Strade Bianche Girls returns for an eleventh version on March 8, 2025, for 136km of undulating terrain around the scenic however unforgiving hills of Tuscany, together with 25% extra gravel.
An authentic presentation in past due January used to be held within the Sala delle Lupe within the Palazzo Pubblico positioned in Piazza del Campo and printed 13 gravel sections that upload as much as 10km extra unpaved roads, now as much as 50.3km. The finale stays unchanged, with the steep Santa Caterina climb resulting in the long-lasting front into Piazza del Campo.
The newest winner, Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime), seems so as to add a 3rd identify in 2025. If she does, organisers will identify a gravel sector in her identify, this reputation allotted one time for three-time winner Fabian Cancellara. She and Annemiek van Vleuten are the one girls with two victories each and every.
Strade Bianche Girls path info
General distance: 136 kilometres
Get started/end: Siena
Gravel distance: 50.3 km
Gravel sectors: 13
Get started time: TBD
End time: TBD
The race begins close to the Stadium/Fortezza Medicea in Siena, with the punchy rollers on pavement for the hole 14.2km after which the primary pair of gravel sectors hit, the primary for 4.4km in period and the second one on a climb of four.8km that has sections of 10% gradient.
An extended dowhill ends up in Radi and a sequence of 4 extra, lengthy gravel sectors, starting from 4.4km to 9.4km. Sector 5 is 9.3km in period and starts with a pointy ascent.. That ends up in the longest sector of the race at 9.4km, S. Martino in Grania, which has a twisting climb and two sections of 12% gradients.
There is a little bit of a respite for 11km, after which gravel sectors 7-10 are available in succession, signaled through the Montaperti, best part a kilometre however the gradient at double digits. After crossing Pieve a Bozzone, the 8th gravel sector (Colle Pinzuto, 2.4km) items gradients of as much as 15%, adopted through Le Tolfe (1.1km), which has a steep descent adopted through a pointy climb with gradients peaking at 18%.
That is the place the primary circuit starts, which starts with the brand new Strada del Castagno sector of 700 metres. The eleventh piece of gravel does now not method for 13 kilometres, then it’s onto Montechiaro, 3.3 km, and 2nd passes of Colle Pinzuto and Le Tolfe for 10km to the end.
The general kilometres would possibly not have white gravel however are hard however. With 2km to move, the gradient reaches 9% on By means of Esterna di Fontebranda, then cobbles previous the Fontebranda Gate mark gradients of 10-16% for a stretch on By means of Rinaldi into Piazza del Campo. The general 30 metres descend on a 7% pitch to stretch to a flat end.
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2025 profile for Strade Bianchi Girls(Symbol credit score: RCS Recreation)
End circuit to Siena(Symbol credit score: RCS Recreation)
11 gravel sectors of 2025 Strade Bianchi Girls, two of them coated two times(Symbol credit score: RCS Recreation)Strade Bianchi Girls gravel sectorsVidritta (4.4km)Bagnaia (4.8km)Radi (4.4km)Los angeles Piana (6.4km)Serravalle (9.3km)Grania (9.4km)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)
