Milan-San Remo 2023: Route, favourites, start list & TV coverage
At 294 kilometres, Milan-San Remo is the longest one-day race for professionals in 2023. Some people claim that it is the fairest of the cycling classics. Anyone can win here. This is true, as a look at the list of winners shows: sprinters like Mario Cipollini, Erik Zabel and Arnaud Demare have triumphed here, classics specialists like Fabian Cancellara, super all-rounders like Wout van Aert and Julian Alaphilippe, tour specialists like Vincenzo Nibali and daring downhillers like Matej Mohoric, who plunged from the Poggio towards the finish line with a retractable seatpost.
The telephone box on the downhill section towards the finish in Poggio di San Remo is usually the section of the race where the Classics are decided: Have attackers pulled away far enough from the rest of the peloton? Because that is the crucial question at Milan-San Remo: breakaway or sprinters? The decision usually comes down to the last few kilometres from the entrance to the Cipressa to the finale on the Via Roma.
Key points at Milan-San Remo 2023
The climbs Cipressa (5.6 kilometres with an average gradient of 4.1 per cent) and Poggio (3.7 kilometres/3.7 per cent). If the Cipressa is ridden extremely fast, the sprinters are usually done for and fall back. The decisive attacks usually took place around the steepest part of the Poggio with an eight per cent gradient - around 6.5 kilometres before the finish. A lead of around 20 seconds is considered promising before the descent and the two kilometre flat finish by the sea.
What's new at Milan-San Remo 2023?
Milan-San Remo will no longer start at Castello Sforzesco in the centre of Milan - but far outside the south-west of the Lombard metropolis, in Abbiategrasso. The first 30 kilometres are new - then the route near Pavia joins the route that has mostly been used in recent years: First flat through the Po Valley, then over the Passo del Turchino to the Mediterranean and then westwards over the Capi and the two decisive climbs to San Remo. The total distance will be extended from 293 kilometres in 2022 to 294 kilometres.
Milan-San Remo 2023: The favourites
Speed is needed to follow the attacks on the Poggio or to break away from the competition and a certain final speed in the event of a sprint in a small group. Two candidates who combine these attributes are Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck). However, neither of them are in over-form, as was the case at Milan-San Remo in some other years. That's why other riders are likely to have a say in the battle for victory at the Classicissima 2023. First and foremost is Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). The Slovenian is in outstanding form, as he recently demonstrated in the Paris-Nice has proven itself again.
His compatriot Matej Mohoric should also not be underestimated after his victory last year. There is probably no other rider in the peloton who can ride down the descent from the Poggio as fast as the Bahrain-Victorious pro. There is a small question mark behind Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal - Quick Step). The 2019 winner presented himself at Tirreno-Adriatico is in rising form, but is not quite back to his old self after his injuries from last season. Thomas Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) is not included in the squad. Gravel race Strade Bianche decided in his favour. The Brit suffered a concussion in a crash. Ineos is likely to rely on hourly world record holder Filippo Ganna instead.
Many candidates for a sprint
Should there be a sprint by a large group on the Via Roma at Milan-San Remo 2023, Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny), just like his team-mate Arnaud De Lie, are hot contenders for victory. The big question with De Lie, however, is how will he cope with a race that is almost 300 kilometres long at the age of 21?
Other candidates with outsider chances are Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe), Arnaud Demare (Groupama-FDJ), Sören Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Magnus Cort Nielsen, Alberto Bettiol (both EF Education EasyPost), Davide Ballerini (Soudal - Quick Step) and Fernando Gaviria (Movistar).
Milan-San Remo 2023: TV broadcast & live stream
All cycling fans who want to watch Milan-San Remo 2023 on TV are welcome at Eurosport 2 right. The television broadcast of the Classicissima starts there at 9:45 a.m.. If you want to follow the race in a live stream, Discovery+ and GCN+ (both via paid subscription) have a suitable offer.
Milan-San Remo 2023 schedule
- Neutral start: 9:55 a.m. Abbiategrasso
- Official start: 10:10 a.m. Abbiategrasso
- Finish: ~16:50 - 17:31 San Remo
Start list Milan-San Remo 2023
- 1 Matej Mohoric
- 2 Nikias Arndt
- 3 Pello Bilbao
- 4 Damiano Caruso
- 5 Jonathan Milan
- 6 Andrea Pasqualon
- 7 Fred Wright
- 11 Benoit Cosnefroy
- 12 Stan Dewulf
- 13 Jaakko Hänninen
- 14 Lawrence Naesen
- 15 Oliver Naesen
- 16 Andrea Vendrame
- 17 Larry Warbasse
- 21 Mathieu van der Poel
- 22 Sören Kragh Andersen
- 23 Silvan Dillier
- 24 Quinten Hermans
- 25 Jasper Philipsen
- 26 Kristian Sbaragli
- 27 Gianni Vermeersch
- 31 Mark Cavendish
- 32 Leonardo Basso
- 33 Cees Bol
- 34 Davide Martinelli
- 35 Alexandr Riabushenko
- 36 Gleb Syritsa
- 37 Simone Velasco
- 41 Sam Bennett
- 42 Nico Denz
- 43 Marco Haller
- 44 Cesare Benedetti
- 45 Nils Politt
- 46 Ryan Mullen
- 47 Danny van Poppel
- 51 Simone Consonni
- 52 Davide Cimolai
- 53 Bryan Coquard
- 54 Alexandre Delettre
- 55 Alexis Renard
- 56 Benjamin Thomas
- 57 Harrison Wood
- 61 Alberto Bettiol
- 62 Stefan Bissegger
- 63 Mikkel Frölich Honore
- 64 Magnus Cort Nielsen
- 65 Neilson Powless
- 66 Jonas Rutsch
- 67 Lukasz Wisniowski
Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team
- 71 Mirco Maestri
- 72 Mattia Bais
- 73 Simone Bevilacqua
- 74 Francesco Gavazzi
- 75 David Martin
- 76 Samuele Rivi
- 77 Diego Pablo Lopez Sevilla
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizane
- 81 Henok Mulubrhan
- 82 Davide Gabburo
- 83 Riccardo Lucca
- 84 Filippo Magli
- 85 Manuele Tarozzi
- 86 Alessandro Tonelli
- 87 Samuele Zoccarato
- 91 Arnaud Demare
- 92 Kevin Geniets
- 93 Ignatas Konovalovas
- 94 Rudy Molard
- 95 Quentin Pacher
- 96 Miles Scotson
- 97 Jake Stewart
- 101 Filippo Ganna
- 102 Kim Heiduk
- 103 Michal Kwiatkowski
- 104 Jhonatan Narvaez
- 105 Luke Rowe
- 106 Magnus Sheffield
- 107 Ben Swift
- 111 Biniam Girmay
- 112 Niccolo Bonifazio
- 113 Sven Erik Byström
- 114 Lorenzo Rota
- 115 Mike Teunissen
- 116 Lloic Vliegen
- 117 Aime De Gendt
Israel-Premier Tech
- 121 Sep Vanmarcke
- 122 Derek Gee
- 123 Hugo Houle
- 124 Daryl Impey
- 125 Krists Neilands
- 126 Mads Würtz Schmidt
- 127 Corbin Strong
- 131 Wout van Aert
- 132 Edoardo Affini
- 133 Christophe Laporte
- 134 Jan Tratnik
- 135 Attila Valter
- 136 Jos van Emden
- 137 Nathan van Hooydonck
Lotto-Dstny
- 141 Caleb Ewan
- 142 Jasper De Buyst
- 143 Arnaud De Lie
- 144 Jarrad Drizners
- 145 Frederik Frison
- 146 Jacopo Guarnieri
- 147 Maxim van Gils
- 151 Alex Aranburu
- 152 Ivan Garcia Cortina
- 153 Fernando Gaviria
- 154 Johan Jacobs
- 155 Oier Lazkano
- 156 Lluis Mas
- 157 Gonzalo Serrano
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
- 161 Matteo Moschetti
- 162 Negasi Haylu Abreha
- 163 Antonio Puppio
- 164 Gianluca Brambilla
- 165 Mark Donovan
- 166 Alessandro Fedeli
- 167 Tobias Ludvigsson
- 171 Julian Alaphilippe
- 172 Kasper Asgreen
- 173 Davide Ballerini
- 174 Tim Declercq
- 175 Dries Devenyns
- 176 Yves Lampaert
- 177 Florian Senechal
- 181 Luca Mozzato
- 182 Warren Barguil
- 183 Jenthe Biermans
- 184 Simon Guglielmi
- 185 Matis Louvel
- 186 Clement Russo
- 187 Alessandro Verre
- 191 John Degenkolb
- 192 Pavel Bittner
- 193 Matthew Dinham
- 194 Nils Eekhoff
- 195 Marius Mayrhofer
- 196 Florian Stork
- 197 Kevin Vermaerke
- 201 Matteo Sobrero
- 202 Alexandre Balmer
- 203 Michael Hepburn
- 204 Jan Maas
- 205 Luka Mezgec
- 206 Lukas Pöstlberger
- 207 Zdenek Stybar
TotalEnergies
- 211 Peter Sagan
- 212 Maciej Bodnar
- 213 Sandy Dujardin
- 214 Valentin Ferron
- 215 Daniel Oss
- 216 Geoffrey Soupe
- 217 Anthony Turgis
- 221 Mads Pedersen
- 222 Dario Cataldo
- 223 Markus Hoelgaard
- 224 Jacopo Mosca
- 225 Toms Skujins
- 226 Jasper Stuyven
- 227 Otto Vergaerde
Tudor Pro Cycling Team
- 231 Rick Pluimers
- 232 Tom Bohli
- 233 Alois Charrin
- 234 Luc Wirtgen
- 235 Mika Heming
- 236 Arthur Kluckers
- 237 Roland Thalmann
- 241 Tadej Pogacar
- 242 Alessandro Covi
- 243 Tim Wellens
- 244 Felix Großschartner
- 245 Domen Novak
- 246 Matteo Trentin
- 247 Diego Ulissi
Milan-San Remo 2023: The most important info
Date: Saturday, 18 March 2023
Distance: 294 kilometres
Start: Abbiategrasso; Destination: San Remo, Via Roma
Edition: 114.
Premiere: 1907
Nicknames: La Primavera (ride into spring), La Classicissima (the super classic)
Record winner: Eddy Merckx (Belgium, seven victories)
German winners: Rudi Altig (1968), Erik Zabel (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001), Gerald Ciolek (2013), John Degenkolb (2015)
Women's race at Milan-San Remo
There is no race for women at Milan-San Remo.
Everyman race
There is no official everyman's race. The Milan-San Remo RTF will take place on 4 June 2023 - over around 300 kilometres and on parts of the professional route.
Winner of Milan-San Remo since 1907
- 1907 Lucien Petit-Breton (France)
- 1908 Cyrille van Hauwaert (Belgium)
- 1909 Luigi Ganna (Italy)
- 1910 Eugene Christophe (France)
- 1911 Gustave Garrigou (France)
- 1912 Henri Pelissier (France)
- 1913 Odile Defraye (Belgium)
- 1914 Ugo Agsotini (Italy)
- 1915 Ezio Corlaita (Italy)
- 1917 Gaetano Belloni (Italy)
- 1918 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1919 Angelo Cremo (Italy)
- 1920 Gaetano Belloni (Italy)
- 1921 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1922 Giovanni Brunero (Italy)
- 1923 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1924 Pietro Linari (Italy)
- 1925 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1926 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1927 Pietro Chiesi (Italy)
- 1928 Costante Girardengo (Italy)
- 1929 Alfredo Binda (Italy)
- 1930 Michele Mara (Italy)
- 1931 Alfredo Binda (Italy)
- 1932 Alfredo Bovet (Italy)
- 1933 Learco Guerra (Italy)
- 1934 Joseph Demuysere (Belgium)
- 1935 Giuseppe Olmo (Italy)
- 1936 Angelo Varetto (Italy)
- 1937 Cesare Del Cancia (Italy)
- 1938 Giuseppe Olmo (Italy)
- 1939 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1940 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1941 Pierino Favalli (Italy)
- 1942 Adolfo Leoni (Italy)
- 1943 Cino Cinelli (Italy)
- 1946 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
- 1947 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1948 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
- 1949 Fausto Coppi (Italy)
- 1950 Gino Bartali (Italy)
- 1951 Louison Bobet (France)
- 1952 Loretto Petrucci (Italy)
- 1953 Loretto Petrucci (Italy)
- 1954 Rik van Steenbergen (Belgium)
- 1955 Germain Derycke (Belgium)
- 1956 Alfred De Bruyne (Belgium)
- 1957 Miguel Poblet (Spain)
- 1958 Rik van Looy (Belgium)
- 1959 Miguel Poblet (Spain)
- 1960 Rene Privat (France)
- 1961 Raymond Poulidor (France)
- 1962 Emile Daems (Belgium)
- 1963 Joseph Groussard (France)
- 1964 Tom Simpson (Great Britain)
- 1965 Arie den Hartog (Netherlands)
- 1966 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1967 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1968 Rudi Altig (Germany)
- 1969 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1970 Michele Dancelli (Italy)
- 1971 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1972 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1973 Roger De Vlaeminck (Belgium)
- 1974 Felice Gimondi (Italy)
- 1975 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1976 Eddy Merckx (Belgium)
- 1977 Jan Raas (Netherlands)
- 1978 Roger De Vlaeminck (Belgium)
- 1979 Roger De Vlaeminck (Belgium)
- 1980 Piermattia Gavazzi (Italy)
- 1981 Alfons De Wolf (Belgium)
- 1982 Marc Gomez (France)
- 1983 Giuseppe Saronni (Italy)
- 1984 Francesco Moser (Italy)
- 1985 Hennie Kuiper (Netherlands)
- 1986 Sean Kelly (Ireland)
- 1987 Erich Mächler (Switzerland)
- 1988 Laurent Fignon (France)
- 1989 Laurent Fignon (France)
- 1990 Gianni Bugno (Italy)
- 1991 Claudio Chiappucci (Italy)
- 1992 Sean Kelly (Ireland)
- 1993 Maurizio Fondriest (Italy)
- 1994 Giorgio Furlan (Italy)
- 1995 Laurent Jalabert (France)
- 1996 Gabriele Colombo (Italy)
- 1997 Erik Zabel (Germany)
- 1998 Erik Zabel (Germany)
- 1999 Andrei Tchmil (Belgium)
- 2000 Erik Zabel (Germany)
- 2001 Erik Zabel (Germany)
- 2002 Mario Cipollini (Italy)
- 2003 Paolo Bettini (Italy)
- 2004 Oscar Freire (Spain)
- 2005 Alessandro Petacchi (Italy)
- 2006 Filippo Pozzato (Italy)
- 2007 Oscar Freire (Spain)
- 2008 Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland)
- 2009 Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)
- 2010 Oscar Freire (Spain)
- 2011 Matthew Goss (Australia)
- 2012 Simon Gerrans (Australia)
- 2013 Gerald Ciolek (Germany)
- 2014 Alexander Kristoff (Norway)
- 2015 John Degenkolb (Germany)
- 2016 Arnaud Demare (France)
- 2017 Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland)
- 2018 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
- 2019 Julian Alaphilippe (France)
- 2020 Wout van Aert (Belgium)
- 2021 Jasper Stuyven (Belgium)
- 2022 Matej Mohoric (Slovenia)
