The Tour of Britain cyclists and their support teams rode right through Sidmouth on Tuesday [19th March] and are pictured heading along the seafront. Picture by Simon Horn.
Stefan Gordon Friday, March 22, 2013
SIDMOUTH will be part of cycling history when it hosts the start of Devon’s stage of this year’s Tour of Britain.
Devon County Council has today revealed the good news following the national launch of the tour - celebrating its 10th anniversary this year – in Covent Garden last night (Thursday).
Residents have been urged to pull together and put on a party atmosphere to make the event, which pulls in a worldwide audience, the ‘best ever’ on Friday, September 20.
Devon Tour of Britain stage to start in Sidmouth - News - Sidmouth Herald
2013 Tour of Britain stage six -
Sidmouth to Haytor, Dartmoor
Stage six - Friday 20 September
Sidmouth to Haytor, Dartmoor 137km
Sidmouth to Haytor, Dartmoor 137km
Devon raises the bar (and finish
line) for The Tour of Britain's 10th edition Devon will make history as the first
stage of The Tour of Britain to host a summit finish when the race returns to
the county in September to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
SIDMOUTH: Tour
of Britain cycle stage to start in town
27th
March 2013
AN
EAST Devon councillor has welcomed news that one of the stages in this year’s
Tour of Britain cycle race is to start in the district.
Councillor Iain Chubb,
EDDC’s Cabinet Member for Environment, said: “It’s fantastic news that Stage
Six of September’s race will be starting in Sidmouth on the Jurassic coastline
and passing through Honiton on its way to a finish on Dartmoor.
“This will give the
people of East Devon and our visitors a fantastic spectacle to enjoy as
world-class riders bring the colour and the excitement of international cycling
to one of our coastal resorts and also to one of our market towns”.
DELIGHTED
- Councillor Stuart Hughes and Tour of Britain race director Mick Bennett at
the tour launch in LondonSIDMOUTH BRITISH BIKE RACE No1 - YouTube
Tour of Britain route features longer
time trial and hill-top finish
• Stages take in Lake District, Snowdonia and Dartmoor
• British Cycling puts next year's event up for tender
• British Cycling puts next year's event up for tender
William Fotheringham The
Guardian, Thursday 21 March 2013
Ten
years after the Tour of
Britain was relaunched it has confirmed
its most varied, demanding and ambitious route, with two firsts for 2013: a
substantial time trial, in Bradley Wiggins's adopted home county of Lancashire,
and a seriously tough hill‑top finish at Haytor on Dartmoor, not far from the
home of last year's winner Jonathan Tiernan-Locke.
The
big innovation, however, is the finish at Haytor, in the heart of the Dartmoor
national park, at the end of a relatively short stage from Sidmouth. Devon has
become a fixture on the British Tour, and the 1,499ft high summit is one of the
iconic British climbs, a venue for the national hill-climb time-trial championship
in the past and part of the Tour of Britain route in 2011.
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