A Battle on the Great Orme! | Stage 3 Highlights | Lloyds Tour of Britain Women 2026

Stage 3 of the Lloyds Tour of Britain women today headed from Molde to the Great Orm. 104.7 kilometres on the menu for the riders today. 1,927 metres of elevation. The first and only summit finish of today's stage. The riders went through kilometre zero and straight away it was the team of AG Insurance Soudal controlling things with Australian rider here Alex Manley. Lorraine Aviva is never too far from the front as we saw many Welsh flags on the side of the road. The entirety of today's stage in Wales. This was the start of the first categorised climb of the day. Moel Vardia topping out with 69.4 kilometres to go. Lauren Dixon from the team of FDJ Suez there with Kate Courtney the American national champion on her wheel. Kate Courtney coming to the front here to try and lead out Lauren Dixon. Lauren Dixon taking maximal points. Six points available on that Category 2 climb. Ahead of Kate Courtney, Mischa Bredewald, Marta Jaskulska, Caroline Swinkels and Eleonora Gasparini. Many technical fast narrow descents for the riders to tackle today. Claire Steeles is the rider here from Movistar. Just laying off the back of the peloton. Movistar then came to the front. Controlling affairs for Lianna Lippert, their German superstar. Lorraine Aviva is on duty but this was a big crash that happened and really fractured the peloton. The most significant rider to come down on the right-hand side was Caroline Swinkels holding her hip in pain. They split the group into two. There was a barrage that formed. That second group on the road had a really tough fight to get back to our front group. Movistar still trying to set a really hard pace. Making it harder for riders like Caroline Swinkels to get back to terms. 500 metres here to go on the second climb up to Nembo. Topping out with 42.9 kilometres to go again. Lauren Dixon trying to take maximal points and extending her lead. She was now in the virtual lead of the Queen of the Mountains classification. Mischa Bredeveld on the wheel of Lauren Dixon. And behind her, Lorraine Aviva is in that green jersey. Leaders jersey for SD Works Pro Time. Lauren Dixon leading things out into the finish. Taking another six points. Really extended her lead. Ahead of Mischa Bredeveld, Lorraine Aviva, Fleur Moors, Lianna Lippert and Eva Van Acht. Number 44, Soraya Paladin for the team of Canyon SRAM. Spent a lot of the day on the back of the group. 70 kilometres an hour on some of these tricky descents. This was the intermediate sprint that came with 25.8 kilometres to go. It was the Mauritian national champion that took three seconds ahead of Mischa Bredeveld and Lorraine Aviva. Things then got quickly heated as teams were trying to come together to make sure their leaders were in the right position. This was the uncategorised climb that came with around 7.5 kilometres to go. Constant fight for position as the riders would then tackle a fast descent into a critical hairpin that came with 2.5 kilometres to go. And that card of Alpine is the rider for Little Trek on the front. Leading out Fleur Moors. Letizia Borghese in a perfect position to set Kim Lecourt up on this critical right-hand corner which starts the ascent to the final climb to the summit of the Great Orme. Kim Lecourt had a plan though and that was a two-attack from the base. She went clear, continuously looking over her shoulder as to who was chasing here though. But really trying to make a difference on the steepest sections of the climb. Again looking over her shoulder coming into 100 metres to go. It was Liana Lippert from Movistar who was chasing behind. But what a finish for Kim Lecourt. She gave absolutely everything that she had on this climb knowing that every single second counted. And it was such an exceptional performance that not only gave her a stage victory but put her in the lead in the general classification with two days left to come here in the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women. Liana Lippert from Movistar with a final glance over her shoulder took second on the stage. And you can see Caroline Anderson from Livellula-Jaco attacking the final few metres. Femke de Vries in fourth. Cecilia Tripp-Lundvig is the rider from Canyon-SRAM here crossing the line. Lauren Dixon, the British rider for FTG Suez. And after three stages our general classification looks like this. Kim Lecourt is in the lead. 26 seconds ahead of Liana Lippert. 35 seconds back is Lorena Wiebes on the same time as Caroline Anderson. Femke de Vries is in fifth. Caroline Svinkels, Mischa Bredeveld and Cecilia Tripp-Lundvig all on 42 seconds behind Kim Lecourt. British rider Lauren Dixon in ninth position. And Eleonora Gasparini rounding out our top ten at 51 seconds.