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Dates | 7 – 11 June 2017 |
Stages | 5 |
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The 2017 Women's Tour is the fourth staging of The Women's Tour, a women's cycling stage race held in the United Kingdom. It is scheduled to run from 7 to 11 June 2017. The race will be part of the 2017 UCI Women's World Tour and will the feature the top 15 teams and two wildcards.
17 teams will participate in the 2017 tour. The top 15 UCI Women's World tour teams are automatically invited, and obliged to attend the race. On 15 February 2017 the organisers announced that Drops and Team WNT were invited to compete in the tour.
On 15 February the route for the race was revealed. The 2017 Tour will begin with a stage between Daventry and Kettering in Northamptonshire. The second stage features Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire before a third stage between Atherstone and Royal Leamington Spa. The fourth stage will start and finish in Chesterfield before the final stage takes place in London on the same 6km circuit that is used in the Tour of Britain.