Giro d'Italia Women 2025

2025 Giro d'Italia Women overview

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The Giro d'Italia Women will embark on its 36th edition held from July 6-13, 2025. It is the second year that the event is managed by RCS Sport as the race is set to cover eight days of racing across Italy.

The official route was revealed to include an individual time trial and include two flat stages, three medium mountain stages, and two high mountain stages.

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2025 Giro d'Italia Women Information

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 many iconic mountain passes. The race will celebrate its 36th anniversary in 2025 and will cover eight days of racing.

La Vuelta Femenina, the Giro d'Italia Women and the Tour de France Femmes are the three biggest stage races on the Women's WorldTour calendar. The Vuelta kicks off the women's Grand Tours in May, while the Giro d'Italia will be held in early July, and the Tour de France Femmes return to its late-July spot on the international calendar.

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.

The Giro d'Italia Women has been officially rebranded as the Giro d'Italia Women in its first year organised by RCS Sport 2024.

Cyclingnews will highlight key feature stories ahead of the 2025 Giro d'Italia Women that include a look at the major talking points, exclusive interviews, race reports, news, analysis and galleries. We also highlight the major contenders of the eight-day race and a look at the history of iconic ascents at the Giro d'Italia Women throughout its 36-year history.

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2025 Giro d'Italia Women Contenders

The Italian Grand Tour will once again offer the peloton a demanding race routed through some of the toughest mountain passes the cycling-friendly country has to offer, this time showcasing three summit finishes – Aprica, Valdobbiadene and Monte Nerone – and 14,300m of elevation gain to help decide who will become the new overall champion.

There will be plenty of riders to watch and storylines to follow during the eight-day event, from Marianne Vos' attempt to add to her record 32 career stage wins at the Italian Grand Tour to the return of a four-time GC winner. With the full team rosters only recently confirmed, Cyclingnews examines the riders who are in the hunt for the maglia rosa.

2025 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 announced the details of the official route in January 13.

The route will bring the peloton across 919.2km and 14,300m of elevation gain with a major mountain pass at Passo del Tonale, an ascent that will mark the Cima Alfonsina Strada, and three summit finishes at Aprica, Valdobbiadene and Monte Nerone.

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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).

In 2024, Elisa Longo Borghini became the first Italian to win the Giro d'Italia Women since five-time winner Fabiana Luperini last won the title 16 years ago in 2008, and added her name to a list of compatriots to have won the race that also includes Maria Canins, Roberta Bonanomi, and Michela Fanini.

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