Tour de Yorkshire: Stage three in detailpublished at 11:35 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2016
The routes for next year's Tour de Yorkshire have been announced this morning.
There will be three stages, with the first two taking in the coast and market towns. The third and final stage will set off from Bradford.
Here's what to expect:
Tour de Yorkshire 2017, Stage Three
30 April
- Named The Yorkshire Terrier as this is the toughest stage in the history of the Tour de Yorkshire
- Riders will start at Bradford City Park before heading into Saltaire.
- The action then briefly joins the 2014 Tour de France route at Burley-in-Wharfedale
- The we pass the majestic Bolton Abbey and into the Yorkshire Dales.
- Skipton is next, with the first of eight categorised climbs being contested on the Côte de Silsden.
- The following ascent comes on the cobbled rise up Haworth’s main street and another climb at Leeming
- Then it's the Côte de Shibden Wall. This "cobbled brute" could see splits form before the intermediate sprint at Clifton.
- The race then traverses from West to South Yorkshire and into Penistone,
- There's another sprint on the cards at Stocksbridge
- Then the riders embark on a torturous 22km finishing circuit that features no-less than four categorised climbs.