Tour de Yorkshire 2016 route revealed!
The route of the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire has been revealed.
The route of the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire has been revealed.
Split into three stages, the cycle race covers 515.5km (320 miles), and will see riders weave across the Yorkshire landscape.
The race starts on Friday, April 29, in Beverley, East Yorkshire, and will end on Sunday, May 1, in the North Yorkshire resort of Scarborough.
Last year's inaugural race was watched by an estimated 1m people and brought £50m into the region's economy.
The event was launched after Yorkshire hosted the Tour de France Grand Depart in 2014.
Stage One begins in Beverley, home to one of England’s finest Minsters, before the peloton races to Tadcaster and on to Knaresborough which was the scene of some of the biggest crowds for the Tour de France in 2014. Taking in some of the Grand Depart 2014 route, a series of climbs takes the riders past Brimham Rocks before a finish in Settle.
Stage Two men and women will face exactly the same stage which starts in Otley, home of the current women’s road World Champion Lizzie Armitstead. From Otley riders travel south, on roads not raced on in the Tour de France or Tour de Yorkshire, towards Conisbrough Castle and on to Doncaster.
Stage Three will be familiar to those who raced in 2015, starting in Captain James Cook’s home town of Middlesbrough, then into Herriot Country before tackling the infamous Sutton Bank, the first of six King of the Mountain points in just one stage. Riders then head over the North York Moors and down towards Scarborough for what promises to be a thrilling finale and a race to the very end.