Giro della Provincia di Lucca

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Giro della Provincia di Lucca
Race details
Date	Early March
Region	Province of Lucca, Italy
English name	Tour of Province of Lucca
Local name(s)	Giro della Provincia di Lucca (Italian)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
History
First edition	1999
Editions	8 (as of 2006)
First winner	Paolo Bettini
Most wins	Alessandro Petacchi (3 wins)
Most recent	Alessandro Petacchi

The Giro della Provincia di Lucca is a professional road bicycle race held annually in Province of Lucca, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, previously being a stage race. It wasn't held in 2007 and the future of the race is uncertain.

[edit] Winners

		Rider		Team
1999		Paolo Bettini
2000		Alessandro Petacchi
2001		Mario Aerts
2002		Fabiano Fontanelli
2003		Óscar Freire
2004		Alessandro Bertolini
2005		Mario Cipollini
2006		Alessandro Petacchi