Demi Vollering Wins The Women’s Tour De France For The Second Time

NICE, France — Dutch rider Demi Vollering won nan Women’s Tour de France for nan 2nd clip and successful style by winning Sunday’s ninth and last shape to widen her wide separator of victory.

The 2023 champion raised her motorcycle successful nan aerial moments aft crossing nan decorativeness statement successful Nice comfortably up of Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney, nan 2024 champion. Niewiadoma-Phinney started Sunday’s shape 8 seconds down Vollering, who sewage a clip prize for winning nan stage.

Knowing that she was good clear of her rival, Vollering began to observe arsenic nan statement approached, raising her limb successful triumph and past tapping her caput pinch her digit to show her intelligence strength.

She vanished nan shape 1 minute, 4 seconds up of Spaniard Paula Blasi Cairol and Niewiadoma-Phinney and, aft collecting nan clip bonus, ended up 1:18 clear of Niewiadoma-Phinney overall.

Former Giro d’Italia champion Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy was 3rd wide successful nan Tour — 4:29 down — aft Marlen Reusser mislaid valuable clip aft crashing going downhill aft nan 2nd of nan day’s 4 climbs.

Niewiadoma-Phinney had it each to do connected nan last climb, particularly pinch her rival sitting connected her wheel, and was incapable to unit Vollering.

Vollering attacked astir 800 meters from nan apical and dropped Niewiadoma-Phinney — arsenic she did erstwhile winning Saturday’s eighth shape to return nan wide lead from her rival.

Two years ago, Vollering missed retired connected Tour triumph aft finishing an agonizing 4 seconds down Niewiadoma-Phinney connected nan past stage.

She made afloat amends this time.

The 29-year-old Vollering has now won 5 Grand Tours, including 2 Spanish Vuelta titles and nan Giro d’Italia secured successful June to subordinate countrywoman Annemiek van Vleuten arsenic nan only different female cyclist to person won each 3 Grand Tours.

Four climbs

Each of nan first 3 climbs connected Sunday was 7.7 kilometers agelong pinch a 5.9% mean gradient. But nan last ascent branched disconnected onto a somewhat different way which, moreover though it was shorter astatine 6 kilometers, had a steeper mean gradient of 7.6% pinch 1 information stretching to a grueling 12%.

It made small difference.

After winning Friday’s seventh shape pinch an awesome solo onslaught of her ain up nan iconic Mont Ventoux, Niewiadoma-Phinney seemed short of power and Vollering’s lead was ne'er nether threat.