Tour de France Femmes stage 3 LIVE – First chance for the sprinters

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2025-07-28T14:07:11.109Z

Interestingly, Marianne Vos is said to be out of the back with her teammate, Eva van Agt. No information as to what has happened but they are about 30″ behind the peloton but are working their way through the cars.

2025-07-28T13:53:23.250Z
80km to go

The break now have 3’23” gap on the pack with 40km to go until the intermediate sprint.

2025-07-28T13:41:31.069Z

The whole of SD Worx-Protime are setting the pace in the bunch with 3’36” up to the four rider break.

2025-07-28T13:33:46.215Z

It has been an excellent effort by this leading quad of riders but their gap is slowly decreasing to the peloton.

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2025-07-28T13:26:08.493Z

Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) is the rider setting the tempo in the peloton. The gap is still hovering just below 4 minutes between the pack and the break.

2025-07-28T13:22:00.713Z
100km to go

The gap up to the four leaders dips under 4 minutes. Just over 60km to the intermediate sprint.

2025-07-28T13:18:11.267Z

The race is changing as the race into the second third of the stage.

🏁108KM 🚴‍♂️4⃣ July 28, 2025

2025-07-28T13:16:54.104Z

SD Worx-Protime are setting the higher tempo on the front of the peloton for Lorena Wiebes.

2025-07-28T13:13:59.885Z

The peloton are finally starting to work their way into the breakaway advantage. The maximum gap was 4’45” but now it has dropped down to 4’08”.

2025-07-28T13:09:06.248Z

Morgane Coston (Roland) and Valentina Cavallar (Arkea-B&B Hotels) were others to hit the deck but are back riding.

2025-07-28T13:08:15.422Z
Crash!

Riders from Visma-Lease a Bike, Arkea-B&B Hotels, Roland among others. Marion Bunel (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) went down but both back riding again.

2025-07-28T13:06:38.178Z
110km to go

Jackson, Latimer, Soto and Martin are clearly working very well together as the gap is now 4’11” over the peloton.

2025-07-28T13:00:42.661Z

The gap continues to grow as the break now have 3’44” on the bunch.

2025-07-28T12:53:15.201Z
120km to go

Avoine and Brauße get caught by the peloton.

2025-07-28T12:51:57.279Z

As the peloton’s gap to the leaders goes over 3 minutes, riders are busy calling for the team cars as feeding is open for the day. The chasers are just about to be caught by the bunch.

2025-07-28T12:45:35.062Z

Brauße and Avoine seem to have given up as they are now 2’30” from the leaders and just 20″ from the peloton.

2025-07-28T12:44:52.609Z
QoM (Côte de la Richardière)

1. Alison Jackson (CAN) EF Education-Oatly 2pts
2. Sara Martin (ESP) Movistar 1pt

🏁 129 km⛰ Côte de la Richardière (cat. 4) ⛰1️⃣ 🇨🇦 Alison Jackson, 2 pts2️⃣ 🇪🇸 Sara Martin, 1 pt⚪️🔴 Les deux coureuses font leur entrée dans le classement.#TDFF2024 #WatchTheFemmes@GoZwiftJuly 28, 2025

2025-07-28T12:41:34.632Z

Onto the 1.4km long cat 4 climb of the Côte de la Richardière go the break as they now have almost 3 minutes on the peloton.

2025-07-28T12:40:51.804Z

The chasers are losing yet more ground as their gap drifts out to over 2 minutes.

2025-07-28T12:40:08.849Z

Brauße and Avoine have joined forces and are working together to close the 1’40” gap to the four leaders. The peloton are now 2’35” from the front and 55″ from the chasers.

2025-07-28T12:35:38.376Z

The gaps grow as the leading four riders have 1’20” over the first chaser Franziska Brauße (Ceratizit) then 1’30” over Alison Avoine (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93) and 2’05” back to the peloton.

🏁 136 km – #TDFF2025 4️⃣ leaders |1’05” 🇩🇪 Franziska Brausse |1’20” 🇫🇷 Alison Avoine |1’45” 🚗🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️#WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/Lh2gI45HFJJuly 28, 2025

2025-07-28T12:28:15.100Z
140km to go

Just 10km until the top of the only QoM sprint of the day on the Côte de la Richardière with just 2 and 1 point(s) available.

2025-07-28T12:27:06.479Z

There are a couple of chasers trying to bridge to the leading four riders. Aude Biannic (Movistar) is the closest at 55″ with another just in front of the peloton who are just over a minute back from the front of the race.

2025-07-28T12:21:14.356Z

The counter move has been caught with the four leaders still lading the race by 30″ over the chasing bunch with 144km to go.

2025-07-28T12:20:19.749Z

The chase of Vanpachtenbeke seems to be fading as she is now at 24″, just off the front of the peloton which are at 30″ from the leaders.

2025-07-28T12:18:50.944Z

Vanpachtenbeke is 14″ behind the leaders with the peloton now at 30″ with the break looking like it has finally formed.

2025-07-28T12:18:00.133Z

Margot Vanpachtenbeke (VolkerWessels) is trying to bridge across to the four leaders.

2025-07-28T12:16:59.391Z

Confirmed riders with 17″ on the peloton:

Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatly)
Clemence Latimer (Arkea-B&B Hotels)
Sara Martin (Movistar)
Catalina Soto (Labora Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi)

Martin is the Spanish champion, Soto is the Chilean champion and Jackson is the Canadian champion. Only Latimer is not the national champion of her nation.

2025-07-28T12:14:05.432Z

Four riders now go on the attack.

2025-07-28T12:11:27.955Z
150km to go

Break caught yet again. The peloton are now having a bit of a lull before the new attacks inevitably come.

2025-07-28T12:09:43.304Z

Brauße are joined by Marthe Truyen (Fenix-Deceuninck) and Anneke Dijkstra (VolkerWessels) with a gap of 19″ on the peloton.

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Attack!

Franziska Brauße (Ceratizit)

The German rider launches with multiple riders attempting to join her.

2025-07-28T12:06:09.456Z

The group grew with 12 riders but has now been caught by the peloton once again.

2025-07-28T12:04:40.244Z

Nine riders have a small gap on the peloton as the break continues to try and form. Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) is involved in the move.

2025-07-28T12:02:04.994Z

The weather today is cloudy with the temperature at 22.4°c with very light, almost non-existent, wind.

2025-07-28T12:00:43.848Z

Now that Elisa Longo-Borghini has left the race there are 146 riders starting the third stage.

2025-07-28T11:59:53.791Z

Kraak dragged back and the fight starts over again to form the break.

2025-07-28T11:59:27.775Z
Attack!

Amber Kraak (FDJ-Suez)

The breakaway specialist and powerhouse rider goes on an early solo move.

2025-07-28T11:57:15.704Z
163.5km to go

The official start has been given and racing begins with multiple attacks coming from the flag drop.

2025-07-28T11:51:07.146Z
Neutral Start

The riders have rolled out of the start and are now riding the neutralised zone.

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2025-07-28T11:43:50.850Z

Le Court starts today decked out head to toe in yellow as the Mauritian rider gets her and Africa’s big moment.

💛💛💛 “And it was all yellow”. 🇲🇺 @KimLeCourt head to toe in @MaillotjauneLCL 😍💛💛💛 🇲🇺 @KimLeCourt Toute de jaune vêtue #TDFF2025 | #WatchTheFemmes | @gozwift pic.twitter.com/g4QtqDkBWaJuly 28, 2025

2025-07-28T11:38:18.808Z

The GC is finely balanced going into today. If Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) takes any bonus seconds today then she will reclaim yellow from Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) as they sit on the exact same time in GC.

Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), the most likely candidate to win today and take the 10″ bonus, could jump up to joint 4th in GC with those bonuses and give herself the chance of taking yellow tomorrow.

2025-07-28T11:30:16.069Z

The riders are all signing on before the start of the third stage in La Gacilly.

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2025-07-28T11:27:08.710Z

The riders will start the neutralised zone in about 20 minutes time.

2025-07-28T11:16:51.944Z

The major news coming out this morning is that Italian champion and winner of the Giro d’Italia Women, Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), has left the race due to gastrointestinal issues.

>>> Elisa Longo Borghini abandons Tour de France Femmes

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2025-07-28T11:14:42.094Z

Day three starts in La Gacilly and finishes in Angers after 163.5km of racing. The second longest stage of the race.

There is just one mountain sprint today, the category 4 Côte de la Richardière, which comes after 34km of racing. The intermediate sprint comes much later after 123km of racing in Vern-d’Anjou.

2025-07-23T20:47:25.884Z

Bonjour and welcome to our live page for stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.