Preview - Giro d'Italia 2022 stage 12

Stage 12 sees the peloton head from inland back towards the sea, as the peloton go down into Genova for a stage that can, as many before, be called quite tricky. Why is that? A day too easy to create GC differences, but too hard for the sprinters. Or is it? All will depends on how the day’s climbs are ridden.

The first 100 kilometers of the stage slowly rise to 1000 meters in altitude, in very similar style to Milano-Sanremo. However that isn’t the place where decisions will be made, but rather on the following ascents.

Stage 12: Parma - Genoa, 204 kilometers

With 52 kilometers to go summits the climb to La Colletta which is 9 kilometers long with an average gradient of 4%. Nothing too hard, but it will get the legs burning on some, but only a small descent will separate it from the Valico di Trensasco which averages 8% for 4.3 kilometers and this is not an easy climb in any way. Whatever happens here will inevitably have an impact on the stage, it finishes with just 31 kilometers to go.

Valico di Trensasco: 4.3Km; 7.9% average gradient; 31Km to go

After a very technical descent and a punchy section with 16 kilometers to go, there will be some more organization on the road and we’ll understand how it’ll be decided. The final kilometers into the center of Genova are flat. The final straight is around 1 kilometer long, and just like today it features a slight rise to the line which will make life just that little bit harder once again for the fast men.

Stage 12 Finale 

CyclingUpToDate prediction:

**** Mathieu van der Poel

*** Lennard Kämna, Mauro Schmid

** Bauke Mollema, Davide Formolo, Vincenzo Albanese

* Magnus Cort Nielsen, Koen Bouwman, Giulio Ciccone, Wilco Kelderman

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