Tour De Yorkshire – Stage 2

Tour De Yorkshire STAGE 2: SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016: OTLEY TO DONCASTER

• Total stage length: 136km
• Same route for men and women
• 2 x sprint points (Scholes, Warmsworth)
• 3 x King/ Queen of the Mountain (Harewood Bank, East Rigton, Conisbrough Castle)
• Total ascent: 1,110m

Saturday’s Stage Two marks an important milestone for the Tour de Yorkshire as not only will spectators be treated to not one but two hugely significant races, they will also get chance to see the City of Leeds Pipe Band. The Women’s Tour de Yorkshire will begin in Otley, home of women’s road World Champion Lizzie Armitstead, at 8.15am. Starting from Boroughgate in the town centre, the teams will head up Westgate before turning left onto West Chevin Road and Burras Lane. They will then head back towards town, passing All Saints Parish Church, before travelling down Bondgate and Crossgate. Then it’s on to Nelson Street before heading towards Pool Road, where the racing will begin in earnest.

Riders will find an early Queen of the Mountain point at Harewood Bank, near Harewood House, which saw the Royal Family officially start the Tour de France’s Grand Depart in 2014. From Harewood it’s on to East Rigton for another King/Queen of the Mountain at 8.56am, then to Thorner and a sprint at Scholes, then to Barwick-in-Elmet crossing the A1 at Aberford. Riders then go past Lotherton Hall, into Sherburn-in-Elmet, down to South Milford and Monk Fryston before swinging south to Birkin and Beal. The route then heads through Kellingley and on to Knottingley,

Stage Two Map from Welcome to Yorkshire

They will be in Pontefract at 10.02am then to Wentbridge, before North and South Elmsall, and on to hidden gem Hooton Pagnell. There is a sprint point at Warmsworth before a lap of, and King/Queen of the Mountain, at 11th century Conisbrough Castle at 11.03am before The peloton will then head towards Tickhill and Bawtry before racing along the perimeter of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, past Doncaster Racecourse and onto a sprint finish on South Parade at 11.59am.

The men’s race will tackle exactly the same stage from Otley to Doncaster in the afternoon. Sprint and KoM points are also the same. The men’s peloton will start in Otley at 2.20pm, before reaching Harewood Bank at 2.44pm, Conisbrough Castle at 4.37pm and a finish in Doncaster at 5.23pm.