Europe 1 with AFP 5:02 p.m., July 24, 2022

The Dutch Lorena Wiebes won this Sunday the first stage of the Tour de France Women in the heart of Paris, from the Eiffel Tower to the Champs-Elysées.

Marianne Vos crossed the finish line in second, followed by Belgian Lotte Kopecky for third place in the final sprint.

At 23, the DSM rocket gets the ball rolling.

Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes won the 1st stage of the Tour de France Women on Sunday in Paris and is wearing the first yellow jersey of this women's Grande Boucle.

Wiebes was more powerful than her compatriot Marianne Vos to win on the Champs-Elysées where Belgian Lotte Kopecky took third place in the final sprint.

The legend Oranje Marianne Vos, triple world champion (2006, 2012 and 2013), launched the sprint from afar to try to win on the Parisian avenue, as in 2014 when she won the first edition of La Course by The Tour on these same cobblestones.

But Wiebes, well placed in the final bend, was not surprised in this twelfth lap of the circuit around the Tuileries gardens and on the Champs-Elysées that the men will take at the start of the evening.

A nice bunch sprint won by @lorenawiebes!


⏪ Relive the last kilometer of stage 1.



A nice massive sprint won by @lorenawiebes!


⏪ Relive the last kilometer of the 1st stage of the #TDFF.#WatchTheFemmespic.twitter.com/K9JGJvjuKV

— The Tour de France Women with Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 24, 2022

“The girls did an incredible job,” praised Wiebes at the end of the 82 km of the first stage of the Tour de France Women.

"I was able to accelerate again to pass Marianne on the line."

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A few seconds ahead

At 23, the DSM rocket Lorena Wiebes already signs the 52nd success of her career, the 16th this season.

Only Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo was able to deprive her of success in a sprint this year, and only twice.

But the wearer of the rainbow jersey, less well positioned, could not defend her chances on Sunday (7th).

Thanks to the game of bonuses, Wiebes has a four-second lead in the general classification over Vos before the 2nd stage between Meaux and Provins on Monday (136.4 km) where they will only be 143 at the start.

The Belgian Alana Castrique (Cofidis) was forced to retire after a fall about ten kilometers from the finish.

Like a handover, Jeannie Longo, winner of three editions, the last of which with the Tour de France appellation in 1989, accompanied the race director Marion Rousse at the time of the real start on Sunday.