When does the Giro Donne take place?
The race will be held from 30 June to 10 July 2022 and 24 teams have confirmed their participation.
Return to the Women's World Tour
Due to the lack of live pictures in 2020, the Giro Donne 2021 was stripped of its World Tour status. New organisers took over the organisation of the race for 2021, so live images were available for the first time last year. This included the last 15 kilometres or so of each stage and the finish line ceremony, including the first interviews. This provided the necessary impetus for the organisers of the Giro Donne, PMG Sport/Starlight, to ensure 120 minutes of live coverage every day in 2022. When asked why there was no live coverage of the Giro Rosa before 2021, Roberto Ruini from PMG Sports/Starlight replied as follows:
I don't know what happened before 2021, because we've only been organising the Giro Donne since 2021. Last year, we complied with the UCI's requirements in terms of media coverage. Today we are part of the UCI Women's World Tour again and offer more live coverage than required by the UCI with 120 minutes a day.
Where will the Giro Donne be broadcast on TV?
The organisers guarantee worldwide media coverage. In Germany, the Giro Donne can be seen on Eurosport.
Tour de France Femmes as competition?
The Giro Donne is the biggest stage race for women. After a long break, there will be a Tour de France for women again in 2022 - Le Tour de France Femmes. This extends over eight stages and 1029 kilometres. There are only 14 days between the two races. This raises the question of the extent to which there is competition between the two events. Ruini explains that the Tour de France Femmes is a strong sign that women's cycling is growing rapidly. There is no competition between the Giro Donne and the Tour of France, rather he sees it as a stimulus. The organiser cites the opportunity to jointly promote women's cycling and the races as an advantage.
Together with the UCI, the organiser is already discussing a new position for the Giro d'Italia Donne in the women's cycling calendar, so that in future there will be a suitable time slot between the Tour de Femmes and the Giro Donne. The date of the men's Giro d'Italia is not decisive for this. What is relevant is that the date fits into the women's calendar.
This is how much money there is to earn
250,000 euros in prize money is up for grabs this year at the Giro Donne, with 50,000 euros going to the winner. The same amount of money awaits the professional female cyclists in the Tour de France Femmes.
The event organisation sees the amount of prize money and the high visibility across various media thanks to the agreement with Discovery as two great signs that something is happening in women's cycling.
The stages of the Giro Donne 2022*
The Giro Donne takes female cyclists over more than 1000 kilometres on a total of ten stages through five Italian regions: Sardinia, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto.
Stage 1: Cagliari - Cagliari, 4.75 km (individual time trial)
Stage 2: Villasimius - Tortoli 106.5 km (undulating)
Stage 3: Cala Gonone - Olbia: 113.4 km (flat stage)
Stage 4: Cesena - Cesena: 120.9 km (hilly)
Stage 5: Carpi - Regio Emilia 126.1 km (flat stage)
Stage 6: Sarnico - Bergamo 114.7 km (undulating)
Stage 7: Prevalle - Passo Maniva 112.9 km (mountain finish)
Stage 8: Rovereto - Aldeno 104.7 km (mountain stage)
Stage 9: San Michele All'Adige - San Lorenzo Dorsino 112.8 km (mountain stage)
Stage 10: Abando Terme - Padova 90.5 km (flat stage)
The jerseys of the Giro Donne
Pink jersey (Maglia Rosa): Carried by the rider who leads the overall standings.
Cyclamen red jersey (Maglia Ciclamino): Carried by the rider who leads the points classification.
Green jersey (Maglia Verde): Wears the rider who leads the mountain classification.
White jersey (Maglia Bianca): Wears the rider who is leading the junior classification.
Blue jersey (Maglia Azzurra): Carries the best-placed Italian rider in the overall standings.
Teams
A total of 24 teams, 13 of them from the UCI Women's World Tour, will be at the start. These teams are taking part:
- Canyon//SRAM Racing
- EF Education-TIBCO-SVB
- FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope
- Liv Racing Xstra
- Movistar Team Women
- Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad
- Team BikeExchange-Jayco
- Team DSM
- Team Jumbo-Visma
- Team SD Worx
- Trek-Segafredo
- UAE Team ADQ
- Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
- Valcar - Travel & Service
- Ceratizit - WNT Pro Cycling Team
- Bizkaia - Durango
- Cofidis Women Team
- Isolmant - Premac - Vittoria
- Colombia Tierra de Atletas GW Shimano
- Team Mendelspeck
- Servetto - Makhymo- Beltrami TSA
- Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
- Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
- BePink
The start list
The Giro Donne is packed with stars of international women's cycling. Here is the start list.
Team SD Worx
1 Elena Cechhini
2 Lonneke Uneken
3 Niamh Fisher-Black
4 Christine Majerus
5 Blanka Vas
6 Lotte Kopecky
Aromitalia Basso Bikes Vaiano
11 Rasa Leleivyte
12 Francesca Baroni
13 Inga Cesuliene
14 Giulia Marchesini
15 Sofia Collinelli
16 Gemma Sernissi
BePink
21 Silvia Zanardi
22 Giorgia Vettorello
23 Nadia Quagliotto
24 Letizia Brufani
25 Marketa Hajkova
26 Matilde Vitillo
Bizkaia - Durango
31 Alba Teruel
32 Lucia Gonzalez
33 Eukene Larrarte
34 Catalina Anais Soto
35 Aileen Schweikart
36 Sofia Rodriguez
Canyon//SRAM Racing
41 Sarah Roy
42 Neve Bradbury
43 Soraya Paladin
44 Elise Chabbey
45 Mikayla Harvey
46 Alena Amialiusik
Ceratizit - WNT Pro Cycling Team
51 Martina Fidanza
52 Lara Vieceli
53 Franziska Brauße
54 Marta Lach
55 Hanna Nilsson
56 Lea Lin Teutenberg
Cofidis Women Team
61 Clara Koppenburg
62 Victoire Berteau
63 Martina Alzini
64 Olivia Onesti
65 Rachel Neylan
66 Sandra Levenez
Colombia Tierra de Atletas GW Shimano
71 Elizabeth Castano
72 Yeny Lorean Colmenares
73 Jennifer Ducuara
74 Lina Marcela Hernandez
75 Estefania Herrera
76 Jessenia Meneses
EF Education-TIBCO-SVB
81 Krista Doebel-Hickok
82 Letizia Borghesi
83 Magdeleine Vallieres
84 Kathrin Hammes
85 Abi Smith
86 Sara Poidevin
FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope
91 Marta Cavalli
92 Brodie Chapman
93 Clara Copponi
94 Emilia Fahlin
95 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
96 Evita Muzic
Isolmant - Premac - Vittoria
101 Gaia Realini
102 Alice Gasparini
103 Noemi Lucrezia Eremita
104 Asia Zontone
105 Emanuela Zanetti
106 Beatrice Rossato
Liv Racing Xstra
111 Rachele Barbieri
112 Marta Jaskulska
113 Thalita de Jong
114 Katia Ragusa
115 Quinty Ton
116 Tereza Neumanova
Movistar Team Women
121 Emma Norsgaard
122 Aude Biannic
123 Jelena Eric
124 Paula Andrea Patino
125 Arlenis Sierra
126 Annemiek van Vleuten
Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad
131 Caroline Baur
132 Rotem Gafinovitz
133 Aline Seitz
134 Petra Stiasny
135 Anna Gabrielle Traxler
136 Olga Zabelinskaya
Servetto - Makhymo- Beltrami TSA
141 Milagro Mena
142 Anna Potokina
143 Isotta Barbieri
144 Sofia Barbieri
145 Maryna Ivaniuk
146 Viktoriia Melnychuk
Team BikeExchange-Jayco
151 Amanda Spratt
152 Georgia Williams
153 Kristen Faulkner
154 Georgia Baker
155 Nina Kessler
156 Teniel Campbell
Team DSM
161 Megan Jastrab
162 Leah Kirchmann
163 Franziska Koch
164 Charlotte Kool
165 Juliette Labous
166 Floortje Mackaij
Team Jumbo-Visma
171 Amber Kraak
172 Marianne Vos
173 Anouska Koster
174 Riejanne Markus
175 Karlijn Swinkels
176 Romy Kasper
Team Mendelspeck
181 Eva Maria Gatscher
182 Vania Canvelli
183 Francesca Pisciali
184 Angela Oro
185 Alessia Missiaggia
186 Beatrice Pozzobon
Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
191 Giorgia Bariani
192 Greta Marturano
193 Iris Monticolo
194 Alice Palazzi
195 Cristina Tonetti
196 Alessia Vigilia
Trek-Segafredo
201 Elisa Balsamo
202 Lucinda Brand
203 Amalie Dideriksen
204 Elisa Longo Borghini
205 Lauretta Hanson
206 Leah Thomas
UAE Team ADQ
211 Mavia Garcia
212 Erica Magnaldi
213 Laura Tomasi
214 Marta Bastianelli
215 Sofia Bertizzolo
216 Anna Trevisi
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
221 Wilma Olausson
222 Hannah Barnes
223 Marte Berg Edseth
224 Hannah Ludwig
225 Amalie Lutro
226 Julie Leth
Valcar - Travel & Service
231 Olivia Baril
232 Alice Maria Arzuffi
233 Silvia Persico
234 Chiara Consonni
235 Karolina Kumiega
236 Anastasia Carbonari
Giro Donne: The winners so far
2021: Anna van der Breggen (NED)
2020: Anna van der Breggen (NED)
2019: Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
2018: Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
2017: Anna van der Breggen (NED)
2016: Megan Guarnier (USA)
2015: Anna van Der Breggen (NED)
2014: Marianne Vos (NED)
2013: Mara Abbott (USA)
2012: Marianne Vos (NED)
2011: Marianne Vos (NED)
2010: Mara Abbott (USA)
2009: Claudia Hausler (GER)
2008: Fabian Luperini (ITA)
2007: Edita Pucinskaite (LTU)
2006: Edita Pucinskaite (LTU)
2005: Nicole Brandli (SUI)
2004: Nicole Cooke (GBR)
2003: Nicole Brändli (SUI)
2002: Svetlana Bubnenkova (RUS)
2001: Nicole Brändli (SUI)
2000: Joane Somarriba (ESP)
1999: Joane Somarriba (ESP)
1998: Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
1997: Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
1996: Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
1995: Fabiana Luperini (ITA)
1994: Michela Fanini (ITA)
1993: Lenka Llavska (SVK)
1992: -
1991: -
1990: Catherine Marsal (FRA)
1989: Roberta Bonanomi (ITA)
1988: Maria Canins (ITA)
*Information on stage lengths from the organiser
Sandra Schuberth
Editor
