Grand Départ Grande-Bretagne 2027

It’s a tradition that not only helps to establish the race’s history, but also elevates it. As was the case at Alpe d’Huez in 2024 and at the Col de la Madeleine last summer, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift makes a point of revisiting locations where the men’s Tour has made its mark, leaving its own dazzling imprint on them. This year, the Ventoux will be added to that illustrious list.
Yet, well before the race reaches such decisive summits, this same fervour can also be felt during the Grands Départs, as was demonstrated recently in Rotterdam and Brittany, locations that have launched both races in magnificent fashion. This trend will be continued when the queens of the sport head to Leeds, where the welcome is sure to be as warm for them as it was for the men’s race in 2014.
The fans there have a true passion for cycling and particular reverence for their own champion, Lizzie Deignan, who hails from Otley, on the outskirts of the city, and built up such an impressive palmarès. Many will also remember that Millie Robinson, who won the very first edition of the Tour Femmes in 1955, lived in Leeds with her brother during her career.
From there, the race will move to the capital of british cycling in Manchester, where there’s sure to be a joyful welcome as it hosts a race where the yellow jersey’s at stake for the first time. Then onwards to Sheffield, which will be delighted to provide a stage for the race once again having already entered Tour legend: it was there that Vincenzo Nibali slipped away from his rivals to claim his first yellow jersey during an epic journey that eventually led him to overall victory thirteen years ago.

Bringing the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift Grand Départ to Great Britain for the first time is a powerful statement of ambition for women’s sport and for the next generation. As the race travels through our communities, it will shine a light on the opportunities that sport can create and ensure young girls across the country can see themselves reflected at the very highest level.
This Grand Départ will celebrate the strength and beauty of the UK while helping to drive the decade of change for women’s and girls’ sport, inspiring more people to get on their bikes and get active.

LEEDS
- City within the West Yorkshire region
- Population: 830,000 inhabitants
- leeds.gov.uk

MANCHESTER
- City within the Greater Manchester region
- Population: 580,000 inhabitants
- manchester.gov.uk

MANCHESTER
- City within the Greater Manchester region
- Population: 580,000 inhabitants
- manchester.gov.uk

SHEFFIELD
- City within the South Yorkshire region
- Population: 564,000 inhabitants
- sheffield.gov.uk

LONDON
- Capital of England and the United Kingdom
- Population: 8,860,000 inhabitants
- london.gov.uk

The Welshwoman had a brilliant career: she won La Flèche Wallonne in 2003, 2005 and 2006, the Giro in 2004 and the Tour of Flanders in 2007, before been crowned Olympic and world champion in 2008.

Recently retired from racing, the Yorkshire-born rider has left a dazzling legacy: following a brilliant track career, she became the world road champion in 2015 and went on to win the Tour
of Flanders in 2016, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and La Course by le Tour de France in 2020, and Paris-Roubaix in 2021.

The daughter of 2004 Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Bäckstedt was the world junior cyclo-cross and road race champion in 2021. She won the World Under-23 Time Trial Championship in 2025.

This English rider, who often places very highly, won the silver medal in the time trial at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She confirmed her ability in 2025 with a stage victory in the Giro and by winning
the Tour of Guangxi.

At just 19 years of age, this Yorkshire rider who was world junior road and time trial champion in 2024 won Binche-Chimay-Binche that same year and, in 2025, claimed victory in the Navarra Women’s Elite Classic, a stage of the Tour of Britain and the Tour of Andalucía.