La Course by Le Tour de France
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Race details | |
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Date | July |
Region | France |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Women's World Tour |
Organiser | Amaury Sport Organisation |
Race director | Christian Prudhomme |
Web site | www![]() |
History | |
First edition | 2014 |
Editions | 7 (as of 2020) |
First winner | ![]() |
Most wins | ![]() ![]() |
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La Course by Le Tour de France is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France, and has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two one-day races. Until 2015 it was rated by the UCI as a 1.1 race.[1][2]
The race is organised by the ASO.[3]
The inaugural edition of the race was run before the 21st stage of the 2014 Tour de France on 27 July. The race consisted of 13 laps on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, making a distance of 89 kilometres.
For the 2017 event, the organizers decided to stretch the event into a 2-day format coinciding with the 18th and 20th stages of the 2017 Tour de France. The riders with the best times from the first stage from Briançon to the Col d'Izoard on 20 July 2017 were invited to participate in the 22.5 km pursuit stage in Marseille on 22 July.[4] The overall winner of La Course was determined according to the organisation by the combination of both editions.[5]
The 2018 edition reverted to a one-day event, coinciding with the 10th stage of the 2018 Tour de France to Le Grand-Bornand on 17 July.
Winners[]
As of 2021, a total of six out of eight races have been won by cyclists from the Netherlands.[7]
See also[]
- Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale (Tour de France Féminin)
Notes[]
- ^ Although a pursuit race also scheduled according to the organisation as stage 2, the race results in the UCI database were constituted from the result on the Col d'Izoard. Whether using the terminology of the organisation or the UCI, the winner was the same.[6]
References[]
- ^ "La course by le Tour de France". letour.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ "La course by le Tour de France 2014". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ "La course by le Tour de France innovating women's cycling". letour.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "stage summary". 22 July 2017. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
The Dutch rider started with a 43-second advantage
- ^ "2017 La Course by Le Tour de France - Individual Road Race - 20 Jul 2017". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ "History - La Course by Le Tour de France 2021". www.lacoursebyletourdefrance.com. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
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