Discover the Thrilling Route of Strade Bianche 2025

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2025 course map for Strade Bianche(Symbol credit score: RCS Game)(Symbol credit score: RCS Game)

The 2025 direction for Strade Bianche has one once more been redesigned for the Tuscan showdown on March 8. Now in a nineteenth version, the 213km course will for the primary time exceed 80km of white gravel, totalling 81.7km of sterrati throughout 16 sections.

An professional presentation rite used to be held in Siena at Piazza del Campo in January to show the course main points, together with one brief new unpaved phase has been added to each the lads’s and ladies’s races. There have been no adjustments to the normal end for the steep Santa Caterina climb main into Siena’s central sq.. 

Remaining 12 months Tadej Pogačar (UAE Staff Emirates) introduced a vicious assault at the Monte Sante Marie with 81km to move and secured his 2d victory on the spring Vintage, ultimate profitable two years prior to. He matched Michal Kwiatkowski with two wins, and handiest Fabian Cancellara has a suite of 3. 

Strade Bianche 2025 course info

General distance:  213 kilometres

Get started/end: Siena

Gravel distance:  81.7 km

Gravel sectors: 16

Get started time: TBD

End time: TBD

The race begins close to the Stadium/Fortezza Medicea in Siena. The primary undulating 14.2km result in the primary gravel sector of simply over 4km, which is immediately and relatively downhill. Sector 2 (4.8km) is a tough phase with a climb that includes a gradient over 10%. Upon achieving Radi with 133km to move, the course takes on back-to-back gravel paths, sector 4 “La Piana”  some of the race’s vintage gravel sectors that has featured within the direction ever for the reason that first version. 

The course then follows paved surfaces for roughly 25km, with a 4km climb to Montalcino within the center, then rolls towards the 5 longest gravel sections of the course between kilometres 73 and 140. Sector 5 (11.9km) and sector 6 (8km) start simply previous Torrenieri, with little tarmac transition in between. Each are strenuous and really punchy, with difficult bends, climbs and descents. 

After the second one cross via Buonconvento, riders will face the brand new Serravalle sector (9.3km), which ends up in San Martino in Grania (9.4km). This gravel sector ends with a twisting climb that leads again to paved roads.

Sector 9 starts in Ponte del Garbo and is known as Monte Sante Marie. The 11.5km sector is the toughest, kicking as much as 18%, and is the place Pogačar introduced his profitable assault ultimate 12 months. Must any rider reflect that tactic, it’s 73km to the end, with seven brief sectors left to overcome. 

3 brief, sharp gravel sections practice from Monteaperti to Le Tolfe, with the center Colle Pinzuto peaking at 15%. 

In a while after the primary passage of Le Tolfe, the course takes a first-ever trip at the Strada del Castagno (thirteenth sector, 700m), which ends up in some difficult passes on tarmac the entire approach to Pontignano after which input the 14th sector (Montechiaro 3.3km), which used to be coated within the first editions of the race. 

Like ultimate 12 months, the sectors of Colle Pinzuto (fifteenth) and Le Tolfe (sixteenth) are repeated prior to the course turns in opposition to Siena with a bit over 10km left to the end.

The race concludes with the climb in the course of the slim By means of Santa Caterina with gradients of 16% to central Siena. With 150m to move, a proper flip leads into By means of Rinaldini and enters the Piazza del Campo with 70 metres to move, the overall part downhill to the road.

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Elevation profile for 2025 Strade Bianche(Symbol credit score: RCS Game)Strade Bianchi 2025 gravel sectorsVidritta (4.4km)Bagnaia (4.8km)Radi (4.4km)L. a. Piana (6.4km)Lucignano d’Asso (11.9km)Pieve a Salti (8km)Serravalle (9.3km)Grania (9.4km)Monte Sante Marie (11.5km)Montaperti (0.6km)Colle Pinzuto (2.4km)Le Tolfe (1.1km)Strada del Castagno (0.7km)Montechiaro (3.3 km)Colle Pinzuto (2.4km)Le Tolfe (1.1km)