2023 Tour de France Femmes Stage 7 Results & Recap
Stage 7 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Vollering wins Queen Stage
Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx) rode away from the best in the world on the famed Tourmalet to win the penultimate stage of the Tour de France Femmes and put herself into the yellow jersey, a comfortable 1:50 ahead of Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAMRacing). The world champion, Annemiek Van Vleuten (Movistar Team Women) finished third on the day and sits third on GC, 2:28 behind.
"On the climb, I could see that Demi [Vollering] didn’t want to work with Annemiek [van Vleuten] so I knew that they would look at each other, and I decided to take my chance on the downhill, go quite fast and see if I would be able to go, Niewiadoma said after the stage. "It was a perfect scenario. I heard at the bottom of the Tourmalet that the chasers got back together, so that wasn’t ideal, but I just rode my pace and tried to stay in my zone. I was just hoping they would be looking at each other more and I could get more time. But Demi showed how strong she was when she passed me. Somehow on the first stages, I knew I would get the polka-dot jersey. I was the only favourite scoring points here and there, so I had a feeling it was gonna be mine. I definitely believed I would get the victory! But I often come 2nd or 3rd… Maybe I need to come to terms with that [she laughs]."
The last call on the Tour de France Femmes is an ITT with start and finish in Pau. The route is 22.6 kilometres long and contains an altitude gain of 177 metres.
The climbing metres are crammed together in a small midway climb and the last 400 metres. The intermediate climb is 2.3 kilometres long and averaging 4.5%, while the climb to the line rises at 5.7%. The rest of the route is virtually flat.
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