{"id":362778,"date":"2025-12-23T00:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362778\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:38:06","slug":"48kph-and-36-years-the-numbers-behind-the-2025-womens-worldtour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/362778\/","title":{"rendered":"48kph and 36 years: the numbers behind the 2025 Women\u2019s WorldTour\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 10th edition of the Women\u2019s WorldTour was one for the record books, witnessing the emergence of new stars, the return of icons and more opportunities in an increasingly competitive peloton.<\/p>\n

Although Lorena Wiebes dominated the one-day Classics and sprint categories of the stage races she entered, the Dutch rider wasn\u2019t the only big winner of 2025. Compatriot Demi Vollering added a second Vuelta Espa\u00f1a Femenina to her burgeoning collection of victories, Elisa Longo Borghini defended her Giro d\u2019Italia Women pink jersey and Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot made a winning return to road cycling in front of a partisan home crowd.<\/p>\n

There was also Magdeleine Vallieres\u2019 surprise win in Rwanda at the road world championships, the injury-plagued season of Lotte Kopecky, and the retirement of Britain\u2019s Lizzie Deignan.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t all about the results. From the fastest-ever stage speed to the continued growth of the Tour de France Femmes, here are the numbers that defined the 2025 Women\u2019s WorldTour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\"DutchLorena Wiebes claimed 19 victories in 2025. Dirk Waem \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

While Tadej Poga\u010dar dominated the men\u2019s WorldTour, Wiebes dominated the women’s with 19 victories.<\/p>\n

The Dutch one-day and sprint specialist bookended her 2025 with wins and racked up a total of 19 at WorldTour level, which included one general classification at the Simac Ladies Tour, 14 stage wins including two at the Tour de France Femmes, and the relaunched Milano\u2013Sanremo Donne.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wiebes picked up a further six wins in non-Women\u2019s WorldTour races, the points classification jerseys at the Tour de France Femmes and Giro d\u2019Italia Women and the rainbow jersey at the Gravel World Championships. Not a bad return from 53 race days.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\"PaulinePauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot won the 2025 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift after years of dominance in XC racing. Tim de Waele \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

France finally had reason to cheer this summer as Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot ended the 36-year wait for a home winner at the Tour de France.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old made her switch back to road cycling with Visma\u2013Lease a Bike at the start of 2025 after years of dominance in cross-country mountain biking<\/a> and wasted no time in getting up to speed, becoming the first French rider to clinch the Tour de France Femmes yellow jersey since Jeannie Longo won her third and final title at its predecessor \u2013 1989\u2019s Tour de France F\u00e9minin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The wait continues for the men, though, with it now 40 years since Bernard Hinault\u2019s fifth yellow jersey win in 1985.<\/p>\n

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\n\"MischaMischa Bredewold of the Netherlands and Team SD Worx\u2013Protime. Luc Claessen \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Wiebes\u2019 dominance helped propel her outfit SD Worx\u2013Protime to the top of the Women\u2019s WorldTour rankings with a total of 48 wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dutch team\u2019s performance is particularly impressive given the injury-hit year of two-time world champion Kopecky limited the Belgian to three wins, with Mischa Bredewold stepping up to contribute eight wins in her breakthrough season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\"AWiebes averaged 48.407kph on stage 2 of the UAE Tour. Tim de Waele \/ Getty Images <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only the men\u2019s WorldTour that is getting faster<\/a>. At the 2025 UAE Tour Women, Kristen Faulkner\u2019s record for the fastest average stage (46.75kph on stage 4 of the 2024 Vuelta Femenina) was obliterated by Wiebes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wiebes averaged 48.407kph for the 111km stage 2, taking advantage of a pan-flat parcours and crosswinds to get into a five-strong breakaway including Longo Borghini, before outsprinting her fellow escapees on the line. It wasn\u2019t a fluke either, with Wiebes setting the five fastest average speeds<\/a> all season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1,168.6
\n\"EliseElise Chabbey of Switzerland and Team FDJ – SUEZ wears the polka dot mountain jersey at the Tour de France Femmes. Szymon Gruchalski \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift<\/a> was the only race over 1,000km in 2025, clocking up 1,168.6km as it made its way from Vannes to Ch\u00e2tel Les Portes du Soleil. <\/p>\n

The race was extended from eight to nine days for the first time since its relaunch in 2022, and will remain at nine days for 2026. It will be slightly longer next year at 1,175km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 10th edition of the Women\u2019s WorldTour was one for the record books, witnessing the emergence of new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-362778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}