Tirreno-Adriatico in memory of Davide Rebellin: uphill finish returns
Presented the 58th edition of the Race of the Two Seas
The 58th edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico, which will run from March 6 to 12 for a total of seven stages, was presented this morning at the Teatro dell’Olivo in Camaiore. The Corsa dei Due Mari will touch five regions in central Italy starting in Tuscany and then moving on to Umbria, Lazio, Marche and Abruzzo where the race will end in San Benedetto del Tronto.
The words of RCS Sport Cycling Area Director Mauro Vegni: “Today we are here for the presentation of the Tirreno-Adriatico and at the same time we want to remember Davide Rebellin who won this race in 2001 and who right here in Camaiore had made his debut among the professionals in 1992. In recent years we are witnessing extremely spectacular editions of the Tirreno-Adriatico thanks to the presence of some of the stars of world cycling who have made our race the most important one-week race in the world. The roll of honor is full of prestigious names both in terms of the overall classification, suffice it to say that the top two finishers in 2022, Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, also occupied the first two places, albeit reversed, in the Tour de France, as well as stage successes.”
The Tirreno Adriatico will open with an individual time trial on the roads of Lido di Camaiore. The 11.5 kilometers on the program will be a first test for the pretenders to the Maglia Azzurra while the next two fractions, the Camaiore-Follonica and the Follonica-Foligno, will offer two important opportunities for the sprinters. From Umbria they will descend into Lazio with the Greccio-Tortoreto for a fraction of more than 2,000 meters of elevation gain with a final circuit of 17 km to be repeated three times very treacherous. The last 3 km to Tortoreto are uphill at 7 percent. On Friday, March 10, the fifth stage, which will start from Morro d’Oro, will offer the uphill finish of the Corsa dei Due Mari, an unprecedented finale in that for the first time it will go all the way up to the 1465 meters of Sarnano-Sassotetto, a 2 km extension from the editions in which the race had climbed the Marche rise. Before the classic finale with an inline stage in San Benedetto del Tronto, there will be the now classic Muri Marchigiani stage from Osimo Stazione to Osimo on Saturday, March 11. The final circuit features stretches with gradients of more than 20 percent for a 3,000-meter climb fraction.
