{"id":302319,"date":"2025-07-29T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302319\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:23:13","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-marianne-vos-retains-yellow-jersey-as-lorena-wiebes-wins-stage-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302319\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes: Marianne Vos retains yellow jersey as Lorena Wiebes wins stage four"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LorenaImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Lorena Wiebes (left) has won five stages of the Tour de France Femmes during her career<\/p>\n

Bobbie Jackson<\/p>\n

BBC Sport journalist<\/p>\n

Marianne Vos lost out in a second successive sprint battle to Lorena Wiebes but retained the yellow jersey after stage four of the Tour de France Femmes.<\/b><\/p>\n

In a repeat of Monday’s third stage<\/a>, Dutch rider Wiebes pipped compatriot Vos to the line in Poitiers.<\/p>\n

Wiebes climbs to second in the general classification and trails Vos by 12 seconds with five stages remaining.<\/p>\n

Ireland’s Lara Gillespie achieved her best performance on a Tour de France Femmes stage by finishing third.<\/p>\n

Demi Vollering, who won the 2023 edition, suffered a heavy crash on Monday but was cleared to ride after the team doctor “ruled out the risk of concussion”, external<\/a> – and finished in the same time as Wiebes.<\/p>\n

After back-to-back flat stages, riders will compete over a hilly 165.8km route between Chasseneuil-du-Poitou Futuroscope and Gueret on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Stage four results<\/p>\n

1. Lorena Wiebes (Ned\/SD Worx-Protime) 2hrs 54mins 11secs<\/p>\n

2. Marianne Vos (Ned\/Visma-Lease a Bike) same time<\/p>\n

3. Lara Gillespie (Ire\/UAE Team ADQ) same time<\/p>\n

4. Eline Jansen (Ned\/VolkerWessels) same time<\/p>\n

5. Chloe Dygert (USA\/Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) same time<\/p>\n

6. Shari Bossuyt (Bel\/AG Insurance-Soudal) same time<\/p>\n

7. Rachele Barbieri (Ita\/Picnic-PostNL) same time<\/p>\n

8. Linda Zanetti (Sui\/Uno-X Mobility) same time<\/p>\n

9. Alicia Gonzalez (Spa\/St Michel-Prefrence Home-Auber93) same time<\/p>\n

10. Sarah van Dam (Can\/Ceratizit) same time<\/p>\n

General classification after stage four<\/p>\n

1. Marianne Vos (Ned\/Visma-Lease a Bike) 11hrs 13mins 11secs<\/p>\n

2. Lorena Wiebes (Ned\/SD Worx-Protime) +12secs<\/p>\n

3. Kim le Court (Mau\/AG Insurance-Soudal) same time<\/p>\n

4. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Fra\/Visma-Lease a Bike) +18secs<\/p>\n

5. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Pol\/Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) +22secs<\/p>\n

6. Demi Vollering (Ned\/FDJ-Suez) +25secs<\/p>\n

7. Anna van der Breggen (Ned\/SD Worx-Protime) +27secs<\/p>\n

8. Puck Pieterse (Ned\/Fenix-Deceuninck) same time<\/p>\n

9. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZ\/Lidl-Trek +31secs<\/p>\n

10. Chloe Dygert (USA\/Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) same time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Lorena Wiebes (left) has won five stages of the Tour de France Femmes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-302319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114938865636069137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302319","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=302319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}