This is a hammer: Kasia Niewiadoma, the winner of the Tour de France Femmes 2024, is planning a start at the Women’s Cycling Grand Prix in Stuttgart and the surrounding area.
This was learned by SWR Sport from her racing team, the German World Tour team Canyon/Sram Zondacrypto. This lures the race, That will take place next Sunday (14.09.2025) for the third timefor the first time a big star of the cycling scene to Baden-Württemberg.
Niewiadoma Phinney, as it has been called after the wedding in May 2024, had ended the France tour last year as an overall winner and thus won the coveted yellow jersey for the first time in her career. On the tour 2025, a few weeks ago, she made it to the podium again as a third, behind the first-placed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot from France and Demi Volling (Netherlands).
Women’s Cycling Grand Prix becomes a form check for cycling World Cup
Niewiadoma Phinney has not contested a race since the tour of the tour in early August. In a training block around three and a half weeks, she recently prepared for the World Championships in Kigali/Rwanda (September 21 to 28). The Grand Prix in Stuttgart and the surrounding area will be a World Cup form check for the 30-year-old Polish.
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SWR Sport also reports live in 2025 and in detail from the bike race in Stuttgart and the surrounding area. In the live stream swr.de/sporton the YouTube channel from SWR Sport as well as in the ARD media library are cycling fans from the start From 12:10 p.m. Live and in full length. In addition, that also increases SWR television from 2 p.m. In the crucial phase of the race live into the action.
“My main goal for this race will be to get my fast legs back before going towards Rwanda,” said Niewiadoma Phinney: “I’ve not driven a race since the tour, so it was a while ago.” Her plan is to search for “some action” in the first phase of the Grand Prix and later focus on a possible sprint final of her teammate Chiara Consonni.
In addition to Niewiadoma Phinney, Gasparrini
Niewiadoma Phinney is rather not one of the favorites for the day victory in Stuttgart-their qualities are in the (high) mountains instead. However, the national champion Poland has already had success in some of the classics: for example, at the “Ladies Edition” of the Amstel Gold Race 2019 or at the Flèche Wallone 2024.
Niewiadoma Phinney is the most prominent name on the start list for the race in Stuttgart, in which other top drivers will take part: UAE Team ADQ sends last year’s winner Eleonora Gasparrini (Italy), EF Education Oatly comes with Paris-Roubaix-203 winner Alison Jackson (Canada).
Lippert and peasant enemy also start
From a German perspective, the planned participations of Niewiadoma Phinney’s teammate Ricarda Bauernfeind, the repeated German champion Liane Lippert from Friedrichshafen (Team Movistar) as well as the two railway Olympic champions Franziska Brauße and Lisa Klein in the national man’s chamber of the Association of German Cycling. The following applies to all of them: Only an injury or a comparable reason can now prevent their start at the Women’s Cycling Grand Prix 2025.
Prize on Sun., 14.9.2025 2:00 p.m., SWR Sport, SWR
