Tour of Guangxi

The Tour of Guangxi, officially the Cotti Coffee Tour of Guangxi, is a six-day men's cycling stage race in the Guangxi region of southern China, held in October as the last race of the UCI WorldTour season. It was first held in 2017, was not held from 2020 to 2022 and returned in 2023. Sprinters win most of the stages, and in every edition through 2025 the rider who won on the short climb to Nongla also won the race.

The Tour of Guangxi is a six-stage men’s WorldTour race in southern China, first held in 2017 and run in October at the end of the season. Sprinters have won most of its stages. In every edition through 2025, the rider who won on the short climb to Nongla also won the race.

The Tour of Guangxi joins the WorldTour in 2017

The UCI and Wanda Sports created the Tour of Guangxi as a new WorldTour race, six days in October through cities and countryside in one of China’s most visited regions. It was the first time the WorldTour peloton had raced in China since the Tour of Beijing ended in 2014. The first route started in Beihai, passed through Nanning and Liuzhou and finished in Guilin, where a women’s race was held after the men’s final stage.

Tim Wellens won the first edition by six seconds from Bauke Mollema, with Nicolas Roche third. He took the lead on stage four, attacking in the last few hundred meters of the climb to Nongla, and Mollema finished on the same time. It was his fourth overall win in a WorldTour stage race. “For me it is worthy of WorldTour,” Wellens said of the new event.

Gaviria wins four stages at the first Tour of Guangxi

Fernando Gaviria won the first three stages in 2017. He was dropped on the climb to Nongla and lost the sprint on stage five to Dylan Groenewegen. On the last day in Guilin he started his sprint early and beat Niccolò Bonifazio and Groenewegen. It was his 14th win of the season, which put him level with his Quick-Step teammate Marcel Kittel, and it came at the end of a year in which he had won four stages of the Giro d’Italia.

His lead-out that day included Martin Velits, who was riding the last race of his career. Gaviria also won the points classification, and his teammate Julian Alaphilippe was the best young rider.

Nongla, where the Tour of Guangxi has been decided

The finish at the Nongla scenic area, in the countryside north of Nanning, was the summit finish of every edition through 2025. The climb is short. As raced in 2025 it was 3.1 kilometers at an average of 6.3 percent, with hairpins near the top. In 2019 the finish was moved beyond the old line, onto a new and steeper final 1.5 kilometers. Nongla was stage four from 2017 to 2023 and stage five in 2024 and 2025.

In each of those six editions the stage winner took the leader’s jersey that day and kept it: Wellens in 2017, Gianni Moscon in 2018, Enric Mas in 2019, Milan Vader in 2023, Lennert Van Eetvelt in 2024 and Paul Double in 2025. The margins were small. Moscon won the stage alone by five seconds and the race by nine. Mas went clear on the new final section and won the race by five seconds from Daniel Felipe Martínez, the first overall win of his career. Van Eetvelt led Oscar Onley by five seconds after the climb and held the jersey on the last stage, a circuit in Nanning.

Milan Vader wins at Nongla in 2023

The race was not held from 2020 to 2022. When it returned in 2023, Milan Vader of Jumbo-Visma won at Nongla for his first professional victory on the road. He came from mountain biking, turned professional on the road in 2022 and missed much of that season after a crash at Itzulia Basque Country that left him in an induced coma with eleven fractures in his spine. “This is a victory from the heart,” he said.

He led Rémy Rochas by six seconds and Hugh Carthy by 14. On the next stage Rochas scored nothing at the first intermediate sprint, and the six seconds held to the finish in Guilin. Jumbo-Visma had only five riders in the race, and Olav Kooij won two stages for them, the last one included.

Magnier wins five stages and Double the race in 2025

In 2025 Paul Magnier of Soudal-QuickStep won the first four stages and led the race by 26 seconds. At Nongla, Paul Double of Jayco-AlUla rode away alone in the final kilometer and won by nine seconds from Victor Lafay. It was his first WorldTour win, and it gave him a lead of 15 seconds over Lafay.

The last stage was five laps around Nanning. Lafay attacked on the final ascent of the Qingxiushan climb with about 20 kilometers to go and had 20 seconds at the top, enough to lead the race on the road. Double chased with what was left of his team, and Lafay was caught about 12 kilometers from the line. Magnier won the sprint, his fifth stage of the race and 19th win of the season. Double, who was 29, won overall by 15 seconds.

The last WorldTour race of the year: sprint stages between the limestone hills of southern China, and one short climb that decided every edition through 2025.