Gianni Bugno

Gianni Bugno

Bugno at the 1993 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Gianni Bugno
Born	(1964-02-14) 14 February 1964 Brugg, Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 4 individual stages (1988, 1990, 1991) Giro d'Italia General classification (1990) Points classification (1990) 9 individual stages (1989-1996) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1996, 1998) One-Day Races and Classics World Cycling Championships (1991, 1992) Italian National Road Race Championship (1991, 1995) Clásica de San Sebastián (1991) Milan – San Remo (1990) Tour of Flanders (1994) Wincanton Classic (1990) Other UCI Road World Cup (1990)
Medal record Competitor for  Italy Road bicycle racing World Championships Gold 1991 Stuttgart Elite Men's Road Race Gold 1992 Benidorm Elite Men's Road Race Bronze 1990 Utsunomiya Elite Men's Road Race

Gianni Bugno (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni ˈbuɲɲo]; born 14 February 1964) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist.

Biography

Bugno was a versatile rider, able to do well in different types of races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de France, and the Milan – San Remo classic in 1990. In 1991 he won the Clásica de San Sebastián, and in 1994 he won the Tour of Flanders.

Bugno's greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands and Miguel Indurain of Spain, and in 1992 finished ahead of Laurent Jalabert of France and Dmitri Konyshev of Russia.

Bugno's performance in the Grand Tours, however, was over-shadowed by Miguel Indurain. Bugno's victory in the Giro d'Italia in 1990 is considered one of the most dominant performances in that race — he led from start to finish. While he won the Giro in 1990, he finished second to Indurain in the Tour de France in 1991 and third behind Indurain and Claudio Chiappucci in 1992. In a battle in the 1992 Tour, Indurain kept his calm despite Chiappucci's attack in the Alps; Bugno had to chase and cracked in the final parts of the stage. Indurain was quoted as saying that Bugno was his biggest threat in the Tour.

Bugno retired following the 1998 road season and is now a helicopter rescue pilot. He piloted a camera helicopter for the Tour of Lombardy, on 20 October 2007, and for the whole of the 2008 Giro d'Italia. He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties but he was not elected.

He has remained involved with the Giro d'Italia by being one of the TV helicopter pilots for the Italian national broadcaster, RAI.

He is the president of CPA (Association of Professional Cyclists). In November 2012, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, he demanded that an independent anti-doping body be established. He stated that the UCI could not be trusted to enforce the rules.^[1]

Essential palmarès

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Giro	41	WD	WD	23	1	4	-	18	8	-	29	75	50
Tour	-	-	62	11	7	2	3	20	WD	53	-	-	-
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	56	95	84

WD = Withdrew

References

External links

• Palmarès by world-of-cycling.com
• Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (French)
• Palmarès by museociclismo.it (Italian)
• Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (French)

UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race 1927 Binda 1928 Ronsse 1929 Ronsse 1930 Binda 1931 Guerra 1932 Binda 1933 Speicher 1934 Kaers 1935 Aerts 1936 Magne 1937 Meulenberg 1938 Kint 1946 Knecht 1947 Middelkamp 1948 Schotte 1949 Van Steenbergen 1950 Schotte 1951 Kübler 1952 Müller 1953 Coppi 1954 Bobet 1955 Ockers 1956 Van Steenbergen 1957 Van Steenbergen 1958 Baldini 1959 Darrigade 1960 Van Looy 1961 Van Looy 1962 Stablinski 1963 Beheyt 1964 Janssen 1965 Simpson 1966 Altig 1967 E. Merckx 1968 Adorni 1969 Ottenbros 1970 Monseré 1971 E. Merckx 1972 M. Basso 1973 Gimondi 1974 E. Merckx 1975 Kuiper 1976 Maertens 1977 F. Moser 1978 Knetemann 1979 Raas 1980 B. Hinault 1981 Maertens 1982 Saronni 1983 LeMond 1984 Criquielion 1985 Zoetemelk 1986 Argentin 1987 S. Roche 1988 Fondriest 1989 LeMond 1990 Dhaenens 1991 Bugno 1992 Bugno 1993 Armstrong 1994 Leblanc 1995 Olano 1996 Museeuw 1997 Brochard 1998 Camenzind 1999 Freire 2000 Vainšteins 2001 Freire 2002 Cipollini 2003 Astarloa 2004 Freire 2005 Boonen 2006 Bettini 2007 Bettini 2008 Ballan 2009 Evans 2010 Hushovd 2011 Cavendish 2012 Gilbert 2013 Costa 2014 Kwiatkowski