News: Teams for Women’s Tour

The world’s leading teams will head to the Women’s Tour, which begins in Suffolk in one month’s time (Monday 10 June), to contest the toughest yet edition of Britain’s biggest women’s race.

News: Teams for Women’s Tour

The world’s leading teams will head to the Women’s Tour, which begins in Suffolk in one month’s time (Monday 10 June), to contest the toughest yet edition of Britain’s biggest women’s race.

Almost 800 kilometres of racing awaits over six days of competition, during an event that will once again offer prize money parity with the men’s Tour of Britain. All 15 of the world’s top teams from the UCI Women’s WorldTour rankings at the start of 2019 have accepted their invitations to the event. There’s a possibility that all five race winners to date could be in action, as CCC-Liv, WNT-ROTOR Pro Cycling, Trek-Segafredo, Canyon//SRAM Racing, Team Sunweb – for whom Marianne Vos (2014 champion), Lisa Brennauer (2015), Lizzie Deignan (2016), Kasia Niewiadoma (2017) and Coryn Rivera (2018) ride – are taking part.

They will be joined by British team Drops to complete the 96-rider field for the race that gets underway in Beccles, Suffolk. The 16 competing teams in this year’s Women’s Tour are:

Alé Cipollini (Italy)
Bigla Pro Cycling (Switzerland)
Boels Dolmans Cycling Team (Netherlands)
Canyon//SRAM Racing (Germany)
CCC – Liv (Netherlands)
Drops (Great Britain)
FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine-Futuroscope (France)
Mitchelton-SCOTT (Australia)
Movistar Team (Spain)
Parkhotel Valkenburg (Netherlands)
Team Sunweb (Netherlands)
Team TIBCO-SVB (USA)
Team VIRTU Cycling (Denmark)
Trek-Segafredo (USA)
Valcar Cylance Cycling (Italy)
WNT-ROTOR Pro Cycling (Germany)
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Route details
After five successful editions since the race was created in 2014, the Women’s Tour expands to six stages, covering 790 kilometres of racing and over 8,400 metres of ascent, with two tough stages in Mid and South Wales concluding the race on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June. The race will also include a hill-top finish for the first time, coming on Stage Four in Warwickshire on Thursday 13 June with riders tackling the 1.2 kilometre, 5% average gradient climb of Burton Dassett Country Park on three occasions during the stage.

While the Women’s Tour returns to Suffolk and Warwickshire, race organisers SweetSpot will host stages in Kent, Oxfordshire, Powys and Carmarthenshire for the first time as it continues to bring the prestigious UCI Women’s WorldTour event to new audiences.

The Stages: 10-15 of June
· Stage 1 Mon 10 Beccles to Stowmarket, 157.6km
· Stage 2 Tues 11 the Kent Cyclopark Stage, 62.5km
· Stage 3 Wed 12 Henley-on-Thames to Blenheim Palace, 145.1km
· Stage 4 Thurs 13 Warwick to Burton Dassett Country Park, 158.9km
· Stage 5 Fri 14 Llandrindod Wells to Builth Wells, 140km
· Stage 6 Sat 15 Carmarthen to Pembrey Country Park, 125.9km