Paris-Roubaix Femmes is the youngest Monument and the most unforgiving, where cobblestone sectors separate bike handlers from everyone else in a single afternoon.
Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift is the women's cobbled Monument, a northern France one-dayer built around pavé sectors, attrition, and a velodrome finish that arrives only after the damage is done.
Lizzie Deignan won the first edition in 2021, soloing to the velodrome after attacking with more than 80 kilometers to go.
This is the race that proved the women's peloton had been ready for the cobbles all along. The inaugural edition delivered attacks, chaos, and a solo winner who crossed the velodrome alone, and every edition since has reinforced the same truth: the pavé doesn't care about your palmares. It rewards durability, nerve, and the ability to hold speed over broken stone when positioning errors and mechanical failures are ending contenders' days in real time. The field is smaller than the men's race, which makes the front group even more volatile.
The race tends to fracture in waves rather than all at once. Each key cobbled section strips away more riders, mechanical trouble matters as much as raw strength, and the front group rarely has time to settle before the next sector demands another effort. The women's distance makes the pressure feel even more immediate: there is less runway to recover position, fewer quiet kilometers, and a greater premium on entering every sector near the front. By the time the velodrome appears, the real selection has already happened on the stone.
Most recent winner: Pauline Ferrand-Prévot