29-07-2025
Tour de France Femmes: Lorena Wiebes sprints to second stage win, Marianne Vos stays in yellow
Team SD Worx-Protime's Lorena Wiebes out-sprinted Team Visma Lease-A-Bike's Marianne Vos to win Stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes, her second victory in as many days.
Wiebes was able to secure her eighth Tour de France stage success, taking her to 109 career wins in total, but had Vos on her wheel the whole way in to Poitiers.
The two best sprinters of this #TDFF2025 met again for an electric sprint. Like yesterday, it was @lorenawiebes who won ahead of @marianne_vos. Relive the last km of stage 4 💥
Les deux sprinteuses en forme de ce #TDFF2025 se sont encore donné rendez-vous pour un sprint…
— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 29, 2025
After starting in Saumur on the 130.7km stage, Ana Vitoria Magalhaes (Movistar) and Franziska Koch (Team Picnic PostNL) broke away and held off the peloton until inside the final four-and-a-half kilometres when they were eventually caught by the sprint teams.
The leaders of all of the classifications stayed the same after Tuesday's sprint stage, with Vos in yellow (overall), Wiebes in green (points), Julie Bego in white (U-23) and Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) in the polka-dots (mountains).
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'It's really rewarding to do this for Lorena,' said Anna van der Breggen after the stage. 'If it's your moment, you need to do it. That pressure is kind of nice.
'You need to go fast. It's difficult to know exactly when you go in front, when is the moment…when she (Wiebes) is there in the end, you know she will find a gap.
'Happy that we have Lorena, she is an amazing rider and I feel honoured to work for her.'
Van der Breggen returned from a three-season retirement in 2025.
With only the mountain and hilly stages ahead left to race, the overall and mountain classifications will go through many evolutions before the final ninth day.
United States champion Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Oatly) crashed in the final kilometres, having suffered off the back of the peloton post-crash for the majority of the Tour, but was back on her bike to finish the day. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) also started and finished the stage, after a hard crash in the final kilometers of Monday's stage.
Wednesday's Stage 5 will be the halfway point for the Tour de France Femmes, taking the peloton from Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (Futuroscope) to Gueret. It is a return to the hilly terrain before the riders tackle the mountains for the first time.
