This is the main data for The Cycling Tour of Italy, whose 105th edition begins on Friday in Budapest, Hungary.
Giro 2022 track: 3445.6 kilometers in 21 stages. Departure from Budapest on May 6, arrival in Verona on May 29.
It might interest you: (Miguel Angel Lopez, It’s Time)
to take into account
Two individual phases of the experiment (stages two and twenty-first).
Six stages with elevated access or ascent (1st, 4th, 9th, 15th, 19th and 20th stages).
Three days off (May 9, 16 and 23).
Participation: 22 teams of 8 runners (176 runners). AG2R Citroën, Astana, Bahrain, BikeExchange, Bora, Cofidis, DSM, EF Education, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos, Intermarché, Israelël PT, Jumbo, Lotto, Movistar, Quick-Step, Trek and UAE (section one), Alpecin, Bardiani , Drone and Eolo-Kometa (Section Two)
Regulations: Four distinct jerseys: ‘Pink Jersey’ (general classification), cyclamino (points), Azura (mountain), white (youth).
Bonuses: 10, 6 and 4 seconds to the first three of each stage online. 3, 2 and 1 second into the top three in the middle race.
Winners: 104 copies of the event in 1909. 69 victories for Italy, 7 for Belgium, 6 for France, 4 for Spain, 3 for Russia and Switzerland, 2 for Colombia, Great Britain and Luxembourg, 1 for Canada and Ecuador, the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Title record: 5 for Alfredo Penda (ITA) between 1925 and 1933, Fausto Cope (ITA) Between 1940 and 1953, Eddie Merckx (Belgium) between 1968 and 1974.
Last ten winners: 2012: Ryder Hesjedal (Canada) 2013: Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) 2014: Nairo Quintana (COL) 2015: Alberto Contador (ESP) 2016: Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) 2017: Tom Dumoulin (NED) 2018: Chris Froome (GBR) 2019: Richard Carapaz (ECU) 2020: Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR) 2021: 1. Egan Bernal (COL) 2. Damiano Caruso (ITA) at 1 minute 29 seconds 3. Simon Yates (GBR) at 4 minutes 15 seconds
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