2019 Giro d'Italia Stage 4 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 4 of the 2019 Giro d'Italia! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
Course Preview
At 228 kilometres, the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia travels from Orbetello to Frascati, a town just southeast of Rome. Following a race on rolling roads the last five kilometres slope at around five percent.
With 228 kilometres the race Frascati is the fourth longest race in this Giro. The route mostly runs on undulating terrain. At kilometre 32.6 – in Manciano – the first hill is crested, and at kilometre 63.3 the riders reach the highest point of the day in Poggio Evangelista. The course continues similarly across the countryside of the regions Tuscia and Lazio.
The route passes east of Rome and levels out some 40 kilometres before the line only to become undulating again in the finale. A false flat of five kilometres continues onto the last 5 kilometres with an average gradient of approximately four percent.
The 1998 Giro also included a Orbetello-Frascati stage. The race boiled down to a bunch sprint with Mario Cipollini taking the flowers. The last visit in Frascati was in 2007 with another sprint. Robert Forster bested Thor Hushovd and Alessandro Petacchi on the line.\n
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