The host venues for the 2026 Tour of Britain women’s cycling race have been announced. <\/p>\n
Warwickshire, which has previously staged five editions of the women’s race, will host the fifth and final stage of the UCI Women’s WorldTour event.<\/p>\n
The climax will take place in Leamington Spa on 23 August.<\/p>\n
Earlier stages will see the route travel through Cockermouth, Blackpool, Llandudno and Hay\u2011on\u2011Wye.<\/p>\n
Leamington Spa last featured as a stage finish in 2017 and 2018, when Australians Chloe Hosking and Sarah Roy took victory.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Day, director of events for British Cycling Ventures, said the 2026 edition offers “a huge opportunity to create a real festival of cycling”.<\/p>\n
“For the first time, there is parity in the number of stages with the men’s race a few weeks later, so it is a huge opportunity to create a real festival of cycling, with the women’s race kick-starting a brilliant few weeks of elite racing,” he said.<\/p>\n
British Cycling claimed the 2025 Lloyds Tours of Britain generated \u00a362.3m for host regions.<\/p>\n
The organisation’s partnership with Warwickshire County Council aims to strengthen cycling and tourism links in the area through major events such as the women’s tour, a spokesperson added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The host venues for the 2026 Tour of Britain women’s cycling race have been announced. Warwickshire, which has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}