Giro 2026: Route and stages
Guillermo Silva leads the Giro ahead of Florian Stork and Egan Bernal. A flat stage with a climb halfway through is on today's menu, and tomorrow the pink caravan moves from Bulgaria to Italy. On Tuesday, the Giro d’Italia continues with a stage that resembles the today's stage, although the climb is closer to the finish. With 4,100 metres of elevation gain, Wednesday will be a hilly to mountainous test, and the first major summit finish of the Giro follows on Friday.
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Giro 2026: Live report stage 3
The riders traverse fla terrein towards midway climb - 9.2 kilometres at 5.4% - and then the finale is flat. Follow today's stage live on Cyclingstage.com.
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Giro 2026 Route stage 3: Plovdiv - Sofia
Sunday, 10 May – Stage 3 of the Giro features a single major obstacle: the Borovec Pass. Whether this 9.2-kilometre climb at 5.4% will be enough to prevent a bunch sprint remains to be seen. The summit comes far from the finish in the capital, Sofia, making it quite likely that the 175-kilometre stage will end in a fast finishers showdown.
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Giro 2026 Route stage 4: Catanzaro - Cosenza
Tuesday, 12 May – The Giro d’Italia is on home soil. At 138 kilometres, stage 4 runs on flat roads from Catanzaro to Cosenza until a climb of 14.4 kilometres at 5.9% sets up the finale.
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Giro 2026: Riders
Jonas Vingegaard, Giulio Pellizzari, Felix Gall, Egan Bernal and Thymen Arensman target the GC at the Giro, while Dylan Groenewegen, Arnaud De Lie and Jonathan Milan are aiming for sprint success. The likes of Filippo Ganna and Giulio Ciccone will be hunting stage wins. Who else is on the start list?
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Giro 2026 Favourites stage 3: For fast men #2
Halfway through the third stage of the Giro, the riders take on the Borovec Pass — a 9.2-kilometre climb at 5.4%. Sprinters will undoubtedly be dropped there, and the big question is whether they can make it back in time to contest the victory in Sofia.
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Giro 2026: Withdrawals
On Saturday 8 May, the Giro d’Italia started in Bulgaria with 184 riders. Not all of them will reach the finish in Rome. Cyclingstage.com keeps track of the withdrawals.
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