Tour de France Femmes 2023 - Stage 5 | Thursday, 27 July | Onet-Le-Chateau - Albi | 126.1 kilometres
The route continues south over 126 kilometres from Onet-Le-Chateau to Albi, where the men's Tour de France also likes to stop. Day 5 is not just a flat stage either. The biggest difficulty is the almost 6,000 metres of climbing from kilometre 85 onwards. The 3rd category mountain classification is taken halfway through the stage, but after a short flat section, the route continues up to the bonus sprint. Almost 300 metres in altitude have to be conquered on this section. After a descent, a category 4 climb has to be mastered, then it is generally downhill to the finish. Only the home straight leads slightly uphill again.
Sporting assessment of the 5th stage of the Tour de France Femmes
The kilometres before the bonus sprint definitely have the potential to massively reduce the field, as does the 1600 metres of 6.4 per cent after a descent. After that, however, there are almost 25 kilometres to the finish. If the sprinters make it over these waves - and this is to be expected, as Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx) and Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich) have performed well on the climbs so far - there will be a bunch sprint.
Schedule, TV coverage & live stream of stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes 2023
- Neutral start: 14:00, sharp start 14:20
- Estimated arrival time: between 17:20 and 17:39
- TV broadcast: One - from 15:20, Eurosport 1 - from 15:00
- Live stream: sportschau.de, GCN+, Discovery+, Eurosport
About the Tour de France Femmes
The Tour de France Femmes is one of the most important cycling races in women's cycling and takes place from 23 to 30 July. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The tour consists of a total of eight stages and leads the riders through spectacular landscapes in France. The race director is Marion Rousse. The second edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will take place in 2023. Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands won the premiere in 2022 ahead of her compatriot Demi Vollering and Katarzyna Niewiadoma from Poland.
In 2023, there will be a total of 22 teams with seven female riders each. The complete start list for the women's Tour de France can be found here.
