Demi Vollering

Demi Vollering is the Dutch cyclist who rides for FDJ United-Suez and won the Tour de France Femmes in 2023. She took the yellow jersey on stage 8 in Nice on August 8, 2026, and started the final stage leading Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney by 8 seconds. Sources: Wikipedia, Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly.

By Alexandre Le Hégarat · datastats · Updated August 9, 2026

Demi Vollering: the Dutch rider chasing a second Tour de France Femmes

Demi Vollering was born on 15 November 1996 in Pijnacker, a small town between Rotterdam and Delft in the Netherlands. Her route into professional cycling was unusual for a rider of her calibre: she came to the sport comparatively late and spent her early twenties combining racing with work before committing to it full time in 2017. Within four years she had won Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and within six she was the best stage racer in the women’s peloton.

The 2023 season was her breakthrough. She swept the Ardennes classics, won the Tour de France Femmes and finished the year as world number one and Vélo d’Or winner. What followed was a run of near-misses at the race she most wanted: four seconds short against Kasia Niewiadoma in 2024, then more than three minutes behind Pauline Ferrand-Prévot in 2025. She kept winning elsewhere, taking La Vuelta Femenina twice and adding the Giro d’Italia Women and the Tour of Flanders in 2026, but the yellow jersey stayed out of reach.

Her 2026 move from SD Worx-Protime to FDJ United-Suez was the structural answer to that problem. At SD Worx she shared leadership with world champion Lotte Kopecky, an arrangement that repeatedly complicated the team’s tactics in the biggest races. The French squad built its Grand Tour season around her instead.

The 2026 Tour de France Femmes tested that decision to the last day. Marlen Reusser took yellow on the stage 4 time trial, Niewiadoma-Phinney seized it with a solo attack on Mont Ventoux on stage 7, and Vollering went into the penultimate day 15 seconds down. On stage 8 into Nice she attacked 6.5 km from the top of the final climb, rode away alone, and crossed the line 17 seconds ahead of Longo Borghini and Niewiadoma-Phinney. Time bonuses turned that into an 8-second overall lead with one stage left.

That final stage, a 99.2 km circuit around Nice on 9 August 2026, decides whether Vollering adds a second Tour de France Femmes to the one she won in 2023. Eight seconds is a margin that a single well-timed attack or a bonus sprint can erase. Sources: Wikipedia, Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, ProCyclingUK.

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Vollering was born in **Pijnacker**, a town in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. In recent seasons she has been based in **Switzerland**, a common choice among WorldTour professionals for its training terrain and proximity to Alpine climbs, and she spends long altitude blocks in the **Sierra Nevada in Spain** during Grand Tour build-ups. She has not published a precise home address, and none is listed here. Sources: Wikipedia, Cyclist.

Vollering is **Dutch**. She was born in Pijnacker, Netherlands, and races for the Netherlands at international level. She has represented the Dutch national team at the road World Championships and the European Championships, where she won the **European road race title in 2025**. Source: Wikipedia.

Vollering was born on **15 November 1996**, which makes her **29 years old** as of August 2026. She turns 30 in November 2026. She came to professional cycling relatively late, turning fully professional in her early twenties after a period combining the sport with work. Source: Wikipedia.

Vollering is **1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)** tall. That is on the taller side for a climber in the women's peloton, though her strength is a high sustained power output on long climbs rather than the explosive lightness of a pure mountain specialist. Source: Wikipedia, ProCyclingStats.

In 2026 Vollering rides for **FDJ United-Suez**, the French WorldTeam she joined after leaving SD Worx-Protime, the Dutch squad where she built the first half of her career. The move gave her undisputed leadership status for the Grand Tours rather than sharing it with Lotte Kopecky. Sources: Wikipedia, Cyclingnews.

Yes, once: she won the **2023 Tour de France Femmes**. She has not won it since. In 2024 the race went to Kasia Niewiadoma and in 2025 to **Pauline Ferrand-Prévot**, with Vollering second at 3:42. At the 2026 edition she won stage 5 and stage 8 and took the yellow jersey with one day to race. Sources: Cyclingnews, ProCyclingUK.

As of the morning of **August 9, 2026**, yes. Vollering attacked in the closing kilometres of **stage 8 to Nice** on August 8, won the stage alone and finished 17 seconds clear of Elisa Longo Borghini and Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney. With time bonuses that put her in yellow by **8 seconds** ahead of the final stage, a 99.2 km circuit in Nice on August 9. The overall result was not decided at the time of writing. Sources: Cycling Weekly, Cyclingnews.

Her major results include the **Tour de France Femmes (2023)**, **La Vuelta Femenina (2024 and 2025)**, the **Giro d'Italia Women (2026)**, **Liège-Bastogne-Liège (2021, 2023, 2026)** and the **Tour of Flanders (2026)**. She completed the Ardennes Triple in 2023, won the **Vélo d'Or** in 2023 and finished the 2023 and 2025 seasons as UCI world number one. She has World Championship medals but no rainbow jersey: silver in the 2023 road race, silver in the 2024 time trial and bronze in the 2025 time trial. Source: Wikipedia.

Vollering left SD Worx-Protime after a period in which the team carried two riders capable of leading a Grand Tour, herself and world champion **Lotte Kopecky**. Splitting leadership between them was a recurring source of tension in the team's race plans. Moving to FDJ United-Suez gave her a squad built explicitly around her own general classification ambitions. Sources: Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly.

There is no audited public figure for Vollering's net worth, and the numbers circulating on aggregator sites are estimates with no verifiable basis. What can be stated: women's WorldTour salaries are governed by a UCI minimum, and as a Grand Tour winner and former world number one she sits at the top end of the pay scale for the discipline, well below what men's WorldTour leaders earn. No specific figure can be responsibly given.

Two names dominate. **Lotte Kopecky** (SD Worx-Protime) is the most complete rider in the women's peloton and her former teammate. **Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney** (Canyon-SRAM) beat her to the 2024 Tour title by four seconds and traded the yellow jersey with her across the final week in 2026. **Pauline Ferrand-Prévot**, who won the 2025 Tour, and **Elisa Longo Borghini** complete the front rank. Sources: Cyclingnews, Rouleur.

In Dutch it is roughly **DAY-mee FOL-uh-ring**, with the V pronounced closer to an F and the stress on the first syllable of the surname. Her full given name is **Adriana Geertruida Vollering**; Demi is the name she has always used publicly. Source: Wikipedia.