La Course by Le Tour de France

La Course by Le Tour de France is an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France, and has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two one-day races. Until 2015 it was rated by the UCI as a 1.1 race.[1][2]

This article is about the 21st century women's road cycling one day race. For the 1946 Monaco-Paris replacement for the Le Tour de France due to war, see La Course du Tour de France.
"La Course" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Course.
La Course by Le Tour de France
Logo of La Course by Le Tour de France
Race details
DateJuly
RegionFrance
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Women's World Tour
OrganiserAmaury Sport Organisation
Race directorChristian Prudhomme
Web sitewww.lacoursebyletourdefrance.com/en/
History
First edition2014 (2014)
Editions7 (as of 2020)
First winner Marianne Vos (NED)
Most wins Annemiek van Vleuten (NED) &  Marianne Vos (NED) (2)
Most recent Lizzie Deignan (GBR)

The race is organised by the ASO.[3]

The inaugural edition of the race was run before the 21st stage of the 2014 Tour de France on 27 July. The race consisted of 13 laps on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, making a distance of 89 kilometres.

For the 2017 event, the organizers decided to stretch the event into a 2-day format coinciding with the 18th and 20th stages of the 2017 Tour de France. The riders with the best times from the first stage from Briançon to the Col d'Izoard on 20 July 2017 were invited to participate in the 22.5 km pursuit stage in Marseille on 22 July.[4] The overall winner of La Course was determined according to the organisation by the combination of both editions.[5]

The 2018 edition reverted to a one-day event, coinciding with the 10th stage of the 2018 Tour de France to Le Grand-Bornand on 17 July.

Winners
Year Country Rider Team
2014  Netherlands Marianne Vos Rabo–Liv
2015  Netherlands Anna van der Breggen Rabo–Liv
2016  Australia Chloe Hosking Wiggle High5
2017[lower-alpha 1]  Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten Orica–Scott
2018  Netherlands Annemiek van Vleuten Mitchelton–Scott
2019  Netherlands Marianne Vos CCC Liv
2020  Great Britain Lizzie Deignan Trek–Segafredo

See also

Notes
  1. Although a pursuit race also scheduled according to the organisation as stage 2, the race results in the UCI database were constituted from the result on the Col d'Izoard. Whether using the terminology of the organisation or the UCI, the winner was the same.[6]

References
  1. "La course by le Tour de France". letour.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  2. "La course by le Tour de France 2014". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. "La course by le Tour de France innovating women's cycling". letour.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-07-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "stage summary". 22 July 2017. Archived from the original on 22 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017. The Dutch rider started with a 43-second advantage
  6. "2017 La Course by Le Tour de France - Individual Road Race - 20 Jul 2017". UCI.ch. Union Cycliste Internationale. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
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