Milan-San Remo 2024: New start location, shorter than ever - this is the route
Sebastian Lindner
· 15.03.2024
Milan-San Remo 2024 - the most important facts in brief
- Date: Saturday, 16 March 2024, start 10:00 am, finish ~ 5:00 pm
- Distance: 288 kilometres
- Start: Pavia, Target: San Remo
- UCI category: World Tour
- Favourites & start list
- Pogacar on the hunt for the next monument
- To the race report
Milan-San Remo 2024: The route
"La Primavera" or "La Classicissima", as the race is nicknamed, is not exactly known for extensive route changes. This year, however, something is happening. In fact, the change is so serious that it would justify a change of name. This is because the race will no longer start in Milan - and not in the Milan suburb of Abbiategrasso as in 2023 - but in Pavia, a good 40 kilometres to the south.
The town of 70,000 inhabitants lies on the River Ticino, just before it flows into the Po. The town also has a certain cycling tradition. The Giro has finished here several times, most recently in 2003, and Milan-San Remo also regularly passes through here on its way from Milan to the Po Valley.
Milan-San Remo shorter than at any time since 2002
Via Casteggio, Tortona and Ovada, the route leads first westwards, then southwards directly to the Passo del Turchino, which, apart from the 2020 coronavirus edition, has always been part of the programme, at least according to plan - in 2013, for example, snowfall prevented a crossing, the riders were put on buses and allowed back on the route after the mountain. This year, the highest point of the race is reached after 138 kilometres.
After that, everything stays the same. West of Genoa, the Ligurian coast is reached, along which the route continues to San Remo. Mostly flat, but not all of it. In total, the riders climb a good 2100 metres in altitude. In addition to the Turchino, the three Capos Mele, Cerva and Berta provide a short break from the flat rut from KM 236.
After 266 kilometres, the Cipressa is reached, followed 16 kilometres later by the Poggio. And then it's another six kilometres to the Via Roma in San Remo, where the race comes to its classic end. A total of 288 kilometres have then been completed. The same number as in 1907, when the race was first held. Excluding the shortened 2013 edition, this makes it the shortest edition since 2002, when Mario Cipollini was the fastest to complete the 287 kilometres - even though there are only a few kilometres difference.
Milan-San Remo 2024: TV broadcast & live stream
In Germany, Milan-San Remo 2024 will be held at Eurosport 2 transfer. It starts already at 09:50 am. Cycling fans can also watch the Monument in the live stream at discovery+ (subject to a charge).
All winners 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)
- Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands)
