Tour of Britain 2021 route: Map and stages for race as host venues revealed

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Familiar sights: The Tour of Britain will return this year
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Michael Weinstein17 March 2021

Tour of Britain organisers have revealed more details of this year’s race from Penzance to Aberdeen.

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and so this year’s event, from September 5-12, is set to follow roughly 90 per cent of a route that was planned but not announced last year.

Seven new host venues will make their debut on the Tour of Britain route in 2021, race organisers SweetSpot and British Cycling announced on Wednesday.

Details of stages five, six and seven of the UCI ProSeries race have been added to those previously confirmed for Cornwall, Devon and Aberdeenshire.

Stage five (9 September) will race from South Cheshire to Warrington, stage six (10 September) sees the riders go from Cumbria to Gateshead and stage seven (11 September) is from Hawick to Edinburgh.

This year’s Tour will finish in Scotland for the first time since 2007 with the overall finish in Aberdeen.

The opening two stages, the first between Penzance and Bodmin and the brutal second between Sherford in Devon and Exeter via Dartmoor, have already been announced alongside the finale from Stonehaven to Aberdeen.

Stages three and four are due to take place entirely within Wales, but no further details have yet been released due to the different Covid-19 regulations in the country.

Stage five will take the peloton along the Cheshire lanes on a relatively flat route to the golden gates of Warrington, which will be making its debut as a host venue.

It is then back into the hills for a stage linking Cumbria to Gateshead via the Lake District and the climb of the Hartside Pass in the northern Pennines, finishing in the shadow of the Angel of the North.

After stage seven into Edinburgh, the climbing legs will then be needed again on the final day, with the climb of Cairn O’Mount in the Grampian mountains included on the route from Stonehaven to Aberdeen.

Full details of the route — including the two Welsh stages — are due to be made public in early summer.

Additional reporting by PA.

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