Lorena Wiebes gave yet another reminder she is the best bunch sprinter in women\u2019s cycling, winning stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift in style on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The SD Worx-Protime rider launched inside the final 200 meters, accelerating hard on the right hand side of the road and opening an immediate and growing gap. Elisa Balsama (Lidl-Trek) was second with Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) third.<\/p>\n
The stage finale to Geneva was lit up by a 39km solo breakaway by Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek), who opened a gap of over one minute but was chased down by Wiebes team and finally caught inside the final 500 meters.<\/p>\n
Wiebes\u2019 ten second time bonus for winning sees her increase her lead over Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) to 14 seconds. 2023 race winner Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) stays third but is now 16 seconds back.<\/p>\n
Wiebes wore yellow before in the race but this is her first time winning in the maillot jaune.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes it for sure special, but also because again our team SD Worx Protime was working really hard for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe girls were chasing full, full gas in the final to bring back Riejanne Markus. Then it is even more beautiful to finish it off in yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Markus puts in a huge effort<\/h2>\n
Stage two of the Tour de France Femmes was 147.9km from Aigle, the home of the UCI, to Geneva. It had more climbing meters than Saturday\u2019s opening stage but as the conclusion was flatter, was seen as even better for the sprinters. That made it a tough task for attackers but some riders were certain to try.<\/p>\n
Eline Jansen (Volkerwessels), Yuliia Biriukova (Laboral Kutxa-Fundaci\u00f3n Euskadi) and Carlota Cipressi (Human Powered Health) shook off the peloton\u2019s gravity 54km after the start and were joined very soon after that by Ema Comte (Cofidis) and Anouska Koster (Uno-X Mobility). <\/p>\n
They had 2:05 atop the C\u00f4te de Cossonay, the third of the day\u2019s five climbs and coming almost exactly the halfway point of the stage Comte was first there while Biriukova took the intermediate sprint ahead of Jansen soon afterwards. <\/p>\n
Koster beat Comte to the top of the next climb while behind the SD Worx Team of race leader Wiebes started driving the bunch to reduce the 1: 15 gap. <\/p>\n
Biriukova and Cipressi were dropped, leaving Koster, Compte and Jansen out front. They raced onto the C\u00f4te de Mont-sur-Rolle, where French national champion C\u00e9lia Gery (FDJ United \u2013 Suez) attacked with Nina Berton (EF Education-Oatly) one kilometer from the summit and closed to within 15\u201d at the top. <\/p>\n
They got across, as did Sarah Van Dam (Visma | Lease a Bike), Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) and Sara Casasola (Fenix-Premier Tech). However the bunch was close and the group lost focus, with Comte deciding to go alone 40km out. <\/p>\n
She had been out front for many kilometres at that point and had no answer when Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) caught her very soon after that and then dropped her, beginning a long solo TT towards the line. <\/p>\n
The Dutchwoman had 1:05 with 28km to go but, with SD Worx chasing hard, had just half that 10km from the line. Markus was finally hauled back inside the last 400 meters, with Wiebes lurking and then launching for yet another big victory.<\/p>\n
She now has 133 career wins, more than Tadej Poga\u010dar in the men\u2019s peloton. Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) has the most out of the all time women\u2019s peloton, 259 victories, and will hope to improve on her third place in the days to come. <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2288760916.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated August 2, 2026 12:20PM Lorena Wiebes gave yet another reminder she is the best bunch sprinter in women\u2019s cycling, winning stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift in style on Sunday. The SD Worx-Protime rider launched inside the final 200 meters, accelerating hard on the right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2075311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}