The 2024 street racing season is winding in the direction of its conclusion as the ultimate Monument of the 12 months, Il Lombardia, lies in await the lads’s peloton on October 12.
The ultimate high-prestige race of the season attracts to a detailed a brief however intense interval of racing throughout Italy that includes seven males’s races and two ladies’s races packed into per week, starting on October 5 with the Giro dell’Emilia.
Alongside the best way, masking the northern areas of Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, come races together with the Coppa Agostoni and Gran Piemonte. The conferences carry collectively among the greatest names within the males’s and ladies’s pelotons.
Learn on for all the data on the late-season batch of Italian Basic races, filling the upcoming calendar between Saturday, October 5 and Saturday, October 12.
October 5 – Giro dell’Emilia males & ladies
- Location: Vignola – San Luca
- Size: 215.3km / 113.8km
- Ascent: 3,412m / 617m
- Degree: 1.Professional
The run of races opens with prestigious Giro dell’Emilia which options the well-known climb of San Luca within the coronary heart of Bologna, a problem which shaped a part of the finale of stage 3 of this 12 months’s Tour de France. This 12 months, the lads’s race turns 107, whereas the ladies’s race runs its eleventh version.
Challenges filling out the 215km males’s route embody the climbs of Zocca (13.5km at 4%), Grizzana Morandi (6km at 6%) and Montechiaro (3.3km at 9.1%) earlier than 5 laps of the closing circuit and 5 ascents of San Luca (2.1km at 9.4%).
The 114km ladies’s race, in the meantime, is way less complicated, that includes an extended, flat run-in earlier than two ascents of San Luca present the primary problem.
The ultimate climb to San Luca is commonly the decisive level of the race following a wearing-down course of over the sooner hills. Primož Roglič (Purple Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) shot to victory final 12 months, whereas riders together with Enric Mas (Movistar) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx-ProTime) have additionally triumphed right here.
This 12 months’s males’s race brings Tadej Pogačar’s (UAE Crew Emirates) first outing within the rainbow jersey. He’ll face off in opposition to Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Roglič, Mas, Richard Carapaz (EF Schooling-EasyPost) and extra. The ladies’s lineup has but to be absolutely revealed, although Cat Ferguson and Liane Lippert will race for Movistar.
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October 6 – Coppa Agostoni
- Location: Lissone – Lissone
- Size: 166.7km
- Ascent: 2,890m
- Degree: 1.1
On Sunday, the motion heads to Lombardy for the 77th Coppa Agostoni, a race that includes a mid-race hilly circuit which filters down the peloton forward of a flat run to the road in Lissone.
The early, flat run to the circuit has been reduce down for 2024, shortening the race size by virtually 30km. 4 circuits of the lap that includes the climbs of Sirtori (1.6km at 5.3%), the Colle Brianza (3.1km at 6.7%) and Lissolo (2.5km at 7.2%) mark the hardest a part of the race.
Alexey Lutsenko, Gianni Moscon, and Davide Formolo have received the race in recent times, with the Italian soloing dwelling from 11km out final Autumn as teammate Marc Hirschi secured a UAE Crew Emirates one-two end.
The 1.1 Coppa Agostoni is a tier under among the different races right here and two under the WorldTour Il Lombardia, which means the startlist is not as star-filled as different races. Hirschi and Tim Wellens head up a UAE squad, nonetheless, whereas Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) and Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) are amongst different names already confirmed.
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October 7 – Coppa Bernocchi
- Location: Legnano – Legnano
- Size: 174.3km
- Ascent: 1,969m
- Degree: 1.Professional
There is not any let-up within the racing come Monday, with the Coppa Bernocchi close to Milan internet hosting a 3rd Basic in three days and one other hilly problem.
Just like the Coppa Agostoni, the race begins and ends with a flat part in Legnano, whereas seven laps of a hilly circuit that includes the Piccolo Stelvio climb (1.7km at 5.8%) options because the hardest level of the race.
The climb would not postpone versatile sprinters from taking the win, albeit from decreased teams on the line. Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) received from a gaggle of 5 final 12 months, whereas Sonny Colbrelli, Phil Bauhaus and Davide Ballerini have received previously.
Remco Evenepoel is the headline title on the startlist because the Belgian hopes to duplicate his 31km solo victory from 2021. Few different groups have been confirmed at this stage, although Marc Hirschi, Filippo Baroncini and Tim Wellens line up for UAE Crew Emirates.
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October 8 – Tre Valli Varesine males & ladies
- Location: Busto Arsizio – Varese
- Size: 200.3km / 136.3km
- Ascent: 3,377m / ?
- Degree: 1.Professional
The ultimate warm-up for lots of the main stars heading for Il Lombardia would be the 103rd Tre Valli Varesine, held in Varese, Lombardy. This 12 months’s race comes up 4 days earlier than the ultimate Monument of the season.
An early hilly run north from Busto Arsizio brings the peloton to the primary circuit of the day, that includes the 2km at 5.3% hills of the Salita del Ronchi and Montello. The riders deal with eight laps of that earlier than one-and-a-half laps of an prolonged closing circuit, which provides the climb of Barasso (900m at 7.9%) to the sooner circuit.
The ladies’s race, in the meantime, is predicated round six-and-a-half laps of a circuit that includes the Montello climb in Varese, with the end coming on the prime of the hill.
Roglič, Pogačar and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) have all received the race previously whereas Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal-QuickStep) and Liane Lippert (Movistar) are the reigning champions.
This time round, look out for Pogačar, Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and the soon-to-retire Domenico Pozzovivo (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè), whereas the lineup for the ladies’s race has but to be revealed.
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October 10 – Gran Piemonte
- Location: Valdengo – Borgomanero
- Size: 182km
- Ascent: 1,650m
- Degree: 1.Professional
Gran Piemonte incorporates a changeable route, morphing virtually yearly from a sprinter-friendly race to being one for the puncheurs. Final 12 months noticed Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-QuickStep) beat Marc Hirschi to the win in an version for the hill climbers.
Earlier editions have seen Egan Bernal win on the summit end of Oropa, Matthew Partitions prevail from a dash end and Iván García Cortina triumph from a mid-race breakaway.
This 12 months options one other new route, one which must be suited to the versatile sprinters in the beginning line.
The Passo della Colma (8.7km at 5.4%) is the toughest problem of the race at 63km from the road, whereas the ultimate 45km function a sequence of lighter hills – Cremosina (4.9km at 2.9%), Traversagna (3.1km at 4%) and Maggiora (800m at 5.6%).
Puncheurs and climbers on the 2024 begin checklist embody Marc Hischi, Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) and Richard Carapaz, whereas quick finishers embody Michael Matthews (Jayco-AlUla), Alex Aranburu (Movistar), Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Davide Ballerini (Astana Qazaqstan).
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October 12 – Il Lombardia
- Location: Bergamo – Como
- Size: 252km
- Ascent: 4822m
- Degree: WorldTour
It isn’t the ultimate WorldTour race of the season, however Il Lombardia is the final Monument of the 12 months and the largest, hardest and longest of those late-season Italian races.
As soon as once more, the route flips back-to-front. For the 118th version this 12 months, the battle for the win can be performed out on the street from Bergamo to Como, because it was in 2020 and 2022.
It would not take lengthy for the climbing to start this 12 months, with the Forcellino di Bianzno (6.3km at 5.1%) bringing the primary of the 4,822 metres of elevation on the route. The climbs of the Passo di Ganda (9.4km a 7%), the Colle di Berberino (4.5km at 6.2%) and Valpiana (10.4km at 6.1%) all comply with contained in the opening 105km.
A mid-race lull follows the descent from the Valpiana, earlier than the climbing begins once more 95km from the road with the Sella di Onigo (5.1km at 5.6%) and the well-known ascent of the Madonna del Ghisallo (8.1km at 3.7%).
The hardest problem of the ultimate is the Colma di Sormano, the 13.1km, 6.5% climb which peaks with 42km to run. In a change from earlier runs into Como, there isn’t any Civiglio climb that includes late on this 12 months, with the ultimate problem being San Fermo della Battaglia (3km at 6.4%), simply 6km from the end line.
Tadej Pogačar has dominated the current historical past of the race, successful two-up sprints in opposition to Fausto Masnada and Enric Mas in 2021 and 2022 earlier than changing a 31km solo into a 3rd win in a row final trip.
This 12 months, he’ll be taking goal at Alfredo Binda’s quartet of wins, with the Italian mendacity one wanting all-time file holder Fausto Coppi. Amongst these trying to stop him from ending his historic season with one other massive victory can be Remco Evenepoel, Primož Roglič and 2019 winner Bauke Mollema, whereas he’ll have Juan Ayuso and João Almeida using in assist of him.
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