PREVIEW | Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 16

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Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 18:57
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The Corsa Rosa is the first Grand Tour of the season and this year it will include a start in a nation that will for the first time in it's history host a Grand Tour, Albania; and also several mountain stages in it's second half whilst the first half will feature some tricky stages including one that goes through a lot of the Strade Bianche course. We preview stage 16.
Stage 16, the first day of the final week, will be brutal. Five categorized climbs but the race should really explode on the final ascent to San Valentino, 17 kilometers long at 6.5%. There will be lots of climbing and it's a day for the pure climbers to make the difference.
Piazzola sul Brenta - Brentonico (San Valentino), 203 kilometers
Piazzola sul Brenta - Brentonico (San Valentino), 203 kilometers
The first kilometers of the over 200-kilometer long day is flat, but the last two thirds are crazy difficult, and after the last rest day there may be some more riders struggling. A bad day here can spell the end of the GC aspirations for any rider, no exceptions. 4700 meters of climbing...
12.9Km at 4.9% (130Km to go), 10.1Km at 7.5% (88Km to go) and then two climbs that are a brutality, and both can see serious GC differences depending on where the race blows up. The first of which is Santa Barbara which is 12.7 kilometers at 8.3%, a constantly steep climb that is very long. It ends with only 34 kilometers to go and the descent is steep and very technical which can also see differences.
There is virtually no space between the two ascents, and so the end of the descent is the start of the final climb to Brentonico. This will also be hard enough for serious differences, averaging 6% for 18 kilometers, and this is with two downhill sections throughout the ascent. There are several kilometers in the final half of the climb averaging 9% and this will absolutely be enough for big race-deciding attacks.
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Map Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 16
Map Giro d'Italia 2025 stage 16
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Original: Rúben Silva
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