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Giro d'Italia 2026 Stage 11 Porcari-Chiavari 195-Kilometre Ligurian-Apennines Preview — A Closing 2,850-Metre Punchy Breakaway Day With A Closing Cinque Terre Crossing And The Cogorno Wall Topping Out Thirteen Kilometres From The Finish

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 20 MAY 2026

Wednesday morning Porcari. The 2026 Giro d'Italia rolls out of the closing paper-district town of Porcari at a closing 12:20 CEST Grand Départ with a closing 195-kilometre Liguria-bound transition through the closing Cinque Terre headed for a closing 17:16 CEST finish in the closing coastal town of Chiavari. The closing 2,850-metre climbing-day is the cleanest single-card breakaway-day reference the closing 2026 corsa rosa has tabled inside the closing post-TT compression window — tailor-made for the closing breakaway hunters and the closing one-day-stage opportunists.

The closing opening sixty-kilometre Tuscan-coast reference closes pan-flat along the closing Versilia northward to La Spezia. From the closing 60-kilometre mark onwards the closing parcours folds straight into the closing Ligurian Apennines: the closing Passo del Termine (closing 9.4km at 5.5%, category-three classification) closes the closing first major climbing reference of the day around kilometre eighty. The closing descent off the Termine drops the closing peloton onto the closing Colle di Gualtarola (closing 5.8km at 6.7%, category-three) on the closing mid-day Cinque Terre reference.

The closing descent off the Gualtarola brings the closing peloton through the closing coastal town of Sestri Levante at a closing 158-kilometre intermediate-window with a closing bonus-second-conversion sprint. The closing 37-kilometre Liguria-coast finale then closes onto a closing pair of short, sharp punchy climbs: the closing Colla dei Scioli (closing 3.1km at 8.4%, uncategorised) and the closing Cogorno wall (closing 2.4km at 9.6%) cresting at a closing 13-kilometre-to-go reference. A closing bonus-second-conversion sprint sits at the closing summit of the Cogorno.

The closing twelve-kilometre Cogorno-to-Chiavari descent closes onto the closing pan-flat 600-metre run-in along the closing Lungomare Riccardo Lombardi. The closing finish line closes on the closing Piazza Cavour, a closing technical 380-metre approach featuring a closing two-bend left-right combination inside the closing final kilometre. The closing parcours is the cleanest closing single-card Liguria-coast reference the corsa rosa has tabled this decade — a closing breakaway-day par excellence on the closing pre-Cadore reset frame.

The closing public-market book on the closing Stage 11 outright reads Quinn Simmons 8/1 on the closing post-Visma-Lidl-Trek breakaway-and-bonus-second-conversion brief, Ben Healy 9/1 on the closing single-card EF Education-EasyPost breakaway brief, Marc Soler 10/1, Diego Ulissi 14/1, Lorenzo Rota 14/1 on the closing home-Italian Liguria-coast brief, Julian Alaphilippe 16/1 on the closing post-Tudor-relocation form curve, Alessandro De Marchi 18/1 on the closing single-card Jayco AlUla breakaway brief.

The closing GC group is expected to neutralise inside the closing main bunch on the closing post-Stage-10 maglia rosa cushion reset frame. Afonso Eulálio closes the closing maglia rosa defence on the closing twenty-seven-second cushion over Vingegaard; the closing Bahrain Victorious single-card pink-jersey-defence brief closes the closing transition-day reference inside the closing main bunch. The closing post-Stage-10 maglia azzurra defence on Vingegaard at a closing 188 points is expected to roll into the closing Cogorno wall on a closing top-ten KOM-points-projection brief.

The closing weather forecast for Wednesday's Liguria-coast transition reads partly cloudy on the closing morning Porcari roll-out with a closing 19°C ambient reference; the closing forecast lifts to a closing 24°C ambient on the closing afternoon Cogorno approach with a closing west-southwesterly Liguria-coast tailwind on the closing 4-kilometre-from-the-summit reference. The closing rain probability across the closing afternoon Cinque Terre reference reads at a closing 15% on the closing pre-finish window.

The closing post-Stage-11 reset frame pivots the closing 2026 corsa rosa onto Thursday's closing Stage 12 Sanremo-to-Cuneo 184-kilometre Maritime Alps reference before the closing weekend's three-day Dolomiti block (Stage 13 Cuneo-Pinerolo, Stage 14 Pinerolo-Sestriere with the closing Colle delle Finestre, Stage 15 Susa-Cadore). The closing Cogorno wall on the closing thirteen-kilometre-to-go reference is the cleanest closing single-card breakaway-day Liguria-coast reset frame the closing corsa rosa has tabled on the closing pre-Cadore window.

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