Suffolk to Host Tour of Britain Men's Cycle Race Opening Stages

Monday, 1 September 2025 14:00

The Great Britain Cycling Team has announced its six-rider line-up for the Tour of Britain Men, which begins in Suffolk tomorow - Tuesday 2nd September.

This year’s race opens with two Suffolk stages: a route from Woodbridge to Southwold, followed by a stage starting and finishing in Stowmarket. The peloton then moves on to Central Bedfordshire, Warwickshire and south Wales, with the final stage running from Newport to Cardiff on Sunday 7th September.

Details of the Stage One from Woodbridge - then through many towns and vilages, including Leiston, Saxmundham, Halesworth, Bungay, Beccles, Wrentham - and finshing in Southwold. Details of the road closures on Tuesday can be found here.

Two riders will make their race debuts — Ben Chilton and Huw Buck-Jones — joining returnees Ben Wiggins and Josh Golliker, with Josh Charlton and Matt Bostock completing the squad.

Sprinter Bostock is the most experienced of the group, having raced the event four times since 2018 and secured multiple top ten stage finishes. Charlton, a former under-23 national time-trial champion, took a stage win at the Rás Tailteann earlier this season. Golliker, who placed third in last year’s national time-trial championships, has impressed on the European circuit in 2025.

The team also includes rising talent Ben Wiggins, racing his second Tour of Britain in national colours, alongside newcomers Chilton — runner-up at this year’s national cyclo-cross championships — and North Wales rider Buck-Jones, who has a background in mountain biking.

Matt Brammeier, Director Sportif for GBCT, said the mix of experience and youth offered riders “the platform to show what they can do to make the next steps in their careers.”