Giro del Trentino

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Giro del Trentino
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Race details
Date Mid-to-Late April
Region Trentino, Italy
English name Tour of Trentino
Local name(s) Giro del Trentino (Italian)
Discipline Road race
Type Stage race
History
First edition 1962
Editions 31 (as of 2007)
First winner Flag of Italy Enzo Moser
Most wins Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego (3 wins)
Most recent Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego

The Giro del Trentino (English: Tour of Trentino) is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically mid-to-late April over four stages in the Trentino Alto Adige region of Italy.

The short, sharp course of the Giro del Trentino, full of steep climbs, is seen as a good proving ground for the aspirants of the Giro d'Italia which usually starts a few days after the Giro del Trentino. In fact, several Giro del Trentino winners have won the Giro d'Italia including Francesco Moser, Gilberto Simoni, Paolo Savoldelli and Damiano Cunego.

For the last several years, the Giro del Trentino has finished in Arco and for four out of the last five years it has started at Arco as well. In 1995 one of the stages went to Innsbruck and there have been several stages to and from Lienz in Austria since.

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[edit] History

The first edition of the race was held in 1962. It consisted of a single stage that started and finished in Trento. It was won by Enzo Moser. After the second edition in 1963, the third edition was not held until 1979. There were two races in 1977 and 1978 but they are disputed and usually not counted as official Giro del Trentino races.[1]

The 1986 race was unusual in that there was no individual prize awarded. It was a team competition called the Coppa Italia and the first place went to Carrera-Inoxpran.

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Rider Team
1962 Flag of Italy Enzo Moser
1963 Flag of Italy Guido De Rosso
1979 Flag of Norway Knut Knudsen
1980 Flag of Italy Francesco Moser
1981 Flag of Italy Roberto Visentini
1982 Flag of Italy Giuseppe Saronni
1983 Flag of Italy Francesco Moser
1984 Flag of Italy Franco Chioccioli
1985 Flag of Austria Harald Maier
1986 Team edition Flag of Italy Carrera-Inoxpran
1987 Flag of Italy Claudio Corti
1988 Flag of Switzerland Urs Zimmerman
1989 Flag of Italy Mauro Santaromita
1990 Flag of Italy Gianni Bugno
1991 Flag of Venezuela Leonardo Sierra
1992 Flag of Italy Claudio Chiappucci
Rider Team
1993 Flag of Italy Maurizio Fondriest
1994 Flag of Italy Moreno Argentin
1995 Flag of Switzerland Heinz Imboden
1996 Flag of Italy Wladimir Belli
1997 Flag of France Luc Leblanc
1998 Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli
1999 Flag of Italy Paolo Savoldelli
2000 Flag of Italy Simone Borgheresi
2001 Flag of Italy Francesco Casagrande
2002 Flag of Italy Francesco Casagrande
2003 Flag of Italy Gilberto Simoni
2004 Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego
2005 Flag of Mexico Julio Alberto Pérez
2006 Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego
2007 Flag of Italy Damiano Cunego
2008 Flag of Italy Vincenzo Nibali

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