Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026 favorites, route, and how the race could be won
Three new pave sectors make the 2026 edition the hardest Paris-Roubaix Femmes in history. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot defends. Lotte Kopecky hunts her first Roubaix.
The sixth Paris-Roubaix Femmes covers 148.5km from Denain to the Roubaix velodrome with more cobbled sectors than any previous edition. Three new sectors have been added to a route that already pushed the women peloton to the limit. Ferrand-Prevot won the 2025 edition with a massive solo attack that stunned the field, and she returns as the defending champion with the confidence of a rider who has conquered every discipline she has entered. Kopecky is the betting favorite after her dominant 2025 cobbled classics campaign, which included a third Tour of Flanders victory. Elisa Longo Borghini brings consistent Flemish classics power, and Marianne Vos remains dangerous in any race that requires tactical intelligence on rough roads.