Giro d'Italia 2022

Kicking off in stunning Budapest and finishing in fair Verona, the first Grand Tour of the year is set to be a beautiful race

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All stages live on Eurosport and GCN+

1. BUDAPEST - VISEGRAD | FLAT

FRIDAY 6 MAY

195 KM

Hungary will at last host the Grande Partenza, two years after the Covid pandemic scuppered plans to do so in 2020. The first-ever Grand Tour stage held on Hungarian roads will be a mostly flat affair, but an uphill finish to the beautiful medieval castle in Visegrad, overlooking panoramic views of the Danube Bend, rules out the pure sprinters. Instead, the first pink jersey of the race will go to whichever fast-finishing puncheur can hang on for the five kilometres of climbing (at an average gradient of five per cent), or a climber with a rapid enough finishing kick.

2. BUDAPEST - BUDAPEST | INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL

SATURDAY 7 MAY

9.2 KM