Timmelsjoch / Passo del Rombo
The last and highest climb of the Ötztaler Radmarathon: 29 km at 6.2% from St. Leonhard in Passeier to 2474 m on the Italian–Austrian border. Long rather than steep: almost 1800 m of climbing, with open hairpins high above 2000 m.
- Start: St. Leonhard in Passeier
- Length: 29 km
- Elevation gain: 1,790 m
- Average gradient: 6.2%
- Max gradient: 12%
- The Ötztaler Radmarathon, held every year since 1982, crosses the Timmelsjoch as its last climb before the finish in Sölden.
- Work on the Italian side began in 1933 as a military road; it was opened to the public only in 1968.
- The 1988 Giro d'Italia crossed the pass on a stage from Merano to Innsbruck.
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