The women’s top teams will soon be racing the fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift! Launching July 26 and ending August 3, the 9-stage race begins in Vannes and travels coast-to-coast to finish in Châtel.
This edition of TdFFaZ features a total of 17,240 meters of climbing across 1,165 kilometers, beating the previous records for both elevation and distance. Stage highlights include stage 8, which boasts a total of 3,490 meters of elevation and the hors catégorie Col de la Madeleine. See route details >
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Zwift has spun up a host of events to immerse us in the excitement of this year’s Tour. You’ll even see #watchthefemmes-themed road art and robopacers in game! Read below for complete event details and more…
Club Series
New this year, Zwift is partnering with eight community clubs to host a Watch the Femmes Club Series:
- QueenBee Ladies
- Zwift Insider
- Her Spirit
- FemmeCycle Collab
- Fietsvrouwen
- Rocacorba Collective
- Female Cycling Force
- The Female Cycling Tribe
Each club is hosting events for one day during the Tour on a route of their choosing. Finishing one of these rides unlocks a unique Club version of this year’s Watch the Femmes kit:
Zwift Insider is hosting the first set of events this weekend – come out and join us on France’s Three Musketeers route!
See Club Series events at zwift.com/events/tag/tdffazclubs >
L’Etape Virtual Events
L’Etape du Tour de France is one of the biggest amateur gran fondos in the world, with over 16,000 registrants. Zwift is an official partner of L’Etape du Tour de France, and this year, they’re hosting Virtual L’Etape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift events hourly from August 2 to 9.
These events celebrate the legendary climbs of the Tour by putting riders on the Power to the Portal route with a finish up the epic Col de la Madeleine (14.3km, 1118m elevation), the same climb this year’s IRL L’Etape event ascends. Finishers unlock the new 2025 Watch the Femmes kit.
See L’Etape events at zwift.com/events/tag/tdffazletape >
Workout of the Week
Zwift’s Workout of the Week series will be Watch the Femmes-themed from July 28-August 24 with four weeks of workouts featuring different pro women:
- Puck Pieterse: Vo2 Surges
- Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney: Classics Workout
- Evita Muzic: VO2 Max – 3×4 Tabata Style
- Zoe Backstedt: Sevens
Complete a Workout of the Week to earn 20% off the new Zwift H20 Headphones and unlock them in-game! You’ll also unlock the new 2025 Watch the Femmes kit. (Completing the WoW on your own as an on-demand workout will not unlock the headphones, discount code, or kit.)
See TdFFaZ Workouts at zwift.com/events/tag/tdffazwotw >
Watch Party Rides
These “second screen” rides are held during the live race broadcasts, so you can ride with fellow Zwifters while watching the race on another screen. Chat about race highlights with Zwift friends in real time, in rides led by pros and ambassadors and women’s cycling fans!
Not sure how to Watch the Femmes from your country? See this page.
These are open-paced 60-minute events, and each stage is held on a different route. Finishers unlock the new 2025 Watch the Femmes Kit.
See events at zwift.com/events/tag/tdffazwatchparty >
Femmes Ride and Merch
Want to support the Femmes all year ’round? For the first time ever, Zwift is selling a limited number of Watch the Femmes Special Edition Zwift Ride frames. Only 124 frames were created! These frames feature a custom paintjob, adjustable “bear claw” cranks, and include a Watch the Femmes sticker pack.
Zwift also has a Watch the Femmes 2025 cycling cap + musette for sale now. “Designed for fans who ride—and cheer—with purpose.”
Questions or Comments?
See Zwift’s page for all things Watch the Femmes and their FAQ here. If you have a question or comment, share below!
CANADA left out of buying merch again, ARGH!
Are they ever going to sell IRL versions of the Watch the Femmes jerseys? I’ve loved all the versions and every year want to buy an IRL version but they never seem to capitalize on this. Zwift is the title sponsor of the IRL event. Seems an easy and obvious way to both make money and raise awareness with people wearing the kit outside. I would much prefer a jersey to a bag or cap. Both men and women would surely love to buy and wear these kits, so if they ever do, I hope they offer both options 🙂
So 9 the same kits with only a different logo. Thats not really creative.
Even the clubs normal kit in the TdFF colors would have been better than this.
@Eric Schlange There is a special ride early Saturday with a lot of pros in a spin and talk event.
https://zwiftpower.com/events.php?zid=5058614
4 am eastern
That’s a good one! They must have just put it on the calendar after I looked for events to feature, because it definitely wasn’t there yesterday morning…
I rode an early Z.I.TdFF this morning for another jersey. The ride was great with M. Nyquest hosting and chatting.
(it was not banded though several people had expected that)
Now to Puck’s Workout for my headphones.
Out of curiosity, does Zwift promote male racing or just female?
https://zwiftinsider.com/tdf-2025/
Why is it always female racer highlights on this site? I suppose the women look better on cam and draw a better audience 😉
We publish the women racer highlights for two main reasons:
1) A community Zwifter volunteered to put the posts together (so it’s easy on our end)
2) We want to see more women racing on Zwift and in the world of cycling overall.
That said, if you’d like to volunteer to put together male racer interviews, you’re welcome to it!
In real life Zwift is a partial sponsor for Alpecin, and provide the Academy every fall. Men’s TDF has many sponsors, but the women’s race is a bit cash short and relies on the men’s race for some additional funding.
M. VanderPoel is sponsored by Zwift, he wears Zwift socks.
Anyone have an idea how one unlocks the matching hat for the event kit? I see it in some of the pics but it didn’t come with the kit when I unlocked it.
Same for the TDFF painted zwift headphones I saw on the forum post. Those I am assuming are from the workouts of the week the way the orange ones were from the men’s tour workouts.
The Watch the Femmes 2025 headphones I unlocked by doing a Women’s History Month podcast ride back in March. Not sure if it was available in any other event. The cap I think you are referring to is the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift 2025 cap, which was unlocked by doing one of the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift group rides in April.
Thank you. I wasn’t zwifting at those times and I suppose I figured because they matched the kit they’d be part of this event.
Are the rides open to everyone? Someone during my ride today implied men shouldn’t be doing the ride…
Yes, they’re open to everyone!
Perfect thanks!! I found it odd for sure on their statement, but then again I didn’t read the details for the events so I wasn’t sure. 🙂