The best cyclists in the world in a Volta 2023 presenting a difficult route

They are known in detail 102nd edition of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunyaproof UCI World Tour which will once again bring together a good part of the best cyclists in the world and will take place from March 20 to 26. An edition of the Catalan round that presents a route for all profiles of runners, but where the mountains will be the main star, with three stages giving the Volta a toughness not seen in racing for a long time.

“It is a privilege to continue offering the best cycling in the world around Catalonia for a week, keeping alive the legacy of an organization that, for decades, has worked to achieve, consolidate and maintain prestige of an event that is the heritage of Catalan sport and of the world cycling”, pointed out the race director, Rubén Peris, who was in charge of presenting the seven stages of a Cycling Tour of Catalonia 2023 at the presentation ceremony this Wednesday, which is expected to be very demanding. In three arrivals high(Vallter, La Molina and Lo Port), a fact not experienced since the 2001 edition, the Volta presents a route with a total of 25 scoring climbs that also maintains its explosive finale in Circuit de Montjuïc in Barcelona.

The reigning world champion, the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step)heads the list of stars whose intentions to take part in this year’s Volta have been revealed, along with other long-awaited names such as triple winner of the Tour of Spain Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) or the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia winner Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), who already know what climbed the podium of the Volta (3rd year 2019), to which we must add important runners such as the Olympic champion Richard Carapazthe young Barcelonan from the UAE has already consecrated Juan Ayuso or his development partner the United Arab Emirates Marc Soler, Besides others.

4th edition of reVolta

During the Volta presentation ceremony, the 4th edition of reVolta, the women’s event, was also confirmed, which will remain at its center in the town of Sangat del Vallès. The news at reVolta is in the quality of the test jump, which becomes the UCI 1.1 category, which guarantees the presence of the best cyclists in the world

The General Secretary of Sports and Physical Activity of the Generalitat de Catalunya Anna Caula He was very pleased with the poster that will show the race. “We are here to present a great, unique event, and we must preserve it and protect it. An exciting week awaits us, an emblematic event, with a lot of historya test full of incentives, with a changed route and the presence of the best teams in the world on our roads, a good instrument to promote cycling in Catalonia”, he declared at the event. Caula believes that the Volta is will be “a great help for cycling in Cataloniaas we connect him with the elite of international cycling.”

where the Minister of the Presidency Laura Vilagrà He added: “Catalonia will reunite the cycling elite and we will give more visibility to reVolta. A Vollta history because it is the third oldest cycling stage in the world along with the Tour de France and the Giro d ‘Italia. a unique event that we will promote from the Generalitat”, to point out that “the Volta is not the only competition week, because with it the grassroots sport, the fans of cycling and the territory are promoted”, not without overlooking the fourth edition of reVolta, the women’s event, which “we want to give more prestige, so that it becomes a reVolta in stages. The challenge is great and the Generalitat will help to make it possible.”