Giro d'Italia Women 2024
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Date | July 7 - July 14, 2024 |
Start location | Brescia |
Finish location | L'Aquila |
Distance | 158.6km |
Category | UCI Women's WorldTour |
Previous edition | 2023 Giro d'Italia Donne |
Previous winner | Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) |
The Giro d'Italia Donne has been officially rebranded as the Giro d'Italia Women in 2024, with new race organiser RCS Sport taking over the management of the race on a four-year contract through 2027.
The 2024 Giro d'Italia Women will be held from July 7-14, reduced to eight days from its traditional ten-day format. RCS Sport presented the newly branded Giro d'Italia Women in October and intends to announce the route details at a later date.
Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) secured the overall victory at the 2023 Giro d'Italia Donne, her fourth overall title at the Italian stage race during her 16-year career.
2024 Giro d'Italia Women Information
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The Giro d'Italia Women is a long-running women's stage race which has carved a niche as one of the most prestigious women's events in the world. It is the only women's event that has traditionally covered 10 days of racing and includes a number of iconic mountain passes. The race will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2024 but has been reduced to eight days.
The Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes are the two biggest stage races on the Women's WorldTour calendar and will change dates in 2024. The Giro d'Italia Women will be held in July, while the Tour de France Femmes will shift to an August date after the Olympic Games.
The Giro d'Italia Women returned to the Women's WorldTour in 2022 after being downgraded in 2021 for not offering live broadcasting of the race in 2020.
The Giro d'Italia Women was organised by PMG Sport/Starlight, an organization that took over the women's stage race in 2021 and 2022 from long-time organiser Giuseppe Rivolta. However, starting in 2024, RCS Sport will take over the organization of the Giro d'Italia Donne for a four-year term ending in 2027.
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2024 Giro d'Italia Women Contenders
Four-time Giro d'Italia Women winner Annemiek van Vleuten has retired from professional cycling, opening the door for a new champion of the Italian stage race to emerge.
A few of the riders to watch for the 2024 Giro d'Italia Women will likely include, Mavi Garcia, teammates Elisa Longo Borghini, Gaia Realini and Lizzie Deignan, Juliette Labous, and teammates Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and Marta Cavalli.
2024 Giro d'Italia Women Route
The Giro d’Italia Women route traditionally caters to the most powerful riders who can cover both relentlessly steep pitches to long high-mountain terrain.
RCS Sport has taken over the management of the event and designed a testing 158.6km route from north to south of Italy via the Apennines.
The 2024 Giro d’Italia Women will start with a 14.6km time trial around Brescia and end with two consecutive mountain stages in the southern Apennines, first at the summit of the Blockhaus and then to the town of L’Aquila via more climbs in the Abruzzo region.
Giro d'Italia Women History
In the Giro d'Italia's more than three-decade-long history, some of the past winners include inaugural champion Maria Canins (Italy) in 1988, Catherine Marsal (France) in 1990, five-time winner Fabiana Luperini (Italy) from 1995-98 and 2008, two-time winner Joane Somarriba (Spain) in 1999 and 2000, three-time winner Nicole Brändli (Switzerland) in 2001, 2003 and 2005, Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) in 2004, and two-time winner Edita Pučinskaitė (Lithuania) in 2006 and 2007.
Americans Mara Abbott won in 2010 and 2013, and Megan Guarnier won in 2016. Now retired Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) won the race four times, in 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2021.
Two three-time winners, both from the Netherlands, are expected to be on the start this year: Marianne Vos (2011, 2012, 2014) and defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten (2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023).
2024 Giro d'Italia Women schedule
Date | Stage | Start time | Finish time |
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July 7, 2024 | Stage 1 | TBC | TBC |
July 8, 2024 | Stage 2 | TBC | TBC |
July 9, 2024 | Stage 3 | TBC | TBC |
July 10, 2024 | Stage 4 | TBC | TBC |
July 11, 2024 | Stage 5 | TBC | TBC |
July 12. 2024 | Stage 6 | TBC | TBC |
July 13, 2024 | Stage 7 | TBC | TBC |
July 14, 2024 | Stage 8 | TBC | TBC |
Races
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Giro d'Italia Women 20247 July 2024 - 14 July 2024 | Women's WorldTour
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Stage 1 | Brescia - Brescia2024-07-07 14.6km
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Stage 2 | Sirmione - Volta Mantovana2024-07-08 102km
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Stage 3 | Sabbioneta - Toano2024-07-09 111km
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Stage 4 | Imola - Urbino2024-07-10 133km
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Stage 5 | Frontone - Foligno2024-07-11 111km
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Stage 6 | San Benedetto del Tronto - Chieti2024-07-12 155km
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Stage 7 | Lanciano - Blockhaus2024-07-13 123km
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Stage 8 | Pescara - L’Aquila2024-07-14 109km
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