Demi Vollering Caps Stunning Season With Win At 2023 Tour de France Femmes
Demi Vollering Caps Stunning Season With Win At 2023 Tour de France Femmes
Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on Sunday after Marlen Reusser claimed the final-stage time trial in Pau.
Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on Sunday after Marlen Reusser claimed the final-stage time trial in Pau.
SD Worx team leader Vollering, 26, finished the eight-stage race ahead of Belgian teammate Lotte Kopecky and Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma of the Canyon-SRAM team.
It was the 15th victory this year for world No. 1 Vollering, who dominated the spring classics with a hat-trick in the Ardennes -- Fleche Wallonne, Liege and Amstel -- that only compatriot Anna van der Breggen had achieved before her.
Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten, 40, who will retire at the end of the season, finished off the podium in fourth.
In the streets of Pau, watched by French prime minister Elisabeth Borne, on roads that had dried after heavy morning showers, Reusser set the fastest time of 29 minutes, 15 seconds over the 22-kilometer course at the bottom of the Pyrenean foothills.
The Swiss achieved her seventh success of the season after the Ghent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Switzerland and the Tour of the Basque Country.
Vollering took second place in this final time trial, which changed the order of the podium established Saturday at the top of the Col du Tourmalet.
Kopecky, who had worn the leader's yellow jersey for six days from the first stage, moved from fourth to second overall at the expense of Van Vleuten, who finished 12th in Pau.
Niewiadoma matched her 2022 performance and also won the mountain classification.