The Volta a Catalunya prepares for a 2nd women's edition led by Demi Vollering
June 4 th 2025 - 11:00 [GMT + 2]
The Volta Ciclista a Catalunya has everything ready for its 2nd women's edition, which this 2025 will experience three stages on 6, 7 and 8 June with some of the best teams in the world shaping a participation led by the stellar Demi Vollering. With three stages that will link Terres de l'Ebre and Camp de Tarragona, they will showcase the demands of the Bergadan mountains between Bagà and the finish at La Molina/Coll de Pal and will culminate between Castelldefels and the finish in Barcelona. Catalonia will once again put women's cycling on the map in a race of international stature.
This 2nd Volta a Catalunya, which will take place between Friday 6 and Sunday 8 June, will bring together a peloton of around 120 cyclists from 18 teams, including four teams from the world's top division, UCI Women's WorldTeams (FDJ-Suez, Team Visma-Lease a Bike, Movistar Team and Human PowerCI Health Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi and VolkerWessels), as well as seven international UCI Women's Continental Teams and five national teams, including the Catalan national team and the Catalan teams Massi-Baix Ter and EC Mataró-Skoda Mogadealer. A UCI 2.1 international event that can be followed live on television and in streaming around the world on TV3 (Saturday and Sunday) and Esport3 (Friday) and on the RTVE Play platform.
After the debut as a stage race in the last 2024, with the victory of an icon in the history of women's cycling as Marianne Vos, this year the Catalan race will have as a great attraction the presence of the Dutch Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), great reference of the current women's cycling as current champion of La Vuelta Femenina and also winner of the Tour de France among other high-level races, which is presented as a great favourite for the final victory.
The demanding nature of the mountains will mark the event, where the presence of other world-class climbers is also expected, such as Neve Bradbury (Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto), 3rd classified in the Giro d’Italia 2024 or the young Marion Bunel (Team Visma-Lease a Bike), winner of the Tour del Porvenir 2024 along with other well-known riders such as the former winner of the reVolta, the one-day race that preceded this Volta a Catalunya, the British Claire Steels (Movistar Team).
Three stages of great variety
The Volta a Catalunya will get underway this Friday, 6 June, with a mid-mountain stage between Terres de l'Ebre and Camp de Tarragona: from Perelló to the city of Reus, the cyclists will ride over the hilly terrain of the inland Costa Daurada in a 114.4-kilometre stage with a cumulative climb of more than 1,600 meters. The scoring passes of Coll de Porrera and Coll d' Alforja (2nd category) will make the first selection before the arrival in the capital of Baix Camp, which will be the first venue for the women's race, deciding the first leader of the race after having previously been the protagonist with 29 finishes in the men's race.
A large part of the final victory of this Volta will be played on Saturday 7 June in its second stage, which will offer an unequalled opportunity for the big climbers with a high altitude finish of the demanding Coll de Pal. Starting in Bagà, the stage will have a fully bergadana footprint and will have a total of three mountain passes, with a previous passage through the Coll de Merolla (2nd category) and the Collet de Cal Ros (1st category) before facing the dreaded final finish, a special category challenge thanks to its 19 kilometers of ascent at 7% average gradient that will mark the differences between the favorites of the race.
Finally, the 2nd edition of the Volta a Catalunya women's stage race will conclude on Sunday, June 8, with a 114-kilometer final stage starting in Castelldefels and finishing in Barcelona, which will once again crown the overall champion of the race on Maria Cristina Avenue.
The Baix Llobregat and Penedès regions will be the main attractions of a non-stop route that will include the qualifying climbs of Lavit and Begues (category 3) before the return to the Catalan capital, where the race will seek to identify the final stage winner and the overall winner of a race that seeks to consolidate its place on the international women's cycling calendar.
