Tour de France Femmes 2025: stage nine concludes in the mountains at Châtel
Date: 2025-08-03T12:37:22.000Z
Title: Preamble
Content: It's the final day of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025! Today, the riders will face a 124.1km mountain stage with 2,820m of elevation gain. It's a relentless parcours with two category one climbs and a Hors catégorie climb – the most difficult type of climb in a race. With the background of the Haute-Savoie region, we can look forward to an action-packed day for the peloton with beautiful alpine landscapes.
After Pauline Ferrand-Prévot shook up the GC rankings yesterday, it will be interesting to see if the French rider can hang on to the yellow jersey or if the next closely ranked in the classification, Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal), Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) or Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon/SRAM) pull of a big move. Second placed Gigante is 2mins 37secs behind, so she'd have to crack Ferrand-Prévot. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts, pedictions and questions for this stage. You can email me via the link at the top of the page.
Today's action will kick off at 3.20pm CET/2.20pm BST. Here is Jeremy Whittle's stage eight race report from Saint-François Longchamp:
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