The riders taking part in the 10-stage Giro Rosa were today greeted with a challenging 12.7km time trial course which took in the 30 per cent Muro di Cocciari.
One of the main races in women’s road cycling, the Giro Rosa runs until July 9.
The stage five profile looked like this:
However, La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Mattia Bazzoni posted the following video:
First riders up to the Muro di Cocciari (30%) #TT #GiroRosa @WMNcycling pic.twitter.com/ooHUpvyBNg
— Mattia Bazzoni (@ilbazzo) July 4, 2017
According to the race organisers, the 400m stretch at one point hits 30 per cent.
#girorosa #uciwwt Strada Cocciari, 400 m lenghth, 30% maximal slope. pic.twitter.com/LzzypfPbJq
— GiroRosaCyclingRace (@GiroRosaCycling) July 4, 2017
Annemiek van Vleuten was quickest on the day, followed by fellow Dutch rider, Anna van der Breggen, who retained the overall lead. Van der Breggen, the Olympic road race champion, also won all three of the Ardennes Classics earlier this year.
Earlier in the Giro Rosa, Hannah Barnes won stage three – her first Women’s World Tour stage victory – while fellow Britons Nikki Brammeier and Lizzie Deignan were among the Boels-Dolmans riders who won the opening team time trial.
@PWCycling New photo of the Giro Rosa TT… pic.twitter.com/elTHU5e3im
— European Son (@adrianartn) July 4, 2017
12 thoughts on “Video: Giro Rosa riders labour up 30 per cent climb during time trial”
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Did Mario Cipollini attend the women’s race at the world championships back in October?
A little bit of an actual
A little bit of an actual (since the highlights haven’t yet been posted) spoiler, but it was a time trial anyway, an this is a news site…
In any case, I think once you go past 25% it gets a little ridiculous, even the pro’s are riding up at a walking pace.
Carton wrote:
hey Im just happy theyve noticed there is a Women’s world tour bike race on for a change, when we get to a similar amount of daily stage updates and multiple articles about the days racing, then we can complain about spoilers 🙂
Awavey wrote:
A little bit of an actual (since the highlights haven’t yet been posted) spoiler, but it was a time trial anyway, an this is a news site…
In any case, I think once you go past 25% it gets a little ridiculous, even the pro’s are riding up at a walking pace.
— Awavey hey Im just happy theyve noticed there is a Women’s world tour bike race on for a change, when we get to a similar amount of daily stage updates and multiple articles about the days racing, then we can complain about spoilers 🙂— Carton
Sure. I wasn’t complaining, just to clarify, if it did come out that way.
This is what I imagine London
This is what I imagine London cyclists think Box Hill is. Anyone, though, who lives anywhere near proper hills, is looking at this footage and thinking “what’s so special about that?”
Fair play to them though, big hills like that are always good fun.
Peowpeowpeowlasers wrote:
Cardboard box! We used to dream of a cardboard box.
in the 2013 Tirreno-Adriatico
in the 2013 Tirreno-Adriatico this was the climb in Stage 6 that some of the men put 30+tooth sprockets on for and up which much of the peloton walked. There’s a bit of footage on the David Millar Project* youtue page of Phinney strugling up the 3rd time, off the back of the race but still on his bike. He finished OTL that day. Admittedly it was a 200k+ road stage and they had to do the steep bit three times, but puts in serious perspective the insanity of sending a TT up it.
*sidetrack: I guess this died? It wasn’t looking too clever after the whole “not picked for the final TdF” fiasco
Al__S wrote:
He refused to compromise on the release title ‘David Millar: I used to be really good until I stopped taking drugs (which wasn’t my fault by the way), have I mentioned I have a Maserati?’ or edit it down from 6 hours.
Brill, we all like to see
Brill, we all like to see other people suffering on climbs!
The laughable thing is the stage 5 profile, it looks like someone just made it up!
Route designer: ‘I can’t be arsed to look at the gradients for a mere eight miles, no one will notice until it’s too late anyway.. put a bit of a bump in.. yeah that’ll do.. right to the pub!’
Here’s the Phinney video
Here’s the Phinney video
The last cyclist up in that
Well the ladies are strong enough for a 30%. The last cyclist up in that footage was in the drops! Never tried that, might have to give it a go, but imagining it ain’t easy. Would love proper coverage, back to my imagining, Hmmm..
https://twitter.com
https://twitter.com/alexismryan/status/882305623462879233
Ouch.