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Former champions, Tour de France Femmes Femmes avec Zwift stage winners, and teenage amateurs are all set to line up at this year’s Lloyds Tour of Britain Women.
The five-day race, the only annual UCI WorldTour event held in the UK, begins next Wednesday 19 August in Cockermouth, Cumbria and finishes in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire on Sunday 23 August.
Ahead of the race, the organiser, British Cycling, has been drip feeding names on the start list.
Among those already announced are the defending champion Ally Wollaston (FDJ United-Suez) and 2024’s winner Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), a two-time world champion.
Kopecky will be joined in SD Worx’s six-rider squad by star sprinter Lorena Wiebes, who won two stages of the Tour de France Femmes earlier this month, and wore the yellow jersey.
Also fresh from winning at the Tour de France Femmes is Kim Le Court-Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), who said in a press release she is “looking forward to coming back [to the Tour of Britain Women] and making this edition a good one from start to finish”.
Earlier this week, British Cycling announced the names of 12 British riders who are set to compete in this year’s event; these include the current British road and time trial champion Zoe Bäckstedt (Canyon-Sram) and her national title-winning predecessors Millie Couzens (Fenix-Premier Tech), Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic PostNL) and Alice Towers (EF Education-Oatly).
As her EF Education-Oatly team is not competing, Towers has been called up to represent the Great Britain national squad, which also counts track Olympians Anna Morris and Jess Roberts, club cyclists Amalie Cooper and Ruby Oakes, and 18-year-old Rebecca Gardiner.
“We are absolutely delighted more world-class cyclists are on the provisional rider line-up for the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women 2026,” said race director Alice Wood.
“Their presence underlines the growing stature of the race in the global cycling calendar, and guarantees fans the opportunity to see some of the biggest names in the world competing on British roads.”
Nineteen teams are set to take part in this edition of the Tour of Britain Women, each allowed a maximum of six riders.
A list of all the riders named provisionally to compete is below. Cycling Weekly will update this list when more names are confirmed.
For more information about the five-day route, visit our route guide.
Start list
FDJ United-Suez
Ally Wollaston
Vittoria Guazzini
Eva van Agt
Léa Curinier
Lauren Dickson
Kate Courtney
UAE Team L’IMAD
Karlijn Swinkels
Erica Magnaldi
Eleonora Camilla Gasparrini
Lara Gillespie
Elynor Bäckstedt
Febe Jooris
SD Worx-Protime
Lotte Kopecky
Lorena Wiebes
Steffi Häberlin
Mischa Bredewold
Femke Gerritse
Julia Kopecký
Visma-Lease a Bike
Femke de Vries
Lieke Nooijen
Maud Oudeman
Nienke Veenhoven
Imogen Wolff
Margaux Vigié
Canyon-Sram
Zoe Bäckstedt
Chiara Consonni
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
Wilma Aintila
Justyna Czapla
Soraya Paladin
Lidl-Trek
Ricarda Bauernfiend
Clara Copponi
Margot Vanpachtenbeke
Riejanne Markus
Fleur Moors
Shirin van Anrooij
Fenix-Premier Tech
Millie Couzens
Flora Perkins
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado
Aniek van Alphen
Marthe Truyen
Fien van Eynde
AG Insurance-Soudal
Kim Le Court-Pienaar
Letizia Borghesi
Amandine Fouquenet
Marthe Goossens
Alexandra Manly
Gladys Verhulst-Wild
Movistar
Aude Biannic
Claire Steels
Francesca Barale
Liane Lippert
Lucía Ruiz Pérez
Sara Martín
Liv AlUla Jayco
Amber Pate
Caroline Andersson
Quinty Ton
Noä Jansen
Josie Talbot
Georgia Baker
Human Powered Health
Nina Buijsman
Marta Jaskulska
Iurani Blanco
Marit Raaijmakers
Maggie Coles-Lyster
Petra Stiasny
Uno-X Mobility
Marte Berg Edseth
Ingvild Gåskjenn
Teuntje Beekhuis
Alessia Vigilia
Alberte Greve
Katrine Aalerud
Picnic PostNL
Pfeiffer Georgi
Audrey De Keersmaeker
Daniela Hezinová
Juliana Londoño
Dilyxine Miermont
Josie Nelson
Hitec Products-Fluid Control
Magdalene Lind
Julia Borgström
Oda Aune Gissinger
Kaja Rysz
Alma Rasmussen
Stine Marie Snortheim
O’Shea RedChilli Bikes
Maeve Plouffe
Yilla Threels
Karlijn Koops
Matilda McKibben
Connie Hayes
Ida Krickau Ketelsen
Smurfit Westrock
Teniel Campbell
Amelia Ceback
Lidia Cusack
S’annara Grove
Leila Gschwentner
Jo Tindley
DAS-Hutchinson
Mieke Docx
Tiffany Keep
Lucy Lee
Katie Scott
Noémie Thomson
Morven Yeoman
Handsling Alba Development
Maddie Cooper
Maddie Leech
Grace Lister
Beth Morrow
Anna Flynn
Arabella Blackburn
Great Britain
Alice Towers
Anna Morris
Jess Roberts
Amalie Cooper
Rebecca Gardiner
Ruby Oakes
