It will still be an altitude-challenging path to decide the successor in the tricolor jersey of Simone Velascothe 2024 national champion. I Men’s national road championships they will decide on the route of what in the last three years had been the “Forever Alfredo”, a 1.1 race in memory of the famous cyclist and technical commissioner of the national team Alfredo Martini, whose distance however this year will rise to 228 kilometres, with the start still expected from Florence. The group will then move towards Valdisieve and the Mugello with a circuit with two repetitions of the simple Scarperia-L’arrabbiata before the ascent to Crosses of Calenzano (2.3 km at 5.2% with peaks at 8%) halfway through the race. After the descent you arrive at another circuit with the ascent of Mount Morello (4.9 km at 4.4%) to be repeated five times, with the last difficulty ending 8.6 kilometers from the finish line Sesto Fiorentino. The total difference in altitude will be more than three thousand metres.
The startlist
The participation of almost all active Italian professionals is expected at the start, with some exceptions, such as Damiano Caruso And Antonio Tiberi (Barhain-Victorious) e Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal Quick-Step).
The defending champion will therefore be present Simone Velasco with the other Italians of Astana Qazaqastan: Simone Velasco, Davide Ballerini, Samuele Battistella, Lorenzo Fortunato, Michele Gazzoli, Christian Scaroni And Davide Toneatti.
There Bahrain-Victoriousas mentioned, will not field either Caruso or Tiberi, but Alberto Bruttomessi, Nicolo’ Buratti And Edoardo Zambanini.
Fully booked instead Ineos Grenadierswith the winner of Thursday’s time trial Filippo Ganna with Salvatore Puccio and Elia Viviani
No absentees also for the UAE Emirateswhich leads Filippo Baroncini, Alessandro Covi And Diego Ulissi as well as the Lidl–Trek with Andrea Bagioli, Dario Cataldo, Giulio Ciccone, Simone Consonni, Fabio Felline And Jacopo Mosca
Same goes for the Movistar (Davide Cimolai, Davide Formolo, Lorenzo Milesi, Manlio Moro), the Intermarché – Wanty (Francesco Busatto, Kevin Colleoni, Simone Petilli, Lorenzo Rota), the Jayco Alula (Alessandro De Marchi, Davide De Pretto, Filippo Zana), the Alpecin-Deceuninck (Nicola Conci, Luca Vergallito), the Arkea-B&B Hotels with Vincenzo Albanese, Luca Mozzato And Alexander Verres and the Tudor (Alberto Dainese And Matteo Trentin).
Among the World Tours that will field only one athlete, the Bora-Hansgrohe with Giovanni Aleottithe Cofidis with Stefano Oldanithe Decathlon Ag2r The World with Andrea Vendramethe Ef Education–Easypost with Alberto Bettiol (Andrea Piccolo will be absent after the immediate dismissal communicated yesterday by the team), the Groupama-FDJ with Lorenzo Germani, Soudal Quick Step with Gianni Moscon And Visma | Lease A Bike with Edoardo Affini
The professional teams will instead be able to count on a large number of runners: the Corratec Vini Fantini he will have fourteen at his disposal, the Q36.5 he will have seven, the Bingoal WB three, one there Free Palestine (Marco Frigo), the Polti Kometa eight (Davide Piganzoli will not be there), the VF Group–Bardiani CSF–Faizané as many as 22, including Domenico Pozzovico, Alessandro Pinarello And Giulio Pellizzari
Times and where to see it
The race will start from Florence at 11.45am tomorrow 23 June and will be visible on Rai2 from 4pm to 6.15pm, Eurosport 1 from 4.45pm to 5.30pm and streaming on Eurosport and Discovery from 3.45pm to 5.45pm.
