Mount Etna (Rifugio Sapienza) virtual cycling route
Italy Mount Etna (Rifugio Sapienza)
Distance: 20.68 km
Elevation Gain: 1362 m
Elevation Loss: 46 m
Difficulty: 1120 (Very Hard)
FIETS Index: 9.00 FIETS
Avg Grade: 6.72 %
Max cat climb: HC
Min elevation: 583 m
Max elevation: 1923 m
Ride Category: Epic Climb

Mount Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is one of the tallest active volcanoes in Europe, and the tallest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a height of 3,357 m (11,014 ft). Over a six-month period in 2021, Etna erupted so much volcanic material that its height increased by approximately 100 feet, and the southeastern crater is now the tallest part of the volcano. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km2 (459 sq mi) with a basal circumference of 140 km (87 miles). This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius. Only Mount Teide on Tenerife in the Canary Islands surpasses it in the whole of the Europeanโ€“North-African region west of the Black Sea.

Rank Rider Date Time Power W/kg Speed
🥇 Michiel Vaal Feb 01, 2023 00:56:19 273 W 6.07 w/kg 22.04 km/h
🥈 Silvano Turati Jan 22, 2023 01:01:22 262 W 5.24 w/kg 20.22 km/h
🥉 Tom Smeets Apr 12, 2023 01:11:12 296 W 4.05 w/kg 17.43 km/h
4 Jacob Stang Feb 23, 2023 01:14:45 270 W 3.86 w/kg 16.60 km/h
5 Igor Tatarinov Jan 28, 2023 01:19:55 285 W 3.40 w/kg 15.53 km/h
6 Douglas Forer Feb 02, 2023 01:20:39 291 W 3.51 w/kg 15.39 km/h
7 D Speelman Jan 13, 2023 01:21:06 268 W 3.57 w/kg 15.30 km/h
8 Andrew Mawby Feb 24, 2023 01:23:23 244 W 3.39 w/kg 14.88 km/h
9 Gino Pino Feb 19, 2023 01:23:50 222 W 3.42 w/kg 14.80 km/h
10 Юрий Ермолаев Oct 09, 2023 01:23:54 239 W 3.32 w/kg 14.79 km/h
11 Chris Feb 15, 2023 01:24:25 245 W 3.28 w/kg 14.70 km/h
12 James MacDonald Jan 13, 2023 01:24:36 224 W 3.45 w/kg 14.67 km/h
13 erik bruin Feb 12, 2023 01:24:42 268 W 3.31 w/kg 14.65 km/h
14 Roman Mospan Oct 29, 2023 01:27:00 235 W 3.22 w/kg 14.27 km/h
15 Gunnar Tojren Jan 11, 2023 01:27:33 245 W 3.14 w/kg 14.18 km/h
16 Indalecio Lekerika Jan 27, 2023 01:27:49 180 W 3.40 w/kg 14.13 km/h
17 Geir Skaugen Jan 12, 2023 01:28:15 265 W 3.12 w/kg 14.06 km/h
18 Rainer Ertl Jan 13, 2023 01:28:36 236 W 3.15 w/kg 14.01 km/h
19 filip degryse Jan 12, 2023 01:28:59 257 W 3.06 w/kg 13.95 km/h
20 Jörg Schädlich Jan 15, 2023 01:29:53 221 W 3.11 w/kg 13.81 km/h
21 Fabio Zanirato Jan 11, 2023 01:29:56 180 W 3.21 w/kg 13.80 km/h
22 David Descamps Apr 01, 2023 01:30:14 214 W 3.15 w/kg 13.75 km/h
23 jerome limosin Jan 12, 2023 01:30:28 216 W 3.04 w/kg 13.72 km/h
24 JJosef Kluson Jan 13, 2023 01:31:33 227 W 3.03 w/kg 13.56 km/h
25 Markus Mayer Mar 12, 2023 01:31:48 231 W 3.04 w/kg 13.52 km/h
26 Frederik Vanrietvelde Jan 11, 2023 01:31:50 214 W 3.06 w/kg 13.51 km/h
27 Gabriel Gugiu Jan 12, 2023 01:33:54 210 W 3.00 w/kg 13.22 km/h
28 Thomas Kjær-Andersen Jan 11, 2023 01:36:41 214 W 2.85 w/kg 12.84 km/h
29 Paolo Baraldo Jan 26, 2023 01:37:07 190 W 2.92 w/kg 12.78 km/h
30 AWG Apr 11, 2023 01:37:43 202 W 2.81 w/kg 12.70 km/h
31 Rene van Leeuwen Mar 17, 2026 01:39:33 226 W 2.72 w/kg 12.47 km/h
32 Thomas Beich Jan 12, 2023 01:40:04 212 W 2.75 w/kg 12.40 km/h
33 Jakob kjær-andersen Jan 19, 2023 01:42:04 177 W 2.72 w/kg 12.16 km/h
34 Silvio Landrock Mar 28, 2023 01:44:18 199 W 2.65 w/kg 11.90 km/h
35 Volker Scheid Mar 02, 2023 01:45:26 193 W 2.57 w/kg 11.77 km/h
36 Manfred Schwarz Jan 11, 2023 01:45:36 177 W 2.68 w/kg 11.75 km/h
37 Chris Ford Jan 26, 2023 01:46:46 183 W 2.61 w/kg 11.62 km/h
38 Massimo Mar 29, 2023 01:48:13 157 W 2.62 w/kg 11.47 km/h
39 John Jardine Jan 15, 2023 01:49:22 191 W 2.45 w/kg 11.35 km/h
40 Jean-Luc Olives Feb 04, 2023 01:49:43 167 W 2.57 w/kg 11.31 km/h
41 Louis Veltmeijer Jan 14, 2023 01:53:34 159 W 2.56 w/kg 10.93 km/h
42 Clive Pritchard Jan 11, 2023 01:56:05 168 W 2.33 w/kg 10.69 km/h
43 J F Aug 27, 2023 01:56:06 201 W 2.28 w/kg 10.69 km/h
44 Joeri Veldeman Feb 04, 2023 01:57:16 152 W 2.34 w/kg 10.58 km/h
45 Markus Geiger Jan 16, 2023 01:57:41 180 W 2.31 w/kg 10.55 km/h
46 Grzegorz Jurczak Feb 18, 2023 01:57:56 235 W 2.21 w/kg 10.52 km/h
47 Michael Novich Jan 22, 2023 01:58:28 234 W 2.20 w/kg 10.48 km/h
48 jack66 Jan 15, 2023 02:07:02 158 W 2.11 w/kg 9.77 km/h
49 Frantxoa A Jan 21, 2023 02:08:08 169 W 2.19 w/kg 9.69 km/h
50 Rob xx Feb 26, 2023 02:09:26 169 W 2.09 w/kg 9.59 km/h
51 Maurizio Gaudino Jan 11, 2023 02:12:47 158 W 2.03 w/kg 9.35 km/h
52 Giuliano Bini Jan 19, 2023 02:15:59 161 W 1.96 w/kg 9.13 km/h
53 Petro Mol Jan 11, 2023 02:16:46 183 W 1.93 w/kg 9.07 km/h
54 Artem Neposedov Feb 08, 2024 02:44:52 132 W 1.65 w/kg 7.53 km/h

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