With a solo breakaway of thirty-two kilometers, the Breton Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) conquered the sixth stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, arriving at the finish line in Ambert with a 9" advantage over her countrywoman Juliette Labous (FDJ - SUEZ) and 1'13" over Kim Le Court (AG Insurance - Soudal Team) who leaves Demi Vollering behind and, by virtue of the bonuses won, retains the yellow jersey with a 26" lead over Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike).

After the initial attacks of the day, at the twenty-fifth kilometer Linda Zanetti (Uno-X Mobility) launched a breakaway, soon joined by her compatriot Elise Chabbey (FDJ – SUEZ). Other riders joined the two Swiss athletes, creating a large group of about twenty riders including Soraya Paladin (Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto), Amber Kraak (FDJ-Suez), Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck), Mischa Bredewold, Femke Gerritse (SD Worx-Protime), Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ), Jelena Eric, Liane Lippert (Movistar), Riejanne Markus, Lauretta Hanson (Lidl-Trek), Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic PostNL), Letizia Paternoster, Silke Smulders (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), Lily Williams (Human Powered Health), Usoa Ostoloza (Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi), Laura Molenaar (Volkerwessels) and Morgane Coston (Roland Le Dévoluy).

Elise Chabbey (FDJ – SUEZ), very active, won the Sermentizon intermediate sprint and the first mountain prize of the day at the top of the Côte de Courpière. Towards the Côte d'Augerolles - the second climb of the day - the leading group thinned out and at the front remained Paladin, Chabbey, Kraak, Kastelijn, Gerritse, Lippert, Hanson, Georgi, Smulders, Ostolaza and Coston; at the summit Chapman passed in front of the mountain classification leader Chabbey with a 45" advantage over a group of immediate chasers and 1'00" from the yellow jersey group.

At the foot of the long climb of Col du Béal (1st category, 10km) Lorena Wiebes and other sprinters dropped from the yellow jersey group led by AG Insurance - Soudal Team, FDJ – Suez and Fenix-Deceuninck; these three teams raised the pace of the chase and quickly recovered some of the attackers. At the mountain checkpoint, Chabbey won the head-to-head with Smulders, managing to add more important points to her polka dot jersey, while the group of overall contenders crested with a 25" deficit from the breakaway group.

In the following technical descent, Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) and Katarzyna Niewiadoma (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) launched a pursuit, making a selection and bringing the best riders back to Chabbey. Hardly had the group come together when the 23-year-old French rider Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) counterattacked. The athlete from Brest won the Mountain Grand Prix at Col du Chansert, passing with a 1'00" advantage over the group led by Chabbey.

With a steady pace, the Breton cyclist from UAE Team ADQ arrived at the Valcivières Intermediate Sprint with 1'20" taking 6" of bonus; behind her were Le Court and Katarzyna Niewiadoma with the yellow jersey, who gained 4" and the Polish rider 2".

With 9 KM to go, Juliette Labous (FDJ – SUEZ) had