2021 Milano-Torino (1.Pro), Italy
102nd edition: Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Milano-Torino podium history | 2020 edition | 2022 edition | Course map & profile | Photos | Start list
Milano (Magenta)-Torino (Superga), 190 km
Primoz Roglic wins again. RCS photo
Weather at the finish city of Torino (Turin in English) at 2:00 PM, local time: 22C (72F), sunny, with the wind from the northeast at just 3 km/hr (2 mph). No rain is forecast.
The route: The race departs from Magenta and heads across the Po Valley on flat roads through rice paddies, touching Novara and Vercelli to get near Biella and negotiate the short climb to Zimone. The remainder of the route returns to being flat and ploughing through the Po Valley with wide, mostly straight roads until reaching the final circuit.
After San Mauro Torinese it skirts the Po in Corso Casale, then climbs nearly to the basilica of Superga for the first time, although the route deviates 600 m before the finish line and takes the technical descent to Rivodora. This brings the riders back to San Mauro. Then they negotiate the climb for the second time, this time all the way to the finish line with gradients of over 10%.
The last 5 km (which are repeated twice except for the final 600 m) start in Turin in Corso Casale , where the climb begins to the Basilica of Superga. The average gradient is 9.1%, with a peak around halfway of 14% and long stretches at 10%. At 600 m from the finish line there is a near-U-turn to the left onto a ramp at 8.2% finishing with the last curve, 50 m from the finish on asphalt (7 m wide). The Superga climb has been ridden twice since the 2012. That said, the 2020 edition was for sprinters, and ended at Stupinigi with victory for Arnaud Démare.
The race: 160 riders began the race at 12:23 PM. There was one non-starter, Astana's Alex Aranburu.
The race gets its official start just west of Milan. RCS photo
Here's the report from third-place Joao Almeida's Deceuninck-Quick Step team:
João Almeida became the first Portuguese to finish on the podium of Milano-Torino, the oldest race in the world, created in 1876, just 15 years after the unification of Italy. The result came at the end of a great day of racing that saw Deceuninck – Quick-Step smash the field in the crosswinds with more than 50 kilometers to go and place six of its riders in the front group.
Among them, World Champion Julian Alaphilippe, who made his return to racing ten days after winning a second consecutive rainbow jersey. Dries Devenyns and Pieter Serry piled on the pressure on the flat roads of the Piedmont leading to the first ascent of the day, where Fausto Masnada took over and paved the way for an impressive attack of Mauri Vansevenant, one kilometer from the top.
The young Belgian opened a small gap on the chasers and plunged onto the descent, extending his buffer to 25 seconds by the time he began the second ascent of the Superga (4.9km, 9.1%). There, his valiant effort came to an end, but our team had João Almeida prepared to step in. Just four days after finishing runner-up at the Giro dell’Emilia, the 23-year-old was again in the spotlight, joining the four-man group from where the winner eventually came.
Dropped inside the last two kilometers, Almeida didn’t give up and rode amazingly, showing the same never-say-die attitude displayed at the Giro d’Italia on the unforgiving double-digit gradients that really put the pain into the riders’ legs. The Portuguese all-rounder looked to be out of the fight for a podium, but he mounted a stunning recovery, caught Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) with 500 meters to go and then outsprinted him for a well-deserved third place.
“The team did a very good race today, we were in the front at the right moment and gave our best. Once we split the peloton, we rode full gas and tried to make it really hard for the others. The final climb was extremely difficult and I would have loved to follow Roglic and fight for the win, but it wasn’t possible. Finishing third is a good result and an important boost of confidence for Il Lombardia, where we are motivated to conclude the season on a high note”, said João after his 16th top 3 finish of the season.
Plato's Phaedo is available as an audiobook here.
Complete Results:
190 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.240 km/hr
| 1 | Primoz Roglic | Jumbo-Visma | 4hr 17min 41sec |
| 2 | Adam Yates | INEOS Grenadiers | @ 12sec |
| 3 | Joao Almeida | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 0:35 |
| 4 | Tadej Pogacar | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 5 | Michael Woods | Israel Start-Up Nation | 0:48 |
| 6 | David Gaudu | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 7 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 8 | Fausto Masnada | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
| 9 | Nairo Quintana | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 10 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | 0:56 |
| 11 | Ben Hermans | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 12 | Aleksandr Vlasov | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 13 | Matteo Fabbro | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 14 | Rein Taaramae | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 15 | Michael Storer | Team DSM | 1:27 |
| 16 | Mikel Bizkarra | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:50 |
| 17 | Pavel Sivakov | INEOS Grenadiers | 2:01 |
| 18 | Domenico Pozzovivo | Qhubeka-NextHash | 2:05 |
| 19 | Mauri Vansevenant | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2:30 |
| 20 | Clement Champoussin | Ag2r-Citroën | 2:35 |
| 21 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | 2:40 |
| 22 | Sebastien Reichenbach | Groupama-FDJ | 2:51 |
| 23 | Chris Harper | Jumbo-Visma | 3:01 |
| 24 | Rafal Majka | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 25 | Julian Alaphilippe | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 3:18 |
| 26 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana-Premier Tech | 3:39 |
| 27 | Cristian Scaroni | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 28 | Daniel Savini | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 29 | Jhojan Garcia | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 3:43 |
| 30 | Artem Nych | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 31 | Matteo Badilatti | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 32 | Edward Ravasi | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 33 | Eduardo Sepulveda | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 34 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | 4:02 |
| 35 | Andrea Garosio | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 4:07 |
| 36 | Lawrence Warbasse | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 37 | Giovanni Carboni | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 4:14 |
| 38 | Jan Bakelants | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 4:22 |
| 39 | George Bennett | Jumbo-Visma | 4:33 |
| 40 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 4:39 |
| 41 | Antonio Pedrero | Movistar | s.t. |
| 42 | Ruben Fernandez | Cofidis | 4:49 |
| 43 | Sergio Martin | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 44 | Vincenzo Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | 4:58 |
| 45 | Patrick Konrad | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 46 | Marc Hirschi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 47 | Mikel Iturria | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
| 48 | Sam Oomen | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 49 | Einer Rubio | Movistar | s.t. |
| 50 | Daniel Munoz | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 51 | Davide Bais | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 52 | Jan Polanc | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 53 | Chris Hamilton | Team DSM | 5:09 |
| 54 | Jason Osborne | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 5:57 |
| 55 | Pavel Kochetkov | Gazprom-RusVelo | 6:33 |
| 56 | Joan Bou | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
| 57 | Clement Berthet | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 58 | Daniel Pearson | Vini Zabù | s.t. |
| 59 | Sepp Kuss | Jumbo-Visma | 6:51 |
| 60 | Davide Orrico | Vini Zabù | 7:06 |
| 61 | Simone Petilli | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | 7:12 |
| 62 | Elie Gesbert | Arkéa-Samsic | 7:19 |
| 63 | Maxime Bouet | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 64 | Jaakko Hanninen | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 65 | Luca Covili | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | s.t. |
| 66 | Julen Amezqueta | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 67 | Romain Combaud | Team DSM | s.t. |
| 68 | Edward Dunbar | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 69 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 70 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 71 | Emanuel Buchmann | Bora-hansgrohe | 7:26 |
| 72 | Alessandro Monaco | Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè | 7:36 |
| 73 | Ide Schelling | Bora-hansgrohe | 7:49 |
| 74 | Luca Chirico | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 7:59 |
| 75 | Anthony Delaplace | Arkéa-Samsic | 8:09 |
| 76 | Oier Lazkano | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 8:28 |
| 77 | Mikael Cherel | Ag2r-Citroën | 9:08 |
| 78 | Tobias Foss | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 79 | Tiesj Benoot | Team DSM | 9:32 |
| 80 | Mattia Frapporti | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 81 | Reto Hollenstein | Israel Start-Up Nation | 11:06 |
| 82 | Matthieu Ladagnous | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 83 | Marco Brenner | Team DSM | s.t. |
| 84 | Erik Fetter | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 85 | Hugo Toumire | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 86 | Michel Hessmann | Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
| 87 | Louis Meintjes | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 88 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
| 89 | Lukasz Owsian | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 90 | Rodrigo Contreras | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 91 | Abner Gonzalez | Movistar | s.t. |
| 92 | Orluis Aular | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 93 | Simone Velasco | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
| 94 | Yannis Voisard | Arkéa-Samsic | 11:44 |
| 95 | Aurelien Paret-Peintre | Ag2r-Citroën | 13:04 |
| 96 | Geoffrey Bouchard | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
| 97 | Dylan Sunderland | Qhubeka-NextHash | s.t. |
| 98 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 14:25 |
| 99 | Amanuel Gebreigzabhier | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 100 | Sean Bennett | Qhubeka-NextHash | s.t. |
| 101 | Niklas Eg | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 102 | Riccardo Tosin | Vini Zabù | s.t. |
| 103 | Alessandro Bisolti | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | s.t. |
| 104 | Simone Ravanelli | Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec | 14:33 |
| 105 | Attila Valter | Groupama-FDJ | s.t. |
| 106 | Unai Iribar | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 16:47 |
| 107 | Jeremy Bellicaud | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert | s.t. |
| 108 | Josu Etxeberria | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 18:56 |
| 109 | William Bonnet | Groupama-FDJ | 21:03 |
2021 Milano-Torino map & profile
2021 Milano-Torino map
2021 Milano-Torino profile
2021 Milano-Torino photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:
Team Groupama-FDJ is presented during the starting ceremonies.
Primoz Roglic before the race start.
World champion Julian Alaphilippe waits for the race to start.
Joao Almeida on the Superga climb.
Israel Start-Up Nation's Michael Woods
Primoz Roglic
Bora-hansgrohe's Ide Schelling
No one in sight as Primoz Roglic takes a solo win in Torino.
Second-place Adam Yates came in 12 seconds later.
The podium, from left: Adam Yates (2nd), Primoz Roglic (1st) & Joao Almeida (3rd).
Winner Primoz Roglic
Start list with backnumbers, October 5, 2021
| DECEUNINCK-QUICK STEP | |
| 1 | ALAPHILIPPE Julian |
| 2 | ALMEIDA João |
| 3 | DEVENYNS Dries |
| 4 | MASNADA Fausto |
| 5 | OSBORNE Jason |
| 6 | SERRY Pieter |
| 7 | VANSEVENANT Mauri |
| AG2R CITROEN | |
| 11 | CHAMPOUSSIN Clément |
| 12 | BERTHET Clement |
| 13 | BOUCHARD Geoffrey |
| 14 | CHEREL Mickaël |
| 15 | HÄNNINEN Jaakko |
| 16 | PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien |
| 17 | WARBASSE Larry |
| ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI-SIDERMEC | |
| 21 | RESTREPO Jhonatan |
| 22 | BAIS Mattia |
| 23 | BISOLTI Alessandro |
| 24 | CHIRICO Luca |
| 25 | MUÑOZ Daniel |
| 26 | RAVANELLI Simone |
| 27 | SEPULVEDA Eduardo |
| ASTANA-PREMIER TECH | |
| 31 | VLASOV Aleksander |
| 32 | CONTRERAS Rodrigo |
| 33 | FELLINE Fabio |
| 34 | LUTSENKO Alexey |
| 35 | BATTISTELLA Samuele |
| 36 | ARANBURU Alex |
| BARDIANI-CSF-FAIZANE' | |
| 41 | CARBONI Giovanni |
| 42 | COVILI Luca |
| 43 | GAROSIO Andrea |
| 44 | MONACO Alessandro |
| 45 | SAVINI Daniel |
| 46 | ZANA Filippo |
| 47 | ZANOTTI Juri |
| BORA-HANSGROHE | |
| 51 | BUCHMANN Emanuel |
| 52 | BENEDETTI Cesare |
| 53 | FABBRO Matteo |
| 54 | SCHELLING Ide |
| 55 | WALLS Matthew |
| 56 | KONRAD Patrick |
| 57 | ZWIEHOFF Ben |
| CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | |
| 61 | AMEZQUETA Julen |
| 62 | AULAR Orluis |
| 63 | GARCIA Pablo |
| 64 | GARCIA Jhojan |
| 65 | MARTIN Sergio |
| 66 | ETXEBERRIA Josu |
| 67 | LAZKANO Oier |
| COFIDIS | |
| 71 | MARTIN Guillaume |
| 72 | CHAMPION Thomas |
| 73 | FERNANDEZ Rubén |
| 74 | GESCHKE Simon |
| 75 | LAFAY Victor |
| 76 | ROCHAS Rémy |
| 77 | TOUMIRE Hugo |
| EOLO-KOMETA | |
| 81 | FORTUNATO Lorenzo |
| 82 | BAIS Davide |
| 83 | CHRISTIAN Mark |
| 84 | FETTER Erik |
| 85 | FRAPPORTI Mattia |
| 86 | RAVASI Edward |
| 87 | SEVILLA Diego |
| EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI | |
| 91 | BOU Joan |
| 92 | ARANBURU Jokin |
| 93 | ANGULO Antonio |
| 94 | BIZKARRA Mikel |
| 95 | IRIBAR Unai |
| 96 | ITURRIA Mikel |
| 97 | JUARISTI Txomin |
| GAZPROM-RUSVELO | |
| 101 | CANOLA Marco |
| 102 | CHERNETSKII Sergei |
| 103 | KOCHETKOV Pavel |
| 104 | NYCH Artem |
| 105 | ROVNY Ivan |
| 106 | SCARONI Cristian |
| 107 | VELASCO Simone |
| GROUPAMA-FDJ | |
| 111 | PINOT Thibaut |
| 112 | BADILATTI Matteo |
| 113 | BONNET William |
| 114 | GAUDU David |
| 115 | LADAGNOUS Matthieu |
| 116 | REICHENBACH Sébastien |
| 117 | VALTER Attila |
| INEOS GRENADIERS | |
| 121 | YATES Adam |
| 122 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan |
| 123 | DUNBAR Eddie |
| 124 | GEOGHEGAN HART Tao |
| 125 | SIVAKOV Pavel |
| 126 | SOSA Ivan |
| 127 | WURF Cameron |
| INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY-GOBERT | |
| 131 | HIRT Jan |
| 132 | BELLICAUD Jérémy |
| 133 | BAKELANTS Jan |
| 134 | MEINTJES Louis |
| 135 | MINALI Riccardo |
| 136 | PETILLI Simone |
| 137 | TAARAMAE Rein |
| ISRAEL START-UP NATION | |
| 141 | WOODS Michael |
| 142 | BOUCEK Jakub |
| 143 | IMPEY Daryl |
| 144 | FROOME Christopher |
| 145 | HOLLENSTEIN Reto |
| 146 | MARTIN Daniel |
| 147 | HERMANS Ben |
| JUMBO-VISMA | |
| 151 | ROGLIC Primoz |
| 152 | BENNETT George |
| 153 | FOSS Tobias |
| 154 | HARPER Chris |
| 155 | HESSMANN Michel |
| 156 | KUSS Sepp |
| 157 | OOMEN Sam |
| MOVISTAR | |
| 161 | VALVERDE Alejandro |
| 162 | CATALDO Dario |
| 163 | GONZALEZ Abner |
| 164 | OLIVEIRA Nelson |
| 165 | PEDRERO Antonio |
| 166 | RUBIO Einer |
| 167 | VILLELLA Davide |
| ARKÉA-SAMSIC | |
| 171 | QUINTANA Nairo |
| 172 | BOUET Maxime |
| 173 | DELAPLACE Anthony |
| 174 | GESBERT Elie |
| 175 | HARDY Romain |
| 176 | OWSIAN Lukasz |
| 177 | VOISARD Yannis |
| TEAM DSM | |
| 181 | BENOOT Tiesj |
| 182 | BRENNER Marco |
| 183 | COMBAUD Romain |
| 184 | DONOVAN Mark |
| 185 | HAMILTON Chris |
| 186 | STORER Michael |
| 187 | VERMAERKE Kevin |
| QHUBEKA-NEXTHASH | |
| 191 | POZZOVIVO Domenico |
| 192 | BENNETT Sean |
| 193 | PUPPIO Antonio |
| 194 | SCHMID Mauro |
| 195 | SUNDERLAND Dylan |
| 196 | VACEK Karel |
| 197 | VINJEBO Emil Nygaard |
| TREK-SEGAFREDO | |
| 201 | NIBALI Vincenzo |
| 202 | EG Niklas |
| 203 | GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel |
| 204 | TIBERI Antonio |
| 205 | MOLLEMA Bauke |
| 206 | MOSCA Jacopo |
| 207 | NIBALI Antonio |
| UAE TEAM EMIRATES | |
| 211 | POGACAR Tadej |
| 212 | CONTI Valerio |
| 213 | HIRSCHI Marc |
| 214 | MAJKA Rafal |
| 215 | POLANC Jan |
| 216 | RIABUSHENKO Aliaksandr |
| 217 | ULISSI Diego |
| VINI ZABU’ | |
| 221 | ZARDINI Edoardo |
| 222 | FRAPPORTI Marco |
| 223 | MASOTTO Giulio |
| 224 | ORRICO Davide |
| 225 | PEARSON Daniel |
| 226 | STACCHIOTTI Riccardo |
| 227 | TOSIN Riccardo |