The 2021 Ladies Tour of Norway was the eighth edition of the Ladies Tour of Norway, a women's road cycling stage race in Norway. The event took place from 12 to 15 August 2021 and is part of the 2021 UCI Women's World Tour.[1] This edition is expected to be the last stand-alone Ladies Tour of Norway, as the race is set to expand to a six-day tour of Scandinavia (the Battle of the North) in 2022 that will also visit Denmark and Sweden.[2]
The 2021 Ladies Tour of Norway took place in the county of Viken in Eastern Norway, with most of the race in the Østfold region.[6] For the first time in the race's history, it featured a mountaintop finish, with a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi) long climb to Norefjell ski resort on stage 3.[7]
On stage 2, Christine Majerus, who was second in the points classification, wore the green jersey, because first-placed Kristen Faulkner wore the gold jersey as the leader of the general classification.
^The jersey for the best Norwegian rider will not be worn during the race; it will only be presented at the podium ceremony after every stage to the best placed Norwegian finisher of that stage.[25]