RCS Sport confirmed today the 22 teams that will take to the start of this year’s Giro d’Italia Women, scheduled to run from 6 to 13 July. Fifteen UCI Women’s WorldTeams will be on the start list alongside two UCI Women’s ProTeams and five UCI Women’s Continental teams.
2025 Giro d’Italia Women Teams
UCI Women’s WorldTeams
- AG Insurance – Soudal Team
- Canyon//SRAM zondacrypto
- Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team
- FDJ-Suez
- Fenix-Deceuninck
- Human Powered Health
- Lidl – Trek
- Liv-AlUla-Jayco
- Movistar Team
- Roland
- Team Picnic PostNL
- Team SD Worx – Protime
- Team Visma, Lease a Bike
- UAE Team ADQ
- Uno-X Mobility
UCI Women’s ProTeams
- EF Education – Oatly
- Laboral Kutxa – Fundacion Euskadi
UCI Women’s Continental Teams
- Aromitalia 3T Vaiano
- BePink – Imatra – Bongioanni
- Isolmant – Premac – Vittoria
- Team Mendelspeck E-Work
- Top Girls Fassa Bortolo
A demanding eight-stage route
The 2025 race will cover a total of 939.6 kilometres over eight stages with 14,000 metres of climbing. Starting in Bergamo, Lombardy, riders will tackle an opening individual time trial before heading east through the Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol and Veneto regions, then southwards into Emilia-Romagna and the Marche region, with stage 6 passing through San Marino. The final day will finish at the famed Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola, on a hilly circuit previously used at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships.
There are three summit finishes on the menu. The queen stage on stage 7 takes the peloton to Monte Nerone at 1,395 metres, while the first rider to crest the Passo del Tonale on stage 3, the race’s highest point at 1,883 metres, will win the Cima Alfonsina Strada prize, named in honour of the trailblazing Italian cyclist who rode the men’s Giro d’Italia in 1924.
Despite rumours of its return, the iconic Mortirolo climb will not feature in this year’s race. “I really like the route, it suits my characteristics,” said defending champion Elisa Longo Borghini as she looked ahead to the race. The Giro d’Italia Women remains at eight stages in length, one shorter than the nine-stage 2025 Tour de France Femmes, and as in previous years, it required a special waiver from the UCI, which normally caps Women’s WorldTour races at six days.
