Milan – San Remo 2025 is the first classic of this cycling season. The “Primavera” over 289 kilometers will take place on Saturday, 22 March. The big favorites are Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel. Live coverage will be available on Eurosport.
All information about Milan – Sanremo 2025: TV coverage and stream, the forecast with favorites and winner betting odds as well as the route with the key points.
Milan – San Remo 2025: Start, broadcast, kilometers
Date and start time: When is Milan – San Remo 2025?
The spring classic Milan – San Remo is the first of the five “cycling monuments” every year. This race has been around since 1907. This year marks the 116th edition.
The date for Milan – Sanremo 2025 is March 22. This year, “La Primavera” will also be ridden on Saturday.
The start in Pavia will be at 10:15 am. The finish on the Via Roma in San Remo is expected between 16:45 and 17:00 after 289 kilometers.
Who is showing the broadcast of Milan – Sanremo 2025?
All major and important cycling races of this season can be found in the cycling TV program. Both on free TV and via paid live streams.
The Milan – Sanremo 2025 will be broadcast live on Eurosport on Saturday, March 22 from 12:00 noon.
Karsten Migels will be at the microphone as commentator. He will be joined by several experts, such as the two ex-professionals Jens Voigt and Bernhard Eisel.
As Eurosport is also part of the sports streaming service DAZN, the Milan – San Remo live stream can also be watched there from 12:00 noon.
Another option for the Milan – Sanremo 2025 broadcast is the paid cycling portal Global Cycling Network (GCN), which specializes exclusively in cycling broadcasts. Here you can watch the “Primavera” live on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – from the start to the finish.
These are the Milan – Sanremo 2025 favorites
Who will win Milan – Sanremo 2025? A question that is anything but easy to answer in advance, as it is the first big race of the season.
What’s more, the “Classicissima” is even considered the fairest cycling classic, as many different types of riders can win here – both classic specialists and sprinters.
According to the Milan San Remo predictions and betting odds of the bookmakers in Germany, there are two big favorites for Saturday: Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel.
Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck Team) triumphed in San Remo in 2023 – so he knows how to win at the “Primavera”. His form should be right, as we have seen in his previous appearances this spring. This puts MVDP right at the front of the Milan – Sanremo 2025 favorites.
This also applies to his teammate Jasper Philipsen, who won the “Primavera” last year. However, he has the statistics against him: he has not defended his title since 2001! Erik Zabel is the last person to win the “Primavera” twice in a row.
Tadej Pogacar is also named in every Milan San Remo winner prediction. But: His best result at the “Primavera” so far was 3rd place last year, but the Slovenian all-rounder has shown strong spring results.
In addition to the top trio, there are several other riders on the list of Milan San Remo favorites 2025.
Firstly, Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), the winner of 2022, and secondly Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek). The Dane is a classics specialist who can also pedal fast in the finish. For some experts, he is an insider tip for victory on Saturday.
The Australian Michael Matthews (Team Jayco AlUla) would be a hot tip for victory should it come to a bunch sprint. This also applies to the two Italian sprinters Filippo Ganna (Ineos), who finished second in 2023, and Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek).
The teams on the Milan – Sanremo 2025 start list
There are a total of 25 teams on the start list for Milan – San Remo 2025.
In addition to the 18 “World Tour” teams, seven UFC Pro teams are also taking part in this year’s Primavera. Each of the 25 teams consists of seven riders.
The 18 UCI World Teams:
- Alpecin-Deceuninck
- Arkea-B& B Hotels
- Bahrain Victorious
- Cofidis
- Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
- EF Education-EasyPost
- Groupama- FDJ
- Ineos Grenadiers
- Intermarché-Wanty
- Lidl-Trek
- Movistar Team
- Red Bull- Bora
- Soudal Quick-Step
- Team Jayco AlUla
- Team Picnic PostNL
- Team dsm- firmenich PostNL
- UAE Team Emirates
- Visma-Lease a Bike
- XDS Astana Team
The 7 UCI Pro Teams:
- Israel-Premier Tech
- Lotto
- Q36. 5,
- Solution Tech-Vini Fantini
- Tudor Procycling
- Uno- X Mobility
- VG Group Bardiani
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Trail, kilometers & Key points
The spring classic Milan – San Remo is the longest one-day race in professional cycling. The Milan – Sanremo 2025 route has a distance of 289 kilometers.
This year, as last year, “La Classicissima” starts in Pavia, a town of 70,000 inhabitants south of Milan. From there, there is a detour to Rivanazzano and Salice Terme. The peloton then returns to the traditional route that has connected Milan with the Riviera di Ponente for over 110 years.
As usual, the Milan – Sanremo 2025 route only really gets going around 60 kilometers before the finish. After the coastal town of Laigueglia, Capo Mele, Capo Cervo and Capo Berta are tackled in quick succession.
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However, nothing has changed at the key points for the Milan – San Remo 2025 transfer. The legendary climbs Cipressa (5.6 kilometers with an average gradient of 4.1 percent) and Poggio (3.7 kilometers/3.7 percent) come 22 and 9 kilometers before the finish respectively.
These two climbs often decide the final course of the race.
If the Cipressa is ridden extremely fast, the sprinters usually fall back and then it’s back to business on the Poggio. Either a small group breaks away or a soloist gets away.
Then it’s a narrow descent with numerous tight bends down to San Remo, where the last two kilometers are flat to the finish on the Via Roma in San Remo
