2025 Tour de France Femmes Stage 3 Results & Recap
Stage 3 of the 2025 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
Wiebes Sprints to Victory in Angers
Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx – Protime) claimed a commanding victory in Stage 3 of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, outsprinting Marianne Vos (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) and Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) on the streets of Angers after a crash-marred finale and a long day of chase and control by the peloton.
The 163.5-kilometer stage from La Gacilly to Angers was largely flat, offering one of the last pure opportunities for the sprinters before the race transitions into the hilly Massif Central. With just over 1,000 meters of elevation gain and only one classified climb early in the day—the Côte de Richardière at 34 km—the race unfolded as expected: a breakaway forming early, followed by a steady reel-in by the bunch.
A quartet comprising Alison Jackson (EF-Oatly-Cannondale), Clémence Latimier (Arkea - B&B Hotels Women), Sara Martín (Movistar Team), and Catalina Soto (Laboral Kutxa – Fundacion Euskadi) animated the stage for over 100 kilometers. At one point, their gap swelled to over four minutes. Jackson scooped up maximum points in the intermediate sprint at Vern d’Anjou, followed closely by Soto and Latimier, before the peloton began to reduce the margin.
With less than 10 kilometers remaining, the peloton reeled in the escapees, setting the stage for a dramatic sprint finish. However, tension spiked in the final kilometres as a crash in a corner with about 6 km to go disrupted the bunch. Notably, Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) was involved, but due to the crash occurring within the final 5 km, she and other affected riders were awarded the same finishing time as the stage winner.
Alison Jackson led the sprint into the final kilometer, but Wiebes launched her move perfectly in the closing meters, holding off Vos, who claimed second place and a six-second bonus. Wollaston rounded out the podium in third.
With her second-place finish and bonus seconds, Vos regained the yellow jersey from Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance – Soudal Team), who finished safely in the bunch. Vos now leads the general classification by six seconds heading into another expected sprint stage on Tuesday.
Stage 3 Results (Top 10):
Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx - Protime) – 3:41:47
Marianne Vos (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) – same time
Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) – same time
Megan Jastrab (Team Picnic PostNL) – same time
Liane Lippert (Movistar Team) – same time
Shari Bossuyt (AG Insurance - Soudal Team) – same time
Eline Jansen (Volkerwessels Women'S Pro Cycling Team) – same time
Katarzyna Niewiadoma (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) – same time
Noemi Rüegg (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) – same time
Lucinda Brand (Lidl - Trek) – same time
General Classification (after Stage 3):
Marianne Vos (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) – 8:19:06
Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance - Soudal Team) – +0:06
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) – +0:12
Katarzyna Niewiadoma (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) – +0:16
Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx - Protime) – +0:16
Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) – +0:19
Anna van der Breggen (Team SD Worx - Protime) – +0:21
Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) – +0:21
Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) – +0:25
Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl - Trek) – +0:25
The peloton returns to the flatlands on Stage 4, with another opportunity for the sprinters before the road turns upward later in the week.
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