2024 Tour of Britain (2.Pro)

29th edition: September 3 - 8, 2024

Tour of Britain podium history | 2023 edition | Start list
Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 | Stage 6

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Sunday, September 8: 6th & Final Stage, Lowestoft - Felixstowe, 158.4 km

Stage 6 map & profile

Matevz Govekar wins the final stage.

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Weather at the finish city of Felixstowe at 12:10 PM, local time: 19C (66F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the south at 24 km/hr (14 mph). There is a 13% chance of rain, growing to 35% at 4:00 PM.

The race: Here's the report from GC winner Stephen Williams' Team Israel-Premier Tech.

For the first time since 2016, the Tour of Britain has a home winner. Having used his two stage victories earlier in the week in Redcar and Barnsley to establish a solid GC lead, Welshman Stevie Williams completed the job in Sunday’s final stage in the East of England.

Williams, whose previous best result in his home tour was 14th, claimed the GC by 16 seconds ahead of Oscar Onley (DFP). Teammate Joe Blackmore finished fifth overall in his first participation in his home race.

IPT’s impressive week was capped off with a fourth place at the finish in Felixstowe for another British rider, Ethan Vernon, who recorded his fourth top-five result in the race. Vernon also won the sprint classification while, after a brilliant display of teamwork all week, all six IPT riders took to the podium as the best team of the race.

For Williams, this was his third GC victory in 13 months, sitting alongside the Arctic Race of Norway last August and the Tour Down Under in January. The 28-year-old’s career-best year now includes six wins in 2024, one more than the rest of his career combined.

He says: “It doesn’t get much better than winning your home race. My name will always have this race underneath it. I’m really proud to have been part of this team this week – the riders and staff have been amazing. It has been a great week.”

Far from being the ceremonial or straightforward ending, a stage that featured under 1,000 meters of elevation from start to finish was illuminated by a gusty breeze coming in from the nearby North Sea. But Williams never looked like losing his race lead; together with Simon Clarke and Jake Stewart, two of the team’s three unsung heroes this week, he was always on the right side of the splits in the peloton.

“It was quite a complicated day in the end,” Williams adds. ”A lot of teams tried to take it to us, which made it quite difficult. But we controlled the start really well, and then DSM tried to create some chaos in the wind. But I found myself in a small group with Jake and Simon, so that was fine for us. All we had to do was manage things, we could stay in the right wheels, we didn’t have to ride on the front foot. In the end the second group with Ethan came back and we tried to set it up for him in the sprint.”

Vernon’s week ended with another strong placing in the sprint – this was his first road race since May’s Giro d’Italia – and a final day crash involving French rider Paul Magnier meant that he was rewarded for his consistency in the shape of the points jersey. The British rider has finished in the top five in nine of the last 14 stages in his home tour.

“There are some good things to learn from this week,” says Vernon. ”I set myself up for a good sprint today but I didn’t have the legs in the end.

”This wasn’t the way I wanted to win the points jersey with Magnier crashing out, but I’m really happy with Stevie’s result. We all gave 100% to him and that’s why he came home with the win.”

Unsurprisingly given how impressive the IPT performance was this week, the team classification prize also came our way.

DS Sam Bewley was full of praise for the whole team, saying: ”The guys were brilliant again today. On paper it was a sprint stage but with the wind we knew it was a dangerous. Once again the guys were all over it.

”It was a pleasure to watch this group race together and they always kept the race in our favor. We are stoked for Stevie and his teammates deserve a lot of credit for their work as well.”

Results:

158.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.908 km/hr

1	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	3hr 22min 18sec
2	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
3	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
4	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
5	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
6	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
8	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	s.t.
9	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
10	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
11	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
12	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
13	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
14	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
15	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
16	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
17	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
18	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
19	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
20	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
21	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
22	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	s.t.
23	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
24	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
25	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
28	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
29	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
30	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
32	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
33	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
34	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
35	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
36	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
37	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
38	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
39	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
40	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
41	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
42	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	@ 15sec
43	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
44	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
45	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
46	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
47	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
48	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	0:23
49	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
50	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
51	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
52	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
53	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
54	Michael Gill	Great Britain	0:30
55	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
56	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	0:48
57	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
58	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
59	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	1:33
60	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	3:11
61	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
62	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
63	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
64	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
65	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
66	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
67	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
68	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
69	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
70	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
71	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	3:19
72	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
73	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
74	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
75	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
76	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
77	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
78	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
79	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
80	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
81	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
82	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
83	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	s.t.
84	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	s.t.
85	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
86	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
87	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
88	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	7:52
89	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
90	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	16:32
91	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	19:07

 

Final GC after stage 6:

• GC winner: Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Mountains classification winner: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification winner: Ethan Vernon (Israel-Paemier Tech)
• Best young rider: Oscar Onley (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
• Teams classification winner: Israel-Premier Tech

946.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.175 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	21hr 25min 14sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 16sec
3	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	0:36
4	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	0:40
5	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	0:41
6	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:39
7	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	1:40
8	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:58
9	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
10	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:03
11	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	2:05
12	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	2:07
13	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	2:08
14	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
15	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:10
16	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	2:11
17	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	2:22
18	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	2:45
19	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	2:55
20	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	2:57
21	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	3:28
22	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	3:35
23	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:42
24	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	4:32
25	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	4:56
26	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	5:27
27	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	5:32
28	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	6:27
29	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	7:10
30	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	7:29
31	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	7:39
32	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	10:00
33	Liam O'Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	10:21
34	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10:30
35	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	11:08
36	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	12:08
37	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	13:03
38	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	13:06
39	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	13:13
40	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	13:15
41	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	13:39
42	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	13:53
43	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	15:01
44	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	15:24
45	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	15:59
46	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	17:00
47	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	18:23
48	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	19:50
49	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	21:16
50	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	21:27
51	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	22:05
52	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	22:05
53	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	23:54
54	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	26:36
55	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	27:33
56	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	27:58
57	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	28:25
58	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	28:47
59	Max Greensill	Great Britain	29:05
60	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	30:09
61	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	30:25
62	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	31:00
63	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	31:01
64	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
65	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	31:08
66	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	31:49
67	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	32:01
68	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	32:14
69	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
70	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	33:29
71	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	33:51
72	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	34:54
73	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	37:07
74	Michael Gill	Great Britain	38:35
75	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	39:18
76	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	41:57
77	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	48:25
78	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	48:40
79	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	51:29
80	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	51:40
81	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	56:59
82	James McKay	Saint Piran	58:22
83	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:01:24
84	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	1:02:37
85	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	1:03:03
86	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:04:38
87	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	1:05:08
88	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:05:23
89	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:07:27
90	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	1:11:07
91	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	1:13:21

 

Stage 6 map & profile:

Stage 6 map

Stage 6 profile

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Saturday, September 7: Stage 5, Northampton - Northampton, 146.9 km

Paul Magnier wins again. Photo: SWpix

Stage 5 map & profile

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Weather at the start/finish city of Northampton at 12:45 PM local time: 19C (67F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the southeast at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is just a 2% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Paul Magnier's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Soudal Quick-Step reached 30 victories this season after Paul Magnier blasted to another win at the Tour of Britain, in what was a nail-biting finish in Northampton, where the breakaway got caught with only 700 meters to go.

Three men animated stage five, putting two minutes into the peloton, a gap which was reduced by just half a minute by the time they entered the last 20 kilometers. It took an incredibly long and determined pull of double Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel to bring the peloton within distance of the trio, the effort Soudal Quick-Step’s Belgian put in there turning out to be crucial at the end of the stage. As it happened in the previous two days that came down to a mass gallop, Julian Alaphilippe devoted his energies to working for his countryman, expertly putting him in an excellent position for the final 500 meters.

Magnier hit the front in the last 200 meters and completely unbothered by the uphill drag to the line, he swept past all his opponents producing a superb turn of speed that landed him his third stage win at this edition.

“I don’t have the words to tell you what it means to me to take three wins at the Tour of Britain. The team put in a great team performance today. It wasn’t easy to catch the breakaway, but Remco did an incredible effort to cut the gap, and then Julian brought me to the front while I saved my energy. I was able to do another good sprint. We have one more stage here and we hope to be in the mix on Sunday, when there should be another bunch sprint”, said Paul after mathematically winning the points jersey.

Complete results:

146.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.714 km/hr

1	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 12min 9sec
2	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
3	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
4	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
5	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
6	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	s.t.
7	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
9	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
11	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
12	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
13	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
14	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
15	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
16	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
17	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
18	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
19	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
20	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
21	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
22	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
23	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
24	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
25	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
26	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
27	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
28	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
29	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
30	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
32	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
33	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
34	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
35	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
36	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
37	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
38	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
40	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
41	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	@ 11sec
42	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
43	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
44	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
45	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
46	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
47	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
48	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
49	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
50	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
51	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	0:27
52	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	0:33
53	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
54	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
55	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
56	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	0:48
57	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
58	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
59	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
60	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
61	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
62	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:08
63	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	1:44
64	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
65	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:50
66	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
67	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:57
68	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
69	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
70	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
71	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
72	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
73	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
74	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	s.t.
75	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
76	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
77	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
78	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
79	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
80	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	s.t.
81	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
82	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
83	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	2:32
84	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
85	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	4:09
86	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
87	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
88	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	4:47
89	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	5:33
90	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	5:37
91	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
92	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
93	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	8:07
94	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
95	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	8:09
96	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
97	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
98	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	10:12

 

GC after stage 5:

• GC leader: Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Mountains classification leader: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification leader: Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Oscar Onley (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
• Teams classification leader: Israel-Premier Tech

785.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.521 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	18hr 2min 56sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 16sec
3	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	0:40
4	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	0:41
5	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:11
7	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:42
8	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	1:43
9	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	1:44
10	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:45
11	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	1:53
12	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:58
13	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
14	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:03
15	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	2:05
16	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	2:08
17	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	2:09
18	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	2:10
19	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	2:11
20	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:16
21	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	2:20
22	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	2:22
23	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	2:41
24	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	2:51
25	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	2:56
26	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	3:28
27	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	3:35
28	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:48
29	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	4:10
30	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	4:32
31	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	5:27
32	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	6:04
33	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	6:41
34	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	6:46
35	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	6:55
36	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	7:02
37	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	10:04
38	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10:31
39	Max Walker	Great Britain	10:38
40	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	10:42
41	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	11:04
42	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	12:08
43	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	12:29
44	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	12:30
45	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	12:32
46	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	12:40
47	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	12:51
48	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	13:23
49	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	13:41
50	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	14:46
51	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	15:01
52	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	15:55
53	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	15:59
54	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	18:08
55	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	18:17
56	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	18:46
57	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	21:25
58	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	21:40
59	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	22:08
60	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	23:25
61	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	24:39
62	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	27:02
63	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	27:17
64	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	27:37
65	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	27:49
66	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	27:49
67	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	28:02
68	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	28:30
69	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	28:32
70	Max Greensill	Great Britain	29:03
71	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
72	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	30:09
73	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	30:25
74	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	31:01
75	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	31:36
76	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	32:06
77	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	33:29
78	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	33:51
79	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	37:07
80	Michael Gill	Great Britain	38:05
81	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	38:30
82	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	38:38
83	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	45:06
84	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	45:21
85	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	45:42
86	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	47:00
87	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	51:27
88	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	53:40
89	James McKay	Saint Piran	55:11
90	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	56:47
91	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	59:13
92	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	59:50
93	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:01:22
94	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:01:27
95	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	1:01:49
96	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:02:02
97	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:04:14
98	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	1:07:40

 

Stage 5 map & profile:

Stage 5 map

Stage 5 profile

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Friday, September 6: Stage 4, Derby - Newark-on-Trent, 138.5 km

Stage 4 map & profile

An enthusiastic Paul Magnier wins stage 4. Photo: SWpix

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Weather at the finish city of Newark-on-Trent at 1:10 P, local time: 24C (76F), sunny, with nthe wind from the northeast at 24 km/hr (15 mph). There is just a 1% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Paul Magnier's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Paul Magnier delivered our team’s 25th stage victory at the Tour of Britain as he became the new points classification leader with just two days to go, after another dominant sprint, this time in Newark-on-Trent, not that far from the famous Sherwood Forest.

On the finishing straight, just after a right-hand corner, Magnier came off the wheel of an excellent Julian Alaphilippe – who once again charged forward with his countryman on his wheel, producing an incredible lead-out – and capitalised on his teammate’s flawless piloting. The 20-year-old stomped from Grenoble his authority on the bunch sprint as he powered like a locomotive to his fourth victory in the pro ranks and his second of the week.

“I’m delighted with this win, which once again wouldn’t have been possible without my incredible team. They controlled the race in the headwind, then put me in an excellent position for the finale, where it was very fast due to the tailwind. I had a lot of confidence and did a good sprint. Finishing it off makes me very happy, especially as this was one of the stages I was targeting before the start of the race.”

“I’m really proud to be part of Soudal Quick-Step, it’s something that motivates me and it feels amazing to contribute to this squad’s incredible palmares. We have two victories so far and it would be nice if we could add to these in the remaining stages. The jersey is a bonus and having it on my shoulders makes me keen on doing my best to take it home”, said Paul, the first French rider this century to score a pair of stages at a single edition of the Tour of Britain.

Complete results:

138.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.304 km/hr

1	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	3hr 11min 54sec
2	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
3	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
4	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
5	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
6	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	s.t.
7	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
10	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
11	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
12	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
13	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
14	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
15	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
16	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
17	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
18	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
19	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
20	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
21	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
22	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
24	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
25	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
26	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
27	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
28	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
29	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	s.t.
30	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
31	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
32	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
33	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
34	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
35	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	s.t.
36	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
37	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
38	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
39	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
40	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
41	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
42	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
43	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
44	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
45	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
46	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
47	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
48	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
49	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
50	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
51	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
52	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
53	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
54	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
55	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
56	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
57	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
58	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
59	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
60	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
61	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
62	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
63	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
64	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
65	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
66	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
67	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
68	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
69	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
70	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
72	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 21sec
73	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
74	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	0:34
75	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
76	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	0:40
77	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
78	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	0:43
79	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
80	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 0sec
81	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	0:47
82	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	0:50
83	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
84	Michael Gill	Great Britain	0:55
85	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	1:05
86	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	1:23
87	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
88	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
89	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	@ 0sec
90	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	1:27
91	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
92	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
93	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	@ 0sec
94	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:49
95	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	1:53
96	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	4:24
97	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	4:45
98	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	s.t.
99	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	s.t.
100	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	7:50

 

GC after stage 4:

• GC leader: Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Mountains classification leader: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification leader: Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Best young rider: Oscar Onley (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
• Teams classification leader: Israel-Premier Tech

638.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.014 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	14hr 50min 47sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 16sec
3	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	0:40
4	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	0:41
5	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
6	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	1:05
7	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:21
8	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	1:33
9	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:42
10	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	1:43
11	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:45
12	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:47
13	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
14	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:03
15	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	2:05
16	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	2:08
17	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	2:09
18	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
19	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	2:10
20	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	2:11
21	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:16
22	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	2:22
23	Max Walker	Great Britain	2:29
24	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	2:30
25	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	2:40
26	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
27	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	2:45
28	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	3:30
29	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	3:32
30	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	3:37
31	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:49
32	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	3:59
33	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	4:13
34	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	4:17
35	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	4:21
36	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	5:05
37	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	5:58
38	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	6:41
39	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	6:55
40	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10:31
41	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
42	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	10:42
43	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	11:59
44	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	12:08
45	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	12:24
46	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	12:29
47	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	12:33
48	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	12:40
49	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	13:23
50	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	14:08
51	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	14:13
52	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	14:46
53	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	15:11
54	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	15:44
55	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	16:11
56	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	18:46
57	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	19:52
58	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	19:56
59	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	20:11
60	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	20:52
61	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	21:35
62	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	22:37
63	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	22:53
64	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	24:23
65	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	25:12
66	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	25:40
67	Max Greensill	Great Britain	27:06
68	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
69	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
70	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	27:44
71	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	27:49
72	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
73	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	28:02
74	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	29:20
75	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	30:09
76	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
77	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	30:29
78	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	31:01
79	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	31:25
80	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	33:01
81	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	33:51
82	Michael Gill	Great Britain	33:56
83	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	34:54
84	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	35:58
85	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	37:13
86	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	37:14
87	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	43:58
88	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	46:07
89	James McKay	Saint Piran	47:04
90	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	49:30
91	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	53:40
92	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
93	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	54:50
94	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	57:16
95	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	57:53
96	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	59:25
97	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:00:05
98	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:01:27
99	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:02:17
100	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	1:05:04

 

Stage 4 map & profile:

Stage 4 map

Stage 4 profile

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Thursday, September 5: Stage 3, Sheffield - Barnsley, 166.1 km

Stage 3 map & profile

Stephen Williams wins stage three.

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Weather at the finish city of Barnsley at 12:40 PM, local time: 15C (59F), cloudy, with the wind from the north at 21 km/hr (13 mph). There is a 6% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from winner Stephen Williams' Team Israel-Premier Tech.

Two wins in two days for Stevie Williams at the Tour of Britain, and while his victory in Barnsley on Thursday extended his GC lead to 0:16, it was harder fought than his triumph in Redcar a day earlier.

Williams and his teammates spent a day under pressure, with attacks from GC contenders coming as early as five kilometers into the stage. However, the Welshman never looked flustered and, after the race came back together again approaching a technical and undulating approach to the finish, he showed again that he’s the strongest rider in the race.

After getting himself into position on the Old Mill Lane climb with 600 meters remaining, Williams hit the front in sight of the line to easily beat Paul Magnier (SOQ) and Edoardo Zambanini (TBV). Behind, Joe Blackmore placed ninth to move up to fourth overall on his Tour of Britain debut.

”It was really tough, it was a really hard day,” says Williams. “The roads were really demanding, the weather was pretty bad, but in the end it came good. I’ve raced a lot this year with a group that has backed me and given their all for me, and today was no different. They did a stellar job to control the stage today, and it wasn’t easy to do that.”

The action started early: within five kilometers, in fact, as Julian Alaphilippe latched onto a move from local rider Ben Swift. Alaphilippe started the day third overall, 0:16 behind Williams, but handily Jake Stewart followed the Frenchman to give IPT a crucial presence in that move.

After that breakaway was reeled in, Soudal – Quick-Step tried to put Williams in trouble as crosswinds threatened to split the race, but the race leader’s team-mates ensured that no damage was done.

However, an eight-rider move then formed, one that featured a number of GC threats. Home rider Louis Sutton sat 0:31 down on Williams after stage 2, with four other riders within 1:37 of the Welshman. As more inclement hit the race, this group quickly amassed a lead that made Sutton the virtual race leader. However, the efforts of Simon Clarke, Ethan Vernon, and Nick Schultz neutralized their threat. So strong was Schultz that he obliterated the remnants of the peloton, with Alaphilippe and teammate Remco Evenepoel among those dropped.

Williams adds: “The stage seemed to settle down after 50 or 60 kilometers, and then the fireworks started again. It was hectic. But the way my teammates controlled that and brought the breakaway back was incredible. They set it up so that I could have a go again for the win.”

It could have been easy for riders to try long-range moves on the uphill approach to the finish line, but patience was key. Williams picked the right wheels, then timed his sprint to perfection. For the second day running, he had enough of a gap to celebrate the victory.

”We expected it to be an aggressive day with other teams trying to put us under pressure, which is how it went,” said DS Sam Bewley.

”We were pretty clear with the situation we wanted and how we would react and control different scenarios, but a plan is nothing more than that if you don’t have the team to execute.

”It was a pleasure to watch the team today. Our primary goal was to protect the jersey, but of course if the stage was an option then we would commit to that and the way the guys kept the race in our favor and the way Stevie finished it off was inspiring to see. The guys really were incredible today.”

Complete results:

166.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.321 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	3hr 50min 3sec
2	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
3	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
4	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
5	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
6	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
7	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
8	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
10	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
11	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
12	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
13	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
14	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	@ 7sec
15	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	0:09
16	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	0:16
17	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	0:22
18	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
19	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
20	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
21	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
22	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	0:24
23	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
24	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
25	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
26	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	0:31
27	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	0:35
28	Max Walker	Great Britain	0:42
29	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	0:53
30	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
31	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	0:59
32	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	1:07
33	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	1:12
34	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:46
35	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	2:02
36	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	2:06
37	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	2:09
38	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	2:12
39	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	2:18
40	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	2:18
41	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	2:30
42	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
43	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
44	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
45	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	2:34
46	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
47	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
48	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
49	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	2:44
50	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	3:12
51	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	5:08
52	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
53	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	5:57
54	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	6:37
55	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	7:30
56	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	8:44
57	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
58	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
59	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
60	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
61	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
62	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
63	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
64	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
65	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
66	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
67	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
68	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
69	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
70	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
71	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
72	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10:00
73	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
74	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	10:15
75	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
76	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	11:36
77	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
78	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
79	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	s.t.
80	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
81	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
82	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
83	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
84	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
85	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
86	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	11:39
87	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	13:20
88	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
89	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	18:24
90	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	s.t.
91	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	32:15
92	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
93	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
94	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
95	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
96	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
97	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
98	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
99	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
100	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
101	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
102	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	s.t.

 

GC after stage 3:

• GC leader: Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Mountains classification leader: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification leader: Stephen Williams (Israel-Premier Tech)
• Best young rider: Oscar Onley (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
• Teams classification leader: Israel-Premier Tech

500.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.934 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	11hr 38min 53sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 16sec
3	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	0:41
4	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
5	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
6	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	1:05
7	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:31
8	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	1:33
9	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	1:43
10	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:44
11	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:45
12	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:47
13	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
14	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:03
15	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	2:05
16	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	2:08
17	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	2:09
18	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
19	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	2:10
20	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	2:11
21	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:16
22	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	2:22
23	Max Walker	Great Britain	2:29
24	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	2:30
25	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	2:40
26	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
27	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	2:45
28	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	2:46
29	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:57
30	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	3:11
31	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	3:30
32	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:49
33	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	3:59
34	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	4:17
35	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	4:21
36	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
37	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	4:31
38	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	6:41
39	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	6:55
40	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10:31
41	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
42	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	10:42
43	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	10:44
44	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	11:16
45	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	12:08
46	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	12:20
47	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	12:24
48	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	12:29
49	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	12:40
50	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	13:23
51	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
52	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	13:34
53	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	14:28
54	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	15:07
55	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	15:44
56	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	16:11
57	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	18:46
58	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	19:56
59	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	20:11
60	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	20:52
61	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	21:14
62	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	21:30
63	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	21:35
64	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	24:13
65	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	24:23
66	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	25:12
67	Max Greensill	Great Britain	27:06
68	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
69	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
70	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	27:28
71	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	27:44
72	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	27:49
73	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
74	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	29:20
75	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	30:09
76	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
77	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
78	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	30:35
79	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	30:41
80	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	31:01
81	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	31:25
82	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	31:34
83	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	33:01
84	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
85	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
86	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	36:12
87	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	37:14
88	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	37:17
89	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	42:53
90	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	45:46
91	James McKay	Saint Piran	47:04
92	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	49:30
93	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	52:31
94	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	53:40
95	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
96	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	54:50
97	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	57:53
98	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
99	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	59:25
100	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	59:25
101	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	1:01:27
102	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.

 

Stage 3 map & profile:

Stage 3 map

Stage 3 profile

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Wednesday, September 4: Stage 2, Darlington - Redcar, 152.1 km

Stage 2 map & profile

Stephen Williams wins stage 2 and takes over the GC lead.

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Weather at the finish city of Redcar at 1:00 PM, local time: 14C (57F), mostly cloudy, with the wind from the northeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). There is a 6% chance of rain. Rain fell on the peloton early in the stage.

The race: Midway in the stage Callum Ormiston (Global 6 United) abandoned.

Here's the report from stage winner Stephen Williams' Team Israel-Premier Tech:

A first professional victory on home soil, and hopefully a pre-cursor to big things later on in the week. Stevie Williams capitalized on a combative and dominant Israel – Premier Tech performance to win stage 2 of the Tour of Britain on Wednesday, with the bonus seconds on the line moving him into the race lead.

Williams beat Oscar Onley (DFP) and two-time Tour of Britain winner Julian Alaphilippe (SOQ) after the trio broke clear on the uncatgorized climb at Saltburn Bank. The Welshman instigated the move, attacking from an elite breakaway group that included teammate Joe Blackmore and also featured a third IPT rider, Jake Stewart, for a key part of the race.

“This is my third time at this race and I’ve never managed to get my hands in the air here,” said Williams. “It’s really special to win in the UK – we don’t get to race here often so it means a lot.

“From 70 km to go it was technical and twisty, with steep climbs, and the key was to stay in front. We were there in numbers – the way the boys rode was superb. They made sure I was positioned brilliantly going into the climbs.”

The Welshman paid tribute to Blackmore, who placed an impressive fourth.

“Joe was unbelievable in the final, giving us the extra rider to play with,” he adds. “In the end the goal was to get me to the line in a small group. I back my sprint in that situation.”

Williams leads Onley by six seconds, with Alaphilippe third overall, a further 10 seconds down. Thursday’s third stage is the hardest of the race, taking place between Sheffield and Barnsley.

And while the final three stages of the race seem suited to the sprinters, Williams knows the GC battle isn’t over until Sunday.

He adds: “Four more days to go, it doesn’t end until it ends. We’ll play it day by day – a lot of things can happen in a stage race.”

Complete results:

152.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.975 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	3hr 37min 25sec
2	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
3	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
4	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	@ 21sec
5	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
6	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
7	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
8	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:27
10	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
11	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
12	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
13	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
14	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
15	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
16	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
17	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
18	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	s.t.
19	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
20	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
21	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
22	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
23	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
24	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
26	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
27	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
28	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
29	Liam O'Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
30	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
32	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
33	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
34	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
35	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
36	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
37	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
38	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
39	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
40	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
41	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
42	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
43	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
44	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
45	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
46	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
47	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:46
48	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:37
49	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	5:51
50	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
51	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
52	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	7:10
53	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
54	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
55	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	10:56
56	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
57	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
58	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
59	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
60	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	12:11
61	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
62	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
63	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
64	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	13:48
65	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
66	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	s.t.
67	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
68	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	15:42
69	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
70	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
72	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
73	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	18:45
74	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	s.t.
75	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
76	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
77	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
78	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
79	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
80	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
81	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
82	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
83	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
84	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
85	Ronan O'Connor	Global 6 United	s.t.
86	Jaime Castrillo	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
87	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
88	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
89	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
90	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
91	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
92	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
93	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
94	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
95	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
96	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
97	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
98	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
99	André Carvalho	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
100	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
101	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
102	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	s.t.
103	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
104	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
105	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	26:35
106	Colby Lange	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.

 

GC after stage 2:

• GC leader: Stephen Williams (ISrael-Premier Tech)
• Mountains classification leader: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification leader: Julius Johansen (Sabgal-Anicolor)
• Best young rider: Oscar Onley (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL)
• Teams classification leader: Israel-Premier Tech

334.0 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.729 km/hr

1	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	7hr 49min 0sec
2	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	@ 6sec
3	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	0:16
4	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	0:31
5	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
6	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
7	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
8	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
9	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	1:27
10	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	1:28
11	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	1:33
12	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	1:34
13	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	1:36
14	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	1:37
15	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
16	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
17	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
18	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
19	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
20	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
21	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
22	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
23	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
24	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
25	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
26	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
27	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
28	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
29	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
30	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
31	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
32	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
33	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
34	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
35	Liam O´Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
36	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
37	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
38	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
39	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
40	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
41	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
42	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	1:56
43	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:25
44	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	2:26
45	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	3:47
46	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	3:57
47	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
48	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	6:01
49	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	6:13
50	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	7:20
51	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	8:10
52	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	9:40
53	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
54	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	11:06
55	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
56	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
57	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	12:19
58	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	12:20
59	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	12:30
60	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	12:36
61	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	13:06
62	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	13:25
63	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	13:58
64	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
65	James McKay	Saint Piran	14:39
66	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	16:18
67	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	18:12
68	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
69	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
70	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
71	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	18:49
72	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	18:55
73	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
74	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
75	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
76	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
77	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
78	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	19:48
79	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	20:06
80	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	21:15
81	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
82	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
83	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
84	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
85	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
86	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
87	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
88	André Carvalho	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
89	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
90	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	22:07
91	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	22:25
92	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	25:28
93	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
94	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Conti	s.t.
95	Jaime Castrillo	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
96	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
97	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
98	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	27:00
99	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
100	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	29:02
101	Ronan O'Connor	Global 6 United	s.t.
102	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	29:02
103	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	30:56
104	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	33:59
105	Colby Lange	Project Echelon Racing	36:52
106	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.

Stage 2 map & profile:

Stage 2 map

Stage 2 profile

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Tuesday, September 3: Stage 1, Kelso - Kelso, 181.9 km

Stage 1 map & profile

Paul Magnier wins stage 1. Photo: SWpix

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Weather at the start/finish city of Kelso at 1:00 PM, local time: 18C (64F), fair, with the wond from the southwest at 18 km/hr (11 mph). There is a 5% chance of rain.

The race: Here's the report from stage winner Paul Magnier's Team Soudal Quick-Step.

Soudal Quick-Step made its Tour of Britain return in style, three years after the previous appearance at the race, taking the victory on the opening day thanks to an excellent team effort. One of this season’s revelations, Paul Magnier powered to his third victory for the team, after the ones at the Challenge Mallorca and Tour of Oman, giving no chance to his opponents in Kelso, where the day concluded after a closing kilometer which included a cobbled section just before the finish.

It was an eventful stage, with a three-man breakaway animating things while behind Soudal Quick-Step controlled the gap, and plenty of attacks launched on the last two climbs. Among those to show their intention were double World Champion Julian Alaphilippe and double Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel, who put the hammer down and stretched out the field.

As soon as things came back together, the Wolfpack returned at the front of the peloton, Gil Gelders doing a tremendous effort to keep our team in a perfect position going into the final part of this 181.9km stage. The same Evenepoel and Alaphilippe came to the fore and pushed a huge tempo that put Magnier in a great position, from where the 20-year-old French neo-pro unleashed a late burst of sprint.

“We had a plan for today. Julian and Remco tried to go on the attack and make the race hard, but after the peloton came back, they worked for me and I did my best to repay their effort with a win. It was very important to be well-positioned in the finale, and having two champions work for me there gave me wings. I launched my sprint just before the cobbles and I am happy I could go all the way and take the victory. It feels incredible and I am proud of taking the leader’s jersey. I knew I was in good shape after my result in Plouay and I hope to continue showing this in the race”, said Paul, the youngest rider in the last 18 years to lead the Tour of Britain.

Complete results:

181.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.353 km/hr

1	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	4hr 11min 45sec
2	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
3	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	s.t.
4	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
5	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
6	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
7	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
8	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
9	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
10	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
11	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
12	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
13	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
14	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
15	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
16	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
17	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
18	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
19	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
20	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
21	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
22	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
23	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
24	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
25	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
26	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
27	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
28	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
29	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
30	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
31	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
32	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
33	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
34	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
35	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
36	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
37	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
38	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
40	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
41	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
42	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
43	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
44	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
45	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
46	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
47	Liam O'Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
48	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
49	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
50	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
51	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
52	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
53	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
54	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
55	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
56	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
57	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
58	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
59	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	@ 12sec
60	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
61	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	0:15
62	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	0:48
63	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	0:49
64	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	0:53
65	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	2:00
66	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:20
67	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
68	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
69	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
70	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	s.t.
71	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
72	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
73	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
74	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
75	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
76	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
77	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
78	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
79	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
80	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
81	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
82	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
83	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
84	André Carvalho	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
85	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
86	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
87	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	3:12
88	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	6:08
89	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	6:33
90	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
91	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
92	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
93	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
94	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
95	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	s.t.
96	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
97	Jaime Castrillo	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
98	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	8:05
99	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
100	Colby Lange	Project Echelon Racing	10:07
101	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
102	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
103	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
104	Ronan O'Connor	Global 6 United	s.t.
105	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	12:01
106	Callum Ormiston	Global 6 United	15:03
107	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	15:04

 

GC after stage 1:

• GC leader: Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Mountains classification leader: Callum Thornley (Trinity Racing)
• Points classification leader: Julius Johansen (Sabgal-Anicolor)
• Berst young rider: Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step)
• Teams classification leader: Israel-Premier Tech

1	Paul Magnier	Soudal Quick-Step	4hr 11min 35sec
2	Julius Johansen	Sabgal-Anicolor	@ 1sec
3	Ethan Vernon	Israel-Premier Tech	0:04
4	Robert Donaldson	Trinity Racing	0:06
5	Tom Pidcock	INEOS Grenadiers	0:08
6	Jonas Abrahamsen	Uno-X Mobility	0:09
7	Ben Turner	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
8	Casper van Uden	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	0:10
9	Rory Townsend	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
10	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
11	Matevz Govekar	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
12	Jake Stewart	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
13	Norman Vahtra	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
14	Markus Hoelgaard	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
15	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
16	Rasmus Søjberg Pedersen	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
17	Hugo Scala Jr	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
18	Lewis Bower	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
19	Paul Wright	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
20	Bradley Symonds	Saint Piran	s.t.
21	Nick Schultz	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
22	Jelte Krijnsen	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
23	Sean Flynn	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
24	Max Walker	Great Britain	s.t.
25	Nicolò Buratti	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
26	Mark Donovan	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
27	Pello Bilbao	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
28	Matthew Holmes	Great Britain	s.t.
29	Oscar Onley	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
30	Rémi Capron	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
31	Samuel Leroux	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
32	Joe Blackmore	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
33	Cade Bickmore	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
34	Nils Aebersold	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
35	Giacomo Ballabio	Global 6 United	s.t.
36	Fergus Browning	Trinity Racing	s.t.
37	Mathias Bregnhøj	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
38	Bjoern Koerdt	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	s.t.
39	Paul Verbnjak	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
40	Wout Poels	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
41	Tom Donnenwirth	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
42	Kévin Avoine	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
43	Louis Sutton	Great Britain	s.t.
44	Oliver Rees	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
45	Damien Howson	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
46	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
47	Ethan Hayter	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
48	Liam O'Brien	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
49	Yago Aguirre	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
50	Noa Isidore	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
51	Killian Verschuren	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
52	Simon Dalby	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
53	Joshua Ludman	Saint Piran	s.t.
54	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
55	Antoine L'Hote	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
56	Joshua Golliker	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
57	Oscar Nilsson-Julien	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
58	Nickolas Zukowsky	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
59	Julian Alaphilippe	Soudal Quick-Step	0:22
60	Baptiste Veistroffer	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development	s.t.
61	Oliver Peace	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	0:25
62	Connor Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	0:58
63	Gil Gelders	Soudal Quick-Step	0:59
64	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	1:03
65	Tobias Foss	INEOS Grenadiers	2:10
66	Emils Liepins	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	2:30
67	Noah Hobbs	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
68	Max Greensill	Great Britain	s.t.
69	Erik Resell	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
70	Rowan Baker	Saint Piran	s.t.
71	Dylan Westley	Saint Piran	s.t.
72	Emmanuel Morin	Van Rysel-Roubaix	s.t.
73	Laurent Gervais	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
74	Ethan Craine	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
75	James McKay	Saint Piran	s.t.
76	Cole Kessler	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
77	Joey Rosskopf	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
78	Ronan Augé	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
79	Duarte Domingues	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
80	Alex Beldon	Trinity Racing	s.t.
81	Ben Askey	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
82	Oliver Wood	Saint Piran	s.t.
83	Michael Gill	Great Britain	s.t.
84	André Carvalho	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
85	Jacob Scott	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
86	Martin Pedersen	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
87	Sakarias Koller Løland	Uno-X Mobility	3:22
88	Dean Harvey	Trinity Racing	6:18
89	Callum Thornley	Trinity Racing	6:39
90	Ben Wiggins	Great Britain	6:43
91	Vlad Van Mechelen	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
92	Edouard Bonnefoix	Global 6 United	s.t.
93	Maxime Decomble	Groupama-FDJ Continental	s.t.
94	Scott McGill	Project Echelon Racing	s.t.
95	Wesley Mol	Global 6 United	s.t.
96	Erlend Blikra	Uno-X Mobility	s.t.
97	Jaime Castrillo	Sabgal-Anicolor	s.t.
98	Sebastian Niehues	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	8:15
99	Jonathan Malte Rottmann	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
100	Colby Lange	Project Echelon Racing	10:17
101	Lennart Voege	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland	s.t.
102	Martin Svrcek	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
103	Cameron Rogers	Lidl-Trek Future Racing	s.t.
104	Ronan O'Connor	Global 6 United	s.t.
105	Joseph Pidcock	Trinity Racing	12:11
106	Callum Ormiston	Global 6 United	15:13
107	Gianni Moscon	Soudal Quick-Step	15:14

Stage 1 map & profile:

Stage 1 map

Stage 1 profile

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Start list with back numbers, September 2, 2024:

	INEOS Grenadiers
1	Tobias Foss
2	Ethan Hayter
3	Tom Pidcock
4	Ben Swift
5	Connor Swift
6	Ben Turner
	Soudal Quick-Step
11	Julian Alaphilippe
12	Remco Evenepoel
13	Gil Gelders
14	Paul Magnier
15	Gianni Moscon
16	Martin Svrcek
	Bahrain Victorious
21	Pello Bilbao
22	Nicolò Buratti
23	Matevz Govekar
24	Wout Poels
25	Edoardo Zambanini
26	Vlad Van Mechelen
	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL
31	Sean Flynn
32	Bjoern Koerdt
33	Emils Liepins
34	Oscar Onley
35	Casper van Uden
36	Oliver Peace
	Groupama-FDJ Continentale
41	Noah Hobbs
42	Ben Askey
43	Lewis Bower
44	Maxime Decomble
45	Ronan Augé
46	Joshua Golliker
	Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Development Team
51	Tom Donnenwirth
52	Noa Isidore
53	Antoine L'Hote
54	Rasmus øjberg Pedersen
55	Baptiste Veistroffer
56	Killian Verschuren
	Israel-Premier Tech
61	Joe Blackmore
62	Simon Clarke
63	Nick Schultz
64	Jake Stewart
65	Ethan Vernon
66	Stephen Williams
	Uno-X Mobility
71	Jonas Abrahamsen
72	Erlend Blikra
73	Simon Dalby
74	Erik Resell
75	Markus Hoelgaard
76	Sakarias Koller Løland
	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
81	Mark Donovan
82	Damien Howson
83	Jelte Krijnsen
84	Joey Rosskopf
85	Rory Townsend
86	Nickolas Zukowsky
	Lidl-Trek Future Racing
91	Nils Aebersold
92	Martin Pedersen
93	Cole Kessler
94	Liam O´Brien
95	Cameron Rogers
96	Paul Verbnjak
	Van Rysel-Roubaix
101	Kévin Avoine
102	Rémi Capron
103	Samuel Leroux
104	Emmanuel Morin
105	Norman Vahtra
106	Oscar Nilsson-Julien
	Project Echelon Racing
111	Colby Lange
112	Laurent Gervais
113	Cade Bickmore
114	Ethan Craine
115	Hugo Scala Jr
116	Scott McGill
	Trinity Racing
121	Robert Donaldson
122	Callum Thornley
123	Joseph Pidcock
124	Fergus Browning
125	Dean Harvey
126	Alex Beldon
	Sabgal-Anicolor
131	Mathias Bregnhøj
132	Julius Johansen
133	André Carvalho
134	Oliver Rees
135	Duarte Domingues
136	Jaime Castrillo
	Saint Piran
141	Rowan Baker
142	James McKay
143	Joshua Ludman
144	Bradley Symonds
145	Oliver Wood
146	Dylan Westley
	Global 6 United
151	Giacomo Ballabio
152	Ronan O'Connor
153	Callum Ormiston
154	Wesley Mol
156	Edouard Bonnefoix
	REMBE Pro Cycling Team Sauerland
161	Jacob Scott
162	Paul Wright
163	Lennart Voege
164	Yago Aguirre
165	Jonathan Malte Rottmann
166	Sebastian Niehues
	Great Britain
171	Max Greensill
172	Louis Sutton
173	Ben Wiggins
174	Matthew Holmes
175	Michael Gill
176	Max Walker