{"id":5929,"date":"2024-03-18T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/the-tour-de-normandie-feminin-2024-a-tough-competition\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:08:27","slug":"the-tour-de-normandie-feminin-2024-a-tough-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/the-tour-de-normandie-feminin-2024-a-tough-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tour de Normandie F\u00e9minin 2024: a tough competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The second edition of the Tour de Normandie for women set off from Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne on Thursday 14 March 2024, with a scheduled finish in Caen on Sunday 17 March.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right from the inaugural time trial in Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne, the team distinguished itself as a key player in this competition, with Ellen Van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) winning the first stage and taking the overall lead.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the second stage between Le Neubourg and Pavilly, which featured varied weather conditions and a difficult circuit, the team showed its unity and ability to work together. Ceratizit&#8217;s Sandra Alonso won this stage, but Gladys also performed well, taking fifth place.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the third stage, Alessia Vigilia and Gladys Verhulst-Wild proved their team&#8217;s determination. Alessia tried a daring breakaway with Lauren Stephens, and Gladys confirmed her position at the end of the race, taking third place.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final stage was particularly demanding with its many changes in altitude, totalling more than 2,000 metres. Josie Nelson of the UNO-X Mobility team won this stage, but the team continued to play an important role, demonstrating solid preparation and strategy.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Tour de Normandie 2024 ended on a positive note for the team, with Gladys Verhulst-Wild finishing 8th overall after the fourth and final stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Orange day and good mood for the team \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GladysVerhulst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GladysVerhulst<\/a> take the 10th place on the last stage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tourdenormandie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tourdenormandie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZR2C1Kh7G\">pic.twitter.com\/OZR2C1Kh7G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FDJ &#8211; SUEZ (@FDJ_SUEZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDJ_SUEZ\/status\/1769416915401818395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second edition of the Tour de Normandie for women set off from Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne on Thursday 14 March 2024, with a scheduled finish in Caen on Sunday 17 March. Right from the inaugural time trial in Bagnoles de l&#8217;Orne, the team distinguished itself as a key player in this competition, with Ellen Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-5929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race","tag-gladys-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fdj-suez.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}