2021 Tour of Britain
Male Team 05 - 12 Sep

Tour of Britain

1308 Kilometers 8 Stages
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Participants list

  1. Marc Soler
  2. Dario Cataldo
  3. Juri Hollmann
  4. Matteo Jorgenson
  5. Gabriel Cullaigh
  6. Gonzalo Serrano
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TV

All stages will be shown live in its entirety on ITV4, while Eurosport / GCN will broadcast 2h30 each day at 1300 BST.

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Timetable

All stages are scheduled to end around 1530 BST, except for the last one, which should end around 1450.

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Social Media

The race’s official Twitter account is @TourofBritain; the hashtag is #TourofBritain.

Stages

Analysis

01
Penzance - Bodmin (180.8km)
05 September
  1. 01 Wout Van Aert Jumbo – Visma 4h33'36"
  2. 02 Nils Eekhoff Team DSM "
  3. 03 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team "
  4. 14 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +2"
  5. 30 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team +12"
  6. 43 Marc Soler Movistar Team +50"
  7. 79 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team +3'49"
  8. 103 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team +7'44"
02
Sherford - Exeter (183.9km)
06 September
  1. 01 Robin Carpenter Rally Cycling 4h45'56"
  2. 02 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers +33"
  3. 03 Alex Peters SwiftCarbon "
  4. 15 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team "
  5. 32 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
  6. 49 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team "
  7. 60 Marc Soler Movistar Team +1'06"
  8. 76 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team +15'14"
  9. 92 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team +17'30"
03
Llandeilo - National Botanic Garden of Wales (TTT / CRE) (18.1km)
07 September
  1. 01 INEOS Grenadiers 20'22"
  2. 02 Deceuninck – Quick Step +17"
  3. 03 Jumbo – Visma +20"
  4. 07 Movistar Team +1'08" Team: Gonzalo Serrano Matteo Jorgenson Juri Hollmann Marc Soler Dario Cataldo Gabriel Cullaigh
04
Aberaeron - Llandudno (210km)
08 September
  1. 01 Wout Van Aert Jumbo – Visma 5h04'22"
  2. 02 Julian Alaphilippe Deceuninck – Quick Step "
  3. 03 Michael Woods Israel Start-Up Nation +1"
  4. 21 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team +44"
  5. 35 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +1'50"
  6. 60 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team +6'17"
  7. 87 Marc Soler Movistar Team +14'19"
  8. 93 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team +23'32"
  9. —  Juri Hollmann Movistar Team DNS
05
Alderley Park - Warrington (152.2km)
09 September
  1. 01 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers 3h33'01"
  2. 02 Giacomo Nizzolo Team Qhubeka NextHash "
  3. 03 Dan McLay Arkéa Samsic "
  4. 09 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team "
  5. 76 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
  6. 80 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team +2'03"
  7. 86 Marc Soler Movistar Team +2'48"
  8. 96 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team +4'03"
06
Carlisle - Gateshead (198km)
10 September
  1. 01 Wout van Aert Jumbo – Visma 4h35'56"
  2. 02 Ethan Hayter INEOS Grenadiers "
  3. 03 Julian Alaphilippe Deceuninck – Quick Step "
  4. 04 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team "
  5. 09 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team +4"
  6. 56 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team +5'37"
  7. 68 Marc Soler Movistar Team "
  8. 71 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team +8'45"
07
Hawick - Edinburgh (194.8km)
11 September
  1. 01 Yves Lampaert Deceuninck – Quick Step 4h39'09"
  2. 02 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
  3. 03 Matt Gibson Ribble Weldtite "
  4. 14 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team +1'51"
  5. 15 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team "
  6. 61 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team "
  7. 62 Marc Soler Movistar Team "
08
Stonehaven - Aberdeen (173km)
12 September
  1. 01 Wout Van Aert Jumbo – Visma 4h07'56"
  2. 02 André Greipel Israel Start-Up Nation "
  3. 03 Mark Cavendish Deceuninck – Quick Step "
  4. 10 Gabriel Cullaigh Movistar Team "
  5. 41 Matteo Jorgenson Movistar Team "
  6. 52 Gonzalo Serrano Movistar Team "
  7. 82 Dario Cataldo Movistar Team +1'59"
  8. 83 Marc Soler Movistar Team "

Analysis

Looking only at the race profiles, one could think that the Tour of Britain is a race really suited for the sprinters. However, it’s hardly the case: the weather is not easy with the riders; roads are far from being motorways -narrow, sometimes not draining perfectly, with lots of road furniture, cattle grids, difficult areas-; squads are down to six riders each, which makes it difficult to control; and being held as a late-season event turns it into really tough for many competitors.

The Tour of Britain, the penultimate stagerace of the 2021 season for the Blues before the Giro di Sicilia, will pay, with its south-to-north parcours, an inadvertent tribute to the Land’s End to John O’Groats route. However, it won’t be the nearly 1,000km journey most cyclists do, rather than more than 1,3000km, entering Wales for two full stages and finishing with another two days in Scotland.

Even if any stage can be decisive in this event, our readers should probably pay special attention to four: the opening day in Cornwall (Sunday 5th), with an endless series of small climbs and a lumpy finish in Bodmin; the team time trial stager three (Tuesday 7th), over 18km and a quite hilly second half of the race en route to the National Botanic Garden of Wales; the other Welsh stage (Wednesday 8th), with the 10% slopes of Marine Drive right before the uphill finish in Great Orme / Llandudno; and stage six to Gateshead (Friday 10th), with three categorized climbs halfway through the route and some tough ascents before yet another hill-top finish.