2025 Tour de France Femmes - Ultimate team-by-team guide

The Tour de France Femmes is the biggest race on the UCI Women’s WorldTour calendar. The event features all 15 WWT teams, and they are joined by seven UCI Pro Women’s teams in the peloton.

Demi Vollering lines up this year for her new team, FDJ-Suez. Her old squad, SD Worx-Protime, remains a powerhouse, with world champion Lotte Kopecky and the returning Anna van der Breggen in the line-up.

Defending champion Katarzyna Niewiadoma will again have the backing of CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto, while Team Visma | Lease a Bike will have an intriguing double act in Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Marianne Vos.

But every team in the peloton will set out from Vannes with high ambitions for the race. Read on for a deeper look at their goals for the nine stages.

Team Leader: Kim Le Court 

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Justine Ghekiere

AG Insurance-Soudal will be coming into this Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in fine spirits. Their season so far has been a success already after Kim Le Court won Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes. The confidence from that victory could provide Le Court with the cutting edge again in the forthcoming battles. Justine Ghekiere, the defending Queen of the Mountains from 2024, performed well in Itzulia Women, finishing fourth, just outside the podium places in the general classification. She will be hoping to recreate her 87km effort from stage 7 of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, when she took home the win. 

The designated sprinter for AG Insurance-Soudal is Gladys Verhulst-Wild. Her best results, so far this year are fourth place at Le Samyn des Dames, and fifth and sixth place finishes at the UAE Tour Women. Sarah Gigante lines up after an injury-torn year with her last road race being at the UCI World Championships last September.

Team Leader: Marjolein van 't Geloof

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Valentina Cavallar

Arkea B&B Hotels have had just the one victory so far this season and that was all the way back at Omloop Nieuwsblad. Lotte Claes won that day for Arkea B&B Hotels and she will be looking to recreate those heroics in the Tour de France Femmes this year. Getting involved in the sprints for Arkea B&B Hotels will be Marjolein van 't Geloof.  Her best result of the season so far has been a top four finish in Gent-Wevelgem. Arkea B&B Hotels will be heavily reliant on van 't Geloof and also Valentina Cavallar to achieve any results in the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

Team Leader: Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney

Objective: GC, Stage wins

Rider to watch: Neve Bradbury

After Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney won the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift by just four seconds, CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto bring class yet again this year. Their weapons for the yellow jersey battle again include the defending champion Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney. Expect Neve Bradbury to display her class after facing some unfortunate luck in the Vuelta España Femenina which forced her to abandon. 

Chloé Dygert was also a DNF at the 2025 Vuelta España Femenina for CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto. The American would have preferred a time trial in the parcours but she will have to seek out opportunities where she can. For the bunch sprints, Chiara Consonni is their designated rider, and she has the potential to work well together with Dygert

Team Leader: Sarah Van Dam

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Sarah Van Dam

The young talent Sarah Van Dam leads Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team into the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Van Dam finished third in the general classification at Itzulia Women, and it will be interesting to see if she can bring that form across a nine-stage race. Mylène de Zoete will be the sprinter of the team. Her best finish was an eighth place on stage 2 of the UAE Tour Women.

Team Leader: Victoire Berteau

Objective: Fight for stage win 

Rider to watch: Julie Bego

Cofidis comes into this Tour de France Femmes struggling for results. Their best UCI Women’s WorldTour result was an eighth-place finish for Valentine Fortin at Classic Brugge-De Panne. Their leader for the race Victoire Berteau is well suited to the hillier terrain and will like her chances at a high finish on the stage 2. 

Julie Bego will be making her Tour debut at just 20 years of age after finishing fifth at the Tour de l'Avenir Femmes in 2024. Former world champion from 2016, Amalie Dideriksen, also lines up for the French squad after her transfer from Uno-X Mobility. The aim of the Cofidis squad should be to get themselves into the breakaways. 

Team Leader: Cédrine Kerbaol

Objective: GC podium, stage wins

Rider to watch: Letizia Borghesi

EF Education – Oatly come into the 2025 Tour de France Femmes off the back of a great classics season. The team achieved numerous top finishes with the pick of the bunch being Letizia Borghesi finishing second Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift with Alison Jackson in fifth. In the Vuelta España Femenina, Cédrine Kerbaol achieved a fourth place in the general classification and will be looking to go well in her home race. 

Kerbaol will be supported in the hills by Noemi Rüegg, who returns after fracturing her collarbone in a crash at Flèche Wallonne Féminine. If Rüegg’s shape is there then there is no reason why she cannot compete for the top finishes in the opening weekend. 

Team Leader: Demi Vollering

Objective: GC 

Rider to watch: Ally Wollaston

Demi Vollering has been a woman on a mission so far in 2025, winning all three stage races in which she has competed. Vollering’s most impressive victory was her dominance at the Vuelta España Femenina, where she performed on another level to win the red jersey by over a minute. Vollering will also look to turn a fresh page on last year’s Tour de France Femme avec Zwift where she lost by the finest of margins, just four seconds. The Dutchwoman will be supported by some top climbers through the likes of Évita Muzic and Juliette Labous. 

Ally Wollaston is a rider to watch for in the versatile sprint stages and potentially can compete on the ramped finish on the opening stage.

Team leader: Puck Pieterse

Objective: Stage wins, GC Podium

Rider to watch: Pauliena Rooijakkers

Fenix-Deceuninck have had a great season so far picking up a classics podium and victory through the tremendous talent Puck Pieterse, and the Dutchwoman will be one of the top favourites to be in the yellow jersey after stage one. Her powerful punch has the potential to blow the opposition out of the water as seen through her victory at the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. 

Rooijakkers will be looking forward to the steep mountains and is aiming to build on her GC podium at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Rooijakkers’ Vuelta España Femenina didn’t go to plan, but she was able to show her talent, coming fourth on stage 4 to Lagunas de Neila.

Team Leader: Thalita de Jong

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Silvia Zanardi 

Silvia Zanardiand and Thalita de Jong will be the riders with highest expectations in the Human Powered Health team. The Italian Zanardi is a punchy sprinter who took sixth at Scheldeprijs this year. Thalita de Jong is coming into the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift after a solid fifth place finish in Itzulia Women.

The American Lily Williams caught the eye on stage 2 of the UAE Tour Women, when she was in a front group for 106km en route to second that day behind the European champion Lorena Wiebes.

Team leader: Usoa Ostolaza

Objective: QoM jersey

Rider to watch: Laura Tomasi

Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi will be looking to give a good account of themselves at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. This season, they have picked up just one victory, in the Grand Prix El Salvador through Laura Tomasi. 

Spanish national road champion Usoa Ostolaza’s talents suit the steep climbs, as demonstrated by her fifth place finish on the Lagunas de Neila in the 2025 Vuelta España Femenina. Yuliia Biriukova will be a key domestique for Ostolaza. 

Team leaders: Elisa Balsamo, Niamh Fisher-Black

Objective: Stage wins, top five GC

Rider to watch: Anna Henderson

Lidl-Trek line up for the 2025 Tour de France Femmes aiming to compete on all fronts. Elisa Balsamo is aiming to add a Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift stage to her palmares. Stages 3 and 4 look the obvious place for her to try, and she will be helped with a lead-out by Anna Henderson.

In the battle for the yellow jersey, Niamh Fisher-Black is the rider Lidl-Trek will look to support. Gaia Realini could be the rider who provides the most support to Fisher-Black in the third week.

Team leader: Monica Trinca Colonel

Objective: Top ten in the GC

Rider to watch: Monica Trinca Colonel

Liv AlUla Jayco are another team who line with riders for all terrain. For the reduced sprints, they have Monica Trinca Colonel who also will be able to compete around the upper echelons of the general classification.  Georgia Baker will be competing in the bunch sprints after having a good Belgian classics season. Silke Smulders will be looking to replicate her Santos Tour Down under performance, where she finished second behind Noemi Rüegg. 

Trinca Colonel is the team leader heading into the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, with her best stage race result this year being her fourth place in the UAE Tour Women.

Team leader: Marlen Reusser

Objective: GC podium, stage wins

Rider to watch: Cat Ferguson

Marlen Reusser has been off to a flyer so far in 2025. Even though Reusser has one victory this year, her performances in stage races have been world class. She started off the year second behind Demi Vollering in the Volta Femenina de la Comunitat Valenciana and the outcome was repeated in the Vuelta España Femenina. Lianne Lippert aims to extend her sole Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift victory.

Top talent, Cat Ferguson appears at her first ever Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. If her performances in 2025 are anything to go by, Ferguson is almost certainly going to put the world on notice with her performances this July and August.

Team Leader: Petra Stiasny

Objective: Fight for stage wins

Rider to watch: Petra Stiasny

Petra Stiasny will have the weight of the team on her shoulders. The team has simply not been performing up to the UCI Woman’s World Tour standards this year but will hope to change that when it comes to July and August. Their only results this year have come in El Salvador. It will be interesting to see how this team approaches the Tour de France Femme avec Zwift

Team Leader: Alicia González

Objective: Fight for stage wins

Alicia González leads the French team into their home race. González is a rider who prefers the rougher terrain but also is not afraid to get involved in, in a bunch sprint. Lucie Fityus may also get herself into the thick of things in a sprint but has not found her form from down under. With the loss of the talented Marion Bunel to Team Visma | Lease a Bike, it is going to be interesting see how St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 fill the void left in the team.

Team Leader: Charlotte Kool

Objective: Green jersey

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift started off with a bang for Team Picnic PostNL with Charlotte Kool taking the first two stages along with the yellow jersey. Kool hasn’t won so far this season but will be hoping to open the floodgates in this Tour de France Femme avec Zwift. Pfeiffer Georgi returns to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift after not participating in 2024. 

The GC rider for Team Picnic PostNL is the young talent, Nienke Vinke. At 20 years old Nienke Vinke has already picked up her first top ten in a classic at La Flèche Wallonne Féminine. Nienke Vinke could be an interesting top ten contender in the opening stage, if the scenario is a reduced sprint.

Team Leader(s): Lotte Kopecky, Anna van der Breggen

Objective: Yellow jersey, green jersey

Rider to watch: Mischa Bredewold

Lotte Kopecky returns to the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift after missing 2024. After her Tour of Flanders magic this year, her account for the season hasn’t been extended. Lotte Kopecky, however, will be one of the huge favourites for the opening stage and consequently, wearing the yellow jersey. 

Her teammate, European road champion, Lorena Wiebes is also bound to be one of the top favourites for the opening especially after the display she produced on the opening stage of the Vuelta Burgos. On that stage, Wiebes was a cut above the rest with her punchy kick to the line after a great lead-out from Lotte Kopecky.

2025 has also been the year of the comeback queen Anna van der Breggen. After a four-year absence from participating in professional cycling, she achieved a fourth-place finish in the general classification of the Vuelta España Femenina.

Team Leaders: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Marianne Vos 

Objective: GC, green jersey, stage wins

Rider to watch: Marion Bunel

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in her return to road cycling made the claim that she is returning to win the Tour de France Femmes. After her incredible performance in Paris-Roubaix Femmes there is no reason why this cannot be the case. Team Visma | Lease a Bike also bring Marion Bunel to make her debut in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Winner of the Tour de l'Avenir Femmes by over two minutes in 2024, she is going to be right up there come the end of stage 9.

Marianne Vos will be looking to add to her 257 wins and her two green jerseys this year. She will be led out by the young Briton Imogen Wolff, who has already contributed excellently this year.

Team Leader: Elisa Longo Borghini

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Lara Gillespie

UAE Team ADQ bring a team which is built around Elisa Longo Borghini, fresh off her efforts at the Giro d'Italia Women. A Tour de France Femmes stage win is a gap in her illustrious palmarès. A key piece to that puzzle for Longo Borghini will be Lara Gillespie, who has been performing well this season, most notably in the Belgian classics. Silvia Persico is rider to watch, with her strong engine. That engine was on display in the 2025 Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition where she came fifth after a 63km effort. 

Team Leader: Mie Bjørndal Ottestad

Objective: Stage win

Rider to watch: Linda Zanetti

Mie Bjørndal Ottestad got UNO-X Mobility’s first ever World Tour victory in the second stage of the Vuelta Burgos. It will be interesting to see if the momentum from that great achievement will be carried forward into the Tour de France Femmes. Another rider, Linda Zanetti will be looking to grab a stage in the Tour after winning a stage at the Tour de l'Avenir Femmes in 2023.

Team Leader: Scarlett Souren

Objective: Stage win

VolkerWessels Cycling Team have had a reasonable season thus far, with a victory for Eline Jansen in La Classique Morbihan and a 10th-place finish at Omloop Nieuwsblad through Margot Vanpachtenbeke. The squad’s best chance of competing for honours here should come on stages 3 and 4.

Team Leader: Karolina Perekitko

Objective: Stage win

Winspace Orange Seal will be making their debut as a team at the Tour de France Femmes. Karolina Perekitko will be their designated leader and the Polish rider recently performed well at the Itzulia Women. It remains to be seen if she will be able to compete towards the end of the race in the longer mountains. Aurela Nerlo, the breakaway hero from Omloop Nieuwsblad, will be hoping to recreate that exploit here.