Tour De France Femmes Avec Zwift 2026 Start List
ASO will field 21 teams and up to 147 riders for the five-stage women’s race, with past champions Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney confirmed.
- Starting in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Tour de France Femmes begins August 1 with a nine-stage route featuring an individual time trial in Dijon and a summit finish on Mont Ventoux.
- Team FDJ United-Suez manager Stephen Delcourt refined preparation for Demi Vollering's yellow-jersey pursuit, organizing a three-week altitude camp in Tignes to ensure she arrives with fresh mind and body.
- Organizers at ASO invited all 14 WorldTour teams and seven ProTeams, creating a maximum start list of 147 riders—the smallest field since the race's 2022 debut with 144 starters.
- Delcourt emphasized a Grand Tour requires time trials and hilly stages to be "complete," noting his team raced strategically less this season yet achieved better results through focused preparation.
- FDJ United-Suez secured partnerships with Specialized and Shimano through 2028, while Delcourt expressed hope the race expands to "10 days" in coming years to create a more complete Grand Tour.
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The Women's Tour of France starts in its fifth year and is legitimately sold as a success story. A million audience is watching.
The third Grand Tour of the year for women cyclists is the Tour de France Femmes, which will be held for only the fifth time this year, starting on August 1. Elisabeth Ebras (Lotto Intermarche Ladies) will be the first Estonian to take to the starting line of the prestigious cycling tour.
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