French rider Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt won the women’s Tour de France in her first attempt, launching an attack to clinch the final stage and increase her overnight lead.
— French rider Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt won the women’s Tour de France in her first attempt Sunday, launching an attack to clinch the final stage and increase her overnight lead.
It gave Ferrand-Prévôt a resounding victory. She finished three minutes, 42 seconds ahead of 2023 champion Demi Vollering of the Netherlands and 4:09 clear of defending champion Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland.
“After my Olympic title, I said I would try to win the Tour de France in the next three years”, said the 33-year-old Ferrand-Prévôt, an Olympic champion in mountain biking at last year’s Paris Games. “So here I am, the first [time].”
There was little of the drama of last year’s final day, which produced a four-second winning margin for the narrowest victory in the history of the women’s and men’s races.
