Giro d'Italia 2011
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| Racing series | UCI WorldTour |
| Host country |
 Italy Austria
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| Competition period | May 7-29, 2011 |
| Stages | 21 stages |
| overall length | 3479 km (3263 km counted) |
| Starting field | 207 from 35 nations in 23 teams (159 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Michele Scarponi 84:11:24 h 2. Vincenzo Nibali + 0:46 min 3. John Gadret + 3:54 min 
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| Team evaluation |  Team Astana 252: 44: 52 h
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 Young talent evaluation
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 Roman Kreuziger
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| ← Giro d'Italia 2010 | Giro d'Italia 2012 → |
| Final result after the 21st stage | ||
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| DSQ | 84:05:14 h | |
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Michele Scarponi | 84:11:24 h |
| Second | Vincenzo Nibali | + 0:46 min |
| Third | John Gadret | + 3:54 min |
| Fourth | Joaquim Rodríguez | + 4:55 min |
| fifth | Roman Kreuziger | + 5:18 min |
| Sixth | José Rujano | + 6:02 min |
| seventh | Denis Menshov | + 6:08 min |
| Eighth | Steven Kruijswijk | + 7:41 min |
| Ninth | Kanstanzin Siuzou | + 8:00 min |
| Tenth | Mikel Nieve | + 9:58 min |
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202 P. | |
| Second | Michele Scarponi | 122 P. |
| Third | Vincenzo Nibali | 121 P. |
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Stefano Garzelli | 67 P. |
| Second | 58 P. | |
| Third | José Rujano | 43 P. |
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Roman Kreuziger | 84:16:42 h |
| Second | Steven Kruijswijk | + 2:23 min |
| Third | Peter Stetina | + 38:41 min |
| Team evaluation | Pro team Astana | 252: 44: 52 h |
| Second | Movistar team | + 10:00 min |
| Third | AG2R La Mondiale | + 11:23 min |
The 94th Giro d'Italia took place from May 7th to 29th, 2011. The event marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the state of Italy (the country of Italy has existed - for the most part - in its present form since the beginning of the reign of King Victor Emmanuel II . The original winner Alberto Contador was stripped of the title with the subsequent doping ban on February 6, 2012 for a doping offense at the Tour de France 2010 .
The bike race was held in 21 stages over 3479 km of the originally planned 3522.5 km and led through 17 of the 20 regions of Italy ( Sardinia , Apulia and the Aosta Valley were not visited ). This made the tour around 60 kilometers longer than the 2010 edition . The Giro started with a team time trial in Turin and ended for the 74th time in Milan with an individual time trial. After starting in Turin on the west side of Italy, the race led south to Sicily , where Mount Etna was climbed twice. Then it went north on the east side of Italy, where the decision in the overall standings should be made with difficult stages in the Dolomites and the Alps .
Fatal accident by Wouter Weylandt
The sporting event was overshadowed by the fatal accident of Belgian professional Wouter Weylandt from the Leopard Trek team during the third stage. Because of this fatal accident, the organizers decided to neutralize the fourth stage. In memory of the deceased, the stage was dedicated to Wouter Weylandt and the Leopard Trek team. Team Leopard Trek crossed the finish line together with Weylandt's best friend Tyler Farrar from Team Garmin-Cervélo in memory of the deceased, closed and at a distance from the rest of the field. Two days after the accident, the entire Leopard Trek team left the Giro. Tyler Farrar also dropped out of the race after the neutralized fourth stage out of mourning for his friend.
Breakdown at the award ceremony
At the award ceremony for the Spanish overall winner Alberto Contador in Milan , the organizers made an embarrassing mishap: the national anthem of Spain from the time of the dictatorship of General Franco was mistakenly played. The Spanish government filed a complaint and the giro organizers apologized.
Field of participants
In addition to the 18 ProTeams , the organizer RCS also invited five Professional Continental Teams . Each team sent nine riders to the start, bringing a total of 207 professional cyclists to the Giro. There were six Germans, seven Swiss, two Luxembourgers and one Austrian.
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→ Detailed start list: drivers field 2011
The three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador from Spain , who won the 2008 Giro d'Italia , was the big favorite for overall victory . His biggest competitors were last year’s third and winner of the Vuelta a España 2010 , Vincenzo Nibali , Denis Menschow , winner of the Giro 2009 and last year’s fourth Michele Scarponi .
With Mark Cavendish , a multiple Tour de France stage winner was at the start in mass sprints, but due to the lack of good results in the course of the season so far, he was not the most promising candidate at the start of the tour, as was Tyler Farrar ( who has since dropped out ), two-time stage winner in 2010 viewed for daily successes on the flat stages. Instead, Alessandro Petacchi was the favorite in the sprints. In addition to his driver Danilo Hondo , Gerald Ciolek could also be expected to achieve good results in the mass sprints.
Matthew Lloyd , the defending champion in the mountains classification, did not start. There was therefore no clear favorite to win the green jersey.
The oldest participant was the Italian Andrea Noè at the age of 42 at his 16th Giro participation. The oldest German was Danilo Hondo at the age of 37, who was at the start for the fifth time. The youngest starter was the 21-year-old Colombian Carlos Betancur . A total of 47 participants fell into the junior category for the under 25s.
Stages
→ Detailed stage overview with results: Giro d'Italia 2011 / stages
The stage plan was presented on October 23, 2010. The race started in Turin and, after a break of several years, also led through Calabria and Sicily . Two stages also led to Austria.
The 2011 Giro was considered to be the toughest in years, as there were five flat sections and three time trials (including one mountain time trial), four low mountain ranges and eight mountain stages with seven mountain finishes on the schedule. A total of eleven mountain ratings in the 1st and highest category were carried out.
After starting in Turin , the first capital of united Italy, the route headed south along the Tyrrhenian coast. After quite flat sections waited at the beginning for the sprinters to come, the terrain became more wavy, especially on the fifth stage, which also features a section of the Tuscan gravel road "Strade Bianche". In Montevergine di Mercogliano , the first mountain finish of the race took place two days later, before the southernmost point of the Giro in Sicily was reached on the ninth section of the day , where Mount Etna had to be conquered twice.
After a day of rest, the route led back north along the Adriatic Sea. The tour reached the decisive phase when the Alps were crossed for the first time during the 13th stage , then it goes to Austria on the Großglockner . On the following sections of the day, the Monte Zoncolan , a mountain time trial and the Colle delle Finestre on the penultimate day awaited . The Giro finally ended with an individual time trial in Milan .
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Ratings in the course of the race
The table shows the leader of the respective overall classification after completion of the stage. A total of 1.4 million euros was distributed for these and numerous other special ratings.
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Pink jersey (overall classification)
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Red jersey ( points evaluation )
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Green jersey ( mountain classification )
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White jersey (junior ranking )
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Team evaluation |
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| 1. | Marco Pinotti | not forgiven | not forgiven | Bjorn Selander | HTC highroad |
| 2. | Mark Cavendish | Alessandro Petacchi | Sebastian Lang | ||
| 3. | David Millar | Gianluca Brambilla | Jan Bakelants | Team Garmin-Cervélo | |
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| 5. | Pieter Weening | Martin Kohler | Steven Kruijswijk | Movistar team | |
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| 7th | Bart De Clercq | ||||
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Filippo Savini | Roman Kreuziger | Pro team Astana |
| 10. | Alessandro Petacchi | ||||
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| 15th | Stefano Garzelli | ||||
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Stefano Garzelli | Roman Kreuziger | Pro team Astana |
reporting
For the first time, a German-language program was published in the run-up to the Giro, which the organizer produced in cooperation with the trade journal Procycling . The television channel Eurosport broadcast several hours of the stages live every afternoon and broadcast shortened repetitions of these.
See also
Web links
- Official website of the Giro d'Italia
- Regulations of the Giro d´Italia 2011 (Italian; PDF; 233 kB), accessed on May 9, 2011
- The stage in honor of Wouter Weylandt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Giro d'Italia 2011 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Italy
- ↑ Press release International Sports Court : Alberto Contador found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS): suspension of two years ( Memento of November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English, PDF; 187 kB) . tas-cas.org, February 6, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
- ↑ Leopard Trek leaves the Giro d´Italia on radsport-news.com , accessed on May 11, 2011
- ↑ Cycling news: A stage full of sadness.
- ↑ “Organizer plays old Franco anthem for Contador” on radsport-news.com , accessed on May 30, 2011
- ↑ http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2011/it/squadre.shtml?lang=it team list on the official website
- ↑ Presentation of the series in derstandard.at, October 23, 2010
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