Flanders Race Report: Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) is the winner of the women’s 2025 Tour of Flanders. After a race of 170 kilometres, the World champion was the best of a leading group of four at the finish line in Oudenaarde. The leading group had ridden away on the last climb of the Oude Kwaremont. This is Kopecky’s third De Ronde win, making her the record holder. Pauline Ferrand-Prvot (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Liane Lippert (Movistar) were second and third.Flanders’25 highlightsThe women’s Tour of Flanders was 168.9 kilometres, with an identical finale to that of the men. All the action would come in the last 50 kilometres, with the Koppenberg, three cobbled sections, the Taaienberg, the Oude Kruisberg/Hotond, the Oude Kwaremont and the Paterberg coming one after the other. There were 13 flat kilometres to the finish in Oudenaarde.Flanders’25 mapFlanders’25 profileThere were some crashes early in the race, Puck Pieterse was the biggest name involved, but she was able to continue. In the midst of this chaos, a group of seven escaped: Britt de Grave (DD Group), Nicole Steigenga (AG Insurance-Soudal), Franziska Braue (Ceratizit), Romy Kasper (Human Powered Health), April Tacey (Coop-Repsol), Alison Avoine (St Michel) and Aoife OBrien (DAS Hutchinson). They built up a lead of 7 minutes. In the peloton, there was a crash by one of the race favourites, Elisa Longo Borghini. She tried to get going again, but had to give up shortly afterwards. She was an important rider for the UAE Team ADQ…
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