The fourth meeting of 2024 French Road Championships is going to take place on Saturday, and it’s the Women’s road race! It is in Avranches that the race will start, and after 21.3 kilometers of crisscrossing the roads of the Channel, the runners will enter the final circuit, 16.4 kilometers long. Dotted with three bumps – the Côte de la Vallée (800 m at 8%), the Montée de la Pigeonnière (500 m at 6%) and the Côte des Biards (500 m at 7%) – it will certainly be more suitable for punchers than ‘to sprinters, although some fast women may have the ability to hang on until the end. In total, there will be 125.8 kilometers to cover, with 1,700 meters of elevation gain.
Victoire Berteau became French champion in 2023
A second double for Audrey Cordon-Ragot?
Victorious in Cassel last year, Victoire Berteau (Cofidis Women Team) will put its title back on the line on Saturday, and there is nothing to say that it will not be able to achieve the double, which has not been done since Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in 2014-2015. Facing the Northerner, we will find in particular the women who shone on Thursday in the time trial, starting with the French champion, Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Healt), who will attempt to achieve his second time-line race double after that achieved in 2022 in Cholet.
A very open 2024 edition
Respectively second, fourth and fifth of the solo exercise, Cédrine Kerbaol (CERATIZIT-WNT Pro Cycling Team), Maëva Squiban (Arkéa-B&B Hotels Women) and Marie Le Net (FDJ-SUEZ) – vice-champion of France behind Victoire Berteau in 2023 – will also be contenders, as will Juliette Labous (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Evita Muzic, Léa Curinier, Jade Wheel, Gladys Verhulst-Wild (FDJ-SUEZ), Victory Guilman (St Michel-Mavic-Auber93) or even Amandine Fouquenet (Arkéa-B&B Hotels Women).
