Giro dell'Appennino

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Giro dell'Appennino

Race details
Date	Early-August
Region	Apennine Mountains, Italy
English name	Tour of the Apennines
Local name(s)	Giro dell'Appennino (Italian)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
History
First edition	1934
Editions	68 (as of 2007)
First winner	Augusto Como
Most wins	Gianbattista Baronchelli (6 wins)
Most recent	Alessandro Bertolini

The Giro dell'Appennino is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

Famous riders like Fausto Coppi, Francesco Moser, Felice Gimondi, Gianni Bugno and Gilberto Simoni have won the race.

[edit] Winners

Rider Team 1934 Augusto Como 1935 Augusto Como 1936 Settimio Simonini 1937 Cino Cinelli 1938 Luigi Ferrando 1939 Lorenzo Mazzarello 1940-1945 No race 1946 Enrico Mollo 1947 Alfredo Martini 1948 Settimio Simonini 1949 Dino Rossi 1950 Renzo Soldani 1951 Rinaldi Moresco 1952 Giorgio Albani 1953 Angelo Conterno 1954 Giorgio Albani 1955 Fausto Coppi 1956 Cleto Maule 1957 Aurello Cestari 1958 Cleto Maule 1959 Silvano Ciampi 1960 Emile Daems 1961 Adriano Zamboni 1962 Franco Balmamion 1963 Italo Zilioli 1964 Franco Cribiori 1965 Michele Dancelli 1966 Michele Dancelli 1967 Michele Dancelli 1968 Gianni Motta 1969 Felice Gimondi 1970 Gianni Motta 1971 Gösta Pettersson 1972 Felice Gimondi 1973 Italo Zilioli

Rider Team 1974 Giovanni Battaglin 1975 Fabrizio Fabbri 1976 Francesco Moser 1977 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1978 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1979 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1980 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1981 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1982 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1983 Marino Lejarreta 1984 Mario Beccia 1985 Francesco Moser 1986 Gianni Bugno 1987 Gianni Bugno 1988 Gianni Bugno 1989 Moreno Argentin 1990 Flavio Giupponi 1991 Dirk De Wolf 1992 Claudio Chiappucci 1993 Giuseppe Calcaterra 1994 Evgeni Berzin 1995 Francesco Casagrande 1996 Wladimir Belli 1997 Pavel Tonkov 1998 Pavel Tonkov 1999 Simone Borgheresi 2000 Mauro Zanetti 2001 Aleksander Shefer 2002 Giuliano Figueras 2003 Gilberto Simoni 2004 Damiano Cunego 2005 Gilberto Simoni 2006 Rinaldo Nocentini 2007 Alessandro Bertolini

[edit] External links

• Official site (Italian)