PRESS RELEASE (3/07/2015)
Loano is preparing to welcome the July 10 the arrival of the tappa Arenzano - Loano of 26° Pink Tour of Italy, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports in collaboration with the Marina of Loano.
The Giro d'Italia International Women's Elite - Giro Rosa left today from Ljubljana (Slovenia) will end in San Domenico di Varzo, Piedmont the July 12 2015. The timeline includes. a chronoprologue, today's, Eight straight stages and one time trial individual.
The Giro Rosa is the most important showcase of women's world cycling, in previous editions there have been days with a huge audience and great television following. The organization headed by the Director Giuseppe Rivolta, is managed by the company 4Erre.
The arrival at Loano will take place in front of the Marina of Loano, after the athletes will have faced a tough stage capable of marking the ranking because it will not take place on the Aurelia coast road, but through the numerous curves of the Savona hinterland. From Arenzano will start around noon and on the most beautiful bike path in Italy will reach in transfer Varazze where the kilometer “0” will be placed. Crossing Savona, Santuario, Naso di Gatto GPM 1st category and Altare (following the roads of the 2014 Giro). From here, on to Mallare (prize TV), Colla Baltera (Bresca) and “Tre Croci” under Melogno where the second GPM will be placed. To finish, descent to Finale Ligure and finish at Loano in the Porto area. A challenging 90 kilometers that the girls will complete in just under three hours.
Loano will celebrate the arrival of the stage with the Pink Night. Thursday, July 9, starting with the 9 p.m., in the squares and streets of the center will take place. Balla Löa, an evening dedicated to dance music: 70s/80s, Latin American, ballroom and tango, rock ’n’ roll, baby dance, disco music, Occitan dances and hip hop.
At 9:30 pm, in the Marina of Loano, the concert of Sherrita Duran. The extraordinarily vocal California artist will convey the warmth and energy of her homeland to the audience, ranging from Pop, Jazz, Soul, Dance and Rhythm and Blues.
ROUTE PINK GIRO D'ITALIA
In Ljubljana, there will be a short evening time trial that will define the first Pink Jersey. The Slovenian capital will also be home the next day in the first road stage starting in the small town of Kamnik. Entering Italy On the third day for the Gaiarine - San Fior, confirmed stage venues after the great success of a year ago. The four-day event on Lombardy soil begins with the longest stage of the entire Giro, the Curtatone - Mantua, of 130.4 km and continues with the Pioltello - Pozzo d'Adda for sprinters. It then goes to Aprica for the first high altitude finish after 128 km and the start from Trezzo sull'Adda, staying in Valtellina where the 102 km Tresivio - Morbegno will be run. A long transfer to Liguria leads to the Arenzano - Loano (89.7 km) features two challenging GPMs, Naso di Gatto and Melogno, before the long descent to the sea. Finally here is the tough Vergante Time Trial, 21.7 km between Pisano and Nebbiuno and full of winding roads and very technical ups and downs. This time trial anticipates the final tappone from Verbania to San Domenico di Varzo that will sanction the overall winner of the 26th Giro Rosa.
THE ATHLETES.
Last year was dominated by the Dutch Marianne Vos (winner of four stages already scored in the 2011 and 2012 editions) ahead of France's Pauline Ferrand Prevot, her teammate in the Rabo Liv, who was then able to hit the world title at the end of the season. Vos's three wins, however, do not represent the record, held instead at the Pisan Fabia Luperini, who after consecutive poker from 1995 to 1998 was able to win her fifth overall victory in 2008, the last Italian to enter the roll of honor. Before her, only three other Italians signed the most important stage race on the women's calendar: Maria Canins in the inaugural edition (1988), followed by Roberta Bonanomi (1989) and the late Michela Fanini (1994).
This year, almost certainly absent is Marianne Vos, good things can be done by young star Ferrand-Prèvot and the usual Van Vleuten, Van der Breggene and Brand. But the other girls will not leave undefeated. Especially Mara Abbott, a 29-year-old from Colorado who was a winner in 2010 and 2013 when she completed a resounding performance on the Beigua climb in Varazze. Evelyn Stevens is another girl always in the very top positions When there is hard running to be done. Also watch out for Claudia Häusler, Emma Johansson and Emma Pooley., because of their respective palmarès and the undoubted qualities displayed in the season, are to be underestimated. And the Italians? Great things we expect from Elisa Longo Borghini, and from Rossella Ratto.
ATHLETE LIGURE.
The only Ligurian in the competition is the Sanremese Ilaria Sanguineti, class of 1994 who will compete for the Team BePink-LaClassica In what is one of the most prestigious appointments of the season, representing the formation directed by Team Manager Walter Zini will be the Lombardy Silvia Valsecchi, the Ligurian Ilaria Sanguineti, the Lazio Giorgia Fraiegari, the Russian Anastasia Chulkova (fresh off a fifth-place finish in Fiorenzuola d'Arda in the Omnium), Romania's Ana Covrig and the New Zealanders Jaime Nielsen, Ruby Livingstone and Georgia Williams.
THE SHIRTS.
PINK JERSEY (GENERAL CLASSIFICATION) - DERMAFRESH
CYCLAMEN JERSEY (POINTS CLASSIFICATION) - SELLE SMP
GREEN JERSEY (GPM RANKING) - BIM
WHITE JERSEY (BEST YOUTH RANKING) - SAUGELLA
BLUE JERSEY (BEST ITALIAN RANKING) - DA-MA
THE STAGES OF THE 26TH PINK LAP:
Friday, July 3 Prologue: Ljubljana (SI) 2,000 km
Saturday, July 4, stage 1: Kamnik (SI) - Ljubljana (SI) 102.500 km
Sunday, July 5 2nd stage: Gaiarine (TV) - San Fior (TV) 121.500 km
Monday, July 6 3rd stage: Curtatone (MN) - Mantova (MN) 130.400 km
Tuesday, July 7 4th stage: Pioltello (MI) - Pozzo d'Adda (MI) 98.000 km
Wednesday, July 8 5th stage: Trezzo sull'Adda (MI) - Aprica (SO) 128.400 km
Thursday, July 9 6th stage: Tresivio (SO) - Morbegno (SO) 102.500 km
Friday, July 10, stage 7: Arenzano (GE) - Loano (SV) 89.700 km
Saturday, July 11, stage 8: Pisano (NO) - Nebbiuno (NO) 21.700 km (Individual Time Trial)
Sunday, July 12 9th stage: Verbania (VCO) - San Domenico di Varzo (VCO) 92.700 km total 889 km
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stage chronotable Arenzano (GE) - Loano (SV) 2015 7th Stage Chronotable 4
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