2012 Tirreno–Adriatico
The 47th - wheel race Tirreno - Adriatico was held until March 13, 2012 from 7. She was part of the UCI World Tour 2012 and within this the third race after the Tour Down Under and the voyage Paris - Nice, which overlapped in time with Tirreno- Adriatico. The total race distance was 1063.2 km.
After the victory of his GreenEdge Cycling Team in the team time trial of the first stage of the Australian Matthew Goss led the overall standings of the race on three stages long before the fourth stage of the US- American Christopher Horner of Team RadioShack -Nissan took over the overall lead. In the final time trial however, he was still caught by the Italian Vincenzo Nibali.
Participant
Open to the 18 ProTeam. In addition, the organizer RCS awarded four wildcards to the Italian Professional Continental team Acqua & Sapone and Farnese Vini- Selle Italia, Colnago -CSF Inox and the Colombian team Colombia - Coldeportes.
List of stages
The course was presented to the public on February 1, 2012.
As in the previous year is the " race between the seas " is a 16.9 km long TTT opener instead. The following two stages are extended in a largely flat terrain, here are expected to mass sprints. On the fourth, which is the longest of the race with 252 kilometers, and fifth stage also mountainous sections are on the program, the fifth section concludes on the Prati di Tivo. In contrast to previous years, in 2012, longer mountains be driven. The Appreciation finally decides on the final day with a time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto. But the penultimate part of the day waiting for with several smaller slopes.