{"id":4589,"date":"2024-09-14T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-of-britain-stevie-williams-wins-back-to-back-stages\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:14:42","slug":"tour-of-britain-stevie-williams-wins-back-to-back-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tour-of-britain-stevie-williams-wins-back-to-back-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain: Stevie Williams wins back-to-back stages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales&#8217; Stevie Williams won a second consecutive Tour of Britain stage after a burst for the line in Barnsley.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thursday&#8217;s stage three was a 166.1km hilly route starting in Sheffield, taking in the edge of the Peak District, Rotherham and Doncaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israel\u2013Premier Tech rider, 28, narrowly beat a host of rivals on a sprint for the line, with Paul Magnier finishing second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams has extended his general classification lead after his back-to-back wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He is 16 seconds clear of 21-year-old Scot Oscar Onley, of Team dsm\u2013firmenich PostNL, in second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scottish rider Callum Thornley leads the way in the race for &#8216;King of the Mountains&#8217; on 50 points &#8211; the Trinity Racing rider more than twice that of his nearest rival, team-mate Dean Harvey from Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s biggest cycling race consists of six stages ending in Felixstowe, Suffolk, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/c23l502g014o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales&#8217; Stevie Williams won a second consecutive Tour of Britain stage after a burst for the line in Barnsley. Thursday&#8217;s stage three was a 166.1km hilly route starting in Sheffield, taking in the edge of the Peak District, Rotherham and Doncaster. The Israel\u2013Premier Tech rider, 28, narrowly beat a host of rivals on a sprint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}