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Tour of Britain 2026 - Stage 5

Earlston > Earlston, 156.1km

02.09-06.09

UAE Team Emirates-XRG dominated the final stage of the Tour of Britain, with Nils Politt winning solo ahead of teammate Florian Vermeersch and Filippo Ganna. Tim Wellens sealed the overall victory after Lewis Askey lost contact on the closing circuits. Benoît Cosnefroy finished fourth to give UAE three riders in the top four on the stage.

Race preview

Results

Stage

PosRiderTeam Time
1 Nils Politt UAE Team Emirates-XRG 3:33:28
2 Florian Vermeersch UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 00.12
3 Filippo Ganna Netcompany INEOS + 00.18
4 Benoît Cosnefroy UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 00.18
5 Marcus Sander Hansen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 00.18
6 Ben Wiggins Great Britain + 00.18
7 Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 00.18
8 Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 00.21
9 Rick Pluimers Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 00.40
10 Artem Shmidt Netcompany INEOS + 00.40
11 Elliot Rowe Great Britain + 00.40
12 Xandro Meurisse Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 00.40
13 Lewis Askey NSN Cycling Team + 00.40
14 Jasper Stuyven Soudal Quick-Step + 00.40
15 Edgar Cadena Team Storck - MRW Bau + 00.40
16 Tomas Pridal Team United Shipping + 00.40
17 Jonah Killy Tarteletto-Isorex + 00.40
18 Daan Hoole Decathlon CMA CGM + 00.40
19 Connor Swift Netcompany INEOS + 00.42
20 Mark Donovan Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 00.42
21 Felix Großschartner UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 00.42
22 Olav Kooij Decathlon CMA CGM + 00.55
23 Jake Stewart NSN Cycling Team + 01.05
24 Michal Schuran Team United Shipping + 03.40
25 Sebastian Vestergaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 05.57
26 Kristians Belohvosciks BIKE AID + 05.57
27 Dylan Vandenstorme Team Flanders-Baloise + 05.59
28 Conn McDunphy APS Pro Cycling + 05.59
29 Axel Källberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 05.59
30 Asger Røjbek Sørensen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 06.01
31 Siebe Deweirdt Team Flanders-Baloise + 06.01
32 Gianni Marchand Tarteletto-Isorex + 06.01
33 Fabio Christen Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 06.01
34 Frank Aron Ragilo Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 06.01
35 Timothy Dupont Tarteletto-Isorex + 06.01
36 Arne Santy Tarteletto-Isorex + 06.01
37 Yorben Lauryssen Tarteletto-Isorex + 06.01
38 Matteo Trentin Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 06.01
39 Brem Deman Team Flanders-Baloise + 06.01
40 Axel Bouquet St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 06.01
41 Laurenz Rex Soudal Quick-Step + 06.06
42 Elias Maris Team Flanders-Baloise + 06.06
43 Ilan Van Wilder Soudal Quick-Step + 06.06
44 Teodor De Luca Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 06.06
45 Émilien Jacquelin Decathlon CMA CGM + 06.06
46 Cees Bol Decathlon CMA CGM + 06.06
47 Ryan Mullen NSN Cycling Team + 06.06
48 Brody McDonald Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
49 Ben Swift Netcompany INEOS + 06.06
50 Ethan Vernon NSN Cycling Team + 06.06
51 Tim Merlier Soudal Quick-Step + 06.06
52 Ward Vanhoof Team Flanders-Baloise + 06.06
53 Sam Welsford Netcompany INEOS + 06.06
54 Dion Smith NSN Cycling Team + 06.06
55 Pascal Eenkhoorn Soudal Quick-Step + 06.06
56 Robbe Ghys Decathlon CMA CGM + 06.06
57 Noe Ury Team Storck - MRW Bau + 06.06
58 Lennert Teugels Tarteletto-Isorex + 06.06
59 Janos Pelikan Team United Shipping + 06.06
60 Matteo Moschetti Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 06.06
61 Kamil Malecki Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 06.06
62 Riley Pickrell Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
63 Mark Stewart Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
64 Oliver Wood Great Britain + 06.06
65 Ian Lopez de San Roman Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
66 Yohann Simon St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 06.06
67 Théo Delacroix St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 06.06
68 Stan Dewulf Decathlon CMA CGM + 06.06
69 Will Smith Great Britain + 06.06
70 Jacob Bush Great Britain + 06.06
71 Oliver Mattheis BIKE AID + 06.06
72 Matthew Bostock Great Britain + 06.06
73 Paul Wright Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
74 Sam Bennett Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 06.06
75 Thomas Champion St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 06.06
76 Robin Donzé Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 06.06
77 Hjalmar Klyver Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 06.06
78 Nikiforos Arvanitou Team United Shipping + 06.06
79 Alvaro Sagrado Perez Team Storck - MRW Bau + 06.06
80 Samuel Florez Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 06.06
81 Henri Vandenabeele Team Flanders-Baloise + 06.06
82 Jacob Eriksson Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 08.57
83 Petr Kelemen Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 10.20
84 Adam Lewis APS Pro Cycling + 15.24
85 Ronan O'Connor APS Pro Cycling + 15.24
86 Ethan Dunham APS Pro Cycling + 15.24
87 Lucas Bénéteau St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 15.24
88 Emil Schandorff Iwersen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 15.24
89 Dylan van Baarle Soudal Quick-Step + 15.24
90 Veljko Stojnic Team United Shipping + 15.24
91 Simen Evertsen-Hegreberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 15.44
92 Lennard Sternsdorff BIKE AID + 15.44
93 Boas Lysgaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 15.44
94 Robin Kull Team Storck - MRW Bau + 15.44
95 Victor Johannsen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 15.44
96 Oscar Schempp BIKE AID + 15.44
- Karl Hall BIKE AID DNF
- Matthew Walls Team Storck - MRW Bau DNF
- Alessandro Pinarello NSN Cycling Team DNF
- Erik Fetter Team United Shipping DNF
- Victor Vidal BIKE AID DNF
- Andrew Lydic APS Pro Cycling DNF
- Kim Heiduk Netcompany INEOS DNF
- Romain Cardis St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 DNF
- Jakob Neumann Team Storck - MRW Bau DNF

GC

PosRiderTeam Time
1 Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates-XRG 19:35:32
2 Lewis Askey NSN Cycling Team + 00.42
3 Jasper Stuyven Soudal Quick-Step + 01.03
4 Daan Hoole Decathlon CMA CGM + 01.03
5 Rick Pluimers Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 01.15
6 Elliot Rowe Great Britain + 01.15
7 Filippo Ganna Netcompany INEOS + 02.03
8 Florian Vermeersch UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 03.02
9 Mark Donovan Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 03.04
10 Ben Wiggins Great Britain + 05.17
11 Nils Politt UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 06.19
12 Matteo Trentin Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 06.22
13 Xandro Meurisse Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 06.33
14 Edgar Cadena Team Storck - MRW Bau + 06.35
15 Jake Stewart NSN Cycling Team + 07.07
16 Fabio Christen Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 09.21
17 Axel Källberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 09.26
18 Ilan Van Wilder Soudal Quick-Step + 10.40
19 Paul Wright Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 10.47
20 Cees Bol Decathlon CMA CGM + 10.50
21 Felix Großschartner UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 10.55
22 Benoît Cosnefroy UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 10.56
23 Yohann Simon St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 11.22
24 Gianni Marchand Tarteletto-Isorex + 11.23
25 Jacob Bush Great Britain + 12.01
26 Siebe Deweirdt Team Flanders-Baloise + 13.38
27 Lennert Teugels Tarteletto-Isorex + 13.44
28 Brem Deman Team Flanders-Baloise + 13.57
29 Robbe Ghys Decathlon CMA CGM + 14.07
30 Robin Donzé Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 14.15
31 Dylan Vandenstorme Team Flanders-Baloise + 15.14
32 Kamil Malecki Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 15.17
33 Thomas Champion St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 15.21
34 Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates-XRG + 15.22
35 Connor Swift Netcompany INEOS + 16.11
36 Pascal Eenkhoorn Soudal Quick-Step + 16.18
37 Yorben Lauryssen Tarteletto-Isorex + 16.20
38 Ben Swift Netcompany INEOS + 16.44
39 Tomas Pridal Team United Shipping + 17.03
40 Elias Maris Team Flanders-Baloise + 20.19
41 Samuel Florez Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 20.25
42 Axel Bouquet St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 21.09
43 Ian Lopez de San Roman Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 21.44
44 Alvaro Sagrado Perez Team Storck - MRW Bau + 22.03
45 Dion Smith NSN Cycling Team + 22.10
46 Conn McDunphy APS Pro Cycling + 22.39
47 Teodor De Luca Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 22.54
48 Jonah Killy Tarteletto-Isorex + 23.57
49 Olav Kooij Decathlon CMA CGM + 24.13
50 Marcus Sander Hansen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 24.26
51 Émilien Jacquelin Decathlon CMA CGM + 27.35
52 Lucas Bénéteau St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 27.54
53 Arne Santy Tarteletto-Isorex + 28.11
54 Will Smith Great Britain + 28.20
55 Brody McDonald Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 28.24
56 Janos Pelikan Team United Shipping + 28.34
57 Tim Merlier Soudal Quick-Step + 29.10
58 Riley Pickrell Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 29.17
59 Sebastian Vestergaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 29.30
60 Mark Stewart Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 29.34
61 Nikiforos Arvanitou Team United Shipping + 30.01
62 Théo Delacroix St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 30.01
63 Henri Vandenabeele Team Flanders-Baloise + 30.01
64 Kristians Belohvosciks BIKE AID + 30.05
65 Ward Vanhoof Team Flanders-Baloise + 30.06
66 Frank Aron Ragilo Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 30.09
67 Noe Ury Team Storck - MRW Bau + 30.14
68 Hjalmar Klyver Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 30.36
69 Boas Lysgaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 30.37
70 Oliver Wood Great Britain + 30.51
71 Laurenz Rex Soudal Quick-Step + 30.53
72 Matteo Moschetti Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 31.09
73 Sam Bennett Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 31.17
74 Sam Welsford Netcompany INEOS + 31.40
75 Oliver Mattheis BIKE AID + 31.41
76 Jacob Eriksson Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 32.30
77 Stan Dewulf Decathlon CMA CGM + 32.37
78 Matthew Bostock Great Britain + 33.06
79 Artem Shmidt Netcompany INEOS + 33.15
80 Petr Kelemen Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 34.00
81 Ethan Vernon NSN Cycling Team + 34.07
82 Timothy Dupont Tarteletto-Isorex + 34.14
83 Dylan van Baarle Soudal Quick-Step + 34.14
84 Ryan Mullen NSN Cycling Team + 34.45
85 Adam Lewis APS Pro Cycling + 37.17
86 Michal Schuran Team United Shipping + 37.23
87 Ethan Dunham APS Pro Cycling + 39.19
88 Robin Kull Team Storck - MRW Bau + 40.35
89 Simen Evertsen-Hegreberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 42.20
90 Oscar Schempp BIKE AID + 45.01
91 Asger Røjbek Sørensen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 46.00
92 Veljko Stojnic Team United Shipping + 48.09
93 Lennard Sternsdorff BIKE AID + 48.29
94 Emil Schandorff Iwersen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 49.09
95 Victor Johannsen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 58.57
96 Ronan O'Connor APS Pro Cycling + 01:03.05
- Karl Hall BIKE AID DNF
- Matthew Walls Team Storck - MRW Bau DNF
- Alessandro Pinarello NSN Cycling Team DNF
- Erik Fetter Team United Shipping DNF
- Victor Vidal BIKE AID DNF
- Andrew Lydic APS Pro Cycling DNF
- Kim Heiduk Netcompany INEOS DNF
- Romain Cardis St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 DNF
- Jakob Neumann Team Storck - MRW Bau DNF

Youth

PosRiderTeam Time
1 Elliot Rowe Great Britain 19:36:47
2 Ben Wiggins Great Britain + 04.02
3 Jacob Bush Great Britain + 10.46
4 Tomas Pridal Team United Shipping + 15.48
5 Samuel Florez Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 19.10
6 Axel Bouquet St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 19.54
7 Teodor De Luca Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 21.39
8 Will Smith Great Britain + 27.05
9 Sebastian Vestergaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 28.15
10 Frank Aron Ragilo Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 28.54
11 Boas Lysgaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 29.22
12 Artem Shmidt Netcompany INEOS + 32.00
13 Simen Evertsen-Hegreberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 41.05
14 Oscar Schempp BIKE AID + 43.46
15 Lennard Sternsdorff BIKE AID + 47.14
16 Victor Johannsen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 57.42

Points

PosRiderTeam Points
1 Filippo Ganna Netcompany INEOS 59
2 Lewis Askey NSN Cycling Team 46
3 Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates-XRG 44
4 Olav Kooij Decathlon CMA CGM 43
5 Tim Merlier Soudal Quick-Step 43
6 Cees Bol Decathlon CMA CGM 32
7 Nils Politt UAE Team Emirates-XRG 30
8 Matteo Trentin Tudor Pro Cycling Team 26
9 Florian Vermeersch UAE Team Emirates-XRG 25
10 Axel Källberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team 23
11 Jasper Stuyven Soudal Quick-Step 16
12 Daan Hoole Decathlon CMA CGM 14
13 Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates-XRG 14
14 Matteo Moschetti Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 14
15 Rick Pluimers Tudor Pro Cycling Team 13
16 Fabio Christen Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 12
17 Arne Santy Tarteletto-Isorex 12
18 Sam Bennett Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 12
19 Jonah Killy Tarteletto-Isorex 11
20 Yorben Lauryssen Tarteletto-Isorex 10
21 Ian Lopez de San Roman Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 10
22 Simen Evertsen-Hegreberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team 10
23 Victor Johannsen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 10
24 Ben Wiggins Great Britain 10
25 Ethan Vernon NSN Cycling Team 10
26 Benoît Cosnefroy UAE Team Emirates-XRG 9
27 Timothy Dupont Tarteletto-Isorex 8
28 Michal Schuran Team United Shipping 8
29 Conn McDunphy APS Pro Cycling 7
30 Marcus Sander Hansen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 6
31 Boas Lysgaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 6
32 Elliot Rowe Great Britain 5
33 Xandro Meurisse Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 5
34 Janos Pelikan Team United Shipping 5
35 Riley Pickrell Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 5
36 Ward Vanhoof Team Flanders-Baloise 5
37 Oscar Schempp BIKE AID 5
38 Émilien Jacquelin Decathlon CMA CGM 4
39 Dylan Vandenstorme Team Flanders-Baloise 3
40 Lucas Bénéteau St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 3
41 Asger Røjbek Sørensen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 3
42 Jake Stewart NSN Cycling Team 2
43 Axel Bouquet St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 2
44 Brody McDonald Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 2
45 Paul Wright Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 1
46 Brem Deman Team Flanders-Baloise 1
47 Artem Shmidt Netcompany INEOS 1
48 Ryan Mullen NSN Cycling Team 1

Mountain

PosRiderTeam Points
1 Michal Schuran Team United Shipping 37
2 Xandro Meurisse Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 21
3 Ian Lopez de San Roman Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 19
4 Tim Wellens UAE Team Emirates-XRG 17
5 Cees Bol Decathlon CMA CGM 17
6 Brem Deman Team Flanders-Baloise 17
7 Jonah Killy Tarteletto-Isorex 15
8 Ben Swift Netcompany INEOS 14
9 Mikkel Bjerg UAE Team Emirates-XRG 11
10 Benoît Cosnefroy UAE Team Emirates-XRG 9
11 Ben Wiggins Great Britain 9
12 Marcus Sander Hansen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 9
13 Boas Lysgaard BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 9
14 Janos Pelikan Team United Shipping 8
15 Simen Evertsen-Hegreberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team 8
15 Oscar Schempp BIKE AID 8
17 Elliot Rowe Great Britain 7
18 Florian Vermeersch UAE Team Emirates-XRG 7
19 Gianni Marchand Tarteletto-Isorex 7
20 Lucas Bénéteau St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 6
21 Daan Hoole Decathlon CMA CGM 5
22 Adam Lewis APS Pro Cycling 5
23 Lewis Askey NSN Cycling Team 4
24 Nils Politt UAE Team Emirates-XRG 4
25 Matteo Trentin Tudor Pro Cycling Team 4
26 Ilan Van Wilder Soudal Quick-Step 4
27 Dylan Vandenstorme Team Flanders-Baloise 4
28 Filippo Ganna Netcompany INEOS 3
29 Arne Santy Tarteletto-Isorex 3
30 Axel Källberg Lucky Sport Cycling Team 2
31 Felix Großschartner UAE Team Emirates-XRG 2
32 Dylan van Baarle Soudal Quick-Step 2
33 Asger Røjbek Sørensen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 2
34 Paul Wright Modern Adventure Pro Cycling 1
35 Victor Johannsen BHS-PL Beton Bornholm 1

Team

PosTeamTime
1 UAE Team Emirates-XRG 58:52:18
2 Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team + 07.31
3 Pinarello-Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team + 11.18
4 NSN Cycling Team + 12.18
5 Great Britain + 12.52
6 Tudor Pro Cycling Team + 14.07
7 Decathlon CMA CGM Team + 14.50
8 Soudal Quick-Step + 20.02
9 Tarteletto-Isorex + 24.00
10 Team Flanders-Baloise + 36.56
11 St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93 + 39.19
12 Modern Adventure Pro Cycling + 42.29
13 Team Storck - MRW Bau + 52.22
14 Lucky Sport Cycling Team + 56.40
15 Team United Shipping + 01:06.16
16 BHS-PL Beton Bornholm + 01:09.08
17 APS Pro Cycling + 01:19.22
18 BIKE AID + 01:30.12

Race profile

Race
Tour of Britain
Start date
02.09.2026
End date
06.09.2026
Total distance
156.1 km
Gen
Men
Cat
2.Pro
Country
United Kingdom
Discipline
Road
First edition
1945

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