The course for the ninth edition of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Women's Race is identical to the 2024 edition, matching last year's distance record with a 152.9 km route through the Ardennes.

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"Nothing has changed, except that this time we rejoin the men's route at km 48, in Vielsalm," explains race director Gilles Maignan. Both routes will therefore follow the same final 104 km, a shared finale that includes nine of the ten climbs - only the Côte de Saint-Roch is an exception, with its 15.8 km. "The sequence of climbs will be tough, including the mythical Wanne-Stockeu-Haute-Levée trilogy. It will weigh heavily on the legs heading into the finale that will again feature La Redoute, Les Forges, and La Roche-aux-Faucons. Selection will happen naturally. The weather will also be crucial because today hot and sunny conditions are forecast. This might have a different impact because the weather wasn't good on Wednesday at La Flèche Wallonne Women. We really don't know how tactics will unfold. We saw FDJ-Suez pedaling all day trying to control La Flèche but not being rewarded in the end. Will they adopt a different strategy? We might wonder: 'Will they rely on other teams saying it's not their responsibility to control the race'?"

Once again, FDJ-Suez arrives at the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Women's Race with an impressive firepower: last year the French team won Liège thanks to Grace Brown - who retired at the end of 2024 - and now lines up with Demi Vollering, winner of this race with her former team SD Worx in 2021 and 2023. Victorious at the Women's Strade Bianche in March, Vollering is hungry for another Liège triumph after missing victory at the Women's Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday against her compatriot Puck Pieterse by just 2". Besides Vollering and Labous, the team includes strong climber Évita Muzic and Elise Chabbey, fifth in 2023 and fourth last year in Liège.

Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) is in great form, won stage 4 at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and dominated Wednesday's La Flèche. In her ten races so far this year, she hasn't finished outside the top ten, with third place at last Sunday's Amstel Gold Race preceding her victory at the Mur de Huy. This victory means she arrives at her first Liège-Bastogne-Liège as "Not the main favorite, but certainly one of the favorites", in her own words.

Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) is set to become one of only three women to race in all nine editions of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Women's Race, alongside Kasia Niewiadoma and Ashleigh Moolman Pasio. Longo Borghini has been on the podium three times (third in 2021, second in 2023 and 2024) and comes to the race in excellent form. Already a winner this year at the UAE Tour Women, Dwars door Vlaanderen and most recently at Brabantse Pijl, Longo Borghini finished third at La Flèche and must be considered a strong contender for today's victory. "It's a race that suits my characteristics, so I can't wait to race".

Anna van der Breggen (Team SD Worx – Protime) returns to a race she won in 2017 and 2018 before her competitive career break. Back in the peloton this year, she missed the Women's Flèche Wallonne midweek due to illness and states she is able to race, perhaps to support teammates like world champion Lotte Kopecky and Amstel Gold Race Ladies winner Mischa Bredewold. "I feel good enough to race again, so let's say I'm happy about that. It hasn't been the best week for me, which was really a shame because I was feeling good before. That's certainly not what you want in a week like this".

Two weeks after her solo triumph at the Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift, in her debut at that race, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot finds herself at the start of another Monument, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Women's Race, where she raced in the first two editions: 2017 (DNF) and 2018 (seventh). "It's been a while", smiles the 33-year-old Frenchwoman, reassured in recent days about her ankle condition, which had become infected following an accident at Strade Bianche in early March. "I still participated in the Tour of Flanders and Roubaix, while (Demi) Vollering and other women racing for the Tour's general classification did not. So I don't want to say Liège is a test. I just want to gain experience from this race and learn lessons for my future goals".

PARTICIPANTS

FDJ - SUEZ
1. VOLLERING Demi
2. CHABBEY Elise
3. CURINIER Léa
4. LABOUS Juliette
5. MUZIC Évita
6. RAYER Eglantine

UAE Team ADQ
11. LONGO BORGHINI Elisa
12. CHAPMAN Brodie
13. MAGNALDI Erica
14. PERSICO Silvia
15. SQUIBAN Maeva
16. MARTURANO Greta

CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto
21. NIEWIADOMA Katarzyna
22. DYGERT Chloé
23. LUDWIG Cecilie Uttrup
24. NIEDERMAIER Antonia
25. PALADIN Soraya
26. TOWERS Alice

Team SD Worx - Protime
31. KOPECKY Lotte
32. BREDEWOLD Mischa
33. GERRITSE Femke
34. HÄBERLIN Steffi
35. HARVEY Mikayla
36. VAN DER BREGGEN Anna

EF Education-Oatly
41. KERBAOL Cédrine
42. BERTON Nina
43. CHRISTIE Henrietta
44. FAULKNER Kristen
45. VALLIERES Magdeleine

Team Visma | Lease a Bike
51. FERRAND-PRÉVOT Pauline
52. BUNEL Marion
53. CHLADOŇOVÁ Viktória
54. DE VRIES Femke
55. GEURTS Mijntje
56. OUDEMAN Maud

Lidl - Trek
61. FISHER-BLACK Niamh
62. DEIGNAN Elizabeth
63. MARKUS Riejanne
64. SPRATT Amanda
65. VAN ANROOIJ Shirin
66. VAN DIJK Ellen

Fenix-Deceuninck
71. PIETERSE Puck
72. ALVARADO Ceylin del Carmen
73. CASASOLA Sara
74. KASTELIJN Yara
75. PERKINS Flora
76. ROOIJAKKERS Pauliena

AG Insurance - Soudal Team
81. (LE COURT) PIENAAR Kimberley
82. BENITO Mireia
83. DE SCHEPPER Lore
84. MOOLMAN Ashleigh
85. VAN DE VELDE Julie
86. ŽIGART Urška

Movistar Team
91. LIPPERT Liane
92. MARTÍN Sara
93. MEIJERING Mareille
94. PATIÑO Paula
95. REUSSER Marlen
96. STEELS Claire

Team Picnic PostNL
101. CAVALLI Marta
102. BARALE Francesca
103. CIABOCCO Eleonora
104. NELSON Josie
105. STORRIE Becky
106. VINKE Nienke

Laboral Kutxa - Fundación Euskadi
111. KUSKOVA Yanina
112. BIRIUKOVA Yuliia
113. SANTESTEBAN Ane
114. SILVESTRI Debora
115. TERUEL Alba
116. VADILLO Eneritz

Uno-X Mobility
121. AALERUD Katrine
122. ANDERSON Solbjørk Minke
123. BOILARD Simone
124. GÅSKJENN Ingvild
125. KOSTER Anouska
126. OTTESTAD Mie Bjørndal

St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93 WE
131. THOMAS Ségolène
132. FITYUS Lucie
133. NORMAND Adèle
134. RABY Coline
135. SIMPSON Ella
136. WATTS Emily

CERATIZIT Pro Cycling Team
141. HARTMANN Elena
142. HASHIMI Fariba
143. JASKULSKA Marta
144. LE MOUEL Célia
145. MIERMONT Dilyxine
146. VAN DAM Sarah

VolkerWessels Women's Pro Cycling Team
151. JANSEN Eline
152. DIJKSTRA Anneke
153. MOLENAAR Laura
154. SCHOENS Quinty
155. VANPACHTENBEKE Margot
156. VOLLERING Bodine

Cofidis Women Team
161. BEGO Julie
162. BOULAIS Flavie
163. GUILMAN Victorie
164. KERN Špela
165. KOPPENBURG Clara
166. NOSKOVÁ Nikola

Arkéa - B&B Hotels Women
171. CLAES Lotte
172. ASENCIO Laura
173. CAVALLAR Valentina
174. COLJÉ Maaike
175. DE FRANCESCO Danielle
176. RYO Titia

Liv AlUla Jayco
181. SMULDERS Silke
182. ROSEMAN-GANNON Ruby
183. TON Quinty
184. TREVISI Anna
185. TRINCA COLONEL Monica

Roland
191. COSTON Morgane
192. GIULIANI Giulia
193. STIASNY Petra
194. SWINKELS Sylvie

Team Coop - Repsol
201. GRANGIER India
202. DALE Stine
203. JØRGENSEN Tiril
204. KAGEVI Stina
205. LIND Magdalene
206. MOHR Mari Hole

Winspace Orange Seal
211. PEREKITKO Karolina
212. ALLIONE Marine
213. FAHY Camille
214. GONTOVA Nadia
215. NORMAND Florence
216. VALENTIN Constance

Lotto Ladies
221. DE KEERSMAEKER Audrey
222. ARENS Maureen
223. BOELS Dina
224. GIELKENS Esmée
225. VAN WERSCH Anna
226. WITTEVRONGEL Lani