[3][4] UCI Women's WorldTeams UCI Women's Continental Teams National Teams The stage featured two intermediate sprint points and two Queen of the Mountains (QOM) points also.

Ahead of the first stage a minute silence was help to honour Melissa Hoskins who had recently passed away.

[9] The first intermediate sprint was 12km into the race Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco out-sprinted teammate Georgia Baker to take the points and bonus seconds.

Then a breakaway of four riders went up the road: Matilda Raynolds (Team Bridgelane), Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health), India Grangier (Team Coop–Repsol) and Kate Richardson (Lifeplus Wahoo).

[11] The Liv AlUla Jayco team led the bunch through the final kilometres trying to set Baker up to win.