Lorena Wiebes pips Marianne Vos to win first stage of Tour de France Femmes

Lorena Wiebes celebrates on the podium after taking the yellow jersey. ‘I hope we can inspire a lot of young girls to get on a bike,’ she said. Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images

Lorena Wiebes of Team DSM, the most prolific sprinter in the women’s peloton, out-manoeuvred Marianne Vos, of Jumbo-Visma, to win the opening stage of the revived women’s Tour de France in Paris.

Wiebes, winner of the RideLondon Classique in May, accelerated past Vos in the final 100m of the curtain-raiser to the women’s race, an 82km stage based on laps of the Champs-Élysées.