PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2023 - Team SD Worx versus Annemiek van Vleuten on the biggest race of the year

Preview. The Tour de France Femmes will take place from the 23rd to the 30th of July 2023 and is perhaps the climax of the women's season. Eight days of racing throughout France follow the Tour de France as an extremely popular race.

The Grand Depart will take place in Clermont-Ferrand this edition, with a whole stage looping around the central French city. It will be an open day, with the puncheurs and sprinters having an opportunity to ride for the first yellow jersey. The second stage will have an hilltop finish in Mauriac with 3.4 kilometers at 5.8% which should open the fight for the yellow jersey. Stage 3 will have it's finale in Montignac-Lascaux and should be a bunch sprint.

Stage 4 into Rodez will see a familiar finale, an explosive one after a hilly stage. The hilltop finish will see 570 meters at 10%. Stage 5 will finish in Albi, a stage that should see a sprint finish, however with possibilities for the offensive riders aswell. Stage 6 into Blagnac should be another opportunity for the fast women.

Stage 7 will be the queen stage, as the race heads into the Pyrenees. The 90-kilometer stage will see the ascent of the Col d'Aspin (12Km; 6.5%) to warm things up, and a very hard summit finish at the Col du Tourmalet (17Km; 7.3%), a day that will be decisive for the overall classification and see the pure climbers fight for the win. The race will finish in Pau, as the 8th stage will see an individual time-trial around the city with 22 kilometers in difference.

Estimated start and finish times for Tour de France Femmes:

Stage 1: 12:30 -15:25CET

Stage 2: 13:25-17:30CET

Stage 3: 13:45-17:30CET

Stage 4: 12:40-17:25CET

Stage 5: 14:20-17:25CET

Stage 6: 14:30-17:25CET

Stage 7: 16:25-19:15CET

Stage 8: 14:30-17:30CET

Prediction Tour de France Femmes 2023 overall classification:

*** Demi Vollering, Annemiek van Vleuten
** Elisa Longo Borghini
* Liane Lippert, Lotte Kopecky, Marlen Reusser, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Ricarda Bauernfeind, Riejanne Markus, Juliette Labous, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio

Pick: Demi Vollering