The Women’s Tour de France wants to continue reaping the fruits of the popular success that it had last year in its first edition and in 2023 it is betting on renewal, with the introduction of a time trial, and maintaining what worked, with a high finish.
If last year was La Planche des Belles Fillesthis year the leading role will go to the Tourmaletend of the penultimate stage, according to the route presented this Thursday in Paris.
“Last year’s participants told us that they wanted to vary the route, that the winner of a Tour de France had to show that it is good in all areas”, assured the director of the test, the former cyclist Marion Rousse, to justify the inclusion of the time trial.
The women’s Tour will start the same day as the end of the men’s but this time it will not be in Paris, it will go until Clermont-Ferrandin the heart of Auvergnewith a steep profile that will mark the first differences in the general classification from the start.
The route of the second day will also be bumpy, on the way to the south, with a fight between those who opt for the general classification, before the “sprinters” take center stage on the third day.
The fourth, with a slope of 2,400 meters and a final in Rodezit will once again be a question of climbers, while in the fifth a massive arrival is predicted and the sixth is again predicted in Albi Y Blagnac.
It will be time to save strength to face the ascent to the Tourmalet and its 17 kilometers at 7.3% incline, in a day of 90 kilometers that also includes the ascent to the cabbage d’Aspinwith a total of 2,600 meters of positive slope.
If last year the high mountain, with a climb to La Planche des Belles Filles, was the final verdict of the edition, in which the Dutch won Annemiek van Vleutenof the team Movistarthis time it will be the time trial.
Twenty-two kilometers around Pauin the opposite direction to the one that the men completed in the 2019 Tour, with a height in the middle, 1.8 kilometers at 5% gradient.
STAGES OF THE WOMEN’S TOUR 2023:
Stage 1 (July 23): Clermont Ferrand – Clermont Ferrand (124.2 km)
Stage 2 (July 24): Clermont – Ferrand Mauriac (148.3 km)
Stage 3 (July 25): Collonges-La-Rouge – Montignac-Lascaux (147.4 km)
Stage 4 (July 26): Cahors – Rodez (177.5 km)
Stage 5 (July 27): Onet-Le-Château – Albi (126.6 km)
Stage 6 (July 28): Albi – Blagnac (122.7 km)
Stage 7 (July 29): Lannemezan – Tourmalet (90.8 km)
Stage 8 (July 30): Pau – Pau (CRI) (22 km)
Source: Eitb
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