Griffin is contemporary off of her win at the Irish Elite Nationwide Championship.
Irish champion bike owner Mia Griffin is ready to debut at the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, the first-ever Irish woman to compete in the race.
The Kilkenny athlete, who was topped the ladies’s elite nationwide street race champion final month, will race at the Tour with the Roland Biking group in accordance to an announcement from the group final evening. She is going to be joined on the group by a global crew of Morgane Coston, Tamara Dronova, Elena Pirrone, Kaja Rysz, Petra Stiasny and Sylvie Swinkels.
Griffin competed for Group Eire at the 2024 Olympic Video games, setting a brand new Irish nationwide document time in the Group Pursuit occasion. Additionally in 2024, she turned the first Irish bike owner in 11 years to win Rás na mBan, a global stage cycle ladies’s street race in Kilkenny.
At the time of writing, two different Irish ladies are in competition to be a part of the Tour this yr: Dublin native Lara Gillespie, a a number of Irish Nationwide Champion, is working in direction of choice by her UAE Group ADQ. Limerick’s Fiona Mangan, champion of the Irish Nationwide Highway Collection and Time Trial, is in search of to race together with her Winspace Orange Seal group.
Offaly bike owner Megan Armitage was chosen for the tour in 2023 by the Arkéa group, however a head damage sustained in coaching pressured her to withdraw.
The nine-stage Tour de France Femmes will start this Saturday, July 26 and can run by means of August 3.
