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Tour of Britain 2023: Route details, startlist and jerseys guide

The Tour of Britain 2023 begins on Sunday September 3 - here's all you need to know

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After a truncated edition in 2022 due to police having to head off to administer the Queen's funeral, Britain's biggest race - the Tour of Britain - returns for (hopefully) a full run in 2023. 

It's a much more compact edition this year with the race taking place mostly in the middle of the country so if you're anywhere south of Manchester and north of Reading you have precious few excuses for not getting to the roadside to cheer on your favourite rider.

Among the riders set to light up the race are previous winner Wout van Aert and 2022 second place finisher Tom Pidcock , who'll hope to go one better in 2023.

Tour of Britain overview

Tour of britain 2023 route.

Stage 1,   Sunday 3 September

Route: Greater Manchester to Altrincham 

Today's route is near identical to the final stage of the 2019 tour, starting in Altrincham and travelling to Manchester in an anti-clockwise direction taking in the surrounding area’s undulating terrain, including the category two climb of Grains Bar (2.4km at 5.8%) and category one Ramsbottom Rake (1.3km at 8.8%). Those climbs might not sound like much, but together with a number of unclassified rises were enough to significantly reduce the peloton to just a few dozen riders after Ineos Grenadiers applied the pressure. 

The race did eventually culminate in a reduced bunch sprint won by Mathieu van der Poel, but not before we were entertained by a relentless flurry of attacks as teams struggled for control.

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Expect a similar type of rider to triumph today.

Stage 2, Monday 4 September

Route: Wrexham to Wrexham

At just 109.9km, this is a remarkably short stage by any standards, and as a result could witness some atypical racing. Shorter stages tend to produce more intense racing, with riders able to attack earlier on in the knowledge that they won't have to sustain their efforts for as long.

So although the route doesn’t offer many springboards to launch attacks, travelling westwards across the border and into Cheshire rather than eastwards towards the hills of the Clwydian Range to the west, expect riders to try their luck regardless.

Most important of all will be the Eyton Hill, the category three climb summited with just 18.5km left to ride. It’s close enough to the finish for attackers to fully commit themselves, but will the shallow gradients (averaging only around two and three percent) be enough to establish meaningful gaps?

Stage 3, Tuesday 5 September

Route: Goole to Beverley

Setting off from the small market town of Goole, the riders will head north-eastwards to Bridlington, from where they will travel southwards along the coast and then inland again for a finish in Beverley. For the residents of Beverley, this will be a chance to witness a stage finish after the minster town had previously hosted the beginning of Tour de Yorkshire stages in 2016 and 2018, the former won by Harry Tanfield from a successful break, the latter by Dylan Groenewegen in a sprint.

Much like the course of the town’s famous racecourse, the parcours today before arriving at Beverly is mostly flat, but there are a few potential obstacles to overcome if this is to be a sprint finish. The category three hills up Towthorpe Lane and Langtoft must both be climbed during the first of the stage, and after that comes a stretch of about 35km near the coastline which could, if the wind blows strong and in the right direction, cause echelons. But this should in theory be the most nailed-on stage for the sprinters so far.

Stage 4, Wednesday 6 September

Route: Sherwood Forest to Newark-on-Trent

After setting off from Edwinstone in Sherwood Forest, famous for its association with Robin Hood, the riders face the first to the day’s two category three climbs, Kilton Hill, just 15km into the stage. Then, after briefly crossing into Yorkshire and riding through Haworth, where a monument to Tom Simpsons can be found, they will travel southwards again to tackle the next climb, Red Hill Lane.

There’s a whole 85km between the top of Red Hill Lane and the finish, so plenty of time for the race to settle down for a bunch sprint.

Stage 5, Thursday 7 September

Route: Felixstowe to Felixstowe

Perhaps to make up for the lack of any difficult terrain, the organisers have rendered stage five less straightforward than it would otherwise have been by extending it to a total of 192.4km. That makes it by far the longest stage of the race, and could prevent this from being the predictable sprint stage it looks on paper.

Small undulations in the road that would otherwise have been passed over without a second though will sting the legs of the weaker riders, and being so close to the coast a crosswind could encourage a strong team to the front on any exposed roads.

Stage 6, Friday 8 September

Route: Southend-on-Sea to Harlow

Today’s stage is likely to be the last chance for the sprinters to compete for a stage win. And it should be about as nailed-on for them as any stage in the year’s race — there is only one official climb to be overcome, and it’s only a mild category three one tackled with 46km left between its summit and the finish for the peloton to bring back any optimistic attackers who try to use its shallow gradients to get away.

Stage 7, Saturday 9 September

Route: Tewkesbury to Gloucester

The organisers have made the most of the lumpy terrain of the Cotswolds to devise a route that should be selective, and one of the most important days in the GC race.

There is one climb up the category two Winchcombe Hill just 20km after the roll-out in Tewksbury, but the real action will be reserved for the final 30km. First the category two Crawley Hill, which features a nasty ramp at over 20%, then an uncategorized yet deceptively hard 3km rise to the village of Edge, which includes a similarly sharp ramp of 15%.

Stage 8, Sunday 10 September

Route: Margam Country Park to Caerphilly

The climbs to be taken on might not be especially different than those that have preceded them earlier in the week, but there is still a notable upgrade in terms of severity.

That’s clear when the race heads up to the outskirts of Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly Brecon Beacons) national park to take on the first two climbs of the day, Rhigos and Bryn Du, which have both been designated the maximum difficulty racing of category one.

And after a 35km south-easterly trek from the top of the latter comes a double-ascent of the day’s most important climb, and the one on which the entire fate of the Tour of Britain could be decided — Caerphilly Mountain.

In truth it’s more of a hill than a mountain, lasting just 1.3km, but that’s still enough road for its viscous average gradient of 10% to really sting and force a selection.

Tour of Britain startlist

Movistar Team 

DS Max Sciandri 

1 Gonzalo Serrano ESP

2 Will Barta USA

3 Imanol Erviti ESP

4 Max Kanter GER

5 Gregor Mühlberger AUT

6 Óscar Rodríguez ESP

INEOS Grenadiers 

DS Roger Hammond / Ian Stannard 

11 Tom Pidcock GBR

12 Carlos Rodriguez ESP

13 Luke Rowe GBR

14 Connor Swift GBR

15 Josh Tarling* GBR

16 Ben Turner GBR

Bingoal WB 

DS Alessandro Spezialetti 

21 Floris de Tier BEL

22 Johan Meens BEL

23 Davide Persico* ITA

24 Dimitri Peyskens BEL

25 Lennert Teugels BEL

26 Kenneth van Rooy BEL

Great Britain  

DS John Herety / Matt Brammeier 

31 Ethan Vernon GBR

32 Jack Brough* GBR

33 Josh Giddings* GBR

34 Noah Hobbs* GBR

35 Oliver Wood GBR

36 Stephen Williams GBR

BORA hansgrohe 

DS Jens Zemke / Heinrich Haussler 

41 Sam Bennett IRL

42 Patrick Gamper AUT

43 Nils Politt GER

44 Max Schachmann GER

45 Ide Schelling NED

46 Danny Van Poppel NED

Bolton Equities Black Spoke Cycling  

DS Franky Van Haesebroucke / Greg Henderson 

51 Jacob Scott GBR

52 Matt Bostock GBR

53 James Fouche NZL

54 James Oram NZL

55 Mark Stewart GBR

56 Rory Townsend IRL

Global 6 Cycling 

DS James Mitri / Luis Gerrado 

61 Nicolas Sessler BRA

62 Giacomo Ballabio ITA

63 Tomoya Koyama JPN

64 Ivan Moreno ESP

65 Callum Ormiston RSA

66 Tom Wirtgen LUX

Jumbo Visma 

DS Arthur van Dongen / Maarten Wynants 

71 Wout van Aert BEL

72 Edoardo Affini ITA

73 Steven Kruijswijk NED

74 Olav Kooij* NED

75 Jos van Emden NED

76 Nathan van Hooydonck BEL

Equipo Kern Pharma 

DS Pablo Urtasun 

81 Roger Adrià ESP

82 Igor Arrieta* ESP

83 Iñigo Elosegui ESP

84 José Félix Parra ESP

85 Ibon Ruiz ESP

86 Danny van der Tuuk NED

Saint Piran 

DS Steve Lampier / Julian Winn 

91 Alexander Richardson GBR

92 Harry Birchill* GBR

93 Finn Crockett GBR

94 Zeb Kyffin GBR

95 Jack Rootkin-Gray* GBR

96 Bradley Symonds GBR

Team dsm - firmenich 

DS Matt Winston 

101 Tobias Lund Arnesen DEN

102 Patrick Eddy* AUS

103 Enzo Leijnse* NED

104 Niklas Märkl GER

105 Tim Naberman NED

106 Casper van Uden* NED

Q36.5 Pro Cycling 

DS Aart Vierhouten / Rik Reinerink 

111 Mark Donovan GBR

112 Damian Howson AUS

113 Kamil Malecki POL

114 Nicolò Parisini ITA

115 Joey Rosskopf USA

116 Szymon Sajnok POL

TDT - Unibet 

DS Rob Harmeling / Julia Soek 

121 Harry Tanfield GBR

122 Joren Bloem NED

123 Davide Bomboi BEL

124 Jordy Bouts BEL

125 Abram Stockman BEL

126 Hartthijs de Vries NED

Team Flanders - Baloise 

DS Hans De Clerq / Andy Missotten 

131 Kamiel Bonneu BEL

132 Sander De Pestel BEL

133 Milan Fretin* BEL

134 Elias Maris BEL

135 Ward Vanhoof BEL

136 Aaron Verwilst BEL

Trinity Racing 

DS Peter Kennaugh / Jon Mould 

141 Luke Lamperti* USA

142 Robert Donaldson* GBR

143 Luksas Nerukar* GBR

144 Finlay Pickering* GBR

145 Ollie Reese* GBR

146 Max Walker* GBR

Uno-X Pro Cycling 

DS Gino van Oudenhove / Arne Gunnar Ensrud 

151 Alexander Kristoff NOR

152 Frederik Dversnes NOR

153 Tord Gudmestad* NOR

154 Tobias Halland Johannssen NOR

155 Ramus Tiller NOR

156 Martin Urianstad NOR

* Denotes eligibility for the young rider jersey as under-23 

TOUR of Britain PAST WINNERS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS

2012: Nathan Haas (Aus)

2013: Bradley Wiggins (GBr)

2014: Dylan van Baarle (Ned)

2015: Edvald Boasson Hgen (Nor)

2016: Steve cummings (GBr)

2017: Lars Boom (Ned)

2018: Julian Alaphilippe (Fra)

2019: Mathieu van der Poel (Ned)

2020: No race

2021: Wout van Aert (Bel)

2022: Gonzalo Serrano (Esp)

Tour of Britain jersey guide

Blue: GC leader jersey

The best overall rider in the race calculated by the cumulative time they take on each stage.

Green: cottages.com sprints jersey

The first 10 riders each day get points as follows: 25, 18, 12, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Intermediate sprint points are awarded to the first five riders on a 10, 7, 5, 3 ,1 basis.

Black: Pinarello KOM jersey

First-category climbs give the first 10 riders points in descending order from 10. Second-cat climbs work the same for the first six riders, the first getting six points, while third-cat climbs see the first rider get four points.

White: young rider's jersey

Awarded to the best placed GC rider who is also under-23.

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Tour of Britain: Provisional Start List

Tom Pidcock, Wout van Aert, and Ethan Vernon three of the star names in the 2023 Tour of Britain 

The 2023 Tour of Britain, the country’s national tour, sees many a rider with strong connections to Britain racing the biggest road race of the season here. World and Olympic champion not to mention Tour de France stage winner, Tom Pidcock headlines that entry and he will be mixing it with his cyclocross and classics rival Wout Van Aert, a former winner of the Tour of Britain. Last years winner Gonzalo Serrano is also racing this years event which starts in Greater Manchester on Sunday (3 September).

2022: Tom Pidcock (right) fighting for the stage win in his home county of Yorkshire with eventual race winner,Gonzalo Serrano

Having wowed the British crowds by taking four stages en route to overall victory two years ago, Wout van Aert’s return headlines the provisional startlist. The Belgian will spearhead a Jumbo – Visma team that is one of the strongest to ever compete in the race. Alongside him will be Dutch sprinter Olav Kooij, already a winner of seven races in 2023, Grand Tour podium finisher Steven Kruijswijk, time trial specialists Jos van Emden and Edoardo Affini, and Nathan Van Hooydonck.

Whilst the race has a mega super star in the form of Wout Van Aert, it is the line up with a British connection which will have the fans cheering. As well as Tom Pidcock, there’s a young rider winning pro race after pro race as well as some rainbow stripes, and its truly exciting to see Ethan Vernon in the Great Britain line up along with British championship medallist Stevie Williams who won a stage and the general classification at the recent Arctic Race of Norway.

Olympic champion Matt Walls will be racing for his German team Bora Hansgrohe whilst Noah Hobbs who had the leader’s jersey in the Arctic Race of Norway early on also races for GB.

Further home interest comes in the form of Jacob Scott (Bolton Equities Black Spoke), the King of the Mountains competition winner in 2019 and 2021 and a rider well known for his multiple jersey victories in the race. Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield (TDT – Unibet Cycling Team) is back after a great win in Belgium recently. New Quickstep signing from the USA, Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing), who won the Rutland – Melton CiCLE Classic international one-day race in April and the Lincoln Grand Prix and Tour Series rounds in previous years, headlines a very British line up for a British registered team.

A jersey winning specialist, Britain’s Jacob Scott – cheers Jacob!

Then there’s a team that has smashed the British National A races this year on the road and in a circuit race too, Saint Piran, with Jack Rootkin Gray who was 4th in the Worlds and just finished the Tour de Avenir along with his teammates who have had a season of racing abroad in 2023.

Ineos have also named a very British team with Welshman Luke Rowe back in the race. Luke won on the Tour’s opening day in 2012, the last time he competed in his home tour. Connor Swift, a former British Champion races the event, as does a revelation at world tour level, Ben Turner, both from Doncaster in Yorkshire where the race will spend a day on stage 4 (Goole to Beverley).

As well as the British riders, there are some high profile sprinters such as Fernando Gaviria (Movistar), winner in Blyth in 2015 and Newark-on-Trent in 2017), Sam Bennett (BORA – hansgrohe, winner in Caerphilly in 2013), and Kamiel Bonneu (Belgium, Team Flanders – Baloise, who took a surprise victory in Sunderland last year) complete the list. Team DSM – firmenich‘s line-up includes Kiwi Patrick Bevin, who won the Points competition in 2018.

PROVISIONAL STARTLIST

Movistar Team 1 Gonzalo Serrano ESP (last years winner) 2 Fernando Gaviria COL (former stage winner) 3 Carlos Verona ESP 4 Max Kanter GER 5 Gregor Mühlberger AUT 6 Óscar Rodríguez ESP

INEOS  11 Tom Pidcock GBR 12 Carlos Rodriguez ESP 13 Luke Rowe GBR 14 Connor Swift GBR 15 Magnus Sheffield* USA 16 Ben Turner GBR

Bingoal WB 21 Floris de Tier BEL 22 Johan Meens BEL 23 Davide Persico* ITA 24 Dimitri Peyskens BEL 25 Lennert Teugels BEL 26 Louis Blouwe BEL

Great Britain 31 Ethan Vernon GBR 32 Jack Brough* GBR 33 Josh Giddings* GBR 34 Noah Hobbs* GBR 35 Oliver Wood GBR 36 Stephen Williams GBR

BORA – hansgrohe 41 Sam Bennett IRL 42 Matthew Walls, Gbr 43 Nils Politt GER 44 Ryan Mullen, Ire 45 Ide Schelling NED 46 Danny Van Poppel NED

Bolton Equities Black Spoke 51 Jacob Scott GBR 52 Matt Bostock GBR 53 James Fouche NZL 54 James Oram NZL 55 Mark Stewart GBR 56 Rory Townsend IRL

Global 6 Cycling 61 Nicolas Sessler BRA 62 Giacomo Ballabio ITA 63 Tomoya Koyama JPN 64 Ivan Moreno ESP 65 Callum Ormiston RSA 66 Tom Wirtgen LUX

Jumbo – Visma 71 Wout van Aert BEL 72 Edoardo Affini ITA 73 Steven Kruijswijk NED 74 Olav Kooij* NED 75 Jos van Emden NED 76 Nathan van Hooydonck BEL

Equipo Kern Pharma 81 Roger Adrià ESP 82 Igor Arrieta* ESP 83 Iñigo Elosegui ESP 84 José Félix Parra ESP 85 Ibon Ruiz ESP 86 Danny van der Tuuk NED

Saint Piran 91 Alexander Richardson GBR 92 Harry Birchill* GBR 93 Finn Crockett GBR 94 Zeb Kyffin GBR 95 Jack Rootkin-Gray* GBR 96  Will Tidball GBR

Team dsm – firmenich 101 Tobias Lund Arnesen DEN 102 Patrick Bevin NZL 103 Enzo Leijnse* NED 104 Niklas Märkl GER 105 Tim Naberman NED 106 Casper van Uden* NED

Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 111 Mark Donovan GBR 112 Damian Howson AUS 113 Kamil Malecki POL 114 Nicolò Parisini ITA 115 Joey Rosskopf USA 116 Szymon Sajnok POL

TDT – Unibet Cycling Team 121 Harry Tanfield GBR 122 Joren Bloem NED 123 Davide Bomboi BEL 124 Jordy Bouts BEL 125 Abram Stockman BEL 126 Hartthijs de Vries NED

Team Flanders – Baloise 131 Kamiel Bonneu BEL 132 Sander De Pestel BEL 133 Milan Fretin* BEL 134 Elias Maris BEL 135 Ward Vanhoof BEL 136 Aaron Verwilst BEL

TRINITY Racing 141 Luke Lamperti* USA 142 Robert Donaldson* GBR 143 Luksas Nerukar* GBR 144 Finlay Pickering* GBR 145 Ollie Rees* GBR 146 Max Walker* GBR

Uno-X Pro Cycling Team 151 Stian Fredheim* NOR 152 Frederik Dversnes NOR 153 Tord Gudmestad* NOR 154 Tobias Halland Johannssen NOR 155 Ramus Tiller NOR 156 Martin Urianstad NOR

THE RACE – Sept 3rd to Sept 10 Stage 1: Sunday — Altrincham to Manchester Stage 2: Monday — Wrexham to Wrexham Stage 3: Tuesday — Goole to Beverley Stage 4: Wednesday — Sherwood Forest to Newark-on-Trent Stage 5: Thursday — Felixstowe to Felixstowe Stage 6: Friday — Southend-on-Sea to Harlow Stage 7: Saturday — Tewkesbury to Gloucester Stage 8: Sunday — Margam Country Park to Caerphilly

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Stars ready for Tour of Britain 2023 as provisional startlist is revealed

Former Tour of Britain champions Wout van Aert and Gonzalo Serrano, alongside home fan favourite Tom Pidcock , will all compete in next week’s race, which starts in Greater Manchester on Sunday (3 September) with the announcement of the provisional rider list for the Tour.

Having wowed the British crowds by taking four stages en route to overall victory two years ago, van Aert’s return headlines the provisional startlist. The Belgian will spearhead a Jumbo – Visma team that is one of the strongest to ever compete in the race. Alongside him will be Dutch sprinter Olav Kooij , already a winner of seven races in 2023, Grand Tour podium finisher Steven Kruijswijk , time trial specialists Jos van Emden and Edoardo Affini , and Nathan Van Hooydonck .

Spaniard Serrano (Movistar Team) will seek to do what no rider has accomplished in the modern era of the race and defend the title he claimed 12 months ago.

Van Aert and Serrano are among the historic stage winners set to compete in this year’s race.

Affini (Italy), Sam Bennett (Ireland, BORA – hansgrohe, winner in Caerphilly in 2013), and Kamiel Bonneu (Belgium, Team Flanders – Baloise, who took a surprise victory in Sunderland last year) complete the list. Team dsm – firmenich‘s line-up includes Patrick Bevin , who won the points competition in 2018.

Further home interest comes in the form of Jacob Scott (Bolton Equities Black Spoke), the Pinarello king of the mountains competition winner in 2019 and 2021; newly-crowned track world champion Ethan Vernon (Great Britain), Tour de Yorkshire stage winner Harry Tanfield ( TDT – Unibet Cycling Team); and Stevie Williams (Great Britain), who won a stage and the general classification at the recent Arctic Race of Norway.

Rising American star Luke Lamperti (TRINITY Racing), who won the Rutland - Melton CiCLE Classic international one-day race in April; reigning Austrian road race champion Gregor Mühlberger ( Movistar Team), and German all-rounders Maximilian Schachmann and Nils Politt (both BORA – hansgrohe) are also set to compete.

The Tour of Britain 2023 covers eight stages and over 1,200 kilometres of racing around the country. Following the Greater Manchester Grand Départ, the race will visit North Wales, East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, Essex, and Gloucestershire.

This year’s champion will be crowned in historic Caerphilly following an undulating stage in South Wales that takes in some of the country’s most famous climbs, including the Bwlch, Rhigos, Bryn Du, and Caerphilly Mountain.

This is the 19th edition of the race, and it forms part of the prestigious UCI ProSeries. A predicted 1.5 million spectators are expected to watch the 16 teams in action, capitalising on the free-to-attend nature of the event.

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Tour of Britain 2023 route map: Stages list, road closures, TV coverage and where to watch stage 2 today

Dutch rider olav kooij sprinted to victory in stage 1, ahead of his belgian jumbo-visma teammate wout van aert.

The 2023 Tour of Britain is taking place this week, with Wrexham in north Wales playing host to stage 2 on Monday.

It is the first time the tour has visited Wrexham in eight years, and will be the second shortest point-to-point road stage in tour history, beating only the finale of the 2006 race.

Dutch rider Olav Kooij sprinted a stage 1 victory on Sunday, ahead of his Belgian Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout van Aert.

Ireland’s Sam Bennett was third, with Britain’s Tom Pidcock, who is one of the main contenders for the title, finishing safely in 12th.

What is the Tour of Britain route today?

The 109.9km route both begins and ends in Wrexham. The route comprises a clockwise loop that passes across the border into Cheshire, before returning to Welsh soil after Threapwood.

Passing the famous Beeston Castle and the Peckforton Hills, the route heads back into Wales via Malpas, looping through Bangor-on-Dee and Ruabon before heading back into Wrexham for the thrilling sprint finish on Chester Street.

The finish is the same as that used when Wrexham last hosted the race in 2015, when Elia Viviani won a three-way sprint against André Greipel and Mark Cavendish in front of an estimated 10,000 spectators.

Here is the route breakdown, with approximate timings:

• Wrexham, Chester Street – 11.45am
• Llay – 12.06pm
• Gresford – 12.10pm
• Rossett – 12.15pm
• Holt – 12.25pm
• Malpas – 1.14pm
• Bangor-on-Dee – 1.30pm
• Penley – 1.52pm
• Overton – 2.00pm
• Eyton – 2.10pm
• Johnstown – 2.15pm
• Ruabon – 2.17pm
• Rhos – 2.24pm
• Wrexham, Chester Street – 2.37pm

You can find the full, detailed stage 2 timetable, including road closures, here .

Tour of Britain stage schedule Grand Depart  | Sunday 3 September | Greater Manchester: Altrincham > Manchester Stage 2  | Monday 4 September | Wrexham > Wrexham Stage 3  | Tuesday 5 September | Goole > Beverley Stage 4 | Wednesday 6 September | Sherwood Forest > Newark-on-Trent Stage 5  | Thursday 7 September | Felixstowe > Felixstowe Stage 6  | Friday 8 September | Southend-on-Sea > Harlow Stage 7  | Saturday 9 September | Tewkesbury > Gloucester Stage 8  | Sunday 10 September | Margam Country Park > Caerphilly

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Tour of Britain 2023: Seven riders to watch

From Wout van Aert to Tom Pidcock and Luke Lamperti, GCN picks out the must-follow riders ahead of Britain's biggest men's race

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Tom Pidcock is set to lead Ineos Grenadiers at the Tour of Britain

The 2023 Tour of Britain starts on September 3 with the eight-day race taking in an exciting route that spans England and Wales. A full start list has yet to be published but the race organisers have announced a star-studded selection of the starters with Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Sam Bennett (Bora Hansgrohe) all set to line up for stage 1 to Manchester.

Ahead of the race, we've picked seven must-watch riders with a mix of WorldTour veterans and up-and-coming stars of the future.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma)

Tour of Britain pedigree: One overall title in 2021, and four stage wins

Analysis: It’s Wout van Aert, so it’s not like the route has to be specifically flat or hilly in order for him to perform, and with a number of stages toying between breakaways and sprints the versatile Belgian should have a field day. Although he has been consistent through the season, the 28-year-old has only won twice this year. The Tour of Britain might not be a WorldTour race but it’s a perfect event for Van Aert to bump up that victory tally.

Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe)

Tour of Britain pedigree: One stage win, back in 2013.

Analysis: It’s been a frustrating campaign for the Irish sprinter who has been deemed surplus to requirements at Bora-Hansgrohe ahead of the 2024 season. A former Tour de France green jersey winner, it’s almost certain that Bennett will move on at the end of this season with AG2R Citroën in pole position to sign the 32-year-old. Having missed out on a Vuelta a España spot following a surprise Tour de France omission, Bennett will be highly motivated to mop up every opportunity he can before the curtain comes down on the year. Bora-Hansgrohe have at least provided the sprinter with a competitive lead-out, and with a surplus of sprint stages on offer the Irishman should be in the mix to add to his one and only stage win here from back in 2013.

Jack Rootkin-Gray (Saint Piran)

Tour of Britain pedigree: Making his second appearance

Analysis: Rootkin-Gray finished in a highly credible fourth at the U23 men’s race at the recent UCI World Championships with GCN later revealing that the 20-year-old had been heavily linked with a move to EF Education-EasyPost for 2024. Having already picked up a handful of wins this year, the youngster’s Tour of Britain performance will be eagerly watched by his future employers but Saint Piran will also be hoping that their asset can go out with a bang and garner some much-needed publicity on the road. There aren’t a huge amount of opportunities for Rootkin-Gray on the sprint-friendly course, but the final stage and a possible role in a breakaway earlier in the race could be on the cards.

Read more: Axel Laurance seals men’s U23 road race title as Rootkin-Gray comes home fourth

Gonzalo Serrano (Movistar)

Tour of Britain pedigree: The 2022 race winner

Analysis: The defending champion leads the line for a Movistar team that’s stacked with options. Max Kanter will compete for the sprints but Serrano, who beat Tom Pidcock to a key stage and the overall in the shortened 2022 race, will wear number one on his back. The 29-year-old has had a quietly consistent season, picking up a few placings here and there, but with his contract at Movistar set to expire the Spaniard might be desperate to use the Tour of Britain to showcase his talents to rival teams.

Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers)

Tour of Britain pedigree: Two appearances, second overall in 2022

Analysis: Pidcock may not have raced on the road since the Tour de France but the newly-crowned mountain bike world champion will arrive in Altrincham for stage 1 full of confidence and have the backing of the entire Ineos Grenadiers team behind him. Second last year by three seconds, the multi-disciplined all-rounder can virtually target any of the eight stages on offer and legitimately claim that they are winnable. The 24-year-old is headliner material and will be one of the biggest draws at his home tour.

Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing)

Tour of Britain pedigree: Set for his third appearance

Analysis: As first reported by GCN earlier this summer, Lamperti is set for a move to Soudal Quick-Step in the off-season but before then the talented 20-year-old has the small matter of the Tour of Britain on his schedule. The current US national criterium champion, Lampert has a rapid turn of speed, and although he’s had a relatively quiet couple of months it’s worth remembering that he started the year with a bang, winning several races, and earning that move to Patrick Lefevere’s squad. With Fabio Jakobsen moving on from the Belgian team at the end of the year, Lamperti will automatically slot into the number two sprinter role behind Tim Merlier, but the American has a prime chance to take on a glut of WorldTour sprinters in Britain and gain valuable experience. A stage win for Lamperti and his Trinity Racing team would be huge.

Read more: Luke Lamperti signs two-year contract with Soudal-Quick Step

Olav Kooij (Jumbo-Visma)

Tour of Britain pedigree: Race debutant

Analysis: There’s no doubt that Wout van Aert will have a free hand when it comes to targeting stage wins and the overall but Kooij remains a world-class sprinter who on paper should be the fastest rider in the race. Having won stages in Paris-Nice and the Tour de Pologne - among several other victories - Kooij has a proven burst of speed at this level and with a robust lead-out that could include van Aert, the Dutch talent should vie with Bennett for the mantle of best sprinter in the race.

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Tom Pidcock

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• UCI Wins 13
• Height 1.7m

Gonzalo Serrano

• Team Movistar Team
• Nationality Spain
• Height 1.77m

• Nationality Netherlands
• UCI Wins 37
• Height 1.84m

Sam Bennett

• Team Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
• Nationality Ireland
• UCI Wins 67
• Height 1.78m

Luke Lamperti

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• Nationality United States of America
• UCI Wins 10
• Height 1.8m

Jack Rootkin-Gray

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• Race Length 1,264 kms
• Race Category Elite Men

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Wout van Aert wins Tour of Britain title as Carlos Rodríguez takes final stage

• Van Aert’s second-place finish enough to secure second title
• ‘I had a really hard time. I didn’t think it was possible’

Second place on the climbing stage into Caerphilly secured Wout van Aert his second overall title in the Tour of Britain. Compared with his 2021 victory , however, this was far from straightforward although his fine form had been clear from day one.

Through the hills of south Wales, Ineos’s Spanish starlet Carlos Rodríguez, the eventual stage winner, formed an impromptu alliance with local rider Steve Williams to push Van Aert to the edge, in the first of the eight stages where the Belgian’s Jumbo-Visma team were unable to exert any real grip on proceedings.

After Williams – who was guesting for Great Britain here – and Rodríguez had sprung clear on the climb of Bryn Du, high above Aberdare in the heart of the Rhondda, Van Aert’s teammates had been scattered to the four winds on the high moorland and the two strongest climbers in the race were rapidly forging a healthy advantage ahead of a small chase group, Van Aert faced the prospect of losing the race lead he had taken in winning Thursday’s stage into Felixstowe . “I had a really hard time, I didn’t think it was possible to take the general classification.”

The 28-year-old’s only option was to remain calm and hope that enough of his teammates could battle their way up to him, and that they and other squads would take the strain before the race arrived at the final brace of climbs over Caerphilly Mountain in the last eight miles. “I tried to stay calm, as I knew there were two climbers in front, and they would spend a lot of energy getting to the finish circuit.”

In the hiatus while he waited for Steven Kruijswijk and Nathan Van Hooydonck to catch up, Williams and Rodríguez raced into a lead that briefly exceeded 90 seconds.

With several other teams assisting Jumbo-Visma, the duo’s lead evaporated like the puddles from the rain showers that had greeted the race when it entered the hills, and on reaching Caerphilly they were only a handful of seconds ahead.

The first climb of the mountain broke Williams, a 27-year-old from Aberystwyth who has quietly forged a good career racing for the Bahrain-Merida and Israel-Premier Tech team, and who this year had won the Arctic Race of Norway. Rodríguez forged ahead on his own, but although he has had an outstanding year with a stage win and fifth overall in the Tour de France, he was less of a threat to Van Aert, having lost time in a crash in the Cotswolds on Saturday’s stage into Gloucester.

The Spaniard needed to finish 40sec ahead of Van Aert and his 20sec advantage with one 7km lap of the finish circuit put the race in the balance. With no teammates left at his side, the Belgian had to control the Spaniard’s lead while simultaneously ensuring that he did not crack, and that he did not lose ground to three threats for the overall title: Rodríguez’s Ineos teammate Magnus Sheffield, the Norwegian Tobias Johannessen and the Australian Damien Howson, all of whom were a slender 3sec behind him overall.

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While Rodríguez did give the Ineos team a consolatory stage win after the withdrawal of their marquee rider Tom Pidcock on Saturday, he was only 11sec ahead of Van Aert on the line, giving the Belgian his third road race win of 2023. He has had a frustrating mid-season, and it was about time he got the rub of the green.

This was a fine crescendo to a slow-burning week marked by six mass finishes in the first six stages, with 52 riders level on time 3sec behind Van Aert after Friday’s stage into Harlow , but it was far from plain sailing, with this most important climbing stage in effect split into two by a lengthy pause from racing with between 87km and 77km to go, when the race briefly stopped twice and then took a diversion to avoid a stretch of road which had been closed by an accident involving a motorcyclist. The incident was unrelated to the race, but it meant that the entire convoy had to be guided through back streets with racing neutralised and the bunch travelling at controlled speed.

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Originally posted by RS2000 I have a few photos from 1976 at Weston Park but we have struggled on an earlier thread to identify cars from reg numbers or comp numbers, even with the help of Gregor Marshall from on here regarding a Magnum that may have been his father's entry. [/B]

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Originally posted by Odseybod The registration number of the Hunt/Edmonds Magnum was WXE 935M, if that's any help.

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#13 Gregor Marshall

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Originally posted by drivers71 Thanks to each of you who added details. Tim - I'd really appreciate a list of entries for the 1973 event. My copious display of photos of this event are on Photobucket: http://s271.photobuc.....20of Britain/ and you'll notice I've added the date, but missing the titles of the photos. I do, however, already know the obvious ones! Gregor - I'll PM you with the illegal but obvious request for your videos. So, if there was not one in 1972, the winners were as follows: 73 Hunt 74 Pond? 75 Clark 76 Vatanen Thanks again Rich

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Originally posted by drivers71 Tim - I'd really appreciate a list of entries for the 1973 event.

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#16 drivers71

Posted 08 September 2008 - 12:32

Originally posted by Gregor Marshall I watched the DVDs of '73, '74, '75 & '76 last night and unfortunately the detail of the results varied on each year. I've put the cars I know in brackets but I can find out the others if needed. '73 - 1st James Hunt (Camaro), 2nd Gordon Spice (Capri), 10th Andy Dawson. '74 - 1st Roger Clark (Escort), 2nd Gerry Marshall (Escort), 3rd Tony Lanfranchi (BMW), 8th Will Sparrow (Magnum), 10th Peter Hansen. '75 - 1st Tony Pond (Dolomite), 2nd Brian Culcheth, 3rd Bernard Unett (Avenger) '76 - 1st Ari Vatanen (Escort), 2nd Brian Culcheth, 3rd Will Sparrow (Magnum), 4th Gerry Marshall (Magnum), 5th Chris Field, 6th Chrias Watham (sp), 7th Charlie Wood, 8th Mike Freeman, 9th Andy Smith, 10th Tony Foulkes (sp). I didn't get a chance to check my magazines but I know I definitely have the full entry/results for '74 so will try and dig them out tonight and check the other years too.

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Originally posted by RS2000 Finishing 3rd may have been more about not going off or having other problems as about how fast it was. All were fairly long events but I think each one moved a bit closer to rally stages deciding the results rather than race circuits - and I think this was a major factor in killing it off - it was becoming just another rally and other rallies did that far better. A 10 lap race, despite its greater distance, might leave most within a few seconds of the leader but a long forest stage would produce much bigger gaps and that affected overall results. As for names and spelling, would Chrias Watham be Chris Wathen (Vospers of Plymouth, Ford)? Tony Foulkes is presumably Tony Fowkes? (although I don't recall him doing the events). Interesting that Chris Field finished ahead of Charlie Wood in Avengers - it was invariably the other way round on the UK forest International Rallies.

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#35 Tim Murray

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Originally posted by drivers71 The Renault R8 (?) was rolled on the first day, but made it back to the Post House

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#37 drivers71

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Posted 09 September 2008 - 13:08

Originally posted by RS2000 Not sure whether Will Sparrow will be too pleased to have gained a "y" in his name! No double "e" for Monty Peters either? David, not Daniel, da Costa?

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In that case, Tim, I apologise to Simon Kirkby for calling him female, though as an old Alfa Dealer Team pal of mine, he won't mind. Thanks again, for the info. Rich

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The 1973 Tour of Britain was covered in a BHP film called 'This one was fun' (I think) featuring Roger Clark and Gerry Marshall door handling the RS 2000s, particularly at Cadwell. That was the same year that Noel Edmunds (with his wife) christened a well-known bend on the Eppynt army ranges when he totalled his RS 2000, and ever since it has been known as Edmunds Bend. The Hunt/Benson Magnum didn't get very far (IIRC) The later Tour of Britain was sponsored by Autoglass and started from the Cardington air balloon hangars (as they were close to Autoglass's HQ at Bedford).

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#48 sterling49

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Didn't James Hunt win the Avon tour in 73 in a Chevy Camaro with Robert Fearnell as co-driver?

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Correct Alan, results for all years are listed on 1st page by Jorge.

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A quart into a pint pot - The generously proportioned Terry Sanger made the bizarre choice of a Honda Civic

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Taliyah Brooks in the heptathlon shot put at GardaStars by Multistars (© Daniele Morandi for organisers)

Taliyah Brooks defends her heptathlon title, while Thomas Van der Plaetsen heads the decathlon field at Multistars – the first World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold event of 2024 – this weekend (27-28).

Nine decathletes with 8000-point-plus PBs and nine heptathletes who have surpassed 6200 points are entered for the event, which returns to Brescia – host of the first seven editions from 1988 to 1994 – for the first time in 30 years.

USA’s Brooks set a PB of 6330 points to win the heptathlon in Desenzano del Garda last year and she went on to finish second at the USA Championships with a score just 11 points off that mark, but her campaign at the World Championships in Budapest came to an early end when she recorded three fouls in the long jump. She rebounded at the Decastar in Talence in September, finishing third on 6181, and has already shown PB form in 2024 as she clocked 7.97 for 60m hurdles in February.

One athlete sits above Brooks on the entry list when it comes to personal bests: Austria’s Ivona Dadic. The 2018 world indoor pentathlon silver medallist, who set her best of 6552 in 2018, makes a heptathlon comeback in Brescia as she missed the whole of 2023 following knee surgery. 

Dadic returned to action at the Swedish Indoor Combined Events Championships in January – her first competition since winning the Decastar with 6233 points in September 2022 – and finished second at the Austrian Indoor Combined Events Championships in February. Her aim in Brescia – as it is for a number of athletes in action – will be to qualify for the Olympic Games and European Championships.

China’s Asian Games champion Zheng Ninali, who won the pentathlon at the Asian Indoor Championships in February, is also among the entries, just over a week on from her 6164-point performance at the Mt. SAC Relays.

Britain’s Commonwealth bronze medallist Jade O’Dowda was second at Multistars last year and went on to set a PB of 6255 points at the Gotzis Hypomeeting a month later.

Ireland’s Kate O'Connor is also among the entries, as she prepares for her first competition since finishing 13th at the World Championships in Budapest.

Italy’s world indoor fourth-place finisher Sveva Gerevini is entered but may not compete due to a hamstring problem.

Making the step up to the senior event is Hungary’s 17-year-old Sarolta Kriszt, the 2022 European U18 silver medallist.

For Belgium’s Van der Plaetsen, Brescia offers a first decathlon since the Decastar, where he placed sixth, and the chance to make a mark ahead of this year's major competitions.

The 2014 world indoor heptathlon bronze medallist competed in Desenzano del Garda last year but withdrew with a niggle. He then finished fourth in Ratingen before securing sixth in Talence. His PB of 8430 was set in Gotzis in 2021.

His competition this time includes Czechia’s Adam Helcelet and Poland’s Pawel Wiesiolek, both of whom have also surpassed 8300 in their careers so far. More recently, Helcelet scored 8034 to finish second at the Wieslaw Czapiewski Memorial in Bydgoszcz in July, while Wiesiolek won the Polish indoor heptathlon title in February.

They will go up against Italian record-holder Dario Dester, who achieved that 8218-point record at the European Championships in Munich in 2022. The Multistars will be his first decathlon since then.

Also looking to make an impact will be Estonia’s European indoor heptathlon bronze medallist Risto Lillemets, Brazil’s South American champion Jose Fernando Ferreira Santana and Belgium’s Jente Hauttekeete, the world U20 heptathlon record-holder.

Lillemets was fifth at Decastar in September, while Ferreira Santana set his PB of 8058 last July.

Hauttekeete had a busy start to the year and he won the national indoor heptathlon title with 6131 in February before finishing eighth at the World Indoor Championships.

Like Kriszt, 19-year-old European U20 bronze medallist Andrin Huber steps up to senior competition in Brescia.

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