Giro d'Italia 1989

The 72nd Giro d'Italia was held in 23 sections and 3623 kilometers from May 21 to June 11, 1989 and won by Frenchman Laurent Fignon . Of the 197 drivers who started, 141 reached the finish in Florence .

course

stage	from	to	km	winner	Maglia pink
1	Taormina	Catania	123	Jean-Paul van Poppel	Jean-Paul van Poppel
2	Catania	Etna	132	Acácio da Silva	Acacio Da Silva
3	Villafranca Tirrena	Messina	32.5 ( MZF )	Ceramiche Ariostea	Silvano Contini
4th	Scilla	Cosenza	204	Rolf Järmann
5	Cosenza	Potenza	275	Stefano Giuliani
6th	Potenza	Campobasso	223	Stephan Joho
7th	Isernia	Rome	208	Urs Freuler
8th	Rome	Gran Sasso d'Italia	183	John Carlsen	Erik Breukink
9	L'Aquila	Gubbio	221	Bjarne Riis	Acacio Da Silva
10	Pesaro	Riccione	36.8 ( EZF )	Lech Piasecki	Erik Breukink
11	Riccione	Mantua	244	Urs Freuler
12	Mantua	Mira	148	Mario Cipollini
13	Padua	Three Peaks	207	Luis Herrera
14th	Misurina lake	Corvara	131	Flavio Giupponi	Laurent Fignon
15A	Corvara	Trent	131	Jean-Paul van Poppel
15B	Trent	Trent	83.2	Lech Piasecki
16	Trent	Santa Caterina Valfurva	205	Stage canceled
17th	Sondrio	Meda	137	Phil Anderson
18th	Mendrisio ( SUI )	Monte Generoso (SUI)	10.7 ( BZF )	Luis Herrera
19th	Meda	Tortona	198	Jesper Skibby
20th	Voghera	La Spezia	220	Laurent Fignon
21st	La Spezia	Prato	216	Gianni Bugno
22nd	Prato	Florence	53.8 (EZF)	Lech Piasecki

Final results

winner	Laurent Fignon	93:30:16 h
Second	Flavio Giupponi	+ 1:15 min
Third	Andrew Hampsten	+ 2:46 min
Fourth	Erik Breukink	+ 5:02 min
fifth	Franco Chioccioli	+ 5:43 min
Sixth	Urs Zimmermann	+ 6:28 min
seventh	Claude Criquielion	+ 6:34 min
Eighth	Marco Giovannetti	+ 7:44 min
Ninth	Stephen Roche	equal time
Tenth	Marino Lejarreta	+ 8:09 min
Scoring	Giovanni Fidanza	172 P.
Second	Laurent Fignon	139 P.
Second	Erik Breukink	128 P.
Mountain scoring	Luis Herrera	70 p.
Second	Stefano Giuliani	38 P.
Third	Henry Cardenas	34 P.
Third	Jure Pavlic	34 P.
Intergiro rating	Jure Pavlič	49:50:00 h
Second	Laurent Fignon	+ 4:07 min
Third	Claude Criquielion	+ 4:24 min
Young talent evaluation	Vladimir Pulnikov	93:40:06 h
Team evaluation	Fagor MBK	279: 59: 13 h
Second	Caja rural paternina	+ 13:27 min
Third	Alfa Lum-STM	+ 16:11 min

Web links

• Giro d'Italia 1989 in the ProCyclingStats.com database