Giro d'Italia 1999

The 82nd Giro d'Italia was held in 22 stages from May 15 to June 6, 1999 and was won by Ivan Gotti from Bergamo .

After the race was initially characterized by the duel between Laurent Jalabert and Marco Pantani , Pantani won the mountain finish of the 19th stage in Alpe di Pampeago by a large margin, so that he also led the overall standings by a large margin. Due to an increased hematocrit value , Pantani was excluded from the race after the 20th stage. The later overall winner Gotti took the overall lead on the mountainous 21st stage with a second place.

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	nation
1	Agrigento ( AG )	Modica ( RG )	175	Ivan Quaranta	Italy
2	Noto ( SR )	Catania ( CT )	133	Mario Cipollini	Italy
3	Catania (CT)	Messina ( ME )	176	Jeroen Blijlevens	Netherlands
4th	Vibo Valentia ( VV )	Terme Luigiane ( CS )	186	Laurent Jalabert	France
5	Terme Luigiane (CS)	Monte Sirino ( PZ )	144	José Jaime González	Colombia
6th	Lauria (PZ)	Foggia ( FG )	257	Romāns Vainšteins	Latvia
7th	Foggia (FG)	Lanciano ( CH )	153	Jeroen Blijlevens	Netherlands
8th	Pescara ( PE )	Gran Sasso d'Italia ( AQ )	253	Marco Pantani	Italy
9	Ancona ( AN )	Ancona (AN)	32 ( EZF )	Laurent Jalabert	France
10	Ancona (AN)	Sansepolcro ( AR )	189	Mario Cipollini	Italy
11	Sansepolcro (AR)	Cesenatico ( FC )	125	Ivan Quaranta	Italy
12	Cesenatico (FC)	Sassuolo ( MO )	168	Mario Cipollini	Italy
13	Sassuolo (MO)	Rapallo ( GE )	243	Richard virusesque	France
14th	Bra ( CN )	Borgo San Dalmazzo (CN)	187	Paolo Savoldelli	Italy
15th	Racconigi (CN)	Oropa ( BI )	160	Marco Pantani	Italy
16	Biella (BI)	Lumezzane ( BS )	232	Laurent Jalabert	France
17th	Lumezzane (BS)	Castelfranco Veneto ( TV )	215	Mario Cipollini	Italy
18th	Treviso (TV)	Treviso (TV)	45 (EZF)	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine
19th	Castelfranco Veneto (TV)	Alpe di Pampeago ( TN )	166	Marco Pantani	Italy
20th	Predazzo (TN)	Madonna di Campiglio (TN)	175	Marco Pantani	Italy
21st	Madonna di Campiglio (TN)	Aprica ( SO )	190	Roberto Heras Hernández	Spain
22nd	Boario Terme (BS)	Milan ( MI )	170	Fabrizio Guidi	Italy

The pink jersey was worn by 6 different drivers:

• Ivan Quaranta ( Italy ): 1st stage 
• Mario Cipollini ( Italy ): 2nd stage 
• Jeroen Blijlevens ( Netherlands ): from the 3rd to the 4th stage 
• Laurent Jalabert ( France ): from the 5th to the 7th and from the 9th to the 13th stage 
• Marco Pantani ( Italy ): 8th stage, 14th to 20th stage 
• Ivan Gotti ( Italy ): from the 21st stage to the finish 

Final score

Overall rating

rank	Surname	nationality	time
1	Ivan Gotti	Italy	99h55'56 "
2	Paolo Savoldelli	Italy	3'35 "
3	Gilberto Simoni	Italy	3'36 "
4th	Laurent Jalabert	France	5'16 "
5	Roberto Heras Hernández	Spain	7'47 "
6th	Niklas Axelsson	Sweden	9'38 "
7th	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	12'07 "
8th	Daniele De Paoli	Italy	14'20 "
9	Daniel Clavero Sebastián	Spain	15'53 "
10	Roberto Sgambelluri	Italy	17'31 "

Other ratings

• Intergiro : Fabrizio Guidi ( Italy ) 
• Scoring : Laurent Jalabert ( France ) 
• Mountain classification : José Jaime González ( Colombia ) 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pantani cleared of fraud. BBC, October 2, 2003, accessed April 6, 2014 . 

Web links

• Giro d'Italia 1999 in the database of Radsportseiten.net