La Vuelta Femenina 2024
| Date | April 28 – May 5, 2024 |
| Distance | 867km |
| Start location | Valencia |
| End location | Valdesquí. Comunidad de Madrid |
| UCI class | Women’s WorldTour |
| Last edition | La Vuelta Femenina 2023 |
Stage 8: Demi Vollering seals overall victory on mountain finish
Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) secured overall victory at the 2024 La Vuelta Femenina and showed she is back to her best by attacking alone on the climb to the finish and disracing all her rivals.
The 27-year-old Dutch rider attacked 6.5km from the finish at the Valdesquí resort near Madrid and quickly distanced all her rivals. She had time to celebrate her victory, high-fiving the crowds along the finish and then lifting her bike in the air beyond the line.
Évita Muzic (FDJ-SUEZ) finished second on the stage at 29 seconds, while Riejanne Markus (Visma-Lease a Bike) was third at 33 seconds. She snatched second place overall from Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) after the Italian struggled on the climb to the line and finished seventh at 1:00.
Stage 7: Marianne Vos records second win of week on stage 7
Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) sprinted across the top of the uphill finish in Sigüenza to win her second stage of this year’s La Vuelta Femenina. Wearing the green jersey as the points classification leader, Vos followed the acceleration of Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Cannondale) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) on the 500-metre climb. Faulkner finished second and Longo Borghini third. Fourth on the day was Demi Vollering (SD Worxs-Protime), who defended her red leader’s jersey with one day to go.
Stage 6: Evita Muzic beats Demi Vollering atop La Laguna Negra
Évita Muzic (FDJ-SUEZ) won stage 6 of La Vuelta Femenina, finishing atop the climb to La Laguna Negra. The Frenchwoman outsprinted overall race leader Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) to secure the stage win while Vollering extended her lead in the GC standings.
Stage 5: Demi Vollering crushes competition on first summit finish, takes overall lead
Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 5 of La Vuelta Femenina on the Fuerte Rapitán finishing climb, soloing to the victory by 28 seconds ahead of Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) atop Alto del Fuerte Rapitán. Vollering is also the new overall leader.
Stage 4: Kristen Faulkner wins echelon-heavy stage 4 with late solo attack
Using a solo attack across the final 6km, Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Cannondale) won stage 4 of the Vuelta Feminina. Georgia Baker (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) won the sprint for second place in the chase group of 17 riders, 10 seconds back. Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) finished third, and took the red race leader’s jersey from Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime), who finished fourth.
Stage 3: Marianne Vos fastest in reduced bunch sprint
Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) won stage 3 of the La Vuelta Femenina, launching her sprint 150 metres from the line and finishing several bike lengths ahead of Charlotte Kool (Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL) and Olivia Baril (Movistar Team). The stage victory marked Vos’ 252nd career road race victory.
Stage 2: Alison Jackson wins stage 2 sprint after crash-marred finale
Alison Jackson (EF Education-Cannondale) won stage 2 of the Vuelta Femenina in a sprint of those who survived a crash-marred final, beating Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) and Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ). Having taken bonus seconds at the finish and the intermediate sprint, Vas is the new overall leader.
Stage 1: Lidl-Trek win opening team time trial despite late crash
Lidl-Trek won the opening TTT of the Vuelta Femenina in Valencia, beating Team Visma-Lease a Bike by only nine-hundredths of a second after having to regroup after a crash in the final kilometre. The team was fastest at the intermediate timing point and looked like the certain winner, but Ellen van Dijk crashed in the final corner, taking down Elynor Bäckstedt with her and disrupting the paceline. With the seconds ticking down, Brodie Chapman and Elisa Longo Borghini waited for Gaia Realini and Lizzie Deignan to catch up, and Longo Borghini threw her bike on the finish line to take the victory. Realini crossed the line first and will be the first wearer of the red leader’s jersey.
LA VUELTA FEMENINA 2024 OVERVIEW
The second edition of the revamped La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es will take place from April 28 to May 5. The 2024 edition has expanded to eight stages and begins with a team time trial in Valencia, will be routed through the Pyrenees, and ends in Valdesquí. Comunidad de Madrid.
LA VUELTA FEMENINA HISTORY
Last year, the new La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, was a seven-day stage race, while the previous eight editions of the event were known as the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta and held at the end of the season in September.
The race started in 2015 as a one-day event, won by US sprinter Shelley Olds. The race was added to the Women’s WorldTour calendar the following year, where Jolien D’hoore won back-to-back editions in 2016 and 2017.
Expanding to a two-day race in 2018, Ellen van Dijk, then racing for Team Sunweb, claimed the overall title largely due to a commanding opening team time trial. Recently retired Lisa Brennauer went on to win consecutive titles in 2019 as a two-day race and in 2020 when the race moved into a three-day format.
Annemiek van Vleuten then took over with back-to-back titles the last two years at the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta. At the 2021 race, she dominated the individual time trial and the mountain stage to secure overall victory. In 2022, the Movistar rider attacked on the Fuente las Varas, the penultimate climb of stage 2, and jumped into a lead she would carry to the conclusion on stage 5 in Madrid.
Last year’s seven-day race, held in May, presented the riders with a challenging and mountainous event. Annemiek van Vleuten won the overall title by just nine seconds over Demi Vollering after a thrilling battle for the red jersey.
2024 LA VUELTA FEMENINA ROUTE
La Vuelta Femenina 2024 race will take place from April 28 to May 5, 2024. The route was presented in Madrid on March 8, with organisers announcing that the eight-day race would tackle the Pyrenees and finish in the Sierras of Madrid.
LA VUELTA FEMENINA 2024 START LIST
LA VUELTA FEMENINA SCHEDULE
| Stage | Start/Finish | Start time | Finish time |
| Stage 1 | Valencia (TTT), 16km | 15:56 | 17:15 |
| Stage 2 | Buñol-Moncofa, 118.5km | 14:05 | 17:15 |
| Stage 3 | Lucena-Teruel, 130.5km | 13:35 | 17:15 |
| Stage 4 | Molina de Aragon-Zaragoza, 142.5km | 13:50 | 17:15 |
| Stage 5 | Huesca-Jaca, 114km | 14:05 | 17:15 |
| Stage 6 | Tarazona-La Laguna Negra, 132.5km | 13:30 | 17:15 |
| Stage 7 | San Esteban de Gormaz-Siguenza, 139km | 12:55 | 16:15 |
| Stage 8 | Madrid, 89.5km | 10:50 | 13:30 |