PREVIEW | Tour de France Femmes 2025 stage 4 - Lorena Wiebes the woman to beat and Demi Vollering faces important test

The Tour de France Femmes 2025 will be a very exciting route featuring a start in Bretagne and a finale in the Alps. The top race in the women's calendar starts on the 26th July and ends on the 3rd of August. We preview stage 4.

Stage 4 will end in Potiers and is without a doubt the best day of the race for the pure sprinters. The start will be in the city of Saumurs and during the day we will not have any meaningful climbs to tackle, instead a flat stage with a few rolling ascents.

One such comes close to the finale in Poitiers with 600 meters at 4% ending with just 3 kilometers to go where a few teams may want to make it hard on the competition and pure sprinters. However after today's display, it is hard to imagine anyone being able to match Lorena Wiebes.

The European Champion has finally managed to win her first stage and did so in style, holding back Marianne Vos who is now in the yellow jersey of the race, after gaining bonus seconds and taking it back from Kim Le Court.

Although this is not an important day GC-wise, it will be very important to see how Demi Vollering has recovered following her crash at the end of stage 3. After the withdrawals of Marlen Reusser and Elisa Longo Borghini, and the fallout of Lotte Kopecky from the overall classification, we could see yet another main favourite fall out of contention for the race win if she is not able to recover. At the time being, it is hard to access which way it will go.

*** Lorena Wiebes
** Marianne Vos, Elisa Balsamo
* Ally Wollaston, Chloé Dygert, Liane Lippert, Megan Jastrab

Pick: Lorena Wiebes

How: Regular bunch sprint.