Tour de Romandie Féminin

Tour de Romandie Féminin is a women's WorldTour cycling stage race held in late summer or early autumn in the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland. Launched in 2022, it runs over three days and typically includes at least one mountain stage.

Tour de Romandie Féminin is a three-day women’s stage race in French-speaking Switzerland, on the Women’s WorldTour since its first edition in 2022. The first four editions had four winners: Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Demi Vollering, Lotte Kopecky and Elise Chabbey. Each time the second stage finished on a mountain.

How Tour de Romandie Féminin began in 2022

The race was created for the 75th anniversary of the Tour de Romandie, the men’s race, and held WorldTour status from the start. The first edition ran from October 7 to 9, 2022, over 386.5 kilometers. Arlenis Sierra won the opening stage in a sprint on the lakefront at Ouchy in Lausanne. The second stage went from Sion up to Thyon 2000, with more than 2,000 meters of climbing in its last 50 kilometers. The third ran from Fribourg to Geneva, where Marta Lach took her first WorldTour win on the Quai du Mont-Blanc. The leader’s jersey that year was green.

Moolman-Pasio drops Van Vleuten on Thyon 2000

Annemiek van Vleuten came to the race as world champion, and the stage to Thyon 2000 fell on her 40th birthday. Marlen Reusser went ahead in a group of three before the final climb for her SD Worx teammate Moolman-Pasio. When the group was caught, 8.5 kilometers from the top, Moolman-Pasio set the pace and only Van Vleuten, Liane Lippert and Petra Stiasny could hold it. Stiasny rode for the Swiss team Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad and finished the stage fifth.

Van Vleuten attacked 6.5 kilometers from the finish and could not get clear. Moolman-Pasio went at 3.6 kilometers, which left the two of them alone, and again with 2.5 kilometers to go. She won alone. It was her first win of the season, in her last race for SD Worx, and her first stage race win on the WorldTour. She finished the race 30 seconds ahead of Van Vleuten, with Elisa Longo Borghini third at 49 seconds.

Vollering wins at Torgon in 2023

The second edition moved to September. On its first stage Carina Schrempf attacked 2.7 kilometers from the finish and sat up to celebrate, and Sofia Bertizzolo passed her in the last meters. The mountain stage crossed the Col des Mosses and finished with a 12-kilometer climb to Torgon. Juliette Labous attacked 4 kilometers from the line and took Vollering, Kasia Niewiadoma and Reusser with her. Vollering set the pace until only Niewiadoma was left, then sprinted away from her in the last meters. She led by six seconds, with her teammate Reusser third at 12.

The last stage ran 131.9 kilometers from Vernier to Nyon, and the attacks hardly stopped in its final 25. Vollering closed several of them herself. Lippert won the sprint in Nyon, and the standings did not change.

Kopecky and Vollering, teammates and rivals in 2024

Elisa Balsamo won the first stage of 2024 in an uphill sprint in Lausanne, ahead of Kopecky, the world champion. The next day finished with a 10-kilometer climb to Vercorin. Vollering attacked with one kilometer to go and Gaia Realini fell back, but Kopecky, her SD Worx-Protime teammate, worked her way back to the wheel. Vollering won the sprint between them by a few centimeters. The bonus seconds from Lausanne put Kopecky in the lead by two seconds. Vollering, who was about to leave the team, said she expected it to ride for Kopecky on the last day.

On the last stage, 144.5 kilometers around Morges, Riejanne Markus beat Kopecky’s teammate Niamh Fisher-Black after a long breakaway by the two of them. Kopecky was third, 21 seconds later. Vollering crashed in the last roundabout, inside the final three kilometers, where a fall costs no time. Kopecky won the race from Vollering and Realini.

Chabbey wins on home roads in 2025

The 2025 race was held in August and opened with its first time trial, 4.4 kilometers uphill from Huémoz to Villars-sur-Ollon. Before the start, five teams were disqualified for refusing to take part in a UCI test of GPS safety trackers. They were Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto, EF Education-Oatly, Lidl-Trek, Picnic PostNL and Visma-Lease a Bike. Paula Blasi, 22 and in her first professional season, won the time trial by 17 seconds from Urška Žigart for her first WorldTour victory.

Chabbey won the second stage, to La Tzoumaz, and Žigart took the lead. The first three were within 13 seconds of each other before the last stage around Aigle. Chabbey attacked on the climb of Antagnes, 1.2 kilometers at 9 percent, and only Blasi went with her. Blanka Vas caught them on the descent and won the sprint, with Chabbey third. Žigart chased to the last kilometer without closing the gap, and Chabbey, who grew up in Geneva, had the first stage race win of her career.

Romandie arrives late in the season, when the season's hierarchy is mostly settled but riders are still hunting late wins or testing form ahead of the World Championships. The compressed format means every stage matters: there's no time to recover from a bad day, and GC gaps are measured in seconds rather than minutes. The race rewards completeness in a way few three-day events do, demanding both climbing power and consistency. Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio's win in the inaugural edition, ahead of Annemiek van Vleuten and Elisa Longo Borghini, established the race as more than a calendar placeholder.