8th Gran Fondo Internazionale Charly Gaul Trento Monte-Bondone - 21.07.2013 - Trento (ITA)

Press Release 6 November 2012

UCI WORLD CYCLING TOUR IN ITALY TRENTO AND MONTE BONDONE HOST 2013 FINALS

Important road cycling events in Trento and up Monte Bondone in 2013
Trento hosts a Tour stage in July and finals in September
La Leggendaria Charly Gaul race in July 2013 gives access to the finals
The UWCT finals in Italy for the first time

UCI World Cycling Tour 2013, on the way to Italy. The city of Trento, in the north-eastern part of the country, and the famous Monte Bondone, will host a qualifier event in July, named La Leggendaria Charly Gaul, and the finals at the end of the summer, during the 19-22 weekend in September 2013.
The double event was officially announced at a press conference in Trento last week. The UWCT made its debut in 2011 and around 800 amateur cyclists showed up at the start of the final event in Belgium. In 2012, these so-called World Championships for Masters were held in Pietermaritzburg (South-Africa) after 15 qualifier races all around the world. Italian La Leggendaria Charly Gaul was one of them and almost 2.000 cyclists took part in it in 2012, all climbing up the legendary Monte Bondone. This mountain, located just outside the city centre, is inextricably tied to Charly Gaul and the 1956 Giro d’Italia. The champion from Luxembourg cycled the final uphill kilometres of that leg in extreme weather conditions and reached the top almost frozen, but winner, assuring his overall Giro victory. From 2006, the city of Trento celebrates Gaul with the international cycling event that climbs the Monte Bondone right to the very top, and now the time has come for the Worlds.
The exact courses of the next UWCT finals will soon be announced by the International Federation UCI, but the Italian OC already assured that they won’t differ much from the ones of La Leggendaria Charly Gaul race, all starting in Trento city centre and closing at the Monte Bondone top (1.650 meters a.s.l.). The Time-Trial and the Granfondo race (around 140k long) will crown the 2013 world champions. The La Leggendaria Charly Gaul race is scheduled on 21 July 2013 and is also part of the notorious Alpe Adria Tour (a road cycling circuit through Austria, Slovenia and Italy), Dalzero circuit and Challenge Giordana.
Info: www.laleggendariacharlygaul.it