1979 Giro d'Italia
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| Dates | 17 May - 6 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 19 + Prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,301 km (2,051 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 89h 29' 18" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
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(Scic-Bottecchia) |
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| Second |
Francesco Moser (ITA)
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(Sanson Gelati-Luxor TV) | |
| Third |
 Bernt Johansson (SWE)
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(Magniflex-Famcucine) | |
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Points |
Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
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(Scic-Bottecchia) |
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Mountains |
Claudio Bortolotto (ITA)
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(Sanson Gelati-Luxor TV) |
| Youth |
Silvano Contini (ITA)
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(Bianchi-Faema) | |
| Team | Scic-Bottecchia | ||
The 1979 Giro d'Italia was the 62nd running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Genoa, on 17 May, with a 8 km (5.0 mi) prologue and concluded in Milan, on 6 June, with a 44 km (27.3 mi) individual time trial. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 19-stage race, that was won by Italian Giuseppe Saronni of the Scic-Bottecchia team. The second and third places were taken by Italian Francesco Moser and Swede Bernt Johansson, respectively.
In addition to the general classification, Saronni won the points classification, Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Claudio Bortolotto of Sanson Gelati-Luxor TV won the mountains classification, and Bianchi-Faema's Silvano Contini completed the Giro as the best rider aged 24 or under in the general classification, finishing fifth overall. Scic-Bottecchia finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.
Thirteen of the fourteen teams invited to the 1979 Giro d'Italia participated in the race.Kas were forced to decline their invitation, in favor of racing the Vuelta a España, by the Spanish Federation which wanted the "best Hispanic" peloton to be competing in Vuelta that year. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 111 made it to the finish in Milan.
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