Please note, the sixth stage of the Tour of Britain has been cancelled as the UK observes a period of national mourning.
To cycling fans he is already a god in the making, and when the AJ Bell Tour of Britain comes to Gloucestershire, everyone will be able to see Tom Pidcock for free as the elite cycling event races through the county.
The 23-year-old is a world champion in cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing, as well as an Olympic champion, and winner of a stage in the 2022 Tour de France after a dramatic descent of the 2,067-metre Col de la Croix de Fer at more than 60 mph.
Pidcock will be at the start line in Tewkesbury on Friday 9 September 2022, as part of team Ineos Grenadiers for stage six of the Tour of Britain, a 170.9 km route looping down through the Cotswolds and back up into Gloucester city centre.
A total of 18 of the world’s leading teams and 108 riders are competing in the eight-day race, which began in Aberdeen on Sunday 4 September 2022 and will be watched by a roadside audience of more than one million spectators, plus many more on ITV4 in the UK.
Among the competitors is Alex Dowsett, a former winner and another British star, who will call time on an illustrious career at the end of this year; Nils Politt, German road champion in June, who also won a Tour de France stage in 2021; Lukas Pöstlberger, Enrico Battaglin and Sacha Modolo – all stage winners of another of road cycling’s premier tests, the Giro d’Italia – as well as Imanol Erviti, a two-time winner of another grand tour, the Vuelta a Espana.
Ineos Grenadiers also includes Michal Kwiatkowski from Poland and Tour de France podium finisher Richie Porte from Australia. Porte will end his glittering 13-year professional career at the race.
The Tour is due to start at Gander Lane, near Tewkesbury Abbey, at 11am on Friday 9 September 2022 before racing through Bishops Cleeve, Winchombe, Guiting Power, Andoversford, Chedworth, Cirencester with an estimated arrival of 12.47pm, Frampton Mansell, Tetbury and Chipping Sodbury, before heading north to Wotton-under-Edge, Stincombe, Dursley, Stroud and back up to Gloucester through Edge, before a predicted finish at the junction of Southgate Street, Commercial Road and Parliament Street at around 3.19pm.
