{"id":305174,"date":"2025-07-30T23:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305174\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:45:23","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-6-preview-who-will-step-up-as-the-race-enters-the-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305174\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes stage 6 preview: who will step up as the race enters the mountains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Into the Auvergne, today is proper mountain territory, with the stage taking place entirely in the Puy-de-D\u00f4me department \u2013 named so after the dormant volcano of Tour de France lore.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Clermont-Ferrand hosts the stage start, as it has often done due to its proximity to the volcano.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, it hosted the Grand D\u00e9part of the women\u2019s race, with a looped stage also finishing here, which was won by star rider Lotte Kopecky.<\/p>\n<p>The race reaches stage 6 with AG Insurance-Soudal&#8217;s Kim Le Court Pienaar wearing the yellow jersey after winning stage 5 yesterday, narrowly beating Demi Vollering and Anna van der Breggen in a bunch sprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s close to 2,500m of elevation on the menu \u2013 a substantial chunk of the record 17,240m across the nine days of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n<p>As for the route, it\u2019s backloaded with substantial, albeit rather gentle passes and the summit of the final climb comes 13km from the finish before a descent into Ambert.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the Tour de France Femmes<\/p>\n<p>Stage 6: Clermont-Ferrand &gt; Ambert<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> 31 July<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distance:<\/strong> 123.7km<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stage type:<\/strong> Mountain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"866\" height=\"421\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TdeF-Femmes-Stage-6-Schedule.jpg\" alt=\"TdeF Femmes Stage 6 - Schedule \/ Clermont-Ferrand &gt; Ambert\" class=\"wp-image-930143\"\/><br \/>\nRoute profile<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1446\" height=\"550\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TdeF-Femmes-Stage-6-Elevation.jpg\" alt=\"TdeF Femmes Stage 6 - Elevation \/ Clermont-Ferrand &gt; Ambert\" class=\"wp-image-930140\"\/><br \/>\nRoute map<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"679\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TdeF-Femmes-Stage-6-Map.jpg\" alt=\"TdeF Femmes Stage 6 - Map \/ Clermont-Ferrand &gt; Ambert\" class=\"wp-image-930142\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stage, which starts in the huge Place de Jaude in the heart of Clermont-Ferrand, will be run entirely in the department of Puy-de-D\u00f4me,\u201d says race director Marion Rousse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning on fairly flat roads, it\u2019ll head to Courpi\u00e8re, where things will get serious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ascent of the Col du B\u00e9al (10.2km at 5.6%) will be followed very soon after by those of the Col du Chansert (6.3km at 5.5%) and the C\u00f4te de Valcivi\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRunning through a wild landscape of volcanic rock, there\u2019ll be no respite at all on the road to Ambert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One to watch: Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1067\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/TdeF-Femmes-Stage-6-GettyImages-2209918384.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline Ferrand Prevot winner of the 5th Paris-Roubaix Femmes on April 12th 2025\" class=\"wp-image-930141\"\/>Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot will be aiming for a stage win today. Pool \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Another high-profile peloton returnee, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot (Team Visma-Lease a Bike), will be aiming targeting this stage.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know?<\/p>\n<p>Clermont-Ferrand\u2019s second hosting of the race makes it the first stage town to do so, in this, the fourth edition of the Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Into the Auvergne, today is proper mountain territory, with the stage taking place entirely in the Puy-de-D\u00f4me department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-305174","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\/114944850662349837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305174","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=305174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}