MILAN: The Giro d’Italia’s opening stages will be held in Italy in 2023, returning home after last year’s trip to Hungary, organisers anno­unced on Wednesday.

Next year’s edition of the ‘Grande Partenza’ will be an 18.4-kilometre individual time trial along Italy’s Adri­atic coast between Fossacesia Marina and Ortona, in the central Abruzzo region.

The route of the 2023 Giro will be unveiled next month in Milan. Last year’s Giro was won by Jai Hindley, the first Australian ever to win the race.

Published in Dawn, September 29th, 2022