Giro d'Italia 1997

The 80th Giro d'Italia was held in 22 stages from May 17th to June 8th 1997 and won by Ivan Gotti from Bergamo .

Last year's winner Pavel Tonkov led the tour until the start of the mountainous 14th stage, on which he was replaced by the stage winner Gotti. Previously, the co-driver Marco Pantani had already retired on the 8th stage after he fell after a collision with a dog.

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	nation
1	Venice ( VE )	Venice (VE)	128	Mario Cipollini	Italy
2	Mestre (VE)	Cervia ( RA )	211	Mario Cipollini	Italy
3	Santarcangelo di Romagna ( RN )	San Marino ( San Marino )	18 ( EZF )	Pavel Tonkov	Russia
4th	San Marino (San Marino)	Arezzo ( AR )	155	Mario Cipollini	Italy
5	Arezzo (AR)	Terminillo ( RI )	215	Pavel Tonkov	Russia
6th	Rieti (RI)	Lanciano ( CH )	205	Roberto Sgambelluri	Italy
7th	Lanciano (CH)	Mondragone ( CE )	206	Marcel Wüst	Germany
8th	Mondragone (CE)	Cava de 'Tirreni ( SA )	210	Mario Manzoni	Italy
9	Cava de 'Tirreni (SA)	Castrovillari ( CS )	233	Dimitri Konyshev	Russia
10	Castrovillari (CS)	Tarent ( TA )	186	Mario Cipollini	Italy
11	Lido di Camaiore ( LU )	Lido di Camaiore (LU)	163	Gabriele Missaglia	Italy
12	La Spezia ( SP )	Varazze ( SV )	214	Giuseppe Di Grande	Italy
13	Varazze (SV)	Cuneo ( CN )	146	Glenn Magnusson	Sweden
14th	Racconigi (CN)	Cervinia ( AO )	238	Ivan Gotti	Italy
15th	Verrès (AO)	Borgomanero ( NO )	170	Alessandro Baronti	Italy
16	Borgomanero (NO)	Dalmine ( BG )	156	Fabiano Fontanelli	Italy
17th	Dalmine (BG)	Verona ( VR )	190	Mirko Gualdi	Italy
18th	Baselga di Pinè ( TN )	Cavalese (TN)	39 (EZF)	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine
19th	Predazzo (TN)	Pfalzen ( BZ )	220	José Luis Rubiera Vigil	Spain
20th	Bruneck (BZ)	Passo del Tonale (TN- BS )	179	José Jaime González	Colombia
21st	Malè (TN)	Edolo (BS)	239	Pavel Tonkov	Russia
22nd	Darfo Boario Terme (BS)	Milan ( MI )	165	Mario Cipollini	Italy

The pink jersey was worn by three different drivers:

• Mario Cipollini ( Italy ): 1st and 2nd stage 
• Pavel Tonkov ( Russia ): from the 3rd to the 13th stage 
• Ivan Gotti ( Italy ): from the 14th stage to the finish 

Final score

Overall rating

rank	Surname	nationality	time
1	Ivan Gotti	Italy	102h53'58 "
2	Pavel Tonkov	Russia	1'27 "
3	Giuseppe Guerini	Italy	7'40 "
4th	Nicola Miceli	Italy	12'20 "
5	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	12'44 "
6th	Vladimir Belli	Italy	12'48 "
7th	Giuseppe Di Grande	Italy	12'54 "
8th	Marcos Antonio Serrano Rodríguez	Spain	16'07 "
9	Stefano Garzelli	Italy	18,08 "
10	José Luis Rubiera Vigil	Spain	18'56 "

Other ratings

• Intergiro : Dimitri Konyshev ( Russia ) 
• Points : Mario Cipollini ( Italy ) 
• Mountain : José Jaime González ( Colombia ) 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gotti's big thing. radsport-news.com, May 22, 2017, accessed May 22, 2017 . 

Web links

• Giro d'Italia 1997 in the ProCyclingStats.com database