Tour de France Femmes 2025: Green before yellow: Wiebes celebrates her second stage win on stage 4
Sebastian Lindner
· 29.07.2025
It was Wiebes' fifth stage win in total at the Tour de France. Since the new edition of the event in 2022, no woman has been able to celebrate more stage wins. There is currently no getting past her in the sprint. Accordingly, she also answered the question of whether she is currently unbeatable in the sprint with: "Yes, so far this season. I'm very happy that it worked out again today."
The second winner on the 130-kilometre stage from Saumur to Poitiers was once again Vos, who was pleased "to have come a little closer to her. But Lorena is the best sprinter in the world. She is hard to beat. But it's good to have her as a rival". Behind the duo in green (Wiebes) and yellow (Vos) there was once again a huge gap.
Wind edge race cancelled
The battle for the green jersey should therefore be largely settled. Wiebes leads the race with 197 points and a 40-point lead over Vos. There is nothing behind him for a long time. However, the sprinters are not necessarily expected to achieve top results in the coming stages - with some exceptions tomorrow. If Vos wants to make up ground, this will mainly only be possible via intermediate sprints.
However, the 38-year-old still leads the overall standings - twelve seconds ahead of Wiebes. The ten seconds that Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck) conceded because she stayed too far towards the back of the peloton on the uphill finishing straight, while the peloton was torn apart by the high pace at the front, are likely to be relevant to the classification.
Apart from the battle for green, the stage remained uneventful for long stretches, which also means that there were no major crashes. Not even the wind wanted to play along. The stage was announced as a windy section, but there were almost no edge situations. Franziska Koch (Team Picnic - PostNL), who was honoured as the most combative rider, as she had been at the start, and was therefore allowed to start with the green number on her back for the second time.
Tour de France Femmes 2025 - Results of the 4th stage
Stage 4: Saumur - Poitiers
Tour de France Femmes 2025: Stage 4, Saumur - Poitiers
| Rnk. | Riders | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team SD Worx - Protime | 02:54:11 |
| 2 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | +00:00:00 |
| 3 | UAE Team ADQ | +00:00:00 |
| 4 | VolkerWessels Cycling Team | +00:00:00 |
| 5 | CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto | +00:00:00 |
| 6 | AG Insurance - Soudal Team | +00:00:00 |
How the 4th stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 went
After a series of unsuccessful attacks, Maud Rijnbeek (VolkerWessels Cycling Team) was the first woman to make a sustained breakaway. By then she had already covered 30 kilometres. Several chasers were never able to catch up with the Dutchwoman, who was able to pull out a lead of up to 1:45 minutes.
When there was a brief wind edge situation around 80 kilometres from the finish, which tore the peloton apart for a moment and caused Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly), among others, to fall behind, Rijnbeek's lead shrank to half a minute. Koch - who had already tried once at the start of the stage - and Ana Magalhaes (Movistar Team) used the reduced gap to jump to the front and replace the previous leader shortly afterwards. At the back of the peloton, everything calmed down again and the pieces came together. Only the new leading duo was initially able to pull away and managed to close the gap to one and a half minutes.
However, SD Worx in the chase again showed good timing and brought the breakaway duo back four kilometres before the end. Things then got fast in the finale. On an easy uphill section on the last kilometre, there were isolated gaps in the peloton. While Wiebes and Vollering fought it out among themselves at the front, Rooijakkers was the only GC rider to suffer a ten-second deficit because she had stayed too far towards the back of the peloton.
