2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile

24 teams participated in the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile.[6] The top 15 UCI Women's World Tour teams were automatically invited, and obliged to attend the race.

The individual stage profiles of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile; top row (stages 1 to 5) and bottom row (stages 6 to 10).

The route for the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile was announced on 12 April 2017.[7]

Stage schedule

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	30 June	Aquileia to Grado	11.5 km (7.1 mi)		Team time trial	Boels–Dolmans
2	1 July	Zoppola to Montereale Valcellina	122.25 km (76.0 mi)		Hilly stage	Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
3	2 July	San Fior to San Vendemiano	102.5 km (63.7 mi)[8]		Flat stage	Hannah Barnes (GBR)
4	3 July	Occhiobello to Occhiobello	118 km (73.3 mi)		Flat stage	Jolien D'Hoore (BEL)
5	4 July	Sant'Elpidio a Mare to Sant'Elpidio a Mare	12.73 km (7.9 mi)		Individual time trial	Annemiek van Vleuten (NED)
6	5 July	Roseto degli Abruzzi to Roseto degli Abruzzi	116.16 km (72.2 mi)		Flat stage	Lotta Lepistö (FIN)
7	6 July	Isernia to Baronissi	145.48 km (90.4 mi)[9]		Flat stage	Sheyla Gutiérrez (ESP)
8	7 July	Baronissi to Palinuro	139.2 km (86.5 mi)[10]		Mountain stage	Lucinda Brand (NED)
9	8 July	Palinuro to Polla	116.8 km (72.6 mi)[11]		Flat stage	Marta Bastianelli (ITA)
10	9 July	Torre del Greco to Torre del Greco	124 km (77.1 mi)		Hilly stage	Megan Guarnier (USA)

In the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, five different jerseys were awarded. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses were awarded to the first three finishers on all stages with the exception of the time trials: the stage winner won a ten-second bonus, with six and four seconds for the second and third riders respectively.[28] Bonus seconds were also awarded to the first three riders at intermediate sprints; three seconds for the winner of the sprint, two seconds for the rider in second and one second for the rider in third.[28] The rider with the least accumulated time is the race leader, identified by a pink jersey.[28] This classification was considered the most important of the 2017 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and the winner of the classification was considered the winner of the race.

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey.[28] In the points classification, cyclists received points for finishing in the top 10 in a stage, and unlike in the points classification in the Tour de France, the winners of all stages – with the exception of the team time trial, which awarded no points towards the classification – were awarded the same number of points. For winning a stage, a rider earned 15 points, with 12 for second, 10 for third, 8 for fourth, 6 for fifth with a point fewer per place down to a single point for 10th place.[28]

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey.[28] In the mountains classification, points towards the classification were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorised as either second, or third-category, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs; however on both categories, the top five riders were awarded points.[28] The fourth jersey represented the young rider classification, marked by a white jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born on or after 1 January 1995 were eligible to be ranked in the classification.

The fifth and final jersey represented the classification for Italian riders, marked by a blue jersey. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born in Italy were eligible to be ranked in the classification.[28] There was also a team classification, in which the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added together; the leading team at the end of the race was the team with the lowest total time.[28] The daily team leaders wore red dossards in the following stage.[28]

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Italian rider classification	Teams classification
1[14]	Boels–Dolmans	Karol-Ann Canuel	Not awarded[lower-alpha 1]	Not awarded[lower-alpha 1]	Amalie Dideriksen	Elisa Longo Borghini	Boels–Dolmans
2[29]	Annemiek van Vleuten	Anna van der Breggen	Annemiek van Vleuten	Annemiek van Vleuten	Floortje Mackaij
3[30]	Hannah Barnes
4[31]	Jolien D'Hoore		Hannah Barnes
5[32]	Annemiek van Vleuten		Annemiek van Vleuten
6[33]	Lotta Lepistö
7[34]	Sheyla Gutiérrez
8[35]	Lucinda Brand				Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
9[36]	Marta Bastianelli
10[5]	Megan Guarnier
Final[5]		Anna van der Breggen[1]	Annemiek van Vleuten[37]	Annemiek van Vleuten[38]	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig[39]	Elisa Longo Borghini[40]	Boels–Dolmans[41]

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