Kim Le Court Wins Tour of Britain Women as Wiebes Takes Fourth Stage
Kim Le Court sealed overall victory in the 2026 Tour of Britain Women in Royal Leamington Spa on Sunday, capping the most significant stage race win of her career.
The Mauritian rider, who earlier this summer won a stage and finished ninth overall at the Tour de France Femmes, built her success on a dramatic solo victory on Friday's third stage — a 104.7-kilometre route from Mold in Flintshire through the Clwydian Range to the Great Orme, the limestone headland overlooking the Welsh seaside town of Llandudno. She attacked with three kilometres to go and rode alone to the finish, snatching the race leader's jersey The Guardian.
Le Court held that lead through stage four and into Sunday's finale in Royal Leamington Spa, where the overall standings — the general classification, or GC — were decided British Cycling.
Sunday's fifth stage belonged to Lorena Wiebes. The Dutch sprinter, riding for Team SD Worx–Protime, powered to her fourth stage win of the race — the 11th Tour of Britain stage victory of her career and the 137th win in all The Guardian.
The final stage was anything but a procession. With 110 kilometres still to race, three riders broke clear of the peloton — the main pack — and began building an advantage. Sara Martín of Movistar, British rider Alice Towers, and Eva van Agt, a teammate of Demi Vollering at FDJ United-Suez, pushed their lead out to nearly two and a half minutes. The climbs of Sun Rising Hill and Burton Dassett began to bite, eating into the gap, and the peloton finally swept them up with barely a kilometre left to race. Wiebes, the fastest finisher in the field, did the rest.
For Wiebes, the 2026 edition was a sprint masterclass. She won the opening stage, took victory in Hay-on-Wye on stage two, and won again on stage four — three wins out of four before Sunday's finale made it four from five British Cycling.
For Le Court, though, the overall title is the prize that matters. Her attack on the Great Orme — the race's defining move — gave her the buffer she needed, and she defended it through two more stages against a field stacked with sprint firepower. She crossed the line in Royal Leamington Spa as the 2026 champion.
What makes this result stand out is the route to it. Le Court did not grind out her lead through accumulations of minor placings. She took it in one bold, solo strike up a Welsh headland, then held it under pressure. That is a rider who has found another level since her Tour de France Femmes showing in July — and a stage race result that, by her own career standards, has no precedent.
