The 2021 La Course by Le Tour de France was the eighth edition of
La Course by Le Tour de France
La Course by Le Tour de France was an elite women's professional road bicycle race held in France. First held in 2014 as a one-day race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, it has been part of the UCI Women's WorldTour since 2016 as a one or two ...
, a women's cycling race held in
France
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. It took place on 26 June 2021 and was the tenth event on the
2021 UCI Women's World Tour
The 2021 UCI Women's World Tour was a competition that included eighteen road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2021 in women's road cycling, 2021 women's cycling season. It was the sixth edition of the UCI Women's World Tour, th ...
. The event was organised by
ASO, which also organises the
Tour de France
The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
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Route
The race started in
Brest
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Places
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**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
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*Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
*Břest, Czech Republic
*Brest, France
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**Brest Bretagne Airport
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and finished at the top of the Cote de la Fosse aux Loups in
Landerneau
Landerneau (; br, Landerne, ) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
It lies at the mouth of the Elorn River which divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, east of Brest. The name is from ...
, after 3 laps of the final circuit of 14.5 km. The total distance of the race was 107.4 km. La Course was held before stage 1 of the men's
2021 Tour de France
The 2021 Tour de France was the 108th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three grand tours. Originally planned for the Danish capital of Copenhagen, the start of the 2021 Tour (known as the ) was transferred to Brest because of the ...
.
Teams
Nine UCI Women's WorldTeams and fourteen UCI Women's Continental Teams made up the twenty-two teams that competed in the race. Each team entered six riders except for , , and , which entered five each. Of the 127 riders in the race, only 102 finished, while a further 6 riders finished over the time limit.
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Results
See also
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2021 in women's road cycling
2021 in women's road cycling is about the 2021 women's bicycle races ruled by the UCI and the 2021 UCI Women's Teams.
Olympic Games
World Championships
UCI Women's WorldTour
Single day races (1.Pro, 1.1 and 1.2)
Stage races (2.Pr ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:La Course by Le Tour de France, 2021
2021 UCI Women's World Tour
2021
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2021 in French sport
La Course
La Course, 2021