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Vollering Caps Stunning Season With Women's Tour De France Triumph

The Women's Tour de France was completed on Sunday.


30th July 2023 07:20 PM

Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the women's Tour de France on Sunday after Marlen Reusser claimed the final stage time trial in Pau.

SD Worx team leader Vollering, finished the eight-stage race ahead of Belgian teammate Lotte Kopecky and Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma of the Canyon–SRAM team.

Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten, 40, who will retire at the end of the season, finished off the podium in fourth.

In the streets of Pau, watched by French prime minister Elisabeth Borne, on roads that had dried after heavy morning showers, Reusser set the fastest time of 29min 15secs over the 22km course at the bottom of the Pyrenean foothills.