Tre Valli Varesine 2025

October 7, 2025 Of all of the races leading into Il Lombardia, Tre Valli Varesine is the one that will show who the likely contenders will be. The course starts in Busto Arsizio and heads North to Lake Varese where the grueling circuits begin. There are two different circuits that total eleven and a half laps. The first circuit is ridden on laps one through eight and lap ten. It consists of the 2KM 5.3% Salita dei Ronchi which takes takes the riders from Lake Varese up to the town of Varese. There is almost no downhill before the climb to Montello which is almost identical in character to Salita dei Ronchi. 10KM downhill from the top of Montello brings the race back to do it all again. On the ninth and eleventh laps, the course diverts after the descent off of Montello to the lake side up to Groppello for the muri. One ramp is 300M at 10% followed by a 900M climb at 8% up to the town of Barasso. The finish is atop the Salita dei Ronchi in Varese after 200KM of racing and over 3,000M of climbing. The weather this year was in stark contrast to last year which was called off due to cold and torrential rain. The only umbrellas were those blocking the sun because there were no clouds on what was the perfect Autumnal day in Lombardy. With 54KM to go, Egan Bernal of Ineos had bridged up from the peloton to Lorenzo Milesi of Movistar, who was in the original break, on the Salita dei Ronchi and were out front together on the approach to the Barasso climbs. They had 1 minute 25 seconds on the main peloton. Andrew August of Ineos, Davide Ballerini of XDS-Astana, Mattia Bais of Polti-VisitMalta, and Kevin Colleoni of Intermarché-Wanty were also part of the early break but were brought back into the peloton. Bernal went solo with 46KM to go on the climb to Barasso but the peloton was getting charged up with UAE-XRG leading the way. A few kilometers later, Quinn Simmons of Lidl-Trek went on the attack. He caught Milesi and the pair bridged up to Bernal on the Salita dei Ronchi with 33.5KM to go. Afonso Eulálio of Bahrain Victorious was the next attacker from the peloton and when the three leaders hit the finish line at 31KM to go, Eulálio was at 16 seconds with the peloton another 20 seconds back. Victor Lafay of Decathlon AG2R attacked from the peloton which drew out Isaac del Toro and Tadej Pogačar of UAE-XRG. They were quickly across to Eulálio and with del Toro driving the group, they made contact with the front group of Bernal, Simmons, and Milesi at 24KM to go. EF-Education EasyPost and Redbull-Bora Hansgrohe were chasing but the gap was growing second by second. On the descent heading back towards the Barasso climbs, Pogačar got a gap on Eulálio who was on his wheel and he was gone. Simmons tried to pull him back but he got almost no help from the others and they watched Pogačar ride up the road. Simmons found a way to break away from the group but he couldn't stem the time to Pogačar from bleeding away. Bernal and the others were caught by the peloton at the start of the Barasso climbs and halfway up, Simmons was caught as well. Tom Pidcock of Q36.5 pulled a group away that included Ben Tulett of Visma-Lease a Bike, Gianmarco Garofoli of Soudal Quickstep, Primož Roglič of Redbull-Bora Hansgrohe, Toms Skujiņš of Lidl-Trek, and del Toro who was marking the move. Decathlon AG2R got organized and brought the Pidcock group back to reset the race for second place with just 3KM and the final climb up Salita dei Ronchi to go. Ben O'Connor of Jayco AlUla jumped with 1KM to go but he couldn't break the elastic. Pogačar crossed the line for yet another win for him and the UAE-XRG squad as the peloton were rounding the corner for the reduced sprint. Albert Withen Philipsen of Lidl-Trek started the sprint from a long way out but managed to hold everyone off for a brilliant second place for the young Dane. Julian Alaphilippe of Tudor Pro Cycling tried to pop out of the slipstream and a quick burst in the last 25M was good enough to get him a third place on the day.