Tour de France leader Marianne Vos extends lead with stage 6 win
Yellow jersey holder Marianne Vos timed her sprint to perfection to win stage six of the women's Tour de France and extend her lead at the top of the general classification.
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Yellow jersey holder Marianne Vos timed her sprint to perfection to win stage six of the women's Tour de France and extend her lead at the top of the general classification.
Yellow jersey holder Marianne Vos timed her sprint to perfection to win stage six of the women's Tour de France on Friday and extend her lead at the top of the general classification.
Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) was involved in a nasty high-speed crash on Stage 6 at the Tour de France Femmes. The two-time stage winner was unseated along with fellow sprinter Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) and Alena Amialiusik (Canyon/SRAM) with 23km remaining of the undulating run from Saint-Die-des-Vosges to Rosheim. Ad/> “That’s a disaster,” said Dani Rowe on Eurosport commentary as Wiebes sat crumpled on the floor.
Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) sprinted to Stage 6 victory at the Tour de France Femmes to extend her lead in the yellow jersey to 30 seconds ahead of the mountains, and practically secure the green jersey. Vos followed up her victory on Stage 2 with another dominant sprint success, although she was helped by the absence of Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) who was unable to latch back on after crashing on a descent at high speed.
All set, Marianne Vos? The Tour de France Femmes may be just three stages from finishing, but the Jumbo-Visma star is going to need to produce the defensive performance of her life if she is to keep the maillot jaune. Ad/> The kindest of those three tests comes on Friday, the last time the climbs have the audacity to be classed as hills rather than mountains.
The fifth and longest stage of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes came down to a final, frantic sprint, with Dutch cyclist Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) out-lasting Italy’s Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo) and fellow Dutchwoman Marianne Vos (Team Jumbo Visma) to take the win.
Lorena Wiebes earned her second win of the Tour de France Femmes with victory on stage five to Saint-Die-des-Vosges.
Danish rider Emma Norsgaard was forced to abandon the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift after a major crash during the fifth stage.