Tour of Britain News: GB Team for Race

The six riders that will line-up for the Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT) in this September’s Men’s Tour of Britain have today been announced.

Tour of Britain News: GB Team for Race

NEWS: GREAT BRITAIN CYCLING TEAM LINE-UP FOR LLOYDS TOUR OF BRITAIN MEN ANNOUNCED

The six riders that will line-up for the Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT) in this September’s Men’s Tour of Britain have today been announced.

– Ben Chilton
– Huw Buck Jones
– Ben Wiggins
– Josh Golliker
– Matt Bostock
– Josh Charlton

Two riders will make their debuts in Britain’s biggest professional cycle race – Ben Chilton and Huw Buck-Jones – alongside a pair of returnees from the 2024 race, Ben Wiggins and Josh Golliker, with Josh Charlton and Matt Bostock completing the line-up that will pull on the national team jerseys in the race.

Sprinter Matt Bostock is the most experienced of the six, having ridden the Men’s Tour of Britain on four occasions since 2018, twice taking top ten stage results in bunch sprints.

Former British under-23 time-trial champion Josh Charlton won a stage of the Rás Tailteann in Great Britain colours earlier this season, and is joined in the GBCT line-up by third placed rider from those 2023 Lloyds national time-trial championships, Joshua Golliker.

Golliker, who made his Lloyds Tour of Britain Men debut 12 months ago, has been racing for the EF Education – Aevolo development team in 2025, taking an impressive third place in the under 23 Gent – Wevelgem race in May.

The second returnee from 2024 is Ben Wiggins, who will race for GBCT for the second successive September. The 20-year-old, who is a former junior world and European champion on the track, is in his second season of racing with the prestigious Hagens Berman Jayco development team.

Making his debut in the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men will be Derby’s Ben Chilton, runner up in the Lloyds Cyclo-cross National Championships earlier this year. A former winner of the Guildford Grand Prix round of the national circuit series, Chilton has been racing in France this season, taking several victories on their domestic calendar.

The six-rider squad is completed by a second debutant, Huw Buck-Jones, who is also racing in France for the Bourg-en-Bresse club this season. Originally from North Wales, Buck-Jones has come from a mountain biking background, having competed in the under 23 cross-country event at the 2023 World Championships in Glasgow.

Matt Brammeier, Director Sportif for the Great Britain Cycling Team said: “For me, every time a rider pulls on the Great Britain jersey, they have the chance to inspire, which I think is incredibly special. With this year’s Lloyds Tour of Britain I’ve brought together a mix of proven and experienced riders and those stepping up, giving them the platform to show what they can do to make the next steps in their careers. I’m certainly excited to see what we can do.”

The Men’s Tour of Britain begins on Tuesday 2 September with a pair of stages in Suffolk, the first from Woodbridge to Southwold, before a leg starting and finishing in Stowmarket. Following stages take in Milton Keynes and a first visit to Ampthill in Central Bedfordshire, before a challenging Warwickshire stage ending in a hilltop finish at Burton Dassett Hills Country Park.

The race concludes with a brace of challenging stages in south Wales, the first including a double ascent of The Tumble, before a final stage between the Geraint Thomas National Velodrome of Wales in Newport to the Welsh capital, Cardiff, on Sunday 7 September.

STAGES
Stage one | Tuesday 2 September | Woodbridge to Southwold
Stage two | Wednesday 3 September | Stowmarket to Stowmarket
Stage three | Thursday 4 September | Milton Keynes to Ampthill
Stage four | Friday 5 September | Atherstone to Burton Dassett Hills Country Park
Stage five | Saturday 6 September | Pontypool to The Tumble
Stage six | Sunday 7 September | Newport to Cardiff

Teams
UCI WorldTeams: Bahrain Victorious (Bahrain); Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale (France); INEOS Grenadiers (Great Britain); Lidl-Trek (USA); Soudal Quick-Step (Belgium); Team Groupama FDJ (France); Picnic PostNL (Netherlands); Team Visma | Lease a Bike (Netherlands); UAE Team Emirates – XRG (UAE)

UCI ProTeams: Equipo Kern Pharma (Spain); Israel – Premier Tech (Israel); Lotto (Belgium); Q36.5 Pro Cycling (Switzerland); Team Flanders – Baloise (Belgium); Tudor Pro Cycling (Switzerland); Unibet Tietema Rockets (France); Uno-X Mobility (Norway)

UCI Continental Teams: Anicolor / Tien 21 (Portugal)

National Teams: Great Britain Cycling Team (Great Britain)

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