Date | Mid-August |
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Region | Lombardy, Italy |
English name | Bernocchi Cup |
Local name(s) | Coppa Bernocchi (Italian) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Continental Circuits |
Type | Single-day |
Race director | Pino Cozzi |
First edition | 1919 |
Editions | 98 (as of 2016) |
First winner | Ruggero Ferrario (ITA) |
Most wins |
Libero Ferrario (ITA) Danilo Napolitano (ITA) (3 wins) |
Most recent | Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA) |
The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup), with his brothers Andrea and Michele Bernocchi in Legnano, and give the executive organization of the race to the family friend Pino Cozzi, President of the "Unione Sportiva Legnanese", sports club which has since organized the cycling race.
It is the last race of Trittico Lombardo, which includes three races held around the region of Lombardy in three consecutive days. These races are Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi.
Coppa Bernocchi is one of the most historic cycling races in Europe, with nearly a hundred years of history, and one of the most important in Italy.