Niewiadoma holds on to win Tour de France Femmes

Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma claimed her first Tour de France Femmes title aft holding disconnected past year's victor Demi Vollering, who won a melodramatic last stage.

Niewiadoma, 29, vanished 4th connected nan Alpe d'Huez and collapsed into tears arsenic she realised she had done capable to clasp her wide lead from nan penultimate seventh shape by 4 seconds.

Pauliena Rooijakkers, of nan Netherlands, came 2nd connected nan shape and Evita Muzic, of France, vanished third.

The Netherlands' Vollering, who rides for SD Worx-Protime, began nan time eighth wide and trailed Canyon–SRAM's Niewiadoma by 1 infinitesimal and 15 seconds.

Vollering proved her credentials arsenic nan pre-stage favourite to large wind to triumph connected nan 149.9km thrust from Le Grand-Bornand to Alpe d'Huez, having to hold for nan chasing pack.

Niewiadoma struggled connected nan last climb but recovered to decorativeness 1 infinitesimal and 1 2nd down Vollering.

Rooijakkers, meanwhile, vanished 3rd overall.