1981 Giro d'Italia
| Race details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dates | 13 May – 7 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 + Prologue, including one split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,895.6 km (2,421 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 104h 50' 36" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Winner |
 Giovanni Battaglin (ITA)
|
(Inoxpran) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second |
 Tommy Prim (SWE)
|
(Bianchi-Piaggio) | |
| Third |
Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
|
(Gis Gelati-Campagnolo) | |
|
|
|||
 |
Points |
Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
|
(Gis Gelati-Campagnolo) |
 |
Mountains |
Claudio Bortolotto (ITA)
|
(Santini) |
| Youth |
Giuseppe Faraca (ITA)
|
(Hoonved-Bottecchia) | |
| Team | Bianchi-Piaggio | ||
| Team Points | Bianchi-Piaggio | ||
The 1981 Giro d'Italia was the 64th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 6.6 km (4.1 mi) prologue and concluded in Verona, on 7 June, with a 42 km (26.1 mi) individual time trial. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giovanni Battaglin of the Inoxpran team. The second and third places were taken by Swede Tommy Prim and Italian Giuseppe Saronni, respectively.
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati-Campagnolo's Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Santini-Selle Italia won the mountains classification, and Hoonved-Bottecchia's Giuseppe Faraca completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing eleventh overall. Bianchi-Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi-Piaggio won the team points classification.
A total of thirteen teams were invited to participate in the 1981 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 104 made it to the finish in Verona.
The teams entering the race were:
The route for the 1981 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 21 February 1981. Covering a total of 3,895.6 km (2,420.6 mi), it included four time trials (three individual and one for teams), and ten stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points. Two of these ten stages had summit finishes: stage 17, to Borno; and stage 20, to Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 129.4 km (80 mi) shorter and contained one more time trial. In addition, this race contained one more set of split stages.
...
Wikipedia