2023 Giro d'Italia

106th edition: May 6 - 28, 2023
Stage 1, May 6, 2023

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Saturday, May 6: Stage 1, Fossacesia Marina - Ortona 19.6 km individual time trial

Stage 1 map & profile | Stage 1 photos

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Remco Evenepoel is the day's fastest rider. Sirotti photo

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Weather at the finish city of Ortona at 1:35 PM, local time: 22C (72F), partly cloudy, with the wind from the east-northeast at 8 km/hr (5 mph). There is a 1% chance of rain.

Technical info about the stage: The ITT runs flat for approx. 14 km, then ascends slightly all the way to the finish, where KOM points are up for grabs. In the first part, the stage follows the Ciclovia Adriatica, on level and well-paved roadway, taking in 6 short and well-lit tunnels along the route. The road narrows slightly when leaving the cycle path. The final climb (approx. 1 km) leading to the urban area of Ortona begins past the second split.

Final kilometres:
The route climbs at 5.4% for 1,300 m. After descending gently towards the Castello Aragonese, and plunging to the left, the road goes up again at a mild 2% gradient for the final 750 metres. The home straight (300 m) is on 7m wide stone-paved road.

The race: The first rider scheduled to start was Laurens Huys (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) at 1:50 PM.

Here's the race report from stage winner and GC leader Remco Evenepoel's Team Soudal Quick-Step:

The World Champion smashed the individual time trial, becoming the youngest Belgian in 49 years to win a stage at the race.

Remco Evenepoel powered to an impressive victory on stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia (Fossacesia Marina – Ortona, 19.6km) – where he returned after two years – putting some considerable time into his opponents and claiming the coveted maglia rosa.

Soudal Quick-Step’s leader was a man on a mission Saturday afternoon as he left the start house, wasting no time on the flat roads of Abruzzo and almost instantly opening a big gap on all the other riders as he hit a maximum speed exceeding 60km/h. At the half-way mark, the 23-year-old Belgian ITT Champion was more than twenty seconds up on the previous benchmark, and he showed no intention of slowing down, as he prepared to tackle the 2.8km climb to the finish.

Evenepoel continued to fly there and stopped the clock in a stunning 21:18, after averaging a whooping 55.2km/h, a result that made him the youngest Belgian rider since 1974 to score a stage win at the Corsa Rosa. It was Remco’s 42nd pro victory, and his 14th at World Tour level – one that netted the World Champion multiple podium visits, to collect the stage trophy and three jerseys – pink, cyclamen and white.

“I am very happy! It’s a perfect way to come back to the Giro. It’s the best result I could get on this first day of racing, and an important confidence-boost. My main focus today was to go as fast as possible and I can say I went faster than I had expected. I can be content with how things panned out and with my first major win in Italy.”

“Getting the pink jersey wasn’t on my mind, I just tried to do a good race and gain time on the other riders. Nevertheless, to have this iconic jersey is an honour. It’s an iconic garment in cycling and it gives me a great feeling knowing I will sport it on my shoulders”, said the first Belgian rider in 22 years to lead the Giro d’Italia.

Complete results & GC:

Stage 1 photos

19.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 55.211 km/hr

1	Remco Evenepoel	Soudal Quick-Step	21min 18sec
2	Filippo Ganna	INEOS Grenadiers	@ 22sec
3	Joao Almeida	UAE Team Emirates	0:29
4	Tao Geoghegan Hart	INEOS Grenadiers	0:40
5	Stefan Küng	Groupama-FDJ	0:43
6	Primoz Roglic	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
7	Jay Vine	UAE Team Emirates	0:46
8	Brandon McNulty	UAE Team Emirates	0:48
9	Geraint Thomas	INEOS Grenadiers	0:55
10	Aleksandr Vlasov	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
11	Bruno Armirail	Groupama-FDJ	0:57
12	Mads Pedersen	Trek-Segafredo	1:02
13	Michael Matthews	Jayco-AlUla	1:09
14	Michael Hepburn	Jayco-AlUla	s.t.
15	William Barta	Movistar	1:11
16	Ilan Van Wilder	Soudal Quick-Step	1:12
17	Stefan De Bod	EF Education-EasyPost	1:14
18	Daan Hoole	Trek-Segafredo	1:17
19	Pavel Sivakov	INEOS Grenadiers	1:18
20	Andreas Leknessund	Team DSM	s.t.
21	Mattia Cattaneo	Soudal Quick-Step	1:23
22	Lennard Kämna	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
23	Nico Denz	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
24	Edward Dunbar	Jayco-AlUla	1:25
25	Edoardo Affini	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
26	Bob Jungels	BORA-hansgrohe	1:26
27	Mads Würtz Schmidt	Israel-Premier Tech	1:27
28	Laurens De Plus	INEOS Grenadiers	s.t.
29	Bauke Mollema	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
30	Jonathan Milan	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
31	Damiano Caruso	Bahrain Victorious	1:28
32	Thymen Arensman	INEOS Grenadiers	1:31
33	Alberto Bettiol	EF Education-EasyPost	1:32
34	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
35	Diego Ulissi	UAE Team Emirates	1:34
36	Rigoberto Uran	EF Education-EasyPost	1:35
37	Lukas Pöstlberger	Jayco-AlUla	1:36
38	Jack Haig	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
39	Patrick Konrad	BORA-hansgrohe	1:37
40	Ryan Gibbons	UAE Team Emirates	1:38
41	Magnus Cort	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
42	Thibault Guernalec	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
43	Josef Cerný	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
44	Rein Taaramäe	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	1:40
45	Alessandro De Marchi	Jayco-AlUla	1:41
46	Marco Frigo	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
47	Thibaut Pinot	Groupama-FDJ	1:43
48	Michel Hessman	Jumbo-Visma	1:44
49	Ben Healy	EF Education-EasyPost	1:45
50	Derek Gee	Israel-Premier Tech	1:47
51	Toms Skujins	Trek-Segafredo	1:48
52	Callum Scotson	Jayco-AlUla	1:49
53	Mirco Maestri	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
54	Jasha Sütterlin	Bahrain Victorious	1:51
55	Harm Vanhoucke	Team DSM	1:53
56	Stefano Oldani	Alpecin-Deceuninck	1:56
57	Hugh Carthy	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
58	Florian Stork	Team DSM	1:58
59	Giovanni Aleotti	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
60	Alex Kirsch	Trek-Segafredo	2:01
61	Alan Riou	Arkéa-Samsic	s.t.
62	Alessandro Verre	Arkéa-Samsic	2:02
63	Gianni Moscon	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
64	Rohan Dennis	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
65	Santiago Buitrago	Bahrain Victorious	s.t.
66	Filippo Zana	Jayco-AlUla	2:03
67	Davide Formolo	UAE Team Emirates	2:07
68	Sepp Kuss	Jumbo-Visma	2:09
69	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	2:10
70	Erik Fetter	EOLO-Kometa	s.t.
71	Domenico Pozzovivo	Israel-Premier Tech	2:11
72	Lawrence Warbasse	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
73	Luis León Sánchez	Astana Qazaqstan	2:12
74	Vincenzo Albanese	EOLO-Kometa	2:14
75	Louis Vervaeke	Soudal Quick-Step	2:15
76	Marius Mayrhofer	Team DSM	2:16
77	Jonathan Lastra	Cofidis	s.t.
78	Samuele Battistella	Astana Qazaqstan	2:19
79	Campbell Stewart	Jayco-AlUla	2:20
80	Jonathan Caicedo	EF Education-EasyPost	2:21
81	Cristian Scaroni	Astana Qazaqstan	2:25
82	Nicola Conci	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
83	Carlos Verona	Movistar	s.t.
84	Koen Bouwman	Jumbo-Visma	2:26
85	Simone Velasco	Astana Qazaqstan	2:27
86	Pieter Serry	Soudal Quick-Step	2:29
87	Valerio Conti	Corratec-Selle Italia	2:31
88	Martijn Tusveld	Team DSM	s.t.
89	Clément Russo	Arkéa-Samsic	2:32
90	Yukiya Arashiro	Bahrain Victorious	2:33
91	Alexander Cepeda	EF Education-EasyPost	s.t.
92	Alex Baudin	Ag2r-Citroën	2:34
93	Alessandro Covi	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
94	Óscar Rodríguez	Movistar	2:36
95	Paul Lapeira	Ag2r-Citroën	2:38
96	Salvatore Puccio	INEOS Grenadiers	2:41
97	Albert Torres	Movistar	2:42
98	Stephen Williams	Israel-Premier Tech	2:44
99	Anton Palzer	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
100	Einer Rubio	Movistar	2:45
101	Matthew Riccitello	Israel-Premier Tech	s.t.
102	Andrea Vendrame	Ag2r-Citroën	2:46
103	Kristian Sbaragli	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
104	Andrea Pasqualon	Bahrain Victorious	2:47
105	Davide Bais	EOLO-Kometa	2:48
106	Samuele Zoccarato	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
107	Vadim Pronskiy	Astana Qazaqstan	2:49
108	Nicolas Prodhomme	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
109	Simone Consonni	Cofidis	s.t.
110	Arne Marit	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	2:50
111	Oscar Riesebeek	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
112	Mattia Bais	EOLO-Kometa	2:51
113	Alexandre Delettre	Cofidis	s.t.
114	Ben Swift	INEOS Grenadiers	2:52
115	Charlie Quarterman	Corratec-Selle Italia	s.t.
116	Jonas Iversby Hvideberg	Team DSM	2:53
117	Jake Stewart	Groupama-FDJ	2:54
118	Sebastian Berwick	Israel-Premier Tech	2:57
119	Jan Hirt	Soudal Quick-Step	s.t.
120	Senne Leysen	Alpecin-Deceuninck	2:59
121	Ignatas Konovalovas	Groupama-FDJ	s.t.
122	Pascal Ackermann	UAE Team Emirates	s.t.
123	Rudy Molard	Groupama-FDJ	3:00
124	Laurenz Rex	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
125	Lars Van Den Berg	Groupama-FDJ	3:01
126	Simon Clarke	Israel-Premier Tech	3:02
127	Mark Cavendish	Astana Qazaqstan	3:03
128	Simone Petilli	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	s.t.
129	Hugo Toumire	Cofidis	3:06
130	Alessandro Tonelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
131	Lorenzo Rota	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	3:07
132	Warren Barguil	Arkéa-Samsic	3:08
133	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
134	Laurens Huys	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	3:10
135	Davide Gabburo	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
136	Fabian Lienhard	Groupama-FDJ	3:11
137	Otto Vergaerde	Trek-Segafredo	s.t.
138	Alberto Dainese	Team DSM	s.t.
139	Natnael Tesfazion	Trek-Segafredo	3:13
140	Lorenzo Fortunato	EOLO-Kometa	3:14
141	Cesare Benedetti	BORA-hansgrohe	s.t.
142	Kaden Groves	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:15
143	Joe Dombrowski	Astana Qazaqstan	s.t.
144	Maxime Bouet	Arkéa-Samsic	3:16
145	Ramon Sinkeldam	Alpecin-Deceuninck	s.t.
146	Martin Marcellusi	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	3:19
147	Filippo Fiorelli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
148	Thomas Gloag	Jumbo-Visma	3:21
149	Francesco Gavazzi	EOLO-Kometa	3:23
150	Niklas Märkl	Team DSM	s.t.
151	Michel Ries	Arkéa-Samsic	3:25
152	Davide Cimolai	Cofidis	s.t.
153	Sam Oomen	Jumbo-Visma	s.t.
154	Fernando Gaviria	Movistar	3:26
155	Edoardo Zambanini	Bahrain Victorious	3:28
156	Davide Ballerini	Soudal Quick-Step	3:29
157	Rémy Rochas	Cofidis	s.t.
158	Mikaël Chérel	Ag2r-Citroën	s.t.
159	Luca Covili	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	3:33
160	Max Kanter	Movistar	3:41
161	Thomas Champion	Cofidis	3:42
162	Alexander Konychev	Corratec-Selle Italia	3:43
163	Valentin Paret-Peintre	Ag2r-Citroën	3:44
164	Nicolas Dalla Valle	Corratec-Selle Italia	s.t.
165	Veljko Stojnic	Corratec-Selle Italia	3:46
166	François Bidard	Cofidis	3:47
167	Niccolo Bonifazio	Intermarché-Circus-Wanty	3:49
168	David Dekker	Arkéa-Samsic	3:50
169	Alexander Krieger	Alpecin-Deceuninck	3:52
170	Diego Sevilla	EOLO-Kometa	3:52
171	Filippo Magli	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	3:53
172	Karel Vacek	Corratec-Selle Italia	3:54
173	Henok Mulubrhan	Green Project-Bardiani-CSF	4:05
174	José Joaquin Rojas	Movistar	4:07
175	Stefano Gandin	Corratec-Selle Italia	4:12
176	Alessandro Iacchi	Corratec-Selle Italia	4:26

Stage 1 map & profile:

2023 Giro d'Italia stage 1 map

2023 Giro d'Italia stage 1 profile

Stage one photos by Fotoreporter Sirotti:

Ben Swift

Rohan Dennis

Pascal Ackermann

EF Education-EasyPost's Stefan De Bod was 17th

Mads Pedersen was 12th.

Geraint Thomas riding to 9th place.

8th place Brandon McNulty

Primoz Roglic was sixth.

Tao Geoghegan Hart was fourth

Filippo Ganna riding to second place.

Stage winner Remco Evenepoel shows how a time trial is ridden.

Remco Evenepoel will start stage two in pink.

Start list with back numbers, May 5, 2023:

Note: Because Jan Tratnik was involved in a traffic accident today (May 5), Jumbo-Visma replaced him with Tom Gloag at the last minute.

DS = Director Sportif

	SOUDAL QUICK-STEP
DS	Davide Bramati, Geert van Bondt
1	Remco Evenepoel
2	Davide Ballerini
3	Mattia Cattaneo
4	Josef Cerný
5	Jan Hirt
6	Pieter Serry
7	Ilan Van Wilder
8	Louis Vervaeke
	AG2R-CITROËN TEAM
DS	Laurent Biondi, Arturas Kasputas
11	Aurélien Paret-Peintre
12	Alex Baudin
13	Mikaël Chérel
14	Paul Lapeira
15	Valentin Paret-Peintre
16	Nicolas Prodhomme
17	Andrea Vendrame
18	Lawrence Warbasse
	ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK
DS	Bart Leysen, Gianni Meersman
21	Stefano Oldani
22	Nicola Conci
23	Kaden Groves
24	Alexander Krieger
25	Senne Leysen
26	Oscar Riesebeek
27	Kristian Sbaragli
28	Ramon Sinkeldam
	ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM
DS	Alexndre Shefer, Stefano Zanini
31	Mark Cavendish
32	Samuele Battistella
33	Joe Dombrowski
34	Gianni Moscon
35	Vadim Pronskiy
36	León Sánchez Luis
37	Cristian Scaroni
38	Simone Velasco
	BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS
DS	Gorazd Stangelj
41	Jack Haig
42	Yukiya Arashiro
43	Santiago Buitrago
44	Damiano Caruso
45	Jonathan Milan
46	Andrea Pasqualon
47	Jasha Sütterlin
48	Edoardo Zambanini
	BORA-HANSGROHE
DS	Endrico Gasparotto, Jens Zemke
51	Aleksandr Vlasov
52	Giovanni Aleotti
53	Cesare Benedetti
54	Nico Denz
55	Bob Jungels
56	Lennard Kämna
57	Patrick Konrad
58	Anton Palzer
	COFIDIS
DS	Roberto Damiani, Jean-Luc Jonrond
61	Simone Consonni
62	François Bidard
63	Thomas Champion
64	Davide Cimolai
65	Alexandre Delettre
66	Jonathan Lastra
67	Rémy Rochas
68	Hugo Toumire
	EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST
DS	Matti Breschel, Tejay Van Garderen
71	Rigoberto Uran
72	Jonathan Caicedo
73	Hugh Carthy
74	Alexander Cepeda
75	Stefan De Bod
76	Ben Healy
77	Alberto Bettiol
78	Magnus Cort
	EOLO-KOMETA
DS	Stefano Zanatta, Jesus Herenandez
81	Vincenzo Albanese
82	Davide Bais
83	Mattia Bais
84	Erik Fetter
85	Lorenzo Fortunato
86	Francesco Gavazzi
87	Mirco Maestri
88	Diego Sevilla
	GREEN PROJECT-BARDIANI CSF-FAIZANÈ
DS	Roberto Reverberi, Alessandro Donati
91	Filippo Fiorelli
92	Luca Covili
93	Davide Gabburo
94	Filippo Magli
95	Martin Marcellusi
96	Henok Mulubrhan
97	Alessandro Tonelli
98	Samuele Zoccarato
	GROUPAMA-FDJ
DS	Sebastien Joly, Jussi Veikkanen
101	Thibaut Pinot
102	Bruno Armirail
103	Ignatas Konovalovas
104	Stefan Küng
105	Fabian Lienhard
106	Rudy Molard
107	Jake Stewart
109	Lars Van Den Berg
	INEOS GRENADIERS
DS	Matteo Tosatto, Christian Knees
111	Tao Geoghegan Hart
112	Thymen Arensman
113	Laurens De Plus
114	Filippo Ganna
115	Salvatore Puccio
116	Pavel Sivakov
117	Ben Swift
118	Geraint Thomas
	INTERMARCHÉ-CIRCUS-WANTY
DS	Valerio Piva, Steven de Need
121	Lorenzo Rota
122	Niccolo Bonifazio
123	Erik Bystrøm Sven
124	Laurens Huys
125	Arne Marit
126	Simone Petilli
127	Laurenz Rex
128	Rein Taaramäe
	ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH
DS	Oscar Guerrero, Samuel Bewley
131	Domenico Pozzovivo
132	Sebastian Berwick
133	Simon Clarke
134	Marco Frigo
135	Derek Gee
136	Matthew Riccitello
137	Mads Würtz Schmidt
138	Stephen Williams
	JUMBO-VISMA
DS	Arthur van Dongen, Addy Engels
141	Primoz Roglic
142	Edoardo Affini
143	Koen Bouwman
144	Rohan Dennis
145	Michel Hessman
146	Sepp Kuss
147	Jan Tratnik Tom Gloag
148	Sam Oomen
	MOVISTAR TEAM
DS	Max Sciandri, Pablo Lastras
151	Fernando Gaviria
152	William Barta
153	Max Kanter
154	Óscar Rodríguez
155	José Joaquin Rojas
156	Einer Rubio
157	Albert Torres
158	Carlos Verona
	TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC
DS	Yvon Caer, Roger Trehin
161	Warren Barguil
162	Maxime Bouet
163	David Dekker
164	Thibault Guernalec
165	Michel Ries
166	Alan Riou
167	Clément Russo
168	Alessandro Verre
	CORRATEC-SELLE ITALIA
DS	Francesco Frassi
171	Valerio Conti
172	Nicolas Dalla Valle
173	Stefano Gandin
174	Alessandro Iacchi
175	Alexander Konychev
176	Charlie Quarterman
177	Veljko Stojnic
178	Karel Vacek
	TEAM DSM
DS	Matthew Winston, Luke Roberts
181	Andreas Leknessund
182	Alberto Dainese
183	Jonas Iversby Hvideberg
184	Niklas Märkl
185	Marius Mayrhofer
186	Florian Stork
187	Martijn Tusveld
188	Harm Vanhoucke
	JAYCO-ALULA
DS	David McPartland, Pieter Weening
191	Michael Matthews
192	Alessandro De Marchi
193	Edward Dunbar
194	Michael Hepburn
195	Lukas Pöstlberger
196	Callum Scotson
197	Campbell Stewart
198	Filippo Zana
	TREK-SEGAFREDO
DS	Geregory Rast, Steven de Jongh
201	Mads Pedersen
202	Amanuel Gebreigzabhier
203	Daan Hoole
204	Alex Kirsch
205	Bauke Mollema
206	Toms Skujins
207	Natnael Tesfazion
208	Otto Vergaerde
	UAE TEAM EMIRATES
DS	Fabio Baldato, Marco Marzano
211	Joao Almeida
212	Pascal Ackermann
213	Alessandro Covi
214	Davide Formolo
215	Ryan Gibbons
216	Brandon Mcnulty
217	Diego Ulissi
218	Jay Vine