Male Team 09 - 14 Aug
Tour of Scandinavia
817 Kilometers 6 Stages
The race will be broadcast live on Eurosport and GCN, starting at 4pm on weekdays and 12pm on the weekend.
There will be 10-6-4″ at every finish; no bonus seconds will be attributed at intermediate sprints.
The Movistar Team defends in 2022 the title conquered by Annemiek van Vleuten last year at the race this event inherits its legacy from: the Ladies Tour of Norway.
The organisers of the Ladies Tour of Norway expand their race in 2022 to create a new and beautiful block of races in August, with eight WWT days between the Vårgårda duo and the new Tour of Scandinavia – Battle of the North, which takes place in Denmark and Sweden over its first two stages.
It’s not a race with tough gradients (five of its six stages are barely over 1,000m elevation), though routes are tricky -with finishing slopes in Sarpsborg (Thursday 11th) and Mysen (Friday 12th); the final circuit in Halden (Sunday 14th) is really technical-, likeliness of wind is considerable in the first two days and there’s a crucial mountain-top finish to decide the race on Saturday 13th.
The climb towards Norefjell (11.1km at 6.1%, with a small flat zone near the end), where Van Vleuten won in 2021, will define the GC places.