The beginning of the 2025 Giro d’Italia will happen in Albania, the race’s organiser confirmed on Monday. RCS Sport continues to be set to launch the complete race route for subsequent 12 months, in a ceremony in Rome on 13 January.
Two highway levels and a person time trial will happen within the Balkan nation when the race will get underway on 9 Could earlier than a switch throughout the Adriatic sea and a relaxation day in Puglia three days later.
Stage one will see the riders tackle 164 kilometres of racing – between Dürres and Tiranë – with 1800 metres of elevation acquire that includes on the parcours. The second stage can be a 13 kilometre particular person time trial by way of the streets of Tiranë with a small class 4 ascent that includes on the midway level.
Lastly the peloton will wrap up proceedings in Albania with a 160 kilometre medium mountain stage with greater than 2,700 metres of climbing on the menu earlier than the race then heads again to Italian soil.
It is going to be the fifteenth event that the Giro has began overseas with the final international begin coming in Hungary in 2022.
Two climbs function on the ultimate stage which might see an early GC skirmish materialise earlier than the race strikes again to Italy. The second of the 2, Qafa e Llogarasë, comes round 40 kilometres to the end and is the proper springboard for the likes of Tadej Pogačar, this 12 months’s Giro winner, to launch an assault in a bid to seize an early stage win and the chief’s pink jersey.
Pogačar’s UAE Emirates workforce are but to substantiate which Grand Tour he’ll goal in 2025 together with the Tour de France. The Slovenian gained the Giro on debut in Could however could choose to focus on the Vuelta a España as a substitute, a race which he’s but to win. Former winner Primož Roglič (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) plans to be on the beginning line.
Race director Mauro Vegni stated that the organiser hopes the route of the primary three levels might result in early motion within the combat for the general victory, equally to the opening levels of the race this 12 months.
He stated: “The route of the Grande Partenza of the Giro d’Italia 2025 was designed to supply a terrific present proper from the primary pedal strokes, combining the great thing about the territory with a technical design that may improve the qualities of the riders, alongside the traces of what we experimented with final 12 months.”
