Discover race results from Siena Italy's Stade Bianche, alongside up to date rider and route news from Cycling Weekly.
Strade Bianche 2023
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Strade Bianche 2024: Key details
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Date
2 March 2024
Start
Siena, Italy
Finish
Siena, Italy
UCI ranking
WorldTour
Edition
18th (men's), 10th (women's)
Total distance
215 kilometres (men's) , 137 kilometres (women's)
Total climbing / elevation gain
3,342 metres (men's), TBC (women's)
2023 winner
Tom Pidcock (GBr) (men's), Demi Vollering (Ned) (women's)
TV coverage (UK)
Eurosport/Discovery+
TV coverage (US)
TBC
Strade Bianche 2024 will be the 18th edition of the Italian WorldTour race, and the 10th Strade Bianche Rosa.
Strade Bianche is a one-day race held in Tuscany, Italy famous for its white gravel roads which have fast become the defining feature of the race. First held in 2007, the race quickly established itself within the men’s WorldTour and 17 editions have been held since, with Tom Pidcock taking the win in 2023 after 23km solo.
Fabian Cancellara has won the men’s race three times and leads the charts for the most Strade Bianche victories. In 2021 Mathieu van der Poel took a memorable win after multiple explosive attacks including one on the climb to the finish which left Julian Alaphilippe and Egan Bernal in a cloud of dust. This year’s edition will take place on Saturday 2 March with both the men’s and women’s races taking place on the same day.
The race seems to favour anyone and everyone. If you're able to get over the steep climbs you should be good here with the likes of Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) both performing well in the race in the past.
However, puncheurs seem to be the riders most able to go on the offensive here. Riders like Kasper Asgreen (Soudal- Quick Step) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) can perform on the sharper kicks that require good acceleration. The uneven gravel also means that cobbled classics riders, cyclo-cross and former mountain bike riders can do well.
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck - Quick-Step), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies), and Fabian Cancellara are just some who have done well in the race.
There have been multiple calls for the men’s event to become the sixth men’s cycling monument due to its iconic parcours, difficulty and prestige. Both Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot have repeatedly referred to the race as cycling’s “sixth monument”.
After the success of the men’s edition of the race, a women’s event named Strade Bianche Rosa was first held in 2015 and also quickly established itself within the women’s WorldTour, serving as the opening event of the women’s WorldTour calendar. Demi Vollering of SD Worx won last year’s Strade Bianche Rosa.
The women's race (Strade Bianche Rosa) is far shorter than the men's. However, the racing is still epic with some amazing battles taking place. Mavi García's (Alé-BTC-Ljubljana) amazing solo ride in 2020 almost made it all the way but was caught by the charging Dutch star of Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) who was defending her title.
The Dutch, much like in most top-level women's racing, have dominated the race with the last four of the seven editions going to a Dutch woman. Only Van Vleuten has managed to win it twice with Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx) being the last two winners.
British rider Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) managed to back up her second place in 2015 with a win in 2016, being the only Brit to ever win the women's event.
Strade Bianche 2024: The route
Strade Bianche, meaning 'white roads' in Italian, refers to the sectors of unpaved gravel that are a key feature and a unique characteristic of the race. There are 11 of these sectors, which make up one-third of the race. There are eight of these sectors in the Strade Bianche Rosa. Some are flat, some are steep climbs or technical descents, testing the rider's bike handling skills.
Another key feature of the race is the incredibly steep, narrow climb, the Via Santa Caterina, to the finish in the beautiful Piazza del Campo within the city of Siena.
Strade Bianche: Recent winners
2023: Tom Pidcock (GBr), Ineos Grenadiers
2022: Tadej Pogačar (Slo), UAE Team Emirates
2021: Mathieu van der Poel (Ned), Alpecin-Fenix
2020: Wout van Aert (Bel), Team Jumbo-Visma
2019: Julian Alaphilippe (Fra), Deceuninck - Quick-Step
2018: Tiesj Benoot (Bel), Lotto-Soudal
2017: Michał Kwiatkowski (Pol), Team Sky
2016: Fabian Cancellara (Sui), Trek-Segafredo
2015: Zdeněk Štybar (Cze), Etixx - Quick-Step
2014: Michał Kwiatkowski (Pol), Omega Pharma - Quick-Step
2013: Moreno Moser (Ita), Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
2012: Fabian Cancellara (Sui), Radioshack-Nissan
2011: Philippe Gilbert (Bel), Omega Pharma-Lotto
2010: Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz), Astana
2009: Thomas Löfkvist (Swe), Team Columbia-HTC
2008: Fabian Cancellara (Sui), CSC ProTeam
Strade Bianche Rosa: Recent winners
2022: Demi Vollering (Ned), SD-Worx
2022: Lotte Kopecky (Bel), SD-Worx
2021: Chantal van den Broek-Blaak (Ned), Team SD Worx
2020: Annemiek van Vleuten (Ned), Mitchelton-Scott
2019: Annemiek van Vleuten (Ned), Mitchelton-Scott
2018: Anna van der Breggen (Ned), Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team
2017: Elisa Longo Borghini (Ita), Wiggle-High5
2016: Elizabeth Deignan (GBr), Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team
