The keenly anticipated return of the ladies’s Milan-San Remo is about to change into actuality in 2025, after one of many fundamental obstacles, a possible conflict of dates with the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, has reportedly been eradicated.
As revealed by the Tuttobiciweb podcast in an interview with Paolo Bellino, CEO of organisers RCS, the ladies’s Milan-San Remo can be held subsequent yr – on March 22, the identical day as the lads’s race.
The brand new race is because of be confirmed later this week, when full calendars for 2025 are launched by the UCI in the course of the ongoing Highway World Championships in Zurich.
“We’re engaged on an vital 2025 season as a result of we have added the ladies’s Milan-San Remo to the calendar. We’re additionally working to develop the presence of ladies in all our main races, past what we have already got at Strade Bianche,” Bellino advised the podcast.
“I am massively happy with the result of the Giro d’Italia Ladies” – which RCS started organising this yr – “and it is a pity we did not get to work on the mission sooner.”
“The vital factor is to work severely on these initiatives. Ladies’s biking has big potential nevertheless it has not but reached its full potential.”
A ladies’s model of Milan-San Remo dubbed Primavera Rosa was held from 1999 to 2005, following the ultimate 118km of the lads’s race and together with two of its most emblematic ascents, the Cipressa and Poggio. Rumours that the ladies’s race, whose definitive new title has but to be revealed, could possibly be revived for 2024 did briefly emerge, however they had been by no means confirmed.
Lastly, although, in 2025 Milan-San Remo will change into the fourth of the 5 Monuments – alongside the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège – to have a ladies’s race.
One of many largest problems for the occasion’s return was its date conflict with Trofeo Alfredo Binda, which at the moment takes place a day later than Milan-San Remo.
The long-established WorldTour race, which celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this yr and is held in Cittiglio alongside Lake Maggiore, greater than 300km north of San Remo is anticipated to maneuver to every week earlier in 2025. Any potential for logistical and line-up complications could be no less than partly eradicated consequently.
The preliminary version of the ladies’s Milan-San Remo is not going to change into Italy’s third WorldTour one-day race, not like Strade Bianche and Trofeo Alfredo Binda, though Cyclingnews understands that may be a mid-term purpose.
Identical to its distant predecessor, the Primavera Rosa, the ladies’s Milan-San Remo is extensively predicted to observe the final a part of the lads’s equal occasion, winding alongside the Ligurian shoreline and with the Cipressa and Poggio previous a finale on San Remo’s By way of Roma. Nonetheless, it stays unclear whether or not the ladies’s race may begin within the coastal metropolis of Genoa or – as was recommended by Bellino in 2023 – a bit additional west, within the city of Arenzano.
Bellino additionally confirmed to Tuttobiciweb that the 2025 Giro d’Italia Ladies can be offered on October 11, the day earlier than this yr’s Il Lombardia males’s race. Nonetheless, there’s at the moment no indication of when – or certainly if – a ladies’s Il Lombardia will ever be created.
The route of the 2025 males’s Giro d’Italia is anticipated to be revealed in Rome on November 15, with Albania now prone to host the Grande Partenza.
