2024 Tour de France Femmes Stage 4 Results & Recap
Stage 4 of the 2024 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
Pieterse wins stage 4
Yellow jersey Demi Vollering set such a ferocious pace on the Roche-aux-Faucons that only Puck Pieterse, Kasia Niewiadoma, and Pauliena Rooijakkers were able to follow. The latter lost contact on the plateau after the top, and then it came down to a sprint-à-trois in Liège. Pieterse took the spoils millimetres ahead of Vollering.
Silvia Persico won the QOM sprint at the first three hills, Bemelerberg, Cauberg, Geulhemmerberg, and again Bemelerberg. The peloton was still bunched at that point, but Sara Martín escaped as the riders left the first hilly zone. The Spanish rider put over 1 minute into the peloton.
Martín was caught on Mont-Theux. Yara Kastelijn took over the attack, and she was the first rider to reach the summit before she sat up to wait for the peloton.
Puck Pieterse crested La Redoute as the first rider of a reduced peloton. Riejanne Markus and Neve Bradbury were dropped on the climb, but they made it back to the plateau after the summit.
Justine Ghekiere attacked in the last phase of Côte des Forges, and she pushed on alone. The Belgian rider hit the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons with a 25-second lead.
Demi Vollering set the pace on the climb until only Puck Pieterse, Kasia Niewiadoma, and Pauliena Rooijakkers remained at her wheel. They gobbled up Ghekiere, after which Pieterse took the most QOM points to move into the polka dots.
While Vollering won the sprint for time bonuses ahead of Niewiadoma and Pieterse, Rooijakkers lost contact. The three worked well together to distance the first chasers.
Niewiadoma struck inside the final kilometre. Vollering brought her back with Pieterse sitting quietly on her wheel. The 22-year-old then opened the sprints early. Vollering came shoulder to shoulder but missed out with a few millimeters. Stage win for Pieterse, who also moves up to second place in the GC.
Vollering stays in yellow, while Niewiadoma moves up to third.\n
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