in Switzerland.
Cyclingnews will have live coverage of all eight stages of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, along with race reports, galleries, results, and exclusive features and news.
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 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.
2026 Tour de France Femmes route
The route for 2026 Tour de France Femmes will be unveiled on October 23, 2025
Latest Content on the Race
'Other teams don't know what's coming' – Australia gets a reason to dream of a Tour de France Femmes winner as Sarah Gigante faces up to Col de la Madeleine
News Australian says rivals have missed opportunities to derail AG Insurance-Soudal's GC position and 'hopefully they live to regret it'
'Everyone is just still holding themselves back' - Niewiadoma-Phinney senses riders cautious on climbs at Tour de France Femmes with Col de la Madeleine looming
News Defending Tour champion remains third overall after marking move by Vollering on final descent to Chambéry, but it was 'not ideal to make a difference'
'Breaking the taboo' – Tour de France Femmes riders highlight issues of low rider weight and disrupted menstrual cycles
News Cédrine Kerbaol says the sport is in 'a dangerous moment' for rider health as Magdeleine Vallieres and Emma Norsgaard talk about their own their struggles balancing racing weight and menstrual health
'Riders are not robots' – SD Worx-Protime defend Lotte Kopecky amid Tour de France Femmes struggles, but recognise need for evaluation
News Team manager Erwin Janssen says 'all great champions have a down period, even Pogačar' after lingering back injury ended Belgian's yellow jersey dream
French rider Aude Biannic reveals she raced Paris-Roubaix whilst pregnant
News Movistar domestique in action at Tour de France Femmes in return season after having her first child
'We can't sit here and say all the problems are from outside' – Cyclist Alliance's Grace Brown spearheads unity campaign at a Tour de France Femmes where debate over rider respect is bubbling
Interview 'We're not afraid of saying that the riders have a part to play in making the racing more safe' said Brown while also pointing to the shared responsibility
'We have nothing to lose' – Down to four riders, aggressive racing saves UAE Team ADQ's Tour de France Femmes
News Team battles through illness and loss of Elisa Longo Borghini to savour Maëva Squiban's stunning solo victory in Ambert
Gigante on the radar, Niewiadoma-Phinney gets an edge, Vollering and Ferrand-Prévot conserve – Revealing movements on first Tour de France Femmes mountain day
News 'I think she's in a position to win the Tour de France now' says Visma-Lease a Bike DS Jos van Emden of rival rider Sarah Gigante
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'I’m being hunted for this' – Demi Vollering refutes she is a 'drama queen' after Tour de France Femmes
'If you ask my teammates, they will always say different' says FDJ-Suez leader, responding to Van Emden remarks -
Tour de France Femmes winner Pauline Ferrand-Prévot taking home 10 times less prize money than Tadej Pogačar is the wrong comparison to make, says race director
Marion Rousse explains prize money differences between men's and women's Tour as ASO reveals which teams won what at the 2025 race -
'The biggest priority is to be healthy' - Demi Vollering, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot respond to questions about rider weight at the Tour de France Femmes
'Just believe that if you have the power and that you train hard, that you can make it' former Tour winner on balancing health, training and racing
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'It makes me hungry for next year' – Sarah Gigante falls away from podium at Tour de France Femmes but takes heart from progress
'It feels like a lot better week than last year, so even though it's only one place better, I think I improved a lot' says Australian after finishing sixth overall -
'This is the growth of women's cycling' – Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney happy to finish third at Tour de France Femmes despite improving since her yellow jersey triumph
Polish racer continues streak of podium finishes at each edition of the French Grand Tour -
Lorena Wiebes finally takes Tour de France Femmes green jersey home after three years with bad luck
Élise Chabbey wears polka dot jersey from start to finish, Nienke Vinke wins white jersey as special classifications wrap up in Châtel
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'Back to the drawing board' for Demi Vollering after finishing second again at Tour de France Femmes
'Never say never' as Vollering looks ahead to possible yellow-jersey target at 2026 French Grand Tour -
'I still have plenty of races I didn't win yet' – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot's road racing ambitions won't end with Tour de France Femmes triumph
France's first Tour champion since the 1980s eyes bids for Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège -
'On the bike, Tadej is a killer' - Soon-to-retire Rafal Majka praises team leader Pogačar during countdown to last Tour de Pologne
UAE Team Emirates-XRG climbing support rider to hang up wheels after Il Lombardia
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Tour de France 2026 – All the route rumours ahead of the official presentation
The details we know about next summer's men's Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes -
What's next for the Tour de France Femmes – does it really need three weeks of racing?
'We can’t start from nothing and arrive at the same level' says race winner Pauline Ferrand-Prévot -
'Everybody wants to be in the breakaway' – The Tour de France Femmes' most combative riders reveal the secrets of making the break in cycling's biggest race
Brodie Chapman, Maëva Squiban, Ruth Edwards, and Franziska Koch talk teamwork, reading the race and picking the right moments to attack -
This Tour de France Femmes was exactly what women's cycling needed – Analysis
Suspense, field depth and local heroes alongside broader global interest not only made a compelling edition, but paint a rosy picture of what's in store for the future -
Tour de France Femmes tech wrap-up: Who won with what?
And why do the female pros prefer lightweight bikes, when the men tend to choose aero bikes?
