2018 Giro della Toscana
Male Team 19 Sep

Giro della Toscana

201.8 Kilometers
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Participants list

  1. Carlos Barbero
  2. Daniele Bennati
  3. Héctor Carretero
  4. Rubén Fernández
  5. Mikel Landa
  6. Antonio Pedrero
  7. José Joaquín Rojas
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TV

The race will have live pictures on Eurosport 1, at 3pm CEST on Wednesday.
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Timetable

The event will start in Pontedera at 11.20am on Wednesday 19th September; the finish is expected around 4.18pm.
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Social Media

The race has an official Twitter account, @GiroToscana, though it doesn't seem like there will be many relevant updates.
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Score

Movistar Team has the first-ever victory in the race's history to its name: stage one in 2016 was notched up by Giovanni Visconti, in the Italian's successful farewell to the Blue squad.

Route

Pontedera (201.8km)
19 September
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Analysis

Mikel Landa’s return to racing, 46 days after his crash and injuries in the Clásica San Sebastián, will be the main point of attention for the Movistar Team at the 90th Giro della Toscana, a race which kicked off as a multi-day event in 2016 and will return to its classic format -the one it had prior to returning to the calendar after 2007- in 2018.

It will be a 201km course starting and finishing in Pontedera; actually, it will be a mixture of three long loops (55km each) with a short point-to-point section in the beginning. The main attraction of this route will be one of the region’s most demanding climbs, the Monte Serra, more than 9km at 7% avg. gradient. Its final passage, crested 27km from the end, could squeeze the bunch of favourites or even avoid a bunch sprint.