The Tour de France Femmes is just around the corner, and more and more teams are confirming which riders they will be sending to the third edition of the seven-day race that starts in Rotterdam on Monday August 12, 2024.
The overall route is 946 kilometres across the Netherlands, Belgium, and France and includes an individual time trial, three flat stages, three hilly stages and two mountain stages at the end of the week. The teams with GC hopefuls will therefore need a rider who is a strong all-rounder, but with two back-to-back mountain stages on the final weekend, climbing abilities will be key if they want to win the yellow jersey. It's also important for the teams with GC ambitions to bring some solid domestiques to make sure their leaders make it through some trickier stages earlier on in the race.
However, there are also plenty of opportunities for those teams without a GC or even a top sprinter to search for stage wins and have the freedom to go for the breakaway where they might have the chance of staying away for the victory. With 22 teams on the start list, including all the Women's WorldTour teams and seven UCI Women's Continental teams, it is all to play for over the eight stages.
So, picking seven riders to race in the Tour de France Femmes is an important job for the team managers and one that requires a lot of deliberation if they want to win stages or even better, take home a converted Tour jersey.
SD Worx-Protime
- Demi Vollering
- Mischa Bredewold
- Niamh Fisher-Black
- Barbara Guarischi
- Christine Majerus
- Blanka Vas
- Lorena Wiebes
DS: Danny Stam, Anna Van Der Breggen
Canyon//SRAM
- Katarzyna Niewiadoma
- Neve Bradbury
- Elise Chabbey
- Chloe Dygert
- Soraya Paladin
- Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka
- Alice Towers
DS: Adam Szabo, André Schulze
Team dsm-fermenich PostNL
- Juliette Labous
- Francesca Barale
- Rachele Barbieri
- Pfeiffer Georgi
- Franziska Koch
- Charlotte Kool
- Becky Storrie
DS: Albert Timmer, Kelvin Dekker
Lidl-Trek
- Gaia Realini
- Elisa Balsamo
- Lucinda Brand
- Elizabeth Deignan
- Amanda Spratt
- Shirin van Anrooij
- Ellen van Dijk
DS: Jeroen Blijlevens, Ino-Yoko Teutenberg
AG Insurance-Soudal Team
- Justine Ghekiere
- Gaia Masetti
- Sarah Gigante
- Kimberley (Le Court) Pienaar
- Anya Louw
- Ilse Pluimers
- Julie van de Velde
DS: Jolien d’Hoore, Fien Delbaere
FDJ-Suez
- Évita Muzic
- Loes Adegeest
- Grace Brown
- Léa Curinier
- Coralie Demay
- Amber Kraak
- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
DS: Nicolas Maire, Flavien Soenen
Visma-Lease a Bike
- Marianne Vos
- Femke de Vries
- Anna Henderson
- Riejanne Markus
- Linda Riedmann
- Fem van Empel
- Sophie von Berswordt
DS: Jan Boven, Rutger Tijssen
Liv Alula Jayco
- Mavi García
- Caroline Andersson
- Jeanne Korevaar
- Amber Pate
- Ruby Roseman-Gannon
- Silke Smulders
- Quinty Ton
DS: Megan Chard, Wim Stroetinga
Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi
- Ane Santesteban
- Iurani Blanco
- Usoa Ostolaza
- Debora Silvestri
- Catalina Anais Soto
- Laura Tomasi
- Cristina Tonetti
DS: Ion Lazkano, Peio Goikoetxea
Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team
- Cédrine Kerbaol
- Sandra Alonso
- Alice Maria Arzuffi
- Nina Berton
- Mylène de Zoete
- Marta Lach
- Kathrin Schweinberger
DS: Dirk Baldinger, Fortunato Lacquaniti
EF-Oatly-Cannondale
- Kristen Faulkner
- Clara Emond
- Lotta Henttala
- Alison Jackson
- Noemi Rüegg
- Magdeleine Vallieres
DS: Carmen Small, Daniel Holm Foder
Movistar
- Liane Lippert
- Olivia Baril
- Emma Norsgaard
- Sheyla Gutiérrez
- Floortje Mackaij
- Sara Martín
- Mareille Meijering
DS: Jorge Sanz, Tim Harris
UAE Team ADQ
- Silvia Persico
- Karolina Kumiega
- Sofia Bertizzolo
- Mikayla Harvey
- Elizabeth Holden
- Erica Magnaldi
- Karlijn Swinkels
DS: Nicolas Marche, Cristina San Emetrio
Fenix-Deceuninck
- Yara Kastelijn
- Julie de Wilde
- Puck Pieterse
- Pauliena Rooijakkers
- Carina Schrempf
- Christina Schweinberger
- Marthe Truyen
DS: Michel Cornelisse, Kris Wouters
Cofidis Women Team
- Victoire Berteau
- Martina Alzini
- Špela Kern
- Hannah Ludwig
- Nikola Nosková
- Sarah Roy
- Josie Talbot
DS: Arthur Quillec, Takehiro Mizutani
Human Powered Health
- Audrey Cordon-Ragot
- Ruth Edwards
- Romy Kasper
- Barbara Malcotti
- Daria Pikulik
- Marit Raaijmakers
- Lily Williams
DS: Giorgia Bronzini, Clark Sheehan
St Michel-Mavic-Auber93
- Marion Bunel
- Alison Avoine
- Camille Fahy
- Victorie Guilman
- Célia Le Mouel
- Dilyxine Miermont
- Elyne Roussel
DS: Tony Hurel, Stéphane Javalet
Arkéa-B&B Hotels Women
- Valentina Cavallar
- Lotte Claes
- Maaike Coljé
- Michaela Drummond
- Emilia Fahlin
- Amandine Fouquenet
- Maëva Squiban
DS: Grégoire le Calvé, Franck Renimel
Lotto Dstny Ladies
- Thalita de Jong
- Wilma Aintila
- Maureen Arens
- Fauve Bastiaenssen
- Audrey de Keersmaeker
- Mieke Docx
- Anna van Wersch
DS: Kurt Van De Wouwer, Grace Verbeke
Uno-X Mobility
- Katrine Aalerud
- Anniina Ahtosalo
- Simone Boilard
- Maria Giulia Confalonieri
- Marte Berg Edseth
- Anouska Koster
- Mie Bjørndal Ottestad
DS: Anna Badegruber, Huub Duijn
Roland
- Tamara Dronova-Balabolina
- Antri Christoforou
- Maggie Coles-Lyster
- Natalie Grinczer
- Elena Pirrone
- Sylvie Swinkels
- Giorgia Vettorello
DS: Sergey Klimov, Florent Horeau
Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team
- Yanina Kuskova
- Mohinabonu Elmurodova
- Madina Kakhorova
- Nafosat Kozieva
- Ekaterina Knebeleva
- Margarita Misyurina
- Asal Rizaeva
DS: Gleb Groysman, Volodymyr Starchyk
