Race Across Italy
The Race Across Italy (RAI) is a two-day extreme cycling event that has been held annually in Italy at the end of April and beginning of May since 2013. The approximately 775 km long route with about 10,000 meters of altitude leads as a circular route across Italy.
organization
The “Adriatico-Tirreno-Adriatico” (RAI) race is one of the toughest cycling races in Europe and also a qualifying race for the Race Across America due to its length and the altitude to be overcome . It starts in the individual classification and in teams of two or four.
The start and finish is in Silvi , in central Italy on the Adriatic coast . The annually varying route (between 775 and 835 km) starts at the sea, goes across Italy to the Tyrrhenian Sea and back in a circular route.
The first edition in 2013 was won by the Austrian Christoph Strasser . In 2018 the race was held for the sixth time.
Winner men singles
- 2013 Christoph Strasser
- 2014 Marcello Luca
- 2015 Omar di Felice
- 2016 Ralph Diseviscourt
- 2017 Rainer Steinberger
- 2018 Ralph Diseviscourt -2-
- 2019 Ralph Diseviscourt -3-
Winner women singles
- 2013
- 2014 Laura Messina
- 2015 Daniela Genovesi
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018