{"id":301750,"date":"2025-07-29T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301750\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:29:12","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-lorena-wiebes-strikes-again-in-stage-four-sprint-finish-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301750\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes: Lorena Wiebes strikes again in stage four sprint finish | Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Lorena Wiebes stormed to her second consecutive stage victory at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/tour-de-france-femmes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> on Tuesday, winning the fourth leg after denying Marianne Vos in a sprint finish at Poitiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Dutch rider Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Protime) made her move around 250m from the line on a short uphill finish, with compatriot and overall leader Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) unable to overhaul her. Ireland\u2019s Lara Gillespie (UAE Team ADQ) was third across the line in the bunch sprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The largely flat 130.7-km stage from Saumur saw the peloton remain tightly packed until the closing stretch before a showdown among the sprinters, with green jersey wearer Wiebes following up her victory in Angers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jul\/28\/dont-look-back-in-angers-wiebes-sprints-to-stage-three-win-at-tour-de-france-femmes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday\u2019s chaotic third stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The 26-year-old has moved up to second in the general classification, 12 seconds behind Vos with Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) six seconds back in third. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), who suffered a heavy crash on Monday, was able to continue the race after medical tests and sits sixth in the race for the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Wednesday\u2019s hilly stage runs 168.5km from the Futuroscope theme park just outside Poitiers to the town of Gu\u00e9ret, before the first full mountain stage begins in Clermont-Ferrand on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes stormed to her second consecutive stage victory at the Tour de France Femmes on Tuesday, winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-301750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114937709589007664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}