Tour de Romandie Féminin 2023 Betting Favourites

Country: Switzerland
Level: World Tour
Total Stages: 3
Mountain Stages: 3
Stages: LFR

Previous Winners

We felt that the previous winners didn't quite tell the story of last year. Here's the three stages of last year's tour, with similar stature (medium mountain, high mountain and then a medium mountain stage.). All the time gap was made on the high mountain stage and held until the end.

It will likely be the same this year after taking a look at both parcours. The time bonuses of 10,6 and 4 likely won't be enough to factor in. To be fair though last year they had to climb Thyon 2000 which is 17.6km @ 6.6% compared to Torgon this year at 10.6km @ 6.6%. They're basically losing 7km of space where they can gain time.

So let's say we cut the potential time gained by roughly 56% of what they were last year. Can time bonuses actually make a difference? Yes. If someone placed first on stage one and stage three and came second or third on stage two then they'd win. But there's no likely candidates to be able to hold onto that second or third on stage two while still winning stage one and three.

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Projections

The startlist isn't fully up but we expect most of the big names to arrive. If Niewiadoma shows, the climb isn't as hard as last year and we expect she may be able to hang on, while also making dents in stage one and three. But the same can be said for Kopecky - especially after her epic climbing in the Tour de France Femme. And for what it's worth, we'd lean Kopecky any day of the week.

Vollering has been climbing much better than last year, and given the shorter climb may end up cleaning this. It will be an interesting race to say the least!

Course

Stage 1

Elevation: 1674m

Stage 2

Elevation: 2166m

Stage 3

Elevation: 1630m