VIF Cycling Team Fought Hard at Tour de Feminin. And We Were Right There With Them

Tour de Feminin is one of the biggest women’s UCI 2.2 stage races in Central Europe, held every year in our home region of Bohemian Switzerland. With four demanding stages and teams arriving from all over Europe, the race delivers a highly competitive mix of climbing, tactics, recovery, and pure endurance.

Instead of watching Tour de Feminin from the outside, we spent the entire race alongside VIF Cycling Team and became part of the everyday rhythm of one of the biggest women’s stage races in Central Europe..

Several days inside the race bubble

Tour de Feminin is the kind of race where you quickly realize that stage racing is about much more than what happens between the start and finish lines.

Every day starts early and ends late. Bike service, race briefings, meals, transfers, recovery, preparing bottles, checking equipment - and somewhere in between, trying to keep the team relaxed, focused, and ready for another hard day.

This year, Posedla wasn’t just a logo on a jersey or a partner in the background. We spent full days with VIF Cycling Team during the race and got a close look at everything women’s professional cycling involves beyond the results sheet.

During the week, the team also visited our own Posedla factory in nearby Varnsdorf, where they got to see how our custom saddles are designed and manufactured. It was a nice reminder that performance on the bike is always connected to the people, craftsmanship, and technology working behind the scenes.

And honestly, those are the moments when you truly understand how important team atmosphere, trust, recovery, comfort, and all the little details become during several demanding days in a row.

A Strong start for VIF Cycling Team

The opening team time trial immediately set the tone for the entire race. The Belgian national team posted the fastest time, but VIF Cycling Team delivered a strong performance as well.

The Czech continental squad finished ninth overall, 53 seconds behind Belgium, and even beat British team Handsling Alba Development - the defending champions from last year’s edition.

On paper, it might look like “just” another result. But when you spend a full day directly with the riders and staff, you see how much work, stress, preparation, and energy goes into a ride like that.

Zemanová leading the team despite a difficult build-up

Kristýna Zemanová arrived at Tour de Feminin as the clear leader of VIF Cycling Team and one of the biggest names in Czech women’s cycling today.

Thanks to her international experience and consistently strong performances on both road and cyclocross bikes, she naturally became the team’s rider for the general classification.

Her preparation, however, was disrupted by a crash during the final stage of Gracia Orlová. Instead of a smooth final build-up, she had to adjust her training and focus more on recovery heading into the race.

That made it even more impressive to watch how professionally the whole team operated throughout the event. Day-by-day adaptation, rider support, communication, teamwork behind the scenes - exactly the things you rarely see in race results.

Despite the complications, Zemanová stayed consistent throughout the week and finished 10th overall as the best Czech rider in the final GC.

Kvasničková delivered a huge final stage Result

One of the strongest moments for the Czech team came in the final stage into Krásná Lípa.

Eliška Kvasničková sprinted to an impressive second place, beaten only by American rider Kate Courtney - an MTB medalist and one of the biggest names in the field.

It was exactly the kind of performance that shows the growing strength and potential of Czech women’s cycling.

Cycling is about more than performance

Tour de Feminin reminded us of one important thing once again: performance never exists in isolation.

It’s built on dozens of details around it. The people in the team. The atmosphere. Trust. Recovery. Comfort during long hours in the saddle. And that’s exactly why we enjoy being part of projects like this and spending time directly in the field with people who truly live cycling every single day.

Because sometimes, the best view of a race isn’t from the finish line - but from behind the team car a few minutes after the stage is over.

Credits

Photos: Filip Bezděk @filip.bezdek
Race info: tourdefeminin.com