{"id":840976,"date":"2026-08-03T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840976\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:33:08","slug":"lorena-wiebes-wins-tour-de-france-femmes-stage-two-to-extend-her-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840976\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes wins Tour de France Femmes stage two to extend her lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Lorena Wiebes again sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Women\u2019s Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Dutch rider of SD Worx-Protime won the flat 147.9-kilometre stage from Aigle to Geneva, the second on Swiss territory, in 3 hours, 42 minutes, 8 seconds on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Wiebes went ahead with some 250 metres to go and claimed her seventh overall victory at the tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Wiebes also won the opening stage on Saturday in the same dominant fashion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Lidl-Trek rider Elisa Balsamo finished second and Marianne Vos of Team Visma-Lease a Bike was third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Wiebes leads Kim Le Court Pienaar by 14 seconds overall, with the 2023 Tour champion Demi Vollering another two seconds back in third.<\/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___QITb\">Monday&#8217;s 156.5km (97.2-mile) hilly stage starts in Geneva before the riders cross the border to France to finish in Poligny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">This edition of the race, the fifth of the Women\u2019s Tour, covers 1,175km (730 miles) over nine days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Amanda Spratt is the leading Australian in the race, in 68th place, 3 minutes and 20 seconds behind Wiebes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Tadej Pogacar won his fifth men&#8217;s Tour de France title last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP\/ABC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes again sprinted to victory in the second stage of the Women\u2019s Tour de France. The Dutch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,10654,34404,28779,588,85,221666,22234,8935,20575],"class_list":["post-840976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-geneva","tag-leader","tag-lorena-wiebes","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-stage-two","tag-tour-de-france-femmes","tag-win","tag-yellow-jersey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840976","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=840976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}