Male Team 15 - 19 Apr
Tour of the Alps
706 Kilometers 5 Stages
There will be live coverage every day on Eurosport.
There will be 10-6-4″ at all finishes; no bonuses will be attributed at the intermediate sprints.
The Movistar Team won a stage of the 2023 TotA with Gregor Mühlberger.
Stages are usually short, elevation is massive -one day of this year’s race goes above 4,000m gain- and pure climbers are almost the only feature in the peloton of the Tour of the Alps for already many years since this Euregio -between the Alpine areas of Italy and Austria- took over from the old Giro del Trentino.
Even though every stage will be important to the end result, the Queen one should be the five-climb day four (Thursday 18th), finishing in Borgo Valsugana after the ‘c0lli’ of San Lugano, Redebus, Compet (Cat-1), Vetriolo (Cat-1) and San Marco.
The other main difficulties will be the dual ascent of Penone, around Cortina (Monday 15th); the slopes of Gnadenwald (Cat-2) near the finish of Stans (Tuesday 16th); four tough Cat-2 hills around Schwaz (Wednesday 17th); and 2x the long Palù del Fersina, in Levico Terme, to end the race on Friday 19th.