Sixteen of the world’s leading pro cycling teams, including Tour de France champions Jumbo–Visma and British home fan favourites INEOS Grenadiers, will compete in this year’s Tour of Britain.
They are two of the five UCI WorldTeams who will take the start in the 19th edition of the UK’s most prestigious cycling race, which begins in Greater Manchester on September 3, and culminates with a finale in South Wales eight stages later.
BORA–hansgrohe, Movistar Team, and Team dsm – firmenich, all of whom won stages in last year’s abridged event, and the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team will also be in action just six weeks on from competing at the Tour de France.
The 16 teams competing in the Tour of Britain 2023 are:
Bingoal WB (Belgium)
Bolton Equities Black Spoke (New Zealand)
BORA–hansgrohe (Germany)
Equipo Kern Pharma (Spain)
Global 6 Cycling (New Zealand)
Great Britain Cycling Team (Great Britain)
INEOS Grenadiers (Great Britain)
Jumbo–Visma (Netherlands)
Movistar Team (Spain)
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (Switzerland)
Saint Piran (Great Britain)
TDT – Unibet Cycling Team (Netherlands)
Team dsm – firmenich (Netherlands)
Team Flanders – Baloise (Belgium)
TRINITY Racing (Great Britain)
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team (Norway)
A predicted 1.5 million spectators are expected to watch these teams in action at this year’s race, capitalising on the free-to-attend nature of the event.
INEOS Grenadiers, the second most successful team in modern race history, will look to go one better than the previous two editions of the British Tour, in which British stars Ethan Hayter (2021) and Olympic champion Tom Pidcock (2022) finished as runners-up.
The return of Jumbo–Visma to the race will further whet the appetite, given the Dutch team have won the Tour of Britain on three occasions – twice with Lars Boom (2011, 2017) and once with Belgian star Wout Van Aert (2021). The team also sits fourth in the all-time list of stage wins, having had their riders cross the line first on 14 occasions.
Mick Bennett, Tour of Britain race director, said “We’ve assembled a really exciting and eclectic mix of teams for this year’s Tour of Britain.
“From Movistar, the team of defending champion Gonzalo Serrano, and the world’s number two and three-ranked squads to some of the sport’s most promising up-and-coming outfits, we’re counting down the days until they begin racing on British roads.”
The 2023 race starts in Greater Manchester and finishes eight days later in South Wales. Along the way, riders will race through North Wales, East Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk, Essex, and Gloucestershire.
ITV4 will continue to broadcast live flag-to-flag coverage of every stage and a nightly highlights show. The race will also be shown in over 150 countries worldwide, thanks to the event’s partnerships with Eurosport and Global Cycling Network (GCN).
