O Gran Camiño closes the Spanish calendar
After the first month of competition for Team Polti VisitMalta, the race O Gran Camiño closes the Spanish calendar for the moment for the team. In this 2025, the competition includes one more stage in Portugal, so there will be five demanding days with opportunities for all the riders.
Four stages that always exceed 2000 metres of elevation gain, a time trial of 15.5 kilometres and the spectacular Galician landscape. The ingredients are ready for a race that expects its only sprint finish on the first Portuguese day, the queen stage in the province of Lugo on the fourth day arriving at O Cebreiro, and a circuit with the climbs to Lampai and the sterrato in the vicinity of Santiago for the final day.
In order to achieve the best result on each day, Team Polti VisitMalta has lined up its big names: Davide Piganzoli will be the reference for the general classification, in a terrain for climbers that can benefit his condition; Fernando Tercero will be their best support on the hardest days; Andrea Pietrobon and Mirco Maestri will put their strength and power at the service of the block with a special opportunity on the last stage; Diego Sevilla and Alessandro Tonelli should give the team presence in breakaways and at key moments, while sprinter Giovanni Lonardi will have a good chance on the first stage, the only one that a priori will allow him to dispute the victory.
Davide Piganzoli: ‘I’m definitely very motivated for O Gran Camiño. We are going with a super team for the sprints with Lonardi, as well as for the hardest stages where I hope to be able to fight for the leading positions’.
Sports director Jesús Hernández highlights ‘a race that is already consolidated. In addition, the format is repeated and gives us opportunities to look for different objectives each day. We will have to keep a close eye on the weather, which is always complicated in this race, as well as the hardness of all the stages. We will fight with Piganzoli for the overall, we trust Lonardi for the sprint… and we’ll see what happens on the last day with the sterrato’.
