News: Tour of Britain to finish in Wales

The Tour of Britain to finish in Wales (Cardiff) after starting in Edinburgh (Scotland) and includes a time trial in Essex 

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News: Tour of Britain to finish in Wales

The Tour of Britain will finish in Wales for the first time this September as Cardiff hosts the final stage on Sunday 10 September. It will be just the fourth time since the race was revived in 2004, and the first time since 2012, that the Tour of Britain has finished outside of London, and coincides with Visit Wales’ Year of Legends.

Cardiff will welcome the Tour of Britain for the first time ever, with the 180-kilometre Stage Eight beginning in Worcester and passing through Monmouthshire and Newport, before finishing on King Edward VII Avenue, alongside Cardiff City Hall where the Tour route was launched on Tuesday.

Stage 1 Sunday 3 September Edinburgh to Kelso 188km
Stage 2 Monday 4 September Kielder Water & Forest Park to Blyth 211km
Stage 3 Tuesday 5 September Normanby Hall Country Park to Scunthorpe 172km
Stage 4 Wednesday 6 September Mansfield to Newark-on-Trent 175km
Stage 5 Thursday 7 September The Tendring Stage Individual Time Trial 16km
Stage 6 Friday 8 September Newmarket to Aldeburgh 183km
Stage 7 Saturday 9 September Hemel Hempstead to Cheltenham 186km
Stage 8 Sunday 10 September Worcester to Cardiff 180km

The Route
Stage One, Edinburgh to Kelso 188 KM
Stage One of the race will head from Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, where the race will start outside of St Giles’ Cathedral, through East Lothian and into the Scottish Borders with the finish coming in the town of Kelso. The 188-kilometre opening leg will also include a 79-kilometre loop in the Scottish Borders, giving fans at the finish in Kelso town centre the opportunity to see the world’s top riders in action twice.

Stage Two, Kielder Water & Forest Park to Blyth
The stage will see the world’s top cyclists racing from Kielder Water and Forest Park to Blyth. At just over 211-kilometres the Northumberland stage will be the longest of the 2017 Tour, and also include a finishing loop, giving spectators at the Blyth finish the chance to see the race twice. The route will also take in the likes of Rothbury, Alnwick, Bamburgh and Morpeth plus the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Stage Three, Normanby Hall Country Park to Scunthorpe
North Lincolnshire will host an entire stage of the Tour of Britain for the first time ever this September, as Britain’s premier road cycling event heads to the area on Tuesday 5 September 2017. The 182-kilometre stage starts from the beautiful 300-acre estate of Normanby Hall Country Park and finishing in the heart of Scunthorpe near Central Park.

Stage Four, Mansfield to Newark-on-Trent
Nottinghamshire will host an entire stage of the Tour of Britain this September as the event visits Mansfield and Newark-on-Trent for the first time. Wednesday 6 September will see the riders racing a route that will take in Eastwood, Hucknall, Gedling and the grounds of Newstead Abbey and the centre of Southwell.

After heading through Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park the stage will loop the north of the county and the towns of Worksop and Retford. The Tour of Britain will also pass through Harworth and Bircotes, passing the museum and memorial to 1965 World Champion Tommy Simpson in the latter.

The Maps

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Stage Five, The Tendring Stage Individual Time Trial
Tendring in Essex will host an individual time trial stage during this year’s Tour of Britain, as the world’s top riders contest the race against the clock during Stage Five on Thursday 7 September. The 10-mile / 16-kilometre time trial will start and finish in Clacton-on-Sea.

Stage Six, Newmarket to Aldeburgh
Newmarket and Aldeburgh will host the Suffolk stage of the Tour of Britain on Friday 8 September. Among the towns who can look forward to welcoming the world’s top professional cyclists during the 183-kilometre stage this September are Mildenhall, Bury St Edmunds, Eye, Framlingham and Woodbridge.

Stage Seven, Hemel Hempstead to Cheltenham
Cheltenham will host the finish of the penultimate stage of the Tour of Britain this September, as the world’s top professional cyclists race through the Cotswolds to arrive in the historic spa town on Saturday 9 September. The event will start in Hemel Hempstead, crossing Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire before passing through the likes of Bourton-on-the-Water, Stow-on-the-Wold and Moreton-in-Marsh. The stage will see a SKODA King of the Mountains climb of Cleeve Hill inside the final 10-kilometres, before finishing in the centre of Cheltenham, the first time that the town will have hosted the Tour of Britain.

Stage Eight, Worcester to Cardiff
The Tour of Britain will finish in Wales for the first time this September as Cardiff hosts the final stage on Sunday 10 September.

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