La Vuelta Femenina has but to publish its full route for 2025, however the first main piece of the jigsaw was revealed on Monday, with information that the race will kick off in Barcelona.
The week-long Spanish race will begin on May 4 within the Catalan capital, marking one more chapter in Barcelona’s wealthy historical past of internet hosting prime biking occasions.
The opening stage of La Vuelta Femenina comes two years after Barcelona performed host to the primary weekend of the elite males’s Vuelta a España, in 2023, with a gap night-time staff time trial. That was adopted by an uphill end the subsequent day in Montjuic Park, the place the Volta a Catalunya presently holds its ultimate stage each March.
La Vuelta Femenina’s begin can be a yr earlier than the Grand Départ of the Tour de France in Barcelona, scheduled for July 2026.
The Barcelona announcement is the third time, too, {that a} Mediterranean coastal metropolis has performed host to La Vuelta Femenina’s opening stage, after Torrevieja in 2023 and Valencia in 2024.
The present model of the race started life as a one-day Classic in 2015, coinciding with the ultimate stage of the Vuelta a Esapña. It step by step expanded to a week-long occasion and altered its identify to La Vuelta Femenina in 2023, the identical yr that it shifted from its earlier September slot to new dates in early May.
The present defending champion is Demi Vollering (FDJ-SUEZ), preceded in 2023 by Dutch compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten.
