Male Team 30 Jun - 09 Jul
Giro d'Italia Donne
927 Kilometers 9 Stages
Eurosport / GCN will broadcast the final part of each stage live.
There will be 10-6-4″ available at every road stage finish, plus 3-2-1″ at intermediate sprints.
The Movistar Team conquered the overall classification of the race in 2022 with Annemiek van Vleuten.
Annemiek van Vleuten and the Movistar Team tackle their last July together with two opportunities to keep making history. The World Road Race Champion will seek at the 34th edition of the Giro d’Italia Donne to defend her title at the second Grand Tour of 2023 and bid farewell in style to a land she loves so much. She will try to do so at an open, demanding, exciting course, surely against big rivals.
The only TT of the race will be faced on day one (Friday 30th June), over a technical, hilly 4km course in Chianciano Terme, close to Siena. After that will come a first mountain stage, with the long QOM of Passo della Colla (Cat-2; 16km at 4.5%) before the finish in Marradi (Saturday 1st July). Two expected sprints, in Modena (Sunday 2nd) and Borgo Val di Taro (Monday 3rd) will preceed the decisive stages.
Tuesday 4th will bring the stage with most elevation gain (+2500m) and toughest slopes (a 10km, almost 9% ‘GPM’ right after the start), set to make a significant GC selection at Ceres’ finish. On Wednesday 5th, the first mountain-top finish will take the race to Canelli (2.5km at 7%), while on Thursday 6th, riders will face arguably the Queen stage to Alassio, with no respite, a very tough final 15km and another uphill finish.
A transfer day (Friday 7th) towards Sardinia will only leave two stages to cover in the island, with no big climbs yet still lumpy, to Sassari (Saturday 8th) and Olbia (Sunday 9th). The race could well be decided before that last weekend – but in Italy, you absolutely never know.