Crowds make the Tour de Yorkshire 2018 an even greater sporting triumph
It’s been called the biggest and best Tour de Yorkshire yet with 2.6 million fans lining the route over the four day event. The race, extended this year into a fourth day for the first time, saw Greg Van Avermaet win the overall men’s race and American Megan Guarnier, celebrating her 33rd birthday, became the overall winner of the two-day women’s race. She produced a climbing masterclass on the ‘Côte de Cow and Calf’ at Ilkley leaving her rivals behind on the iconic Yorkshire climb and was given a rapturous reception by the large crowd as she wrapped up the stage and overall victory.
Stage One of the men’s race which began in Beverley and ended in Doncaster produced a surprise home victory when Harry Tanfield, 23, from Great Ayton, North Yorkshire became the first Yorkshireman and Briton to win a stage in the event’s four year history.
The second stage started in Barnsley and ended at Ilkley’s ‘Cote de Cow and Calf’ where huge crowds watched Magnus Cort Nielsen take the Tour de Yorkshire’s first-ever summit finish. ‘It was a relatively short stage today but a really hard one,’ said Nielsen. ‘My team supported me and I am very grateful to them for believing in me. I gave everything I had in that uphill sprint to the line and now I want to defend this jersey.
This story is from the June 2018 edition of Yorkshire Life.
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