Gipuzkoan Gorka Izagirre (Movistar) will lead his team in the debut of the 2023 season on Australian soil starting on Saturday, January 14, in the Schwalbe Classic criterium before the Santos Tour Down Under which starts three days later.
The Movistar Team has announced the seven cyclists who will form the first team in their 44th consecutive season in the world cycling peloton and alongside Izagirre are the Spanish Óscar Rodríguez, Lluis Mas, Imanol Erviti, Sergio Samitier and Iván Romeo and the Swiss Johan Jacobs.
So, the Movistar Team and the entire WorldTour peloton returned to Australia after a two-year absence due to the pandemic to compete in the 23rd Santos Tour Down Under, returning to the top-flight calendar with a program that has changed dramatically compared to the rest. editions.
The Schwalbe Classic criterium, as on previous occasions, is not valid for the general classification but this time it will be held three days before the official start of the test because the women’s TDU interval will be run, where the phone group is not .
The second is the celebration, for the first time, of a 5.5-kilometer individual time trial in Adelaide, which will have the unique competition of cyclists on road bikes, instead of the usual ‘goats’ to ease the logistics from in Europe.
After the prologue there will be five stages where the first two days, that of Tanunda, the town where the race started in 2020, and Victor Harbor are in favor of a sprint resolution.
The two mountain days of this edition are in Campbelltown, with a difficult course at Corkscrew (2.3 km at 9% and ramps of up to 24%), and the finish at Mount Lofty, with more than 3,000 meters of accumulated uneven for only 112 km and final, which will be passed five times, with 1.3 km at 7% and a maximum of 13%.
Source: La Verdad
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