Tour of the Alps pays tribute to Jannik Sinner

The Tour of the Alps pays tribute to Jannik Sinner

The Tour of the Alps resumes, seven months after Juan Pedro López's thrilling success. The Euro-regional stage race revealed Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 at the PalaCongressi in Riva del Garda the routes of the 48th edition, scheduled from April 21 to 25, 2025 on the roads of Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino.

The event drew the top brass of world cycling: Uci president David Lappartient, Uec president Enrico Della Casa, Aiocc president Christian Prudhomme (director of the Tour de France) in addition to Italian Cycling Federation president Cordiano Dagnoni, Austrian Cycling Federation president Harald Mayer and numerous other authorities, including the organizers of all the most important events in world cycling.

Five stages, 739 kilometers and 14,700 meters of elevation gain starting in Trentino and will be; San Lorenzo Dorsino to host the eve day on Easter Sunday and then start and finish of the inaugural stage, Monday, April 21, 2025.

The second stage will start from Mezzolombardo before giving way to South Tyrol with two unprecedented and exciting finish lines in Vipiteno-Racines and San Candido, under the Three Peaks of Lavaredo, in the locality that is the birthplace of the sports idol of the moment, tennis player Jannik Sinner.

The last two days will be in the East Tyrol. After the key stage from Sillian to Obertilliach, it will once again be Lienz – as in 2022, when Frenchman Romain Bardet won – that will award the coveted Tour of the Alps trophy.