Giro d'Italia 1961

The 44th Giro d'Italia was held in 21 sections and 4004 kilometers from May 20 to June 11, 1961 and won by the Italian Arnaldo Pambianco . Of the 170 drivers who started, 92 reached the finish in Milan .

course

stage	from	to	km	winner	Maglia pink
1	Turin	Turin	115	Miguel Poblet	Miguel Poblet
2	Turin	San Remo	185	Miguel Poblet
3	San Remo	Genoa	149	Willy Schroeders
4th	Cagliari	Cagliari	118	Oreste Magni
5	Marsala	Palermo	144	Louis Proost
6th	Palermo	Milazzo	224	Nino Defilippis
7th	Reggio Calabria	Cosenza	221	Antonio Suarez	Antonio Suarez
8th	Cosenza	Tarent	237	Piet van Est	Guillaume Van Tongerloo
9	Castellana grotto	Bari	53 ( EZF )	Jacques Anquetil
10	Bari	Potenza	140	Vito Taccone	Jacques Anquetil
11	Potenza	Teano	252	Pietro Chiodini
12	Gaeta	Rome	149	Renato Giusti
13	Mentana	Castelfidardo	278	Rik Van Looy
14th	Ancona	Florence	250	Silvano Ciampi	Arnaldo Pambianco
15th	Florence	Modena	178	Rik Van Looy
16	Modena	Vicenza	207	Adriano Zamboni
17th	Vicenza	Trieste	204	Rik Van Looy
18th	Trieste	Vittorio Veneto	161	Renato Giusti
19th	Vittorio Veneto	Trent	249	Willy Schroeders
20th	Trent	Bormio	275	Charly Gaul
21st	Bormio	Milan	214	Miguel Poblet

Final results

winner	Arnaldo Pambianco	111: 25: 28 h
Second	Jacques Anquetil	+ 3:45 min
Third	Antonio Suarez	+ 4:17 min
Fourth	Charly Gaul	+ 4:22 min
fifth	Guido Carlesi	+ 8:08 min
Sixth	Hennes Junkermann	+ 12:25 min
seventh	Rik Van Looy	+ 12:38 min
Eighth	Guillaume Van Tongerloo	+ 14:18 min
Ninth	Carlo Brugnami	+ 16:05 min
Tenth	Nino Defilippis	+ 16:23 min
Mountain scoring	Vito Taccone
Second	Gabriel Mas
Third	Imerio Massignan
Team evaluation	Faema