{"id":762104,"date":"2026-09-06T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762104\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:10:11","slug":"tim-wellens-wins-tour-of-britain-as-gbs-lewis-askey-finishes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762104\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Wellens wins Tour of Britain as GB&#8217;s Lewis Askey finishes second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belgium&#8217;s Tim Wellens won the 2026 Tour of Britain as Nils Politt claimed victory on stage five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wellens began the day with a 21 second lead over Great Britain&#8217;s Lewis Askey and extended that to 42 seconds as he finished eighth, 21 seconds behind German Politt, on the final stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Askey finished 40 seconds adrift of Wellens on the 156.1km run through Earlston but managed to hold on to second place, with Belgium&#8217;s Jasper Stuyven 21 seconds behind him in third place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Elliot Rowe ended the event in sixth place, with compatriots Mark Donovan in ninth and Ben Wiggins in 10th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prior to the start of the stage, the riders gave Briton Ben Swift a guard of honour as the 38-year-old recently announced he will retire at the end of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Politt launched an attack with just under nine kilometres to go and saw off Wiggins before going on to win his first stage since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s Tim Wellens won the 2026 Tour of Britain as Nils Politt claimed victory on stage five. Wellens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762104","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\/762104","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=762104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}