This Monday, one of the great one-week races on the cycling calendar begins: the Tirreno-Adriatico. The ‘Race of the Two Seas’ will bring together great figures from the peloton who will fight for a champion’s trident that the Spaniards Enric Mas and Mikel Landa opt for with serious options, while we will enjoy the first road battles in 2023 between Mathieu Van der Poel and Wout Van Aert.
Stages, profiles and route of the Tirreno-Adriatico 2023
Stage 1: Lido di Camaiore – Lido di Camaiore (Monday, March 6)
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The 2023 Tirreno-Adriatico will begin with an 11.5-kilometre individual time trial starting and finishing in Lido di Camaiore on a totally flat course that will benefit pure riders and will make the first differences in the general classification.
Stage 2: Camaiore – Follonica (Tuesday, March 7)
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The second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico will be a long day of 210 kilometers between Camaiore and Follonica. The ascent to Castellina Marittima will be the only notable difficulty on a route that will end with two laps of the final Follonica circuit, where the stage is expected to end in a massive sprint.
Stage 3: Follonica – Foligno (Wednesday, March 8)
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The third day of the Tirreno-Adriatico will also present us with a long route of 216 kilometers between Follonica and Foligno. The non-pointable ascent to Roccastrada and the cataloged ascents of Passo del Lume Spento and La Foce could encourage ambushes to form in the first 113 kilometers, although the second part of the route, without great difficulties, increases the options for sprinters to get the sprint victory in Foligno.
Stage 4: Greccio – Tortoreto (Thursday, March 9)
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The peloton will have to face another marathon day of 218 kilometers between Greccio and Tortoreto. The initial section of the stage, with several kilometers slightly bumping upwards, could encourage the brave who want to seek escape, although, except for surprise, the stage will be decided in the final circuit of Tortoreto and the fourfold ascent to the Tortoreto level, of 4.4 kilometers at 4.5% and peaks of up to 19%, the last ascent being the end of the stage.
Stage 5: Morro d’Oro – Sarnano-Sassotetto (Friday, March 10)
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The great mountain stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico will have a 168-kilometre route starting at Morro d’Oro and finishing at the top of Sassotetto, in Sarnano. The runners will face a day full of steep slopes that will increase their hardness in the last 50 kilometers with the climbs to San Ginesio and Gualdo as a prelude to the final climb to Sassotetto, with its 13-kilometre climb at an average gradient of 7.4% that could decide the virtual winner of the ‘Race of the Two Seas’.
Stage 6: Osimo Stazione – Osimo (Saturday, March 11)
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The sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico could also hold surprises for us on a 193-kilometre route between Osimo Stazione and Osimo. It will be a route in which the ascent to the Santa Maria del Monte level and the passage through Macerata could encourage the formation of a breakaway before entering the final circuit of Osimo, which will be completed three times and which includes a level of a kilometer at 15% with peaks of up to 22%.
Stage 7: San Benedetto del Tronto – San Benedetto del Tronto (Sunday, March 12)
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The Race of the Two Seas will end with a 154-kilometre journey starting and finishing in San Benedetto del Tronto. The first 76 kilometers could encourage the formation of ambushes in places like the climb to Cossignano, but the five laps of the completely flat final circuit of San Benedetto del Tronto, increase the options of the sprinters in this last stage before crowning the winner of the general of the Tirreno-Adriatico with the champion’s trident.
Teams and participants of the Tirreno-Adriatico 2023
In Tirreno-Adriatico 2023 there will be the 18 teams of the UCI World Tour: AG2R Citroen, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Astana Qazaqstan, Bahrain Victorious, Bora-Hansgrohe, Cofidis, EF Education – Easypost, Groupama-FDJ, Ineos Grenadiers, Intermarché-Circus- Wanty, Jumbo-Visma, Movistar, Soudal Quick-Step, Arkéa-Samsic, DSM, Jayco AlUla, Trek-Segafredo and UAE Emirates.
Israel Premier Tech, Lotto Dstny and TotalEnergies also have their place secured for the race due to their sporting classification last year which allows them to compete in the UCI World Tour races.
The list of teams for the Tirreno-Adriatico is completed by Eolo-Kometa, Green Project – Bardiani, Corratec and the Swiss Tudor, invited by the organizers.
The favorites of the Tirreno-Adriatico 2023
The Tirreno-Adriatico will leave us numerous battles throughout its seven days. In the fight for the general, runners of the stature of Enric Mas, Mikel Landa, Primoz Roglic, Damiano Caruso, Ben O’Connor, Aleksandr Vlasov, Guillaume Martin, Geraint Thomas, Thibaut Pinot, Wilco Kelderman opt as main favorites for the champion trident , Joao Almeida or Adam Yates.
The Race of the Two Seas will also allow us to see in action the long-awaited duel on the roads between Mathieu Van der Poel and Wout Van Aert, which could be joined by prominent cyclists such as Tom Pidcock, Julian Alaphilippe or Biniam Girmay, who could also be protagonists. in the massive arrivals against pure sprinters like Mark Cavendish, Peter Sagan, Elia Viviani, Fabio Jakobsen or Fernando Gaviria.
