24 Sep 2023
Piazzale Carlo Dapporto
Sanremo, Italy
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1.2 mi
55.9 mi (with 5266 ft elevation gain)
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Event Description
(provided by race organizer)Sanremo is one of the most beautiful and important city in the western part of Italy.
You can swim in a beautiful sea and scenary. The bike course is very hard. Single lap. After the first transition area exit, the participants will ride along the Cycle and Pedestrian Path of the “Coastal Park” of Ponente Ligure, heading east, up to Riva Ligure, before transiting onto the Aurelia. A few hundred meters in the town of Santo Stefano al Mare separate the triathletes from the first climb: turn left and climb towards Terzorio, Pompeiana and Castellaro. The slopes are not prohibitive and make this first ascent very easy to pedal: only in the last part, 10% is reached. Afterward, we descend towards Taggia, before starting to gain altitude again. A slight slope follows the course of the Argentina torrent, crossing the town of Taggia before begin a long climb of 17 km that leads to the Ghimbegna pass (1030 m altitude), after having crossed Argallo, Zerni and Vignai. The positive difference in height, which touches 1500 meters, is over: now we descend towards sea level from Bajardo, Ceriana and Poggio di Sanremo, facing the famous descent of the Classicissima Milano-Sanremo in the final.
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General Information
| Entry Fees: | €179-199 |
| Start Time: | 08:17 |
Swim
| Distance: | 1.2 mi |
| Type: | Seaswim |
| Waters: | Meditteranean Sea |
| Start Method: | Mass Start |
| Separated Aquabike Start Wave: | Seperated start wave for aquabike athletes |
| Expected to be wetsuit legal? | Probably no |
| Cut off time: | 01:00 h |
Bike
| Distance (official): | 55.9 mi |
| Distance (gpx data): | 55.9 mi |
| Elevation Gain: | 5266 ft |
| Closed Roads? | Yes |
| Cut off time: | 04:30 h |
Finish
Results
| Results 2024 | Challenge Sanremo 2024 |
| Results 2023 | Challenge Sanremo 2023 |
Contact, Website & Registration Info
| Organizer contact email: | info@triathlonsanremo.com |
| Event Website |
Accommodation
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Challenge Sanremo 2024 Race Review
This review was submitted for Challenge Sanremo 2024
Year of participation: 2024 I participated in Aquabike
Overall the organization of the event is really good and the location is awesome! The swim is great, but the really bad part is the road quality on the bike course. On race day it was cloudy – that was good because you could see all the cracks and holes. When I did a course recon few days before it was sunny – so between the shadows of the trees you barely could see all the cracks. Especially on the decents this would have been super dangerous on race day. At the finish marshals told me I had to go on the run course, even after I told them I do aquabike. So I did a little extra loop before I headed back to the finish.
It breaks my heart because the location, the course and the race overall is actually great. But due to bad road quality I really can’t recommend this race and won’t do it again.