{"id":110993,"date":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:34:11","slug":"wiebes-wins-tour-de-france-femmes-opener-to-win-first-yellow-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110993\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiebes wins Tour de France Femmes opener to win first yellow jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorena Wiebes sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"gtm-add-suggested-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France<\/a> Femmes in Lausanne on Saturday to claim the race leader&#8217;s yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/netherlands\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dutch<\/a> rider beat Mauritian Kim Le Court into second with European champion Demi Vollering third.<\/p>\n<p>Sprint specialist Wiebes, a two-time former European champion, leads the overall standings by four seconds from Le Court and six seconds to Vollering thanks to bonus seconds on the line.<\/p>\n<p>This was Wiebes&#8217;s 10th Tour stage victory overall and the 132nd victory of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the likely overall contenders, Vollering stole a march on some of her rivals by taking four bonus seconds on the line.<\/p>\n<p>That gave her an advantage over the last two winners of this race, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and Kasia Niewiadoma, who finished eighth and ninth respectively in the same time as the stage winner.<\/p>\n<p>Other potential contenders, Paula Blasi and Anna van der Breggen, conceded an extra eight seconds to Vollering, coming home in 12th and 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-read-more\">Read more<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20251023-pogacar-peloton-face-alpe-d-huez-twice-as-tour-de-france-2026-route-unveiled\" target=\"_self\" class=\"a-read-more__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France 2026 routes feature peaks, passes and Montmartre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four riders had escaped up the road early on in the 138km stage around Lausanne.<\/p>\n<p>Czech Nikola Noskova, Spaniard Idoia Eraso, Dutch rider Maud Rijnbeek and Frenchwoman Oceane Mahe built up a maximum lead of six minutes but they were reeled in 6km from the finish.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s second stage remains in Switzerland and is a hilly 147.9km from Aigle to Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes sprinted to victory on the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes in Lausanne on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[88,94,9433,82,4879],"class_list":["post-110993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-cycling","tag-lausanne","tag-netherlands","tag-sport","tag-tour-de-france"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117029009179929990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}