Next year’s Granfondo Stelvio Santini is scheduled to take place on June 6, 2021. The event’s official 2021 jersey is a combination of Polartec Power Dry Recycled and Polartec Delta Recycled fabrics, both made from single-use PET bottles. According to apparel specialist Santini, it takes around five recycled plastic bottles to make each jersey.
The jersey will be available in different sizes and colours for men and women, and wrapped in compostable packaging. To complete the look, Santini Cycling Wear has also created a range of coordinating cycling wear and a face mask (free in the race pack for next year’s granfondo) featuring the 2021 edition graphic.
Created by Santini Cycling Wear and Polartec, which is partnering with the Granfondo Stelvio Santini for the second year, the official race jersey comprises two fabrics – both of which are made from recycled PET bottles. The official event jersey is wrapped in fully compostable packaging produced by TIPA, an Israeli company that has been making biodegradable food and clothing packaging since 2010.
Polartec makes both Power Dry Recycled and Delta Recycled fabric from single-use plastic bottles. All Granfondo Stelvio Santini entrants will receive the official jersey in their race pack and will ‘literally be wearing five recycled bottles as they compete.’
Environmental protection and sustainability are a core part of the Granfondo Stelvio Santini organisers’ policy. There are green areas located along the race routes to allow competitors to dispose of waste packaging safety (including the dreaded energy bar and gel wrappers). This helps keep the spectacular Parco dello Stelvio pristine. The official Santini-Polartec jersey even has an extra side pocket where competitors can stow wrappers and other waste between green areas.
The front and back pockets of the official 2021Granfondo Stelvio Santini jersey are in light, breathable, odour-resistant and 100% recycled Polartec Power Dry Recycled fabric. The back is in Polartec Delta Recycled, which is ‘exceptionally breathable, wicking and cooling, offering much more than conventional sweat dispersal and evaporation.’
Both the men’s and women’s versions of the official 2021 Granfondo Stelvio Santini jersey feature a new graphic designed by Bergamo illustrator Elenia Beretta.
‘It is a face in profile created by a few strong brushstrokes and contrasting colours designed to symbolise cycling itself: the eye is a bicycle wheel, the eyebrow a chain, the glasses frame handlebars, the mouth a saddle and the hair the Stelvio hairpins that the competitors will negotiate as they near the crest of the pass.’
The graphic, which will also feature in the poster for the 2021 edition, is in navy blue with orange detailing for the men’s jersey and strawberry for the women’s version.
In addition to the compulsory official jersey, each race pack will include a washable filtered face mask made by Santini Cycling Wear. Competitors will have to wear the mask at the start line and at the finish line of the granfondo.
To complete the look for the Valtellina event, Santini has also created a range of kit that coordinates with the official jerse – specifically bib shorts, gilet, gloves and socks. These can be pre-ordered from the granfondostelviosantini.com site and will also be for sale in the Granfondo Stelvio Santini village in Bormio.
Granfondo Stelvio Santini event details
- Location: Alta Valtellina – from Bormio to the Stelvio Pass (Province of Sondrio)
- Edition: 10th
- Date: June 6 2021
- Long route: Bormio – Teglio – Mortirolo – Bormio – Stelvio > 151.3 km (4,058m elevation change)
- Medium route: Bormio – Teglio – Bormio – Stelvio > 137.9 km (3,053m elevation change)
- Short Rroute: Bormio – Sondalo – Bormio – Stelvio > 60 km (1,950m elevation change)
- Entries opened: October 28th 2020
- Organiser: US Bormiese
www.granfondostelviosantini.com
