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2023 Milano-Torino (1.Pro), Italy

104th Edition: Wednesday, March 15, 2023

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Milano (Rho) - Torino (Orbassano), 192 km

Arvid De Kleijn wins the big sprint. RCS photo

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Weather at the finish city of Torino (Turin in English) at 1:10 PM, local time: 14C (58F), sunny, with the wind from the southeast at 13 km/hr (8 mph). No rain is forecast.

The route: The route of the 104th edition of the oldest race is essentially flat except, when passing through the Canavese area, where the course rises and falls, taking in some ramps, however with no lengthy sectors or steep slopes. The route starts in Rho and crosses the upper Po Valley on flat roads surrounded by rice paddies, touching Magenta, Novara and Vercelli, and reaches the Canavese through Caluso and Foglizzo. Across the Canavese, the route rises and falls all the way to La Mandria Park, north ot Turin, and eventually levels out, or just climbs slightly, at the edge of the Val di Susa, all the way to the finish. The main obstacles along the route include the ones typically found in urban areas, such as roundabouts, traffic islands and speed bumps. The last 10 kilometers run almost flat until the finish in Orbassano.

Final kms
The last 5km run on flat and broad urban roads, featuring consecutive roundabouts. There is one final bend 400m before the finish. The home straight is 400m long, and wide (8.5m width).

The race: There was one non-starter, Mike Teunissen (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), leaving a starting peloton of 114.

The peloton got going a little before noon. Mark Cavendish, the winner of last year's edition, is at the front, RCS photo

Here's the report from seventh-place Jordi Meeus' Team Bora-hansgrohe.

The oldest bike race in the world, Milano-Torino, ended in the expected bunch sprint today. BORA – hansgrohe was in position at the head of the bunch with 10 km remaining, but after a crash with four kilometers to go the boys lost each other and their leader Jordi Meeus almost had to stop. To recover from this incident was too much of an effort and Jordi entered the last corner too far in the back. In the end he sprinted to seventh place.

“The boys worked really well, and we have been in front before the beginning of all this road furniture. But then a guy crashed, and I had to click out of the pedal and almost stopped. To come back after this was just too much effort. Shane brought me up once again, but we couldn’t move before the decisive corner anymore and after that it was impossible to gain positions.” – Jordi Meeus

Arvid De Kleijn is the day's fastest rider. Photo: RCS Sport

Complete Results:

192 kilometers raced at an average speed of 48.194 km/hr

2023 Milano-Torino map & profile

2023 Milano-Torino map

2023 Milano-Torino profile

Start list with back numbers, March 14, 2023: