Berlin, March 31 (Prensa Latina) The next edition of the Tour of Germany from August 24 to 28 with the UCI ProSeries category will have a prologue for the first time and end a stage with a climax, the organizers announced today.
The race will start from the city of Weimar, a unique city with historical and cultural heritage in the German nation, to the metropolis of Stuttgart in the southeast of the country, covering a total of 710 kilometers and more than 11,000 meters of altitude gain.
Climbers will look to capitalize on the 12-kilometer climb to the summit of the famous Schauinsland, and finishers will scramble the pecking order on the final stage’s steep, mountainous stretch.
On the first day of racing, the peloton will complete a 2.7-kilometer prologue in Weimar, a day clearly reserved for explosive cyclists.
For the first time, a summit finish is on the program. The third stage route crosses the Black Forest and tackles one of its most legendary climbs: the Schauinsland.
On this day, the climbers will start with a small climb that will test the cyclists on narrow and steep paths before heading to the summit of the Schauinsland at 1,200 meters above sea level.
In the two previous editions of the most important German cycling race, the last two winners from Milan-San Remo, the Belgian Jasper Stuyven and the Slovenian Matej Mohoric, triumphed.
Stages of the Tour of Germany 2022:
Stage day distance kilometers.
Prologue 24.08. Weimar-Weimar 2.7.
-1ra 25 Weimar-Meiningen 171.
-2. 26. Meiningen–Marburg 199.
-3. Place 27 Freiburg-Schauinsland 150.
-4. 28. Schiltach-Stuttgart 188.
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