The cycling Monuments 2023: dates, maps, additional infos and historical fun facts about the most prestigious one-day races of the road cycling season.
The Monuments are the five most prestigious one-day races in the road cycling calendar.
They are among the oldest races still to be held after more than a century. They are usually quite long, as a memento of the good old days of road cycling. Their importance is partially based on the fact, that they rarely crossed each other in the cycling calendar even in the old days, thus the possibility, that the biggest stars gather together and compete each other was always bigger than in case of other one-day races.1
So, what we know about the Monuments in season 2023 so far?
Milano-Sanremo
18 March 2023
293 km
Map:
Race profil:
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Ronde van Vlaanderen
2 April 2023
Paris-Roubaix
9 April 2023
Map of the race
For the map of Paris-Roubax Femmes 2023 click here>>
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Liege-Bastogne-Liege
23 April 2023
no further information yet
Il Lombardia
7 October 2023
no further information yet
Leadpic: cyclists on the Arenberg cobbles at Paris-Roubaix in 2022 (ASO/Pauline Ballet)
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- That’s the main reason why people nowadays talk a lot about Strade Bianche being the 6th Monument, because of its popularty among the greatest cycling stars of our era. It’s a nice idea, but doesn’t really work. And the problem is not its short route, less than 200 km, but rather the lack of a long-long history of legendary editions. It’s hard to consider a race as a Monument if there is no story about it involving Coppi, Merckx and the other legendary figures of road cycling history. [↩]