All ready for Tour of Slovakia 2024. The short stage race, now in its 68th edition, takes place this year at a different time in the calendar from the usual location, sharing a few days of racing with the Tour de France, but will always be divided into five days, from 26 to 30 JuneThe route offers opportunities for all types of riders: after the team time trial Dunajská Streda in the inaugural stage, in fact, the runners will tackle two stages which on paper wink at fast wheels, before moving on to decidedly more challenging routes over the weekend, including the final stage which includes the only uphill finish at Štrbské Plesowhere Remi Cavagna’s successor will be crowned.
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Recent Roll of Honor Tour of Slovakia
2023 CAVAGNA Remi
2022 CERNY Josef
2021 SAGAN Peter
2020 STEIMLE Jannik
2019 LAMPAERT Yves
2018 ALAPHILIPPE Julian
2017 TRATNIK Jan
2016 FINETTO Mauro
2015 VIGANÒ Davide
2014 POLIVODA Oleksandr
Tour of Slovakia 2024 route
The first stage features a team time trial measuring 28.8 kilometers in length with start and finish in the city of Dunajská Streda. The length of the test combined with the extreme technicality of the route, which alternates a central part characterized by long straights with a tortuous final and the complicated passage inside the Slovakiaring car circuit, will undoubtedly create the first important gaps in the general classification with the less well-equipped teams in the team time trials that could leave a gap of well over a minute behind the time trial specialists.
The second fraction presents a difficult path to interpret. In the 192 kilometers that the runners will be able to Nitra to HlohovecIn fact, there are five Mountain Grands Prix scattered around, including that of Dlhý vŕšok, a climb classified as first category, five kilometers long and with an average gradient of 4%. On paper the stage seems destined to end with a group sprint, especially considering that the last GPM of the day is over 60 kilometers from the finish line. Be careful, however, at the end: the last kilometer in fact presents a tear that could put a spoke in the wheels of pure sprinters and favor a finisseur attack.
The path of the third stage, however, is more linear Piešťany to Dubnica nad Váhom, which measures 161.2 kilometers. The three GPMs that the runners will face along the route do not represent real difficulties and everything suggests that it will be the pure sprinters who will play their cards in a final group sprint. In the fourth stage, however, the real difficulties begin: the 183.5 kilometer stage Partizánske to Ružomberok in fact it presents 7 GPM, including two first category climbs, Šturec (10.5 km at 3%) and Donovaly (10.5 km at 5%) which, although not presenting impressive numbers, can make a difference also considering that they are both placed in the second half of the stage, after the riders have already faced over 25 kilometers of ascent. Once the climb to Donovaly has reached the top of the hill, the difficulties are not over, in fact, in the finale the race faces a circuit to be repeated twice in the area around Ružomberok which includes the Kalvária climb, which could be the perfect springboard for those who want to win the stage.
The fifth and final stage will be the one that will definitively mark the general classification. The 142.3 kilometers from Liptovský Mikuláš to Štrbské Pleso they expect a relatively calm first half of the stage, but after the Starý Smokovec climb inserted around the 60th kilometer, the riders will no longer face a meter of flat terrain. After passing through the second category GPM, in fact, the group will enter the final circuit which will be repeated three times and which includes the climb of Štrbské Pleso (8 km at 5%). Although it does not present excessive gradients, the length of the climb and the lack of breathing moments will undoubtedly be decisive in deciding who will wear the Yellow Jersey and take home this Tour of Slovakia.
Tour of Slovakia 2024 stages
Stage 1 (26/06): Dunajská Streda – Dunajská Streda (28.8 km, team time trial)
Stage 2 (27/06): Nitra – Hlohovec (192 km)
Stage 3 (28/06): Piešťany – Dubnica nad Váhom (161.2 km)
Stage 4 (29/06): Partizánske – Ružomberok (183.5 km)
Stage 5 (30/06): Liptovský Mikuláš – Štrbské Pleso (142.3 km)
Altitudes and plans Tour of Slovakia 2024
Stage 1 (26/06): Dunajská Streda – Dunajská Streda (28.8 km, team time trial)
Stage 2 (27/06): Nitra – Hlohovec (192 km)
Stage 3 (28/06): Piešťany – Dubnica nad Váhom (161.2 km)
Stage 4 (29/06): Partizánske – Ružomberok (183.5 km)
Stage 5 (30/06): Liptovský Mikuláš – Štrbské Pleso (142.3 km)
Participants Tour of Slovakia 2024
SOUDAL QUICK-STEP
1 Julian ALAPHILIPPE
2 Pepijn REINDERINK
3 Gil GELDERS
4 Andrea RACCAGNI NOVIERO
5 Paul MAGNIER
6 Martin SVRČEK
7 Warre VANGHELUWE
COFIDIS
11 Thomas CHAMPION
12 Ben HERMANS
13 Hugo TOUMIRE
14 Ruben FERNANDEZ ANDUJAR
15 Oliver KNIGHT
16 Stefano OLDANI
17 Anthony PEREZ
TEAM JAYCO ALULA
21 Anders FOLDAGER
22 Felix ENGELHARDT
23 Michael HEPBURN
24 Amund Grøndahl JANSEN
25 Mauro SCHMID
26 Callum SCOTSON
27 Maximilian Richard WALSCHEID
DUKLA BANSKA BYSTRICA
31 Dominik DUNÁR
32 Jakub GALOVIČ
33 Samuel KOVÁČ
34 Dávid KAŠKO
35 Simon NAGY
36 Pavol ROVDER
37 Samuel TUKA
PIERRE BAGUETTE CYCLING
41 Samuel SKLADAN
42 Tomáš KALOJÍROS
43 Andrej LIŠKA
44 Tomáš NOVÁK
45 Peter SAGAN
46 Dušan ORAVEC
47 Daniel VYSOČAN
DSTNY LOT
51 Jenno BERCKMOES
52 Logan CURRIE
53 Arjen LIVYNS
54 Sylvain MONIQUET
55 Johannes ADAMIETZ
56 Thomas DE GENDT
57 Milan MENTEN
POLTI KOMETA TEAM
61 Davide DE CASSAN
62 Paul DOUBLE
63 Erik FETTER
64 Andrea GAROSIO
65 German Dario GOMEZ BECERRA
66 Alex MARTIN GUTIERREZ
67 Jhonatan RESTREPO VALENCIA
Q36.5 PRO CYCLING TEAM
71 Xabier Mikel AZPARREN IRURZUN
72 Walter CALZONI
73 Mark Jamie DONOVAN
74 Alessandro FANCELLU
75 Giacomo NIZZOLO
76 Nicolò PARISINI
77 Joseph ROSSKOPF
BINGOAL WB
81 Thomas PORTSMOUTH
82 Dimitri PEYSKENS
83 Alexander SALBY
84 Lennert TEUGELS
85 Jelle VERMOOTE
86 Michiel LAMBRECHT
87 Davide PERSICO
CORRATEC VINI FANTINI
91 Antoine DEBONS
92 Simone OLIVERO
93 Mark PADUN
94 Kristian SBARAGLI
95 Jan STÖCKLI
96 Kyrylo TSARENKO
97 Samuele ZAMBELLI
CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA
101 Daniel BABOR
102 Abel BALDERSTONE ROUMENS
103 Fernando BARCELO ARAGON
104 Tomáš BÁRTA
105 Samuel FERNANDEZ GARCIA
106 Calum JOHNSTON
107 Michal SCHLEGEL
TEAM NOVO NORDISK
111 Hamish BEADLE
112 Sam BRAND
113 Lucas DAUGE
114 Umberto POLI
116 Antonio POLGA
117 Filippo RIDOLFO
ARKEA-B&B HOTELS CONTINENTALE
121 Baptiste GILLET
122 Rémi LELANDAIS
123 Léandre LOZOUET
124 Louis ROULAND
125 Embret SVESTAD-BÅRDSENG
126 Pierre THIERRY
127 Martin TJØTTA
VOLKERWESSELS CYCLING TEAM
131 Finn CROCKETT
132 Timo DE JONG
133 Sam GADEMAN
134 Jasper HAEST
135 Jente KLAVER
136 Mats OMLOOP
137 Iago WILLEMS
ARA SKIP CAPITAL
141 Blake AGNOLETTO
142 Joshua CRANAGE
143 William EAVES
144 Nate HADDEN
146 Lachlan MILLER
147 Tyler TOMKINSON
ELKOV – KASPER
151 Michael BOROŠ
152 Lukáš KUBIŠ
153 Jan LUKEŠ
154 Daniel RUBEŠ
155 Tomáš PŘIDAL
156 Jakub ŤOUPALÍK
157 Matěj ZAHÁLKA
ATT INVESTMENTS
161 Dominik NEUMAN
162 Jiří PETRUŠ
163 Bartosz RUDYK
164 Matthias SCHWARZBACHER
165 Matúš ŠTOČEK
166 Daniel TUREK
167 Šimon VANÍČEK
BIESSE – CARRERA
171 Davide DONATI
172 Andrea D’AMATO
173 Lorenzo GALIMBERTI
174 Filip GRUSZCZYNSKI
175 Andrea MONTOLI
176 Alessandro MOTTA
177 Marco OLIOSI
ADRIA MOBIL
181 Djordje DJURIC
182 Tilen FINKŠT
183 Jaka ŠPOLJAR
184 Martin JURÍK
185 Barnabás PEÁK
186 Anže SKOK
187 Marcel SKOK
HRINKOW ADVARICS
191 Scott DAVID
192 Raphael HAMMERSCHMID
193 Žiga HORVAT
194 Jaka PRIMOŽIČ
195 Edward RAVASI
196 Adrian STIEGER
197 Riccardo VERZA
MEXICO NATIONAL
201 Carlos Alfonso GARCIA TREJO
202 Jenaro PEREZ SANCHEZ
203 Jorge Adrian PEYROT BALVANERA
204 Sebastian RUIZ TERAN
205 David RUVALCABA REYES
206 Hans TORRES RAMIREZ
207 Michael ZARATE SOUL
