Results Tour de France Femmes 2026 stage 4 - Marlen Reusser take over yellow jersey with key time trial victory as Ferrand-Prévot loses minutes
CyclingTuesday, 04 August 2026 at 18:00
Stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes was its decisive time trial, and the differences created have the potential to completely change the race. Marlen Reusser stormed to the stage win and the yellow jersey after a tremendous performance on a day where Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has lost around two minutes to her biggest rivals.
The 21-kilometer long effort finished in Dijon and featured a profile that included a small ascent leading up to the intermediate point; and a very fast descent section leading to the finish line. An effort that was hard to gauge, and an effort that could create massive differences as the riders took on the individual challenge.
Marlen Reusser was the main favourite to win on the day, and the rainbow jersey delivered. Reusser has brought the yellow jersey to Movistar after posting astrong time of 27:30 minutes at the finish line. She managed to overtake Visma's Lieke Nooijen -- the true surprise of the day - by only a few seconds.
The differences on the day were very big, before the race even reaches the mountains. Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot specially has struggled against the clock and has lost 2:13 minutes to Reusser, a meaningful difference that will be difficult to recover in the mountains.
Demi Vollering lost 17 seconds to Ferrand-Prévot, effectively carving out a very meaningful difference to Ferrand-Prévot as well as Anna van der Breggen (time loss of 1:05 minutes) who was expected to be amongst the strongest on the day.
Reusser has moved into the yellow jersey after the difficulties of the previous stage's winner Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset who had over two minutes of lead at the start but lost that within the first intermediate point; later arriving to the finish with a 3:05-minute deficit over Reusser.
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