2026 Return to Women, looking for Demi Vollering's successor
The fifth edition of the race will begin this Friday in Zarautz and end on Sunday in San Sebastian with three stages. The winners of the four previous events of the test, Demi Vollering and Marlen Reusser, will not be in the Lap, so the race will have a new champion.
The tour will begin on Women's Friday.
The fifth edition of the Women's Tour will begin on Friday in Zarautzand end on Sunday in San Sebastian, and the race is looking for the successor to the Dutchman Demi Vollering, the current number one in the world, who will not take part. Vollering has won the Tour three times, in 2022, 2024 and 2025, and in 2023 he has done the second, behind Marlen Reusser, who can think of how, with the absence of Vollering, there are several candidates to be champions.
The Dutchman Mischa Bredewold of the SD Worx team has won second place in the previous two years and has prevailed in one stage in the recently completed Return to Spain, while Olivia Baril of the Movistar teamfinished in third place in the 2023 event. Both are the only participants on the podium of the Tour. The South African veteran Ashleigh Moolman of the AG Insurance-Soudal will have the first dorsal, and the German Liane Lippert (Movistar) will also be the protagonist.
The Laboral Kutxa-Euskadi Foundation , in the Vuelta, will be led by Usoa Ostolaza. The Guipuzcoano has just won fourth place in the Return to Spain and is in full shape. Among others, Paula Patiño, who will accompany Ostolaza in the Basque team , will be the Navarra Paula Ostiz.
The routewill consist of a total of 372.4 kilometres and 14 punctual ports. The first six, on the first day, will be 121.2 kilometres in the Zarautz-Zarautz stage, which has 2,239 metres of accumulated level. The second day will begin in Abadiño and end in Amorebieta, with a total of 138 kilometres, including five third-class ports (2,474 metres).
The third and final stage of the Women will begin and end in Donostia-San Sebastián, 113.1 km (1,729 metres) and will also have to climb a first-class port, a second-class port and a third-class port.
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