{"id":868633,"date":"2026-08-23T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868633\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:44:12","slug":"le-court-claims-tour-of-britain-glory-despite-wiebes-fourth-stage-win-in-five-tour-of-britain-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868633\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Court claims Tour of Britain glory despite Wiebes\u2019 fourth stage win in five | Tour of Britain Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Kim Le Court sealed overall victory in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/women-s-tour\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Britain Women<\/a> in Royal Leamington Spa, despite Lorena Wiebes taking her 11th career stage win in the British race and her fourth win in the 2026 edition, with a typically irresistible sprint. It was the 137th win of Wiebes\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Le Court, who won a stage and finished ninth overall in the Tour de France Femmes, based her success on a solo victory in Friday\u2019s stage to the Great Orme, overlooking Llandudno. It was the most significant stage race victory of the Mauritian rider\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>Quick GuideHow do I sign up for sport breaking news alerts?Show<\/p>\n<p>In the Guardian app, tap the Profile settings button at the top right, then select Notifications. Turn on sport notifications.<\/p>\n<p>If you already have the Guardian app, make sure you\u2019re on the most recent version.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have the Guardian app, download it from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/the-guardian\/id409128287?mt=8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS App Store<\/a>\u00a0on iPhone or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.guardian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play store<\/a>\u00a0on Android by searching for &#8216;The Guardian&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Wiebes had to work hard for her win. Sara Mart\u00edn, of Movistar, British rider Alice Towers and Eva van Agt, teammate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/09\/tour-de-france-femmes-demi-vollering-cycling\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes winner Demi Vollering<\/a> at FDJ United-Suez, slipped clear with 110km to race and worked well together to distance the peloton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The three-rider breakaway built a lead that approached two-and-a-half minutes until the climbs of Sun Rising Hill and Burton Dassett took their toll, and the chasing field picked up speed. In a frenzied final 20km, the advantage of the day\u2019s breakaway trio was steadily eroded as the peloton accelerated on the approach to the Warwickshire spa town. Even with under 5km remaining, the trio still led by half a minute, but were finally reeled in with barely a kilometre to race, as Wiebes once again sprinted to success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Le Court sealed overall victory in the Tour of Britain Women in Royal Leamington Spa, despite Lorena&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-868633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}