Giro d'Italia 2007

Giro 2007: finish in Milan

Final result after the 21st stage
winner	Danilo Di Luca	92:59:39 h (37.488 km / h)
Second	Andy Schleck	+ 1:55 min
Third	Eddy Mazzoleni	+ 2:25 min
Fourth	Gilberto Simoni	+ 3:15 min
fifth	Damiano Cunego	+ 3:49 min
Sixth	Riccardo Riccò	+ 7:00 min
seventh	Yevgeny Petrov	+ 8:34 min
Eighth	Marzio Bruseghin	+ 10:14 min
Ninth	Franco Pellizotti	+ 10:44 min
Tenth	David Arroyo	+ 11:58 min
Scoring	Alessandro Petacchi	185 p.
Second	Danilo Di Luca	130 p.
Third	Paolo Bettini	120 p.
Mountain scoring	Leonardo Piepoli	79 P.
Second	Fortunato Baliani	46 P.
Third	Danilo Di Luca	45 p.
Young talent evaluation	Andy Schleck	93:01:34 h
Second	Riccardo Riccò	+ 5:05 min
Third	Domenico Pozzovivo	+ 22:00 min
Team evaluation	Saunier Duval-Prodir	278: 11: 31 h
Second	Liquigas	+ 3:53 min
Third	Lampre-Fondital	+ 6:06 min

Giro d'Italia 2007, overview of the stages

The 90th Giro d'Italia took place from May 12th to June 3rd 2007 . The bike race consisted of 21 stages with a total distance of 3,486.2 kilometers. The winner was the Italian Danilo Di Luca .

Race course

The tour started on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia with a team time trial and traditionally ended in Milan after the decision on overall victory was made in an individual time trial on Lake Garda near Verona on the penultimate stage .

After three stages, there was already the first day of rest before the climbers and favorites in the overall classification exchanged blows for the first time on the fourth stage, when the stage ended with a final ascent of over 17 kilometers. The next mountain arrival was on the tenth stage with a nine-kilometer final ascent, and the 15th and 17th stages also ended at a height of over 1,000 meters.

In between, the drivers made a detour to Briançon in France and Lienz in Austria .

The highlight of the Tour of Italy was the 13th stage with a 12.6 kilometer mountain time trial from Biella to Oropa . It was added to the program in honor of the late Giro and Tour de France winner Marco Pantani , who won the pink jersey in Oropa in 1999 , according to the Tuttosport newspaper a few weeks before the official presentation.

A mountain time trial to the Madonna del Ghisallo chapel was actually planned in 2006 , but due to differences with the UCI , the world cycling association , it was removed from the route.

In addition, the combination classification, which was only introduced last year and the leader of which has previously been awarded the blue jersey , has been replaced by the junior competition , the leader of which receives a white jersey.

22 teams took part in the Giro d'Italia. With the exception of Unibet.com , all ProTour teams were invited. In protest against the UCI ProTour , the organizer RCS-Sport disregarded the rules of the racing series, which guaranteed all 20 teams with ProTour licenses to start, and disregarded the Belgian-Swedish team. Wildcards went to the second-rate teams Tinkoff Credit Systems , Ceramiche Panaria and Acqua & Sapone .

doping

As most recently at the Tour de France 2006 and the Vuelta a España 2006 , there was also a doping case at the Giro with the Basque Aketza Peña . After a positive result at the Giro del Trentino in April, which was published in the course of the third Giro week, the Euskaltel-Euskadi team excluded its driver from the race before the 17th stage and suspended him until further notice.

On June 14, 2007 it was announced that there were anomalies in three other cases. However, in all three cases it was a question of regular medication intake or natural values:

The asthma drug salbutamol was detected in the blood of the winner of the mountain classification Leonardo Piepoli and the winner of the points classification Alessandro Petacchi . Both of them had approval for the use of the anabolic effects-inducing agent. In addition, the blood values ​​of Iban Mayo showed abnormal values. An excessive testosterone level in the blood was detected there. However, it turned out that this had come about naturally.

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) nevertheless started investigations against Alessandro Petacchi, because a control found a value of 1320 nanograms per milliliter, but a limit value of 1000 nanograms is set for an exemption for the use of the asthma drug.

See also:

• Driver field
• Individual results of the stages

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	km	Stage winner	Maglia Rosa
1st stage	12th of May	Caprera - La Maddalena	25.6 ( MZF )	Liquigas	Enrico Gasparotto
2nd stage	May 13th	Tempio Pausania - Bosa	205	Robbie McEwen	Danilo Di Luca
3rd stage	May 14th	Barumini - Cagliari	181	Alessandro Petacchi	Enrico Gasparotto
Rest day
4th stage	May 16	Salerno - Montevergine di Mercogliano	153	Danilo Di Luca	Danilo Di Luca
5th stage	17th of May	Teano - Frascati	173	Robert Forster	Danilo Di Luca
6th stage	May 18	Tivoli - Spoleto	177	Luis Felipe Laverde	Marco Pinotti
7th stage	May 19th	Spoleto - Scarperia	254	Alessandro Petacchi	Marco Pinotti
8th stage	May 20th	Barberino di Mugello - Fiorano Modenese	200	Kurt Asle Arvesen	Marco Pinotti
9th stage	May 21	Reggio nell'Emilia - Lido di Camaiore	177	Danilo Napolitano	Marco Pinotti
10th stage	May 22	Lido di Camaiore - Santuario Nostra Signora della Guardia	250	Leonardo Piepoli	Andrea Noè
11th stage	23. May	Serravalle Scrivia - Pinerolo	198	Alessandro Petacchi	Andrea Noè
12th stage	May 24th	Scalenghe - Briançon ( FRA )	163	Danilo Di Luca	Danilo Di Luca
13th stage	25. May	Biella - Oropa	12.6 ( BZF )	Marzio Bruseghin	Danilo Di Luca
14th stage	May 26	Cantù - Bergamo	192	Stefano Garzelli	Danilo Di Luca
15th stage	May 27th	Trento - Three Peaks	184	Riccardo Riccò	Danilo Di Luca
Rest day
16th stage	May 29th	Agordo - Lienz ( AUT )	189	Stefano Garzelli	Danilo Di Luca
17th stage	30th May	Lienz (AUT) - Monte Zoncolan	142	Gilberto Simoni	Danilo Di Luca
18th stage	31. May	Udine - giant Pio X	203	Alessandro Petacchi	Danilo Di Luca
19th stage	June 1st	Treviso - Comano Terme	179	Iban Mayo	Danilo Di Luca
20th stage	2th of June	Bardolino - Verona	43 ( EZF )	Paolo Savoldelli	Danilo Di Luca
21st stage	3rd of June	Vestone - Milan	185	Alessandro Petacchi	Danilo Di Luca

Jerseys in the course of the tour

The table shows the wearer of the respective jersey during the individual stage or the leaders of the respective overall ranking on the evening of the previous day.

stage	Overall rating pink jersey	Scoring of the cyclamen red jersey	Mountain classification green jersey	Junior competition white jersey	TV Garibaldi - Score 1	Team evaluation
02nd stage	Enrico Gasparotto	not forgiven	not forgiven	Enrico Gasparotto	not forgiven	Liquigas
03rd stage	Danilo Di Luca	Robbie McEwen	Pawel Gross		Arnaud Labbe
04th stage	Enrico Gasparotto	Alessandro Petacchi
05th stage	Danilo Di Luca	Robbie McEwen	Danilo Di Luca	Vincenzo Nibali
06th stage		Alessandro Petacchi
07th stage	Marco Pinotti		Luis Felipe Laverde	Hubert Schwab		Ceramiche Panaria
08th stage
09th stage				Alexander Arekeev		Lampre-Fondital
10th stage
11th stage	Andrea Noè		Danilo Di Luca	Andy Schleck	Mikhail Ignatiev
12th stage					Mickaël Buffaz
13th stage	Danilo Di Luca
14th stage
15th stage
16th stage			Leonardo Piepoli			Saunier Duval-Prodir
17th stage						Ceramiche Panaria
18th stage						Saunier Duval-Prodir
19th stage
20th stage
21st stage
winner					Mikhail Ignatiev

¹ The leader of the classification is not marked with a jersey.

Web links

Commons : Giro d'Italia 2007  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Giro d'Italia 2007
• The route of the tour on Google Earth
• All stages: results and profiles on live-radsport.ch