The Giro d’Italia will start on Saturday May 6 with an inaugural time trial and arrive in Rome on Sunday May 28. Several riders claim final victory in this Giro 2023, including Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel.
The Giro will start on Saturday May 6 with an inaugural time trial from Fossacesia Marina to Ortona. From the first stage there will be mountain points to grab. The riders will then commit to three weeks of racing with a few climbs from Sunday 7 and Monday 8 May. The race will then intensify through the Apennines where serious gaps could arise between stage 4 on Tuesday 9th May and stage 7 on Friday 12th May with a finish with great fanfare at the top of the Gran Sasso d ‘Italy. The peloton will find some respite with two less mountainous stages, one of which is flat before returning to hilly roads with tough climbs until Saturday 27th May. The penultimate stage will be a demanding time trial with a climb in the final the day before the finish in Rome.
In this round, there will be tough competition with a highly anticipated duel between Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel. The two men have already fought some great battles. Last year, for example, the Belgian rider won the Vuelta ahead of the Slovenian. Roglic got his revenge in March 2023 by dominating his rival in the Tour of Catalonia. This year, the Jumbo-Visma rider also won the Tirreno-Adriatico. Evenepoel meanwhile took the tour of the United Arab Emirates. The confrontation seems inevitable. But before the start, there were some changes in Roglic’s line-up. The leader was to be accompanied by Tobias Foss (9th in 2021) and Robert Gesink who alone participated in 21 grand tours. His two partners caught Covid-19 and were replaced by Rohan Dennis and Dutchman Jos van Emden. Both patients were very experienced cyclists with essential profiles on a tour like Italy. Foss was the 2022 world time trial champion and Gesink is a climber.
The other teams were not deprived. There will be riders from Arkéa-Samsic on the Italian roads with Warren Barguil. The Frenchman displayed the ambitions of his training which will compete for the first time in the Giro. “Our number one ambition is to achieve our very first stage success”. The members of Ineos Grenadiers will likely be aiming for more than just a stage victory. In the team composition, we find Geraint Thomas (winner of the Tour de France in 2018) or Filippo Ganna who already has 6 stage victories on the Giro. He is aiming for a seventh success as “the inaugural time trial gives me an opportunity to start in a very positive way”. The first quoted, is for his part “impatient to take part in the Giro. The last two times, I have not even finished the race, so I hope that I can at least arrive in Rome”, joked one team veterans.
The Giro d’Italia 2023 will start from May 6 for a duration of 3 weeks and will therefore end on Sunday May 28, 2023.
Who are the runners involved?
Here is the start list of the Giro d’Italia 2023. The latter will be updated each time a team confirms its team. Here are for the moment the first names for this Giro.
The Tour of Italy should be broadcast live and in full on Eurosport antennas. The race was broadcast on Eurosport 1, Eurosport.fr as well as the Eurosport and GCN apps. Each stage will be accompanied by a presentation and a debrief of the “Kings of the Pedal”, animated successively by Géraldine Weber and Lesly Boitrel. The race will be commented on by Guillaume Di Grazia and Jacky Durand, joined in turn by Steve Chainel, David Moncoutié, Philippe Gilbert, Audrey Cordon Ragot.
Here is the official map of the Tour of Italy 2023 which will start on May 6, 2023 from Fossacesia with an individual time trial.
Opportunities for sprinters, for punchers, but especially for climbers. With a very big elevation gain, the Giro 2022 should be one of the most difficult in the history of the Giro d’Italia.
At the end of the 21 and last of this Giro 2022, the Australian from Bora Jai ??Hindley won the Tour of Italy ahead of the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz. Giro standings:
Here are the winners of the last 15 years of the Tour of Italy, called Giro d’Italia.
