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2016 Giro d'Italia Start - Netherlands, 6th May

The Netherlands’ Province of Gelderland, will host the Giro d’Italia 2016 start, from 6 to 29 May, organized by RCS Sport / La Gazzetta dello Sport. The 99th edition of the Corsa Rosa will start for the 12th time from outside the Italian borders, it will be the third time from the land of tulips and windmills, following Groeningen in 2002 and Amsterdam in 2010.

The 11 Previous Foreign Starts Of The Giro d’Italia

1965 San Marino (General Classification winner: Vittorio Adorni); 1966 Monte Carlo – Monaco (Gianni Motta); 1973 Verviers – Belgium (Eddy Merckx); 1974 Vatican City (Eddy Merckx); 1996 Athens – Greece (Pavel Tonkov); 1998 Nice – France (Marco Pantani); 2002 Groeningen – The Netherlands (Paolo Savoldelli); 2006 Seraing – Belgium (Ivan Basso); 2010 Amsterdam – The Netherlands (Ivan Basso); 2012 Herning – Denmark (Ryder Hesjedal); 2014 Belfast – Northern Ireland (Nairo Quintana).


The Start on Fiday 6th May 2016

Thanks to the concession of the Union Cycliste Internationale to allow the long transfer from the Netherlands, the Giro will have an extra rest day on Monday 9 May, when the Carovana Rosa will return to Italy straight to the southern part of the country. The stages:

Stage 1, Friday 6 May – The first stage, an 8.1km Individual Time Trial, will go through Apeldoorn, finishing in the city.
Stage 2, Saturday 7 May – 180km stage for the fastest wheels in the peloton, starting from Arnhem and finishing in Nijmegen.
Stage 3, Sunday 8 May – The third stage, which is expected to be a bunch sprint, will start from Nijmegen and end in Arnhem after 190km.
Rest Day, Monday 9 May – Rest day and transfer to Italy.

Experience the 2016 Giro d' Italia in the Netherlands and be part of the Giro! 

  • The start of the Giro d’Italia 2016! 
  • Cycle a Giro d Ítalia stage together with only a 100 other cyclists 
  • Typically Dutch: windmills, rivers, cows and little villages….. and it’s all pancake-flat
  • Amsterdam City Cycling Tour 
  • Watch and cycle one of the biggest cycling events in the world!
  • The city of Apeldoorn hosts the Giro d’Italia time trial of 9.8 kilometres.

Click here for full details of Cycle Classic's Giro d'Italia In Holland Trip 4th-9th May 2016.

 

 
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