Organizer Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) has finalized the route for the second annual Paris-Roubaix Femme Avec Zwift, which will be contested by 24 women's teams on April 16.

The race will start in the town of Denain and head north to Roubaix, where it will cover approximately 30 km of cobbled sections before finishing at the famous Roubaix Velodrome.

The only change from the 2021 race, held in October, is the addition of an opening lap in Denain. The peloton will now run four laps of the 8 km circuit, bringing the total length from 116.5 km to 124.7 km.

The women will tackle 17 cobblestone sectors totaling 29.2 km. Two of these sectors are 5-star in difficulty: Mont-en-Pevere with 49 km to go and Carrefour de l'Arbre with 17 km to go.

The longest section is the 4-star Hornan-a-Vandigny, 3.7 km long, and the last official section is just before the entrance to the Roubaix velodrome, a 300 m stretch of cobbled 1-star.

The addition of a local lap slightly increases the distance traveled by the peloton before the start of the cobblestones, but it is still relatively small as the first sector begins at the 40 km mark.

In 2021, Roubaix winner Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) slipped out in this first sector and rode the remaining 79 km and all the cobbles alone. Despite the early stage of the race, the Hornain section is long and difficult, with two sharp corners that could prove decisive.

The iconic Truet-Dalemberg section of the men's Paris-Roubaix will not appear again in the women's race, despite its proximity to the start of the Denain. Race director Franck Perk had previously cited the risk of the peloton hitting the five-star Allenberg in the first sector as the reason for its impossible inclusion in the women's route.