{"id":101736,"date":"2025-08-29T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101736\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:38:08","slug":"canadian-isabella-holmgren-claims-tour-de-lavenir-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101736\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Isabella Holmgren claims Tour de l’Avenir Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under-23 Mountain Bike world champion Isabella Holmgren<\/a> (Canada) has further confirmed her immense talent by winning the Tour de l’Avenir Femmes on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old, who came second in the race in 2024, this year got the better of last year’s winner Marion Bunel<\/a> (France), winning three stages, the mountains and youth classifications, and the overall classification.<\/p>\n

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Her adventure began with a victory in the three-kilometre prologue, which she won by 17 seconds over her nearest rival – a huge margin over such a short distance. After claiming the first leader’s jersey, Holmgren kept it through to the finish.<\/p>\n

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She added to her advantage on stage 5, a short but extremely mountainous 41.6km stage with three high-altitude ascents, where Holmgren out-sprinted Bunel to win the stage and extend her lead to 45 seconds over the French woman, who had given up 35 seconds to Holmgren in the prologue.<\/p>\n

Holmgren then went on to win the 10.3-kilometre closing time trial to La Rosi\u00e8re, putting a further 71 seconds into Bunel to win by 1:56. Talia Appleton (Australia) was third overall at 4:06.<\/p>\n

C\u00e9lia Gery (France) won three of the stages and the points classification.<\/p>\n

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Paul Seixas (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) (Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In the men’s Tour de l’Avenir, Paul Seixas<\/a> (France) won the GC after also winning both the prologue and final time trial. Seixas had only fractions of a second over Lorenzo Finn (Italy) after the first stage and held onto his lead on stage 1, won by Noah Hobbs (Great Britain), but gave it up on stage 2.<\/p>\n

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Elliot Rowe gave Great Britain their second win on stage 2, with the lead passing to Maxime Decomble (France). Danish team pursuiter Carl-Frederik Bevort powered to a solo victory on stage 3, while Mathieu Kockelmann (Luxembourg) won the fourth stage.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s Jarno Widar<\/a> won back-to-back mountain stages, first in Tignes and then in La Rosi\u00e8re, both ahead of Seixas.<\/p>\n

Decolmbe went into the final stage with a 29-second lead over Seixas, but gave up 1:49 in the 10.3km time trial on the final day, tumbling off the final podium.<\/p>\n

Seixas won the time trial and the overall, with Widar second and J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen (Norway) in third.<\/p>\n

Tour de l’Avenir results<\/p>\n

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