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Tour of Lombardy 2022: Schedule, How to Watch, Routes, and Teams

The UCI Europe Tour is headed to Italy as the last of the five ‘Monuments’ of the season is about to start with the leading road cyclists across the world. Let us find out the schedule, how to watch, routes, and teams of the Tour of Lombardy 2022.

The Tour of Lombardy, officially known as the Il Lombardia, was first held in 1905. It is a road race part of the UCI World Tour and also one of the last races of the season. Arguably the most prestigious cycling event in the world, the Giro di Lombardia has always appealed to the best teams, along with the best riders. This year, the 116th edition of the ‘Race of the Falling Leaves’ is no different.

The defending champion is Tadej Pogačar, who  looks forward to repeating the feat this year and become the 49th rider to win three monuments. Other than him, many world-class riders are also on the list. The one name that stands out has to be Jonas Vingegaard. The track of Lombardy suits the style of racer Vingegaard is. Domenico Pozzovivo,  Alejandro Valverde, Julian Alaphilippe,Vincenzo Nibali are some other racers to keep an eye on.

On the other hand, the best teams to be in Lombardy right now are UAE Team Emirates and Jumbo Visma. They are number 1 and 2 in the world rankings currently. Multiple other teams from the highest stage World Tour rankings- Israel Premier-Tech, Movistar, INEOS Grenadiers are also participating. 

With such a highly competitive starting list, the event is bound to be exciting. Every rider and their team is more focused than usual as they want to finish the season on a good note by winning this esteemed race with history over a hundred years.

When is the event taking place?

The Tour of Lombardy 2022 is set to start on Saturday, the 8th of October. This is a one-day race.

Tour of Lombardy 2022 Schedule:

The complete schedule of the 2022 Tour of Lombardy with start and finish time is provider below:

• Date : Saturday, October 8, 2022
• Start Time: 10:10 a.m. CET
• Finish Time: 17:00 p.m. CET

How to watch Tour of Lombardy 2022?

The event 2022 will be accessible to the residents of Europe via Eurosport and GCN+. Keep an eye on the channel to watch all the action from the Tour of Lombardy 2022.

GCN+ will also broadcast the race in the USA, Canada, and Australia.

Tour of Lombardy 2022 Routes and Distances:

The route of Il Lombardia has always been challenging. It underwent some more changes this year. The total distance is 253km which consists of a total ascent of around 5,000 meters. This tough race of multiple climbs starts in Bergamo and ends in Como .

A total of 25 teams are participating in the Tour of Lombardy 2022. Each team consists of 7 riders. Out of the 25 teams, 18 are in the rankings of the UCI World Tour. You can check out the complete list of the teams and their members from here .

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Il Lombardia 2022 LIVE - Who can prevent Pogacar from taking two in a row?

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Tadej Pogacar retains title with win at Il Lombardia 2022 – Results

The 2021 winner repeats his triumph in Como, out-sprinting Enric Mas in a two-man duel to the line.

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Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar became the first man to win Il Lombardia on each of his first two appearances at the road cycling October classic in Italy with victory on Saturday (8 October) in the "Race of the Falling Leaves".

He out-sprinted Movistar's Spanish rider Enric Mas in a two-man duel, with Mikel Landa claiming third place.

The 253-kilometre (157-mile) trek from Bergamo to Como, with its nine climbs, was the one-day classic with the most climbing on the 2022 calendar, featuring 4,852 metres (15,918 feet) of altitude gain.

A breakaway was released early in the race and were allowed to stay up the road until the Madonna del Ghisallo, when the peloton swallowed up the remainder of the breakaway stragglers with around 70 km to go.

Pogacar attacked on Civiglio, the penultimate climb, with Mas following on the Slovenian's wheel. While they allowed Landa to regroup with them, Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard and Colombian national champion Sergio Higuita were distanced by the movement from Pogacar.

It meant the front three hit the final San Fermo della Battaglia climb together with 8km to the line – and it was Mas who moved first with 6km to go, the Slovenian following him as they distanced Landa. Both men crested the climb together, setting up a two-man sprint to the line.

Mas blinked first, launching with 150m to go, and ran out of legs going full gas in the sprint while Pogacar cruised over the line, having time to raise his arms in celebration.

"It's really amazing to come back and to repeat the victory, the teamwork – I cannot say how grateful I am that the team did such an amazing job. To pull it off in the last race of the season in Lombardy is amazing. The race went just how we wanted, I tried to attack on Civiglio but Mas was clearly on the same level as me on the climb. We tried to co-operate until the final and it went the way we wanted," Pogacar said after the race.

The race was also notable for being the swan-songs of two veterans of the peloton, Spain's 42-year-old Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) and the 37-year-old Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan Team), who won five Grand Tours between them during their careers.

Valverde finished with the largest chase group, securing another top-10 finish on his farewell to professional cycling, while Nibali was dropped from the main group on the Civiglio and ended well off the pace.

Results of 2022 Giro di Lombardia

Top 10, times provisional:

• Tadej Pogacar (SLO / UAE Team Emirates) 6:21:22
• Enric Mas (ESP / Movistar Team) same time
• Mikel Landa (ESP / Bahrain-Victorious) +0:10
• Sergio Higuita (COL / BORA-Hansgrohe) +0:52
• Carlos Rodríguez (ESP / INEOS Grenadiers) s.t.
• Alejandro Valverde (ESP / Movistar Team) +1:24
• Bauke Mollema (NED / Trek-Segafredo) s.t.
• Rudy Mollard (FRA / Groupama-FDJ) s.t.
• Romain Bardet (FRA / Team DSM) s.t.
• Adam Yates (GBR / INEOS Grenadiers) +1:26

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The final Monument of the year – 2023 Il Lombardia – is coming on the racing calendar as the road season draws to a close. We have all the information on how to watch Il Lombardia, including free-to-air options and VPN streaming options .

The race is the culmination of the Italian Autumn Classics, bringing together a host of the top climbers in the peloton for the final time this season as they tackle a challenging and mountainous 238km route from Como to Bergamo.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) heads up a star-studded startlist in Italy as he takes aim at becoming the only person since Fausto Coppi to win three editions of the race in a row.

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Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), and 2022 runner-up Enric Mas (Movistar) will be the main rivals to Pogačar as the Slovenian aims to join the likes of Sean Kelly, Gino Bartali, and Damiano Cunego on three Il Lombardia wins.

Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) will be hoping to recapture his race-winning form from 2018 as he ends his career in Bergamo. Other riders to watch include the EF Education-EasyPost duo of Richard Carapaz and Ben Healy , plus Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Dylan Teuns (Israel-Premier Tech), and the Lidl-Trek pairing of 2019 winner Bauke Mollema and Giulio Ciccone.

Cyclingnews will bring you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race. Read on to find out how to watch Il Lombardia 2023 via live stream, no matter your location, with  ExpressVPN or one of the other highly recommended VPN services below. 

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Il Lombardia will be live streamed in both the USA and Canada via GCN+ . A subscription to the network will cost $8.99 per month or $49.99 per year in the USA and $11.99 / $59.99 in Canada.

How to watch Il Lombardia in the UK

Il Lombardia will be aired in the United Kingdom and around Europe on Eurosport channels 1 and 2 (410, 411 on Sky) as well as streaming on Discovery+ , which carries Eurosport's live coverage. 

A subscription to Discovery+ costs £6.99/$9.15 per month, or £59.99/$78.51 for a 12-month pass.

Additionally, the race will be aired in the United Kingdom, Europe, and in select other territories on  GCN+ , with a year's subscription costing £39.99 and a monthly subscription costing £6.99.

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Eurosport and GCN+ will serve numerous countries around Europe and the rest of the world. Consult GCN+'s live streaming schedule for information on your location.

GCN+ will carry coverage in Australia, too. If you're seeking a local flavour to your viewing experience, then Italian broadcaster RAI will be airing the race in full.

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LOMBARDIA’22 Preview: Who Can Win The Race of the Falling Leaves?

Giro di Lombardia Preview: Il Lombardia is the last big race of the 2022 season, okay Paris-Tours is on the Sunday after the ‘race of the falling leaves’ but it’s not what it used to be. Ed Hood looks at the history, route and who can win this very open race.

It can’t be? Het Nieuwsblad was just the other week? But it surely is, the last ‘Monument’ of the season – 253km and 4800 metres of elevation gain – and the prelude to ‘holiday time’ for a lot of professionals with many puling on a new jersey on January 1st 2022 – if they’re lucky, that is.

The Tour of Lombardy or ‘il Lombardia’ as it’s now known. Milan-Sanremo is longer, Liege-Bastogne is tougher and both the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix have more crazed fans, cobbles and beer but Lombardia is the most beautiful of the five ‘Monuments’ which are the bedrock of our sport.

The lakes, the mountains, the red pan tiled roofed villages, the leaves on the turn – magnificent. And even the nickname is lovely; La classica delle foglie morte – ‘Race of the Falling Leaves.’ This will be edition 116 with ‘il Campionissimo’ Fausto Coppi the Master, winning five of those; but his rival, Gino Bartali is the ‘stat master’ on podiums with nine – three wins, four second places and two third places. In recent times Italy’s now retired ‘Little Prince’ Damiano Cunego has been most successful with wins in 2004, 2007 and 2008.

The 253km route will depart from Bergamo and finish in Como. The last 60km features a sequence of tough climbs passing through Ghisallo, San Fermo della Battaglia, Civiglio, and again through San Fermo, before the finish line on the beautiful Como lakefront.

As a Monument the race will have all 18 World Tour teams and seven ‘wild card’ pro continental teams. Youngest man in the race will be Belgium and BORA’s Tour de l’Avenir winning ‘wonder kid,’ Cian Uijtdebroeks at just 19 years-of-age and oldest man is Spain’s former World Champion Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) at 42 years-of-age.

It’s the remarkable Murcian’s last UCi race – although one suspects there will be big bucks ‘farewell’ crits – he had this to say of his farewell; “Italy is a country that I have always loved and where I have always liked to race and finish with competitive cycling in Lombardy, it gives me immense pleasure.” And the man is STILL riding well, in the recent Italian late season semi-classics he was second in the Coppa Agostoni and fourth in the Giro dell’Emilia. A win is perhaps too much to ask for but a podium is certainly possible.

Domenico Pozzovivo (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux & Italy) shares the most starts and finishes stat with 14 and 12, respectively.

And on the same stats is the most successful rider in the rider on past performances, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan & Italy) who has two wins and a fifth place off his 14 starts. It’s also the Sicilian’s last UCi race and he said; “For me it will be a great thrill and a great honour to close in Il Lombardia which is one of the races that I have loved most in my career.” But a podium seems unlikely for the 37 years-old.

Second on ‘stats,’ Valverde has two second places; third on ‘stats’ is Rigoberto Urán (EF Education–EasyPost & Colombia) who has been third on three occasions. ‘Rigo’ is enjoying good form with top 10 finishes in the Vuelta on GC, Agostoni and Emilia, a podium?

In addition to those old War Horses and their past glories there are another four previous past winners on the start list: Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ & France) there’s nothing to suggest he’ll, ‘do a ride’ but this is Pinot, remember?

Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo & The Netherlands) big, strong, solid, give him 50 metres and. . .

Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech & Denmark) a top ride is highly unlikely from the 37 years-old Dane.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates & Slovenia) despite a lack lustre Worlds it would be foolish to discount the 2021 winner, second in Emilia and his win in the Tre Valli Varesine on Tuesday confirms the form is still good and he must start as race favourite.

There are always surprises at Lombardy, late season form/blues, the hand to hand combat for UCi points and desperation for results to secure a contract for 2023 all play a part but other names to conjure with are: Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl & France) : He’ll want to end what hasn’t been a great season for him on a high, the team morale couldn’t be higher after Wollongong and he was very frisky in the Coppa Bernocchi.

Roman Bardet (DSM & France) : Good in the Canadian races and Worlds, if his head is right then he could win, he loves those descents. . .

Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën & France) : The Quebec winner would have expected more from Wollongong, here’s his chance to make amends.

Enric Mas (Movistar & Spain) : As Sean Connery might say; ‘shureley theresh shome mishtake?’ Enric winning a race? Yes indeed, after his strong Vuelta he was top 10 in Agostoni and won Emilia – the percorso suits him, so. . .

Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious & Slovenia) : Hot off his CRO Race win and with that drop to the finish it could suit this Demon Descender. . .

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin Deceuninck & The Netherlands): Prior to his Worlds debacle his form was hot with three straight wins in quality races. He’ll be eager to end the season on a high – just as long as no one mentions; ‘Novotel.’ As we go to press, MvdP has decided to forget Lombardy and head for the other side of Italy, the Veneto and the Gravel Worlds.

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma & Denmark) : with two stage wins and second on GC in the CRO Race, the Tour de France winner is back in business and seeing him win here isn’t hard to envisage.

Adam Yates (INEOS Grenadiers & GB) : he won in Deutschland and was strong in Canada, the percorso suits his characteristics; he was third here last year. . .

As said, for sure there’ll be a surprise in the final mix – but that’s what makes bike racing so entertaining. PEZ will be covering the race with erudite reporting and Cor Vos’s stunning images – DO NOT touch that dial.

Go for Moretti ‘La Rosa’ as your race watching tipple, you’ll thank me.

It was November 2005 when Ed Hood first penned a piece for PEZ, on US legend Mike Neel. Since then he's covered all of the Grand Tours and Monuments for PEZ and has an article count in excess of 2,150 in the archive. He was a Scottish champion cyclist himself - many years and kilograms ago - and still owns a Klein Attitude, Dura Ace carbon Giant and a Fixie. He and fellow Scot and PEZ contributor Martin Williamson run the Scottish site www.veloveritas.co.uk where more of his musings on our sport can be found.

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