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2019 Giro d’Italia: Stage 15 Preview

  • Ron 

Stage 15 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia is a largely urban route from Ivrea to Como. While the overall route is 232km, the first 160km of the corsa covers perfectly flat roads, passing through densely populated areas, with roundabouts, traffic dividers, pedestrian islands, and speed bumps being the main obstacles.

After crossing Cantù and Erba, the route reaches Pusiano and Asso, descends into Onno, and runs lakeside all the way to Bellagio, to the foot of the Ghisallo climb. The route climbs in hairpins on broad roadway, with maximum 14% gradients, then drops fast on long straight roads into Maglio.

There, the road turns left onto the Colma di Sormano. Past the Colma, the route drops to Nesso (starting with a false flat, followed by a technical descent with hairpins and narrowed roadway) and runs along the lakeshore, heading into Como. After a harsh climb to Civiglio, with steady 10% gradients (and a marked road narrowing at the top of the climb), the route drops down, crosses Como again and reaches the finish.

The last 3km run is along broad avenues in urban Como, all the way to the final kilometre, leading straight to the lake. The last bend is 300m from the finish line, which sits on 6m wide tarmac.

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