TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES, THE NUMBERS OF THE THIRD STAGE. HAUGSET, THE WOMAN OF FIRSTS

WOMEN | 04/08/2026 | 08:26
di Benjamin Le Goff

Numbers, curiosities and statistics help us re-read and delve deeper into what we experienced in yesterday's stage and over the last three weeks. Follow along:


88: GAME, SET, AND MATCH
What a performance! Breaking away from the peloton as the race crossed Morbier, at the foot of the Col de la Savine climb, Sigrid Haugset completed an impressive 88-kilometer solo breakaway on the roads of the Jura, claiming victory in Poligny on Monday. The Norwegian thus beat the previous record held by Annemiek van Vleuten, who had won at Le Markstein in 2022 after riding 62 kilometers solo on the Vosges mountains. That day, the Dutch cyclist had also claimed the Yellow Jersey.


2: A DEBUTANT WITH VICTORIES
Just thirty-six days after winning the national title, 27-year-old Sigrid Haugset has achieved her... second professional victory! She follows in the footsteps of Ricarda Bauernfeind (second victory in Albi in 2023) and Justine Ghekiere (at Le Grand-Bornand in 2024). Two cyclists have done even better: Dutch riders Yara Kastelijn (winner in Rodez in 2023) and Puck Pieterse (in Liège in 2024) both inaugurated their professional careers with their respective victories at the Tour de France. For comparison, Marianne Vos claimed her 241st career victory by crossing the finish line first in Provins at the end of the second stage of the 2022 edition.

10: NORWAY ENTERS A NEW ERA
Thanks to Sigrid Haugset, Norway, together with the Uno-X Mobility team, has achieved its first stage victory at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Before yesterday, the Scandinavian nation's best result had been an eighth-place finish by Susanne Andersen in the third stage of the 2023 Tour. Norway thus becomes the tenth country to win a stage at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, joining a list that includes the Netherlands (19 victories), France (5), Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Denmark (2), as well as Hungary, Spain and Mauritius (1).

9: RED-BLUE-WHITE
Wearing the Norwegian Nordic cross on her back, Sigrid Haugset became the ninth national champion to triumph at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, completing the final kilometer of the stage on flat terrain at an average speed of 37.9 km/h. Before her, Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (stage 3 in 2022), Belgian Lotte Kopecky (stage 1 in 2023), German Liane Lippert (stage 2 in 2023), Dutch Demi Vollering (stage 7 in 2023), Swiss Marlen Reusser (stage 8 in 2023), Hungarian Blanka Vas (stage 5 in 2024), Dutch Lorena Wiebes (stages 3 and 4 in 2025) and Mauritian Kim Le Court-Pienaar (stage 5 in 2025) had all celebrated victories wearing the colors of their respective nations. Among the men, the last Norwegian champion to win a stage at the Tour de France was Thor Hushovd, at Arenberg in 2010.

1: NORWAY DONS THE YELLOW
Thanks to Sigrid Haugset's success, Norway has claimed its first Yellow Jersey at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. Until yesterday, only five nations had reached this milestone: the Netherlands (nineteen times), Belgium (six times), Mauritius and Poland (four times) and France (twice). It has been a brilliant summer for Norway and Uno-X Mobility, as Torstein Træen also wore the Yellow Jersey for two days at the men's Tour de France.

2'02'': A CONSIDERABLE MARGIN
With a lead of 2 minutes and 2 seconds over Kim Le Court-Pienaar in the general classification ahead of today's individual time trial, Sigrid Haugset holds the largest gap ever recorded between the leader and the second-placed rider after three days of racing at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. This margin far exceeds the 55 seconds that Lotte Kopecky had accumulated over Liane Lippert in 2023. Conversely, the smallest gap after three stages is 3 seconds, recorded between yellow jersey wearer Demi Vollering and Lorena Wiebes in 2024.

3: PIETERSE RECLAIMS THE POLKA DOT JERSEY
First to cross the Col de la Faucille – the first climb of this edition to exceed 1,000 meters in altitude – and the summit of the Côte de Lajoux, Puck Pieterse claimed the polka dot jersey with a total of 18 points. She thus wears the jersey for the third time in her career, having already worn it in stages 4 and 5 of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. She has moved to just one point behind her compatriot Femke Gerritse (4 polka dot jerseys), but remains well short of Swiss rider Élise Chabbey (9). Pieterse has also worn the white jersey five times and won the young rider classification in 2024.

32: A PODIUM OF EXPERIENCE
With an average age of 32 years and 176 days, Sigrid Haugset (27), Lotte Kopecky (30) and Marianne Vos (39) make up the third oldest podium in the history of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The three cyclists are surpassed only by the average age of 32 years and 345 days from the stage in Épernay in 2022 (won by Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig ahead of Marianne Vos and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio) and, above all, by the 33 years and 252 days recorded on the podium at Plumelec during the opening stage of the 2025 edition (won by Marianne Vos ahead of Kim Le Court-Pienaar and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot). Having participated in all three of these stages, Vos has secured a top-three finish for the thirteenth time, a record.


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