{"id":316530,"date":"2025-08-04T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316530\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:05:12","slug":"french-rider-pauline-ferrand-prevot-wins-womens-tour-de-france-on-her-first-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316530\/","title":{"rendered":"French rider Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t wins women&#8217;s Tour de France on her first attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  By&amp;nbsp<b>Euronews<\/b>&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbsp<b>AP<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            03\/08\/2025 &#8211; 21:34 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>French cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t clinched victory in the women\u2019s Tour de France on her first attempt on Sunday, launching an attack at the final stage to increase her overnight lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old finished 3:42 ahead of 2023 champion Demi Vollering from the Netherlands and 4:09 clear of the defending champion, Poland\u2019s Kasia Niewiadoma. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my Olympic title, I said I would try to win the Tour de France in the next three years,\u201d said Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t, who won gold in mountain biking at last year\u2019s Paris Games. \u201cSo here I am, the first (time).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammates worked super hard for me all week long. I just want to say thank you and congrats to them,\u201d she said, \u201cI love you so much girls, and thank you for everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t seized control of the race with a solo breakaway on the last climb of Saturday\u2019s eight and penultimate stage. That gave her an overnight lead of 2:37 over Australian rider Sarah Gigante and 3:18 over Vollering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday saw the racers undertake a 124-kilometre trek from Praz-sur-Arly to Ch\u00e2tel with three big mountain climbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike last year\u2019s race, which was decided by just four seconds in the closest finish in the history of both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tours, Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t faced less drama. She did not face any big attacks and instead launched one of her own with six kilometres remaining in the Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roared on by roadside crowds, she soloed to the finish before collapsing to the ground, exhausted but elated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vollering was 20 seconds behind in second place and Niewiadoma followed in third place as they sprinted to the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having won Olympic gold and conquered the cobblestones of the Paris-Roubaix Classic, Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t added another line to her glittering resum\u00e9 with a Tour victory, 11 years after winning the world road race title.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&amp;nbspEuronews&amp;nbspwith&amp;nbspAP Published on 03\/08\/2025 &#8211; 21:34 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT French cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t clinched victory in the women\u2019s Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,115209,79,20680,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sport-competition","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tour-de-france","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114969229728025183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316530","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=316530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}