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Lorena Wiebes (DSM) proved she is the strongest out-and-out sprinter at the Tour de France Femmes with a dominant victory on Stage 5. World champion Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) was a distant second, while Marianne Vos finished third after losing her Jumbo-Visma team-mates in the finale, forcing her to plot her own path to the line.
PROVINS, France: Dutch rider Marianne Vos took over the yellow jersey in the women’s Tour de France with victory in a three-way sprint to win the second stage from Meaux to Provins on Monday.
Dutch rider Marianne Vos took over the yellow jersey in the women's Tour de France with victory in a three-way sprint to win the second stage from Meaux to Provins on Monday. Team Jumbo-Visma's Vos edged out Silvia Persico and Katarzyna Niewiadoma to claim the jersey from compatriot Lorena Wiebes who finished 29 seconds behind in sixth place. "It's not revenge, it's an absolutely wonderful day," said Vos who finished second behind Wiebes in Sunday's opening stage on the Champs-Elysees.
The evergreen Marianne Vos emphatically out-sprinted her five breakaway companions to claim stage two and the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes in Provins. The 35-year-old, beaten to the line on the Champs Élysées on Sunday by overnight race leader, Lorena Wiebes, made no mistake on the uphill sprint, easily distancing Silvia Persico, of the Valcar Travel and Service team.
Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) stamped her authority on the Tour de France Femmes after flying to victory on Stage 2, taking the yellow jersey in the process. Having finished second on Stage 1 behind Dutch compatriot Lorena Wiebes (DSM), Vos wasted little time wresting control of the race with an impressive sprint despite the best efforts of Elisa Longo Borghini (Trek-Segafredo).
The advent of the Tour de France Femmes has been described as a «pivotal» moment in the sport that will encourage more women and girls to take up professional cycling. The women’s edition of the race takes place for the first time in its current format this year following a 33-year absence since the last of its previous incarnation.
Lorena Wiebes (DSM) won a drag race against Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) on the Champs-Elysees to become the first stage winner in Tour de France Femmes history on Sunday. The victory also meant that Wiebes will wear the first yellow jersey of the race on Stage 2, when she will be hoping to double up. Below, Becky Hart provided a preview for what we have coming up next...
Thirty-three years is a long time without a women’s edition of the Tour de France. It is so long, in fact, that although officially Sunday's run around Paris marked a resumption, a continuation of sorts, it was rightly treated as something entirely new. Ad/> It’s almost certainly true that none of the 144 riders who took the start of the Tour de France Femmes remember Dutch star Monique Knol’s sprint victory in 1989 across, give or take a few hundred metres, the same finish line as Lorena Wiebes.