With 177.1 km plus an 8.3-kilometre neutral zone before the real start, stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes was the longest race in the history of the Women's WorldTour. And instead of the GC favourites fighting for the stage win on the steep finishing climb into Rodez, Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) could celebrate her first road victory after a solo attack.
Kastelijn took off from a 14-rider breakaway when her companions began to falter on the second-category climb of the Côte de Moyrazès, 20 kilometres from the line. At the winner's press conference, Kastelijn thanked her teammate Marthe Truyen and the team staff for making her stage-winning attack possible.
