After the Vuelta a Femeninathe Basque Country Tour and the Vuelta a Burgos Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx - Protime) has also won the Tour de Suisse Women 2024. The winner of the Tour de France Femmes 2023 took her third stage win of the day on the final stage, having already won stages one and two. Vollering was the fastest rider in the sprint of a group of four on the final day, relegating Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), Neve Bradbury and Kasia Niewiadoma (both Canyon//SRAM Racing) to second place. The 27-year-old already had the Tour de Suisse in the back of her mind. Tour de France Femmeswhich begins on 12 August.
That gives me a good feeling about the Tour de France Femmes, because there are also a lot of mountains. It's always good to win races with lots of climbs before such a big finish - Demi Vollering in the official winner's interview
Women's Tour de Suisse 2024 - Results: the top 10 of stage 4
- Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx - Protime) 3:17:53
- Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) +0:00
- Neve Bradbury (Canyon//SRAM Racing) +0:00
- Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM Racing) +0:00
- Steffi Häberlin (Swiss national team) +0:42
- Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) +0:42
- Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) +0:42
- Niamh Fisher-Black (Team SD Worx - Protime) +0:42
- Rosita Reijnhout (Visma | Lease a Bike) +0:42
- Urska Zigart (Liv AlUla Jayco) +0:42
The final standings in the overall standings
- Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx - Protime) 9:03:17
- Neve Bradbury (Canyon//SRAM Racing) +1:28
- Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) +1:30
- Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM Racing) +2:24
- Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) +3:47
- Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon//SRAM Racing) +4:11
- Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) +5:33
- Kim Cadzow (EF Education-Cannondale) +5:44
- Urska Zigart (Liv AlUla Jayco) +6:00
- Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) +6:49
How the 4th stage of the women's Tour de Suisse 2024 went
Urska Zigart (Liv AlUla Jayco) and Nienke Vinke (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) formed the first promising lead group of the day. Chaos then reigned in the peloton. The peloton split and a seven-strong chasing group formed with Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon//SRAM Racing), Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez), Niamh Fisher-Black (Team SD Worx - Protime), Rosita Reijnhout (Visma | Lease a Bike), Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek), Steffi Häberlin (Swiss national team) and Aniek van Alphen (Fenix-Deceuninck). Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) closed the gap after a slight delay.
Labous becomes a threat to Vollering
The Frenchwoman was also the biggest threat to overall leader Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx - Protime) with a gap of 2:56 minutes in the overall classification. In the meantime, things got a little critical for the Dutchwoman, as the peloton was completely out of steam and the gap to the Labous group, which Zigart and Vinke were riding up, grew to such an extent that the Frenchwoman was even virtually in yellow for a short time. In the meantime, however, some of Vollering's helpers caught up again and were able to defuse the situation somewhat.
At the last mountain classification of the day, La Vue des Alpes (2nd category), Antonia Niedermaier tried to break away from the leading group, but could not get away decisively, so that the leading group still comprised five riders 25 kilometres before the finish: Niedermaier, Fisher-Black, Labous, Muzic and Häberlin. However, the quintet already had the favourites breathing down their necks, as Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) had attacked on the climb to La Vue des Alpes and reduced the group around Demi Vollering to half a dozen riders. Kim Cadzow (EF Education-Cannondale) was originally also in this group. However, the overall fifth-placed rider crashed on the final descent, reached the finish but dropped back to eighth place in the overall standings.
Group around Niedermaier is caught up
On the flat section towards the finish, it was Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek) who caught up with the group around Vollering and Longo Borghini and closed the gap to the leading group around Niedermaier 12 kilometres before the finish. After that, the jumping started in the first group. Canyon//SRAM Racing tried several times with Kasia Niewiadoma and Neve Bradbury and also managed to reduce the leading group to four riders. Only Vollering and Longo Borghini were able to keep up. However, the two riders from the German racing team were unable to distance themselves from their rivals.
Vollering wins the sprint
Again and again, either Vollering or Longo Borghini plugged the gaps to Bradbury or Niewiadoma. In the end, it came down to a sprint, in which Vollering had an easy time against her exhausted rivals.
