Montepaschi Strade Bianche-Eroica Toscana (1.1), Italy

Winners, podium, distance, average speed

The Montepaschi Strade Bianche (white roads) is a new race that grew up out of an enthusiast ride that went over the white, unpaved roads in the Chianti area of Tuscany.

The desire by the promoter RCS Sport, which also organizes the Giro d'Italia, was to create a professional race with a distinctive and heroic character that will eventually take its place alongside the other springtime classics. The first edition was run in October of 2007. It is currently held in early March. In 2009 roughly a third of the route was on unpaved roads in 8 seperate sectors, the longest of which was 13.5 kilometers. 190 km long, The race finishes in Siena's famous Piazza del Campo.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
2007	Alexandre Kolobnev 4hr 42min 10sec	Marcus Lungqvist @ 3sec	Mikhaylo Khalilov @ 39sec	180 km	38.275
2008	Fabian Cancellara 4hr 34min 41sec	Alessandro Ballan @ s.t.	Linus Gerdemann @ 15sec	181 km	39.536
2009	Thomas Lövkvist 4hr 59min 2sec	Fabian Wegmann @ 4sec	Martin Elmiger @ 6sec	190 km	38.122
2010	Maxim Iglinskiy 4hr 49min 48sec	Thomas Lövkvist @ 1sec	Michael Rogers @ s.t.	190 km	38.100
2011	Philippe Gilbert 4hr 44min 26sec	Alessandro Ballan @ s.t.	Damiano Cunego @ s.t.	190 km	40.079

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