{"id":36643,"date":"2025-08-01T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36643\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:50:08","slug":"maeva-squiban-conquers-ambert-mountain-at-tour-de-france-femmes-stage-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36643\/","title":{"rendered":"Maeva Squiban conquers Ambert mountain at Tour de France Femmes stage six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Frenchwoman Maeva Squiban has made a solo ride to the finish line with a perfectly timed attack on the final major climb to win the mountainous stage six of the Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Squiban of UAE Team ADQ finished one minute and nine seconds ahead of compatriot Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez) in the first French one-two in the history of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing feeling. I didn&#8217;t expect to do that,&#8221; Squiban told reporters after becoming the second French rider to claim a stage in the event after Cedrine Kerbaol took stage six last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Do you have a story idea about women in sport?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Email us <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-08-01\/tour-de-france-femmes-stage-six-maeva-squiban\/mailto:abcsport5050@your.abc.net.au\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">abcsport5050@your.abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Squiban stayed in the peloton led by yellow jersey holder Kimberley Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), as mountains classification leader Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) led the arduous 10km climb to Col du Beal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 23-year-old broke away on the ascent to Col du Chansert and soon built a lead of over a minute and comfortably took the win in the 123.7km ride from Clermont-Ferrand to Ambert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mauritian Le Court, who won stage five, was the third to cross the finish line as she retained her lead in the general classification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/programs\/abc-sport-daily\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Sport Daily podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that&#8217;s making headlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike), another home favourite, finished seventh in the stage to remain second in the race for the yellow jersey, 26 seconds behind Le Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Points classification leader Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) fell back from the peloton during the first half of the stage and appeared to be content conserving her energy, as she retained the green jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Tour continues with a hilly 159.7km ride from Bourg-en-Bresse to Chambery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frenchwoman Maeva Squiban has made a solo ride to the finish line with a perfectly timed attack on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,32373,85,33135,22234],"class_list":["post-36643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-maeva-squiban","tag-sports","tag-stage-six","tag-tour-de-france-femmes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}