The 2025 Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes was a Belgian

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one-day race that took place on 27 April. It was the 9th edition of

Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes Liège–Bastogne–Liège Femmes is an annual road bicycle racing event in the Ardennes region of Belgium, held in late April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour. The equivalent men's race is a cycling monument. Liege is one of four men's ...

and the 14th event of the

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. It was the finale of the

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, following the Amstel Gold Race Ladies Edition and La Flèche Wallonne Femmes. The race was won by Mauritian national champion Kimberley Le Court of

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in a sprint finish of 4 breakaway riders.

Route

The route was long, following the second half of the men's course from

Bastogne Bastogne (; ; ; ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Bastogne, Longvilly, Noville, Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, and Wardi ...

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, and featured 10 classified climbs.

Pre-race favorites

In pre-race analysis, Dutch rider

Demi Vollering Adriana Geertruida "Demi" Vollering (; born 15 November 1996) is a Dutch professional bicycle racing, racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam FDJ–Suez. Considered one of the greatest riders of her generation, sh ...

and Italian champion

Elisa Longo Borghini Elisa Longo Borghini (born 10 December 1991) is an Italian professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . During her career, Longo Borghini has won the 2024 Giro d'Italia Women, Giro d'Ita ...

were identified as top favorites. Vollering had two previous wins at the race (2021 and 2023), and strong recent form with a second-place finish at La Flèche Wallonne Femmes. Longo Borghini was coming off a win at Brabantse Pijl and has twice been runner-up at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Reigning world champion

Lotte Kopecky Lotte Kopecky (; born 10 November 1995) is a Belgian road and track Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam , and the UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race, 2023 and 2024 UCI Elite Women's W ...

, winner of numerous other classics, has cited the race as a key objective, but some analysts have doubted whether she is suited to the longer climbs of Liège.

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, coming off a win at La Flèche Wallonne, and

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's World Tour team Visma–Lease a Bike Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in Mountain Biking and cyclo-cross during her career ...

, winner of

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were also considered strong contenders. Other riders mentioned in pre-race coverage included

Anna van der Breggen Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch professional Road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for Team Flexpoint, , and . She won the gold medal in the Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olymp ...

, Kasia Niewiadoma,

Juliette Labous Juliette Labous (born 4 November 1998) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode in the women's road race event at the 2017 UCI Road World Championships. Major results ;2015 : National Junior Road Ch ...

, and

Liane Lippert Liane Lippert (born 13 January 1998) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career Born in Friedrichshafen, Lippert started her career in local club ''RSV Seerose Friedrichshafen'' in 2008. In the following years s ...

Result

References

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