Giro d'Italia Women 2025
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Date | July 6 - July 13, 2025 |
Start location | Bergamo |
Finish location | Imola |
Distance | 939.6km |
Category | UCI Women's WorldTour |
Previous winner | Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) |
2025 Giro d'Italia Women overview

Stage 1: Giro d'Italia Women: Marlen Reusser captures opening time trial and first race lead
Swiss National Time Trial Champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marlen Reusser (Movistar) has scorched her way to a narrow but convincing victory for the opening lead of the Giro d'Italia Women. On a short but technically demanding 14.2 kilometre time trial through the northern Italian city of Bergamo, Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-ProTime) into second place, 12 seconds back, and defending champion Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team AD🏅🎶Q) into third, 16 seconds down.
2025 Giro d'Italia Women Information
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 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:official route was revealed to include an individual time trial and include two flat stages, three medium mountain sta🀅ges, and two high mountain stages.
2025 Giro d'Italia Women results
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2025 Giro d'Italia Women Information
The Gi𝔍ro 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 anniversaryཧ 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 Wom▨en's WorldTour calendar. The Vuelta kicks off the women's Grand Tours in May, while the Giro d'Ital🦩ia 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 bওeing 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 168澳洲5最新开奖结果: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 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:iconic ascents at t🍎he Giro ꧃d'Italia Women throughout its 36-year history.
Join Cyclingnews' coverage of the 2025 Giro d'Italia Women with race reports, results, photo galleries, news and race analysis.
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-frie🦄ndly 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 tradi⛦tionally 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 Mo🔯nte Nerone.
Click here for the✱ full details of the 2025 Giro d'Italia Women route with maps and profiles.
Giro d'Italia Women History
In the Giro d'Italia's m♌ore 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 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mara Abbott won in 2010 and 2013, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Megan Guarnier won in 2016. Now retired 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) w🦄on t💜he 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: 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marianne Vos (2011, 2012, 2014) and defending champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Annemiek van Vleuten (2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023).
In 2024, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Elisa Longo Borghini became the first Italian to win the Giro d'Italia Women since five-time winner Fabiana🐠 Luperin♚i last won the title 16 years ago in 2008, and added her name 𒊎to a list of compatriots to have won the race that also includes Maria Canins, Roberta Bonanomi, and Michel𝄹a Fanini.
2025 Giro d'Italia Women schedule
Date | Stage | Start time | Finish time |
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July 6, 2025 | Stage 1 | 11:35 | 14:30 |
July 7, 2025 | Stage 2 | 11:35 | 14:25 |
July 8, 2025 | Stage 3 | 11:15 | 14:30 |
July 9, 2025 | Stage 4 | 10:25 | 14:30 |
July 10, 2025 | Stage 5 | 11:30 | 14:30 |
July 11, 2025 | Stage 6 | 9:40 | 14:30 |
July 12, 2025 | Stage 7 | 10:20 | 14:30 |
July 13, 2025 | Stage 8 | 10:40 | 14:30 |
Giro d'Italia Women 2025 Teams
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Races
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Giro d'Italia Women6 July 2025 - 13 July 2025 | Italy | Women's WorldTour
- Giro d'Italia Women 2025 𓆏route reveals three summit finishes - Aprica,ܫ Valdobbiadene and Monte Nerone
- Analysing the Giro d'It﷽alia Women 2025 ▨contenders – Can Elisa Longo Borghini stop Anna van der Breggen from a record-tying fifth overall victory?
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia Women - Past winners
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Stage 8 - Giro d'Italia Women 2025: Stage 8 preview | Forli - Imola2025-07-13 134km
Latest Content on the Race

Can Lotte Kopecky eclipse Elisa Longo Borghini to win the Giro d'Italia Women on the last stage? - Analysis
By Lukas Knöfler published
Analysis Maglia rosa victory to be decided in L’Aquila as evenly-matched GC favourites separated by 💦just one second

'It's a very stupid one second' - Kopecky set for time-bonus battle against Longo Borghini in hunt for maglia rosa in Giro d'Italia Women finale
By Kirsten Frattini published
News 'I hope to♔morrow can be an exciting battle'🙈 says World Champion

'Respecting the mountains' objective for Longo Borghini on Giro d’Italia Women queen stage
By Lukas Knöfler published
News Second-placed Kopecky downplaying expectations ahead of dꦜecisive contest to Blockhaus

‘I have nothing to lose’ – Three tough stages ahead for ‘realistic’ Lotte Kopecky at Giro d’Italia Women
By Simone Giuliani published
News World Champion pulls to within three seconds of GC lead after stage 5 🎃win but will see 'how far I get' on Blockhaus climb

GC favourites ready for decisive mountains showdown at Giro d’Italia Women
By Lukas Knöfler published
Analysis Lotte Kopecky only three seconds behind Elisa Longo Borghini going into t🐻he last three days

Uttrup Ludwig, Le Court close in on GC podium, Labous handed time penalty at Giro d'Italia Women
By Lukas Knöfler published
Analysis Elisa Longo Borghi🌳💃ni maintains the top spot in the hunt for maglia rosa

Opportunity grabbed with both hands as Niamh Fisher-Black gives New Zealand a Giro d'Italia Women stage win
By Simone Giuliani published
News 'To finally take the stage victory like this... This isಌ the best win of my career' says 23 year old SD Worx-Protime rider

Longo Borghini defends Giro Women maglia rosa in the heat of the first climbing stage
By Lukas Knöfler published
News Kopecky, Labous and Niedermaier m🐲ove up in GC on Toano summit finish
Top News on the Race
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'If my best means I win, then that's great' - Elisa Longo Borghini targets second Giro d'Italia Women victory in 2025
Italian puts the Giro before the Tour de France Femmes in first season with UAE Team ADQ -
Giro d'Italia route reveal 'finally' reset for January 13 in Rome
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Rescheduled route presentation date for 2025 Giro d'Italia remains undecided
Rumours of new January 13 date not confirmed by organisers
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Mortirolo could return to Giro d'Italia Women in 2025 after eight-year absence
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‘I have to look at the bigger picture’ - Kopecky on finishing second at Giro d'Italia Women
World champion ‘gave it everything’ to win the Italian Grand Tour
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'We did something magnificent' - Elisa Longo Borghini silences doubters with strength and teamwork to win Giro d'Italia Women
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'Smashed it out of the park' - Neve Bradbury moves onto Giro d'Italia Women GC podium after Blockhaus victory
'Neve has been growing every year since she won the Zwift Academy in 2020. This year, she's taken another step' says canyon-SRAM DS Magnus Bäckstedt
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