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Milano-Torino is the oldest race in the world still held today, but even so it does not enjoy the prestige of other Italian classics such as Milano-Sanremo or Il Lombardia. One possible reason for this is that, since the first edition was held in 1876, the race has changed dates and routes many times.

These constant changes, in a world as traditional as cycling, have affected the prestige of the event, but they have their positive side too: sprinters, climbers and classic specialists can be found among the race winners, depending on the route of each edition. Henri Pélissier (1911), Costante Giradengo (1914, 1915, 1919, 1920, 1923), Fiorenzo Magni (1951), Miquel Poblet (1957), Roger de Vlaeminck (1972, 1974, 1976), Francesco Moser (1983), Giani Bugno (1992), Laurent Jalabert (1997), Alberto Contador (2012) or more recently Primož Roglič (2021) and Mark Cavendish (2022) are some of the illustrious names on the race's list of winners.

Route

Like last year, the 2023 edition of Milano-Torino is ideal for sprinters, and its location on the calendar, three days before Milano-Sanremo, makes it the perfect testing ground for the classicissima. 193 kilometers and 833 meters of positive slope should guarantee a bunch sprint.

Favorites

Only two days before the race, many teams have not yet announced their line-ups, making it very difficult to talk about favorites. At the moment, Fernando Gaviria (800), Dylan Groenewegen (600), Biniam Girmay (600) and Luca Mozzatto (400) are the main sprinters on the provisional start list.

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