Giro d'Italia 2020: Rider start times for the opening stage one time trial

The 15.1km course opens the 2020 Italian Grand Tour

Filippo Ganna (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

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The opening stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia is a 15.1km time trial from Monreale to Palermo on the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

The course starts with a downhill before levelling off towards the finish, with world time trial champion Filippo Ganna (Ineos) hotly tipped to take the maglia rosa at his home Grand Tour and delight Italian fans.

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Jonny Long

Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.

I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).

I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.

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