Giro 2023 Favourites stage 19: Last chance for pure climbers

fotobureau Cor VosOn paper, the 19th stage is the toughest of the entire Giro. The 183 kilometres long route takes in an elevation gain of 5,400 metres. Furthermore, the last 3 kilometres rise at 12.7% to the line. (Slideshow route/profile)

Pure horror - that's an apt way to describe stage 19. The riders race to an altitude of 1,100 metres in a false flat run-up of 70 kilometres. And that's where the action is set to really take off.

A series of colossus are neatly lined up. The torture begins on an unclassified climb (3.9 kilometres at 6.7%) to continue without any time for a breather onto the Passo Campolongo (3.9 kilometres at 7%), Passo Valparola (14.1 kilometres at 5,6%), Passo Giau (9.9 kilometres at 9.3%) and Passo Tre Croci (7.9 kilometres at 7.2%).

There are 13.5 kilometres left to race at the Tre Croci. A descent is not really in order and then the road climbs 1.7 kilometres at 6.1% to continue with 1.4 kilometres at 10.6%. Via a short downhill the route returns to climbing with 1 kilometre at 3.9%, only to scale up to a wildly intimidating outro. The lasts 4 kilometres of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo go up at 11.7% and the last 3 even ramp up to 12.7% - on average!

Favourites 19th stage 2023 Giro d'Italia

*** Geraint Thomas, Primoz Roglic, João Almeida
** Jay Vine, Sepp Kuss, Thymen Arensman, Eddie Dunbar
* Thibaut Pinot, Damiano Caruso, Jack Haig, Ilan Van Wilder

Another interesting read: route 19th stage 2023 Giro.

Giro d'Italia 2023 stage 19: profiles, route finale

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Passo Valparola

Passo Giau

Passo Tre Croci + Tre Cime di Lavaredo

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