Race information
The Scottish Borders will host the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women for the first time this June, as stage three of the UCI Women’s WorldTour event comes to Kelso on Saturday 7June.
This will be the first time Scotland has hosted a UCI WorldTour cycling event.
The announcement comes after the region has successfully hosted the Lloyds Tour of Britain Men on ten occasions since 2009, most recently in September 2024 when Paul Magnier won the opening stage in Kelso.
Stage three information
Stage three, the penultimate leg of the 2025 race and the ‘Queen Stage’, will again start and finish in The Square in Kelso with riders tackling a testing and spectator friendly stage route around the Eildon Hills similar to that raced on by the men in 2024.
The route will include visits to Melrose, Denholm, and Jedburgh, as well as a passage of the finish line on Kelso’s cobbled market square, with full details, including Queen of the Mountains and Sprint locations, to be announced in the coming weeks.
The detailed route for the 2025 Lloyds Tour of Britain Women will be announced in the coming weeks.
Teams information
Eighteen teams will take to the start line of the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women this June, as the largest field in the event’s history has today been announced.
Twelve UCI Women’s WorldTour teams headline the entry list for the event, which will see 108 riders take part.
Defending champions and the world’s number one ranked squad Team SD Worx – Protime, who won the 2024 race with Lotte Kopecky, headline the entry list, alongside the Team Picnic PostNL team of British champion Pfeiffer Georgi, and the Lidl - Trek team of last year’s runner up Anna Henderson and former winner Lizzie Deignan.
In total thirteen of the world’s top fifteen ranked teams will be participating. Scotland will be represented by the Handsling Alba Development Road Team.
The full list of teams is:
- UCI Women’s WorldTeams: AG Insurance – Soudal Team (Belgium); Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto (Germany); CERATIZIT Pro Cycling Team (Germany); FDJ – SUEZ (France); Lidl-Trek (USA); Liv AlUla Jayco (Australia); Movistar Team (Spain); Team Picnic PostNL (Netherlands); Team SD Worx - Protime (Netherlands); Team Visma | Lease a Bike (Netherlands); UAE Team ADQ (UAE); and Uno-X Mobility (Norway)
- UCI Women’s ProTeams: EF Education – Oatly (USA);
- UCI Continental Teams: CJ O’Shea Racing (Great Britain); DAS – Hutchinson (Great Britain); Handsling Alba Development Road Team (Great Britain); Hess Cycling Team (Great Britain); and Smurfit Westrock Cycling Team (Great Britain)
More information can be found on British Cycling's Tour of Britain Women website.
About the Tour of Britain
The Lloyds Tour of Britain is the largest free-to-attend sporting spectacle in the UK and is delivered under the mantel of two races, one Tour of Britain. The Lloyds Tour of Britain Women takes place annually in June, as part of the UCI Women’s WorldTour, making it one of the most prestigious events in the sport’s global calendar.
The Lloyds Tour of Britain Women features the world’s top teams and riders, attracting tens of thousands of fans to the roadside, with live broadcast coverage of the race around the world.