2025 Giro d'Italia Stage 16 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 16 of the 2025 Giro d'Italia! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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Stage 16 of the Giro features nearly 4,900 metres of climbing over a 199-kilometre route. The riders face four climbs along the way, tackling the 17.4-kilometre final ascent, which averages 6.4% and includes sections reaching up to 14%.
There isn’t much to say about Piazzola sul Brenta. Over a century ago, Guglielmo Segato and Attilio Morbiatto, two former cyclists, were born there, and that’s about it regarding cycling history.
The first 63.5 kilometres are virtually flat. Then, the road begins to rise towards La Fricca, a 12.9-kilometre climb at 4.6%. From here, the uphill action really kicks off, with the elevation gain coming quickly.
Right after the descent, the road climbs for 10.1 kilometres at 7.6% towards Candriai. Following another downhill, there’s a relatively easy section: the ascent to Vigo Cavedine stretches 9.1 kilometres at a mild 2.9% gradient.
Things get much more serious with the Santa Barbara climb, a 12.7-kilometre slog with an average gradient of 8.3%. At the summit, there are 34.7 kilometres left to race.
Almost half of that distance is downhill, and then the Grande Finale kicks in. The climb to the line is 17.4 kilometres long and averages 6.4%.
You’d have to go back 55 years to find the last stage winner in the mountain village of Brentonico. Eddy Merckx took the stage honours as a prelude to his second Giro GC win that year.
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