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

Tour of Britain: Provisional Start List

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