A girls’s version of Milan-San Remo shall be raced in 2025, with the occasion added to the Ladies’s WorldTour calendar, the UCI introduced on Friday.
In a round-up of bulletins from its administration committee throughout the present World Championships, the addition was confirmed, after reporting earlier this week, with the primary version occurring on 22 March 2025. Because of this, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda, often held the day after the lads’s San Remo, is known to have been moved every week earlier within the calendar.
The ladies’s San Remo shall be held on the identical day on the males’s occasion, which was first held in 1907. The lads’s race is historically one of many longest races of the yr, recurrently nudging as much as, if not over 300km.
The race is dubbed as a “return” by its organisers, RCS – who additionally organise the Giro d’Italia and Strade Bianche – as a precursor, the Primavera Traditional, was held between 1999 and 2005. That race was held over the ultimate 118km of the lads’s race, together with the long-lasting climbs of the Cipressa and the Poggio. The UCI mentioned that the information was “additional proof of the expansion of ladies’s skilled street biking”.
An announcement from RCS learn: “The Sanremo Ladies joins the Strade Bianche Ladies Elite, which reached its tenth version in 2024, and the Giro d’Italia Ladies, which RCS Sport organised for the primary time final July, and enriches the supply of main occasions aimed toward enhancing and selling girls’s biking.
“The route and all the small print of the occasion shall be revealed quickly.”
The existence of a girls’s Milan-San Remo was reported earlier this week after an interview on the Tuttobiciweb podcast with Paolo Bellino, CEO of RCS.
“We’re engaged on an vital 2025 season as a result of we have added the ladies’s Milan-San Remo to the calendar,” he mentioned. “We’re additionally working to develop the presence of ladies in all our main races, past what we have already got at Strade Bianche.”
“I am vastly happy with the end result of the Giro d’Italia Ladies and it is a pity we did not get to work on the venture sooner,” he continued. RCS started organising the lady’s Giro this yr. “The vital factor is to work significantly on these initiatives. Ladies’s biking has large potential nevertheless it has not but reached its full potential.”
It’s unknown what route and from the place the ladies’s San Remo would happen, with the lads beginning in Pavia, south of Milan, in recent times, after which heading southwest to the coast. With the lads’s race identified for its size, it is potential that this might be a key a part of the ladies’s race too, though Ladies’s WorldTour occasions are capped at 160km, with some leeway for a bit of additional. The girls’s Tour of Flanders, for instance, was 163km lengthy this yr.
With a girls’s San Remo, it now signifies that 4 of the lads’s Monuments have girls’s equivalents, with the Italian Traditional following the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. There isn’t a information on the potential for a girls’s Il Lombardia.
Individually within the UCI’s announcement on Friday, it was confirmed that under-23 riders with skilled contracts would now not have the ability to participate within the under-23 class at World and Continental Championships, because of the “more and more excessive stage of efficiency of riders on this class”.
