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Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 preview: Route, favourites, how to watch and start list
Trofeo Alfredo Binda is a Women’s WorldTour Classic taking place on Sunday 16th March with riders departing from Luino and heading towards Cittiglio. It’s named after legendary Italian cyclist Alfredo Binda – winner of five Giro d’Italias, two Milan-San Remos, four Il Lombardias and three World Championships – who was from Cittiglio.
It’s one of the longest running women’s races, having started in 1974, and it’s hotly contested too, with its list of previous winners a who’s who of the peloton’s best riders. It can be won by just about any kind of rider but lends itself more to climbers with its hilly 152km parcours offering a springboard for attacks and softening the legs of the fastest finishers. Despite this, sprinters such has Elisa Balsamo and Coryn Labecki have had success here. Italian riders have dominated this race, far and away the nation with the most victories with 27; Great Britain sits in second place with 6.
The 2024 race was won by Balsamo in a sprint against Lotte Kopecky. Puck Pieterse finished just behind in third.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 key information
- Date: Sunday 16th March 2025
- Start: Luino
- Finish: Cittiglio
- Distance: 152km
- UK television coverage: TNT Sports
- Previous winner: Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek)
- Most wins: Maria Canins, Marianne Vos (4)
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 route
The race takes place right at the far north of Italy, with the Swiss border only about 5km away. The first part of the route takes riders along the very picturesque Lake Maggiore before cutting inland towards the finish circuit around Cittiglio. It’s a relatively unchanged course from the 2024 edition, but organisers have cut the loop around Cocquio-Trevisago.
It’s a hilly race and that finishing circuit does represent a worthy challenge to the WorldTour’s best with plenty of opportunities to attack on the Casale and Orino climbs repeated in the back half of the day.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 favourites
Lidl-Trek have been successful here in recent years, winning back-to-back with Shirin van Anrooij and Elisa Balsamo in 2023 and 2024, the latter returning for a potential second victory. Balsamo is set to be back this year to try to keep the run going.
This is one of the few races world champion Lotte Kopecky is missing from her palmarès, finishing second here last year. The same goes for her recently un-retired teammate Anna van der Breggen, who podiumed a decade ago in 2015. Elisa Longo Borghini will be one of the big names to watch too, but her performance was suboptimal in Strade Bianche last weekend having suffered illness.
As with most races at the moment it would be brave to bet against Demi Vollering though. For outsiders with a real chance look to Human Powered Health’s Thalita De Jong, Fenix-Deceuninck’s Yara Kastelijn and Liv-Jayco-AlUla’s Mavi García.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 how to watch
In the UK fans can only watch Trofeo Alfredo Binda on TNT Sports via Discovery+. FloBikes has the coverage in Canada and the US, a replay of the race will be available to watch around the world on Staylive.
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UK TV times: 13:30-16:15 GMT
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Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2025 start list
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Trofeo Alfredo Binda previous winners
2024 – Elisa Balsamo
2023 – Shirin van Anrooij
2022 – Elisa Balsamo
2021 – Elisa Longo Borghini
2020 – No race
2019 – Marianne Vos
2018 – Kasia Niewiadoma
2017 – Coryn Labecki
2016 – Lizzie Deignan
2015 – Lizzie Deignan
2014 – Emma Johansson
2013 – Elisa Longo Borghini
2012 – Marianne Vos
2011 – Emma Pooley
2010 – Marianne Vos
2009 – Marianne Vos
2008 – Emma Pooley
2007 – Nicole Cooke
2006 – Regina Schleicher
2005 – Nicole Cooke
2004 – Oenone Wood
2003 – Diana Žiliūtė
2002 – Svetlana Stolbova
2001 – Nicole Brändli
2000 – Fabiana Luperini
1999 – Fany Lecourtois
1998 – No race
1997 – No race
1996 – Valeria Cappellotto
1995 – Valeria Cappellotto
1994 – Fabiana Luperini
1993 – Roberta Ferrero
1992 – Maria Canins
1991 – Maria-Paolo Turcutto
1990 – Maria Canins
1989 – Elisabetta Fanton
1988 – Elisabetta Fanton
1987 – Rossella Galbiati
1986 – Stefania Carmine
1985 – Maria Canins
1984 – Maria Canins
1983 – Michela Tommasi
1982 – Lucia Pizzolotto
1981 – Emanuella Menuzzo
1980 – Francesca Galli
1979 – Anna Morlacchi
1978 – Emanuella Menuzzo
1977 – Nicoletta Castelli
1976 – Morena Tartagni
1975 – Nicole Van den Broeck
1974 – Giuseppina Micheloni
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