New Danish WT race for 2025: Copenhagen Sprint

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Copenhagen Sprint - World Touren kommer til København

Verdens bedste kvindelige og mandlige cykelryttere kommer igen til København, når de skal dyste i det tilbagevendende World Tour-cykelløb.

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It will take place in the weekend two weeks before the Tour next year, same slot as the finish of Tour de Suisse. The women's race will be 160 km long and on the Saturday, while the men's race will be 230 long and on the Sunday. It has been secured for three years as a WT race.

The route is practically dead-flat for the pros. It starts in Roskilde like stage 2 of the 2022 Tour de France and ends in Copenhagen with a 10 km city circuit done 3 times for the women and 5 times for the men. The circuit is done clock-wise.

The finalised route will be presented next year.

 

[Red Rick]

Sir, this race could have been an email

 

[Berniece]

Nice to have a proper sprint WT race, but timing is a bit odd. Might be good to have top sprinters there, close to their best level, but do teams dare to go all out with the risk of injuries.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I‘m sure @Valv.Piti will love this race.

 

[ice&fire]

Not even worth making a joke about it

 

[Netserk]

Sir, this race could have been an email

The name says it all. Worthless crit race.

 

[Sciatic]

Nice. A pre-tour Scheldeprijs. I’m sure a Vingegaard will be excited to tackle that one

 

[Valv.Piti]

Worthless trash

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Actually worse than the 2011 Worlds course.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Will probably have more action than last years Giro.

 

[tobydawq]

At least they own it with the name. They know what it is and will likely not try to promote it as a Danish Paris-Roubaix or MercanTour Classic.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Just for the lolz, I wish they had called it the Copenhagen Epic Mountain Classic instead.

 

[tobydawq]

Will probably have more action than last years Giro.

How so? There were a lot of sprints in that...

 

[Samamba]

During Suisse, Belgium and Slovenia? I guess they're gonna make some of them move cause no sprinter will be going to Denmark for 1 day for a possible crashfest to prepare the Tour.

I guess Giro sprinters that aren't doing the double could go, but I fear this will be Frankfurt like (at least in the past), easy WT points for C tier sprinters.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Nice to have a proper sprint WT race, but timing is a bit odd. Might be good to have top sprinters there, close to their best level, but do teams dare to go all out with the risk of injuries.

We already have Brugge-De Panne and the Cyclassics in Hamburg. We really didn't need a nailed-on WT one-day sprint in addition to two likely ones. It's also been placed in an already-congested portion of the calendar.

 

[Netserk]

During Suisse, Belgium and Slovenia? I guess they're gonna make some of them move cause no sprinter will be going to Denmark for 1 day for a possible crashfest to prepare the Tour.

I guess Giro sprinters that aren't doing the double could go, but I fear this will be Frankfurt like (at least in the past), an easy WT points for C tier sprinters.

It will make it more attractive for sprinters to ride Dauphiné.

 

[Izzyeviel]

How so? There were a lot of sprints in that...

& they were all terribly dull. Denz won two of them. Even Dainese won one!

 

[Samamba]

It will make it more attractive for sprinters to ride Dauphiné.

Maybe (if the parcours isn't good they won't go), but that still doesn't take away from the fact that you go to Denmark for 1 day for a Scheldeprijs like crashfest 2 weeks before the Tour.

 

[tobydawq]

& they were all terribly dull. Denz won two of them. Even Dainese won one!

no

 

[glassmoon]

but but but... why?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

but but but... why?

Like a famous Danish disco-group once said: "Money money money"

 

[Ricco']

What do I know, I'm just a stranger posting on the internet, but wouldn't it be better to position this classic around the days of Post Danmark Rundt, maybe with a hillier course, to create synnergies that would lead to a strengthened peloton in both races?

 

[RedheadDane]

What do I know, I'm just a stranger posting on the internet, but wouldn't it be better to position this classic around the days of Post Danmark Rundt, maybe with a hillier course, to create synnergies that would lead to a strengthened peloton in both races?

That's what I thought the organiserers had already declared was their hope.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Like a famous Danish disco-group once said: "Money money money"

Alcazar is Norwegian.

 

[Rob5091]

What do I know, I'm just a stranger posting on the internet, but wouldn't it be better to position this classic around the days of Post Danmark Rundt, maybe with a hillier course, to create synnergies that would lead to a strengthened peloton in both races?

"a hillier course"?! This is Denamrk we're talking about here. The highest point in Denmark is the control tower at Kastrup, so unless we get a new "rubbish hill" (VAM-berg) or Monte Testaccio, it's going to be a bunch sprint.