Giro d'Italia 2022 dates: Full schedule, stages, dates and times

Seven riders are within three minutes of Carapaz as the final six stages approach, but none of the British contingent are among the lead pack.

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Reigning champion Egan Bernal has missed the event through injury, while 2020 champion Tao Geoghegan Hart is also absent due to illness.

The 21-stage route will push riders and teams to their limits across a range of terrain designed to stretch superstars in every area of their skill-set and endurance fitness, and you can soak it all up live from your armchair on TV each day.

RadioTimes.com brings you all the dates and times you need to know in the Giro d'Italia 2022 schedule.

When does Giro d'Italia 2021 start?

The race begins on Friday 6th May 2022, the usual time of year for the Giro to take place after 2020's event was moved to October.

The event will come to an end on Sunday 29th May 2022, with the final stage to be held around Verona.

Giro d'Italia 2022 route and schedule

Monday 23rd May

REST DAY

Tuesday 24th May: Stage 16

Salo - Aprica (Sforzato Wine Stage) (202km, mountains)

Wednesday 25th May: Stage 17

Ponte di Legno - Lavarone (168km, mountains)

Thursday 26th May: Stage 18

Borgo Valsugana - Treviso (152km, flat)

Friday 27th May: Stage 19

Marano Lagunare - Santuario di Castelmonte (177km, hilly)

Saturday 28th May: Stage 20

Belluno - Marmolada (Passo Fedaia) (168km, mountains)

Sunday 29th May: Stage 21

Verona (Cronometro delle Colline Veronesi) (17.4km, ITT)

Giro d'Italia 2022 start list – teams and riders

AG2R-CITROEN

• Lilian Calmejane
• Jaakko Hanninen
• Felix Gall
• Mikael Cherel
• Nans Peters
• Nicolas Prodhomme
• Andrea Vendrame
• Lawrence Naesen

ASTANA QAZAQSTAN

• Vincenzo Nibali
• Miguel Angel Lopez
• David de la Cruz
• Valerio Conti
• Fabio Felline
• Joe Dombrowski
• Harold Tejada
• Vadim Pronskiy

ALPECIN-FENIX

• Mathieu van der Poel
• Stefano Oldani
• Jakub Mareczko
• Dries De Bondt
• Michael Gogl
• Senne Leysen
• Tobias Bayer
• Oscar Riesebeek

BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS

• Mikel Landa
• Pello Bilbao
• Wout Poels
• Jan Tratnik
• Phil Bauhaus
• Santiago Buitrago
• Domen Novak
• Jasha Sütterlin

BARDIANI-CSF-FAIZANE

• Sacha Modolo
• Filippo Fiorelli
• Filippo Zana
• Luca Covili
• Alessandro Tonelli
• Davide Gabburo
• Samuele Zoccarato
• Luca Rastelli

BORA-HANSGROHE

• Wilco Kelderman
• Lennard Kämna
• Jai Hindley
• Emanuel Buchmann
• Ben Zwiehoff
• Giovanni Aleotti
• Patrick Gamper
• Cesare Benedetti

COFIDIS

• Guillaume Martin
• Davide Cimolai
• Simone Consonni
• Anthony Perez
• Pierre-Luc Perichon
• Davide Villella
• Remy Rochas
• Wesley Kreder

DRONE HOPPER-ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI

• Jhonatan Restrepo
• Jefferson Cepeda
• Natnael Testfatsion
• Andrii Ponomar
• Simone Ravanelli
• Eduardo Sepulveda
• Mattia Bais
• Eduard-Michael Grosu

EF EDUCATION-EASYPOST

• Hugh Carthy
• Magnus Cort
• Jonathan Caicedo
• Simon Carr
• Diego Andres Camargo
• Owain Doull
• Odd Christian Eiking
• Merhawi Kudus

EOLO-KOMETA

• Lorenzo Fortunato
• Erik Fetter
• Diego Rosa
• Francesco Gavazzi
• Vincenzo Albanese
• Samuele Rivi
• Davide Bais
• Mirco Maestri

GROUPAMA-FDJ

• Arnaud Demare
• Ramon Sinkeldam
• Ignatas Konovalovas
• Jacopo Guarnieri
• Attila Valter
• Tobias Ludvigsson
• Miles Scotson
• Clement Davy

INEOS GRENADIERS

• Richard Carapaz
• Pavel Sivakov
• Richie Porte
• Ben Swift
• Salvatore Puccio
• Jonathan Castroviejo
• Ben Tulett
• Jhonatan Narváez

INTERMARCHE-WANTY-GOBERT MATERIAUX

• Domenico Pozzovivo
• Biniam Girmay
• Rein Taaramae,
• Jan Hirt
• Lorenzo Rota
• Barnabás Peák
• Simone Petilli
• Aime De Gendt

ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH

• Alessandro De Marchi
• Alex Dowsett
• Giacomo Nizzolo
• Matthias Brandle
• Rick Zabel
• Alexander Cataford
• Jenthe Biermans
• Reto Hollenstein

JUMBO-VISMA

• Tom Dumoulin
• Koen Bouwman
• Sam Oomen
• Jos van Emden
• Edoardo Affini
• Tobias Foss
• Pascal Eenkhoorn
• Gijs Leemreize

LOTTO SOUDAL

• Caleb Ewan
• Thomas De Gendt
• Roger Kluge
• Filippo Conca
• Matthew Holmes
• Sylvain Moniquet
• Michael Schwarzmann
• Harm Vanhoucke

MOVISTAR TEAM

• Alejandro Valverde
• Jorge Arcas
• Will Barta
• Oier Lazkano
• Antonio Pedrero
• Jose Joaquin Rojas
• Sergio Samitier
• Ivan Ramiro Sosa

QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL

• Mark Cavendish
• Mauri Vansevenant
• Andrea Bagioli
• Michael Mørkøv
• Bert Van Lerberghe
• Davide Ballerini
• Pieter Serry
• Mauro Schmid

TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO

• Simon Yates
• Lawson Craddock
• Christopher Jull-Jensen
• Damien Howson
• Michael Hepburn
• Matteo Sobrero
• Callum Scotson
• Lucas Hamilton

TEAM DSM

• Romain Bardet
• Thymen Arensman
• Cees Bol
• Alberto Dainese
• Nico Denz
• Romain Combaud
• Martijn Tusveld
• Chris Hamilton

TREK-SEGAFREDO

• Bauke Mollema
• Giulio Ciccone
• Dario Cataldo
• Juan Pedro Lopez
• Jacopo Mosca
• Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
• Edward Theuns
• Otto Vergaerde

UAE-TEAM EMIRATES

• João Almeida
• Fernando Gaviria
• Davide Formolo
• Diego Ulissi
• Rui Costa
• Alessandro Covi
• Maximiliano Richeze
• Rui Oliveira

UK viewers can watch the Giro d'Italia 2022 live on Eurosport and discovery+. Live coverage of every stage will be broadcast between the Eurosport 1 and 2 channels with discovery+ encompassing all of their coverage online.

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