Giro d'Italia 2001

The 84th Giro d'Italia took place from May 19 to June 10, 2001 in a total of 21 stages and a prologue . It was won by Gilberto Simoni from Trentino , who took over the pink jersey from Dario Frigo after the 13th stage . Frigo took over the overall lead from the prologue winner Rik Verbrugghe on the 4th stage .

course

stage	from	to	km	winner
prolog	Montesilvano Marina ( PE )	Pescara (PE)	7 ( EZF )	Rik Verbrugghe
1	Giulianova ( TE )	Francavilla al Mare ( CH )	205	Ellis Rastelli
2	Fossacesia (CH)	Lucera ( FG )	163	Danilo Hondo
3	Lucera (FG)	Potenza ( PZ )	149	Danilo Hondo -2-
4th	Potenza (PZ)	Montevergine di Mercogliano ( AV )	169	Danilo Di Luca
5	Avellino (AV)	Nettuno ( RM )	229	Ivan Quaranta
6th	Image ID: Nettuno	Rieti ( RI )	152	Mario Cipollini
7th	Rieti (RI)	Montevarchi ( AR )	239	Stefano Zanini
8th	Montecatini Terme ( PT )	Reggio nell'Emilia ( RE )	185	Pietro Caucchioli
9	Reggio nell'Emilia (RE)	Rovigo ( RO )	140	Mario Cipollini -2-
10	Lido di Jesolo ( VE )	Ljubljana ( Slovenia )	212	Denis Zanette
11	Bled (Slovenia)	Gorizia ( GO )	187	Pablo Lastras Garcia
12	Gradisca d'Isonzo (GO)	Montebelluna ( TV )	139	Matteo Tosatto
13	Montebelluna (TV)	Passo Pordoi ( BL - TN )	225	Julio Alberto Pérez Cuapio
14th	Cavalese (TN)	Arco (TN)	166	Carlos Contreras Caño
15th	Sirmione ( BS )	Salò (BS)	55 (EZF)	Dario Frigo
16	Erbusco (BS)	Parma ( PR )	142	Ivan Quaranta -2-
17th	Sanremo ( IM )	Sanremo (IM)	123	Pietro Caucchioli -2-
18th	Imperia (IM)	Sant'Anna di Vinadio ( CN )	230	not carried out
19th	Alba (CN)	Busto Arsizio ( VA )	163	Mario Cipollini -3-
20th	Busto Arsizio (VA)	Arona ( NO )	181	Gilberto Simoni
21st	Arona (NO)	Milan ( MI )	125	Mario Cipollini -4-

doping

Under the command of the prosecutor of Florence, Luigi Bocciolini , around 200 carabinieri surrounded and searched the 12 quarters of the 20 teams of the Giro d'Italia on the night of June 6, 2001 in Sanremo in search of doping substances. The night after the 17th stage, the team vehicles were also checked and, according to the investigating prosecutor Antonio Guttadauro, more than 200 drugs were confiscated.

This was the largest anti-doping campaign since the Festina scandal at the 1998 Tour de France and the investigations led to 51 charges.

The 18th stage on the day after the raid was canceled due to protests by the drivers.

Final score

Overall rating

rank	Surname	nationality	time
1	Gilberto Simoni	Italy	89h02'58 "
2	Abraham Olano	Spain	7'31 "
3	Unai Osa	Spain	8'37 "
4th	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	9'25 "
5	José Azevedo	Portugal	9'44 "
6th	Andrea Noè	Italy	10'50 "
7th	Ivan Gotti	Italy	10'54 "
8th	Carlos Contreras Caño	Colombia	11'44 "
9	Pietro Caucchioli	Italy	13'34 "
10	Giuliano Figueras	Italy	14'08 "
23	Hannes Hempel	Austria

Other ratings

• Intergiro : Massimo Strazzer Italy 
• Points : Massimo Strazzer Italy 
• Mountain : Fredy González Colombia 

Web links

• Giro d'Italia 2001 in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doping substances at Frigo: lies and deceit at the Giro d'Italia (June 9, 2001)
2. ↑ Giro d'Italia 2001
3. ↑ Giro throws dark shadows on the tour (June 10, 2001)
4. ↑ La Policía acaba con una trama de exciclistas que dopaba a corredores amateurs (Spanish; May 19, 2016)