Giro d'Italia 2012

Giro d'Italia 2012
Racing series	UCI WorldTour
Host country	Italy Denmark
Competition period	May 5th to 27th, 2012
Stages	21 stages
overall length	3504 km
Starting field	198 from 37 nations in 22 teams
winner
Overall rating	1. Ryder Hesjedal (GRM) 91:39:02 h 2. Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT) + 0:16 min 3. Thomas De Gendt (VCD) + 1:39 min
Team evaluation	Lampre-ISD 274: 19: 46 h
Scoring jerseys
Scoring	Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
Mountain scoring	Matteo Rabottini (FAR)
Young talent evaluation	Rigoberto Urán (SKY)
course
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The 95th Giro d'Italia took place from May 5th to 27th, 2012. The bike race was held in 21 stages with a total length of 3504 kilometers. The tour started in Denmark with an individual time trial and ended in the same way in Milan . After the three starting stages in Denmark, the race returned to Italy, where the route from Verona led south on the east side of the country. The southernmost point was reached on the eighth day section to Lago Laceno , from then on it went north again on the Tyrrhenian coast, where the mountain stages in the Alps and Dolomites were on the program for the last week . The king's stage with around 6000 m altitude was the penultimate stage over the Mortirolo and mountain arrival on the Stilfser Joch . There were a total of six mountain arrivals .

The 2012 Tour of Italy was the first under the new race director Michele Acquarone, who had replaced Angelo Zomegnan.

The third stage around Horsens was dedicated to racing driver Wouter Weylandt , who died on the third day of the tour in 2011 , and was called "WW Special Day" after the Belgian’s nickname . In addition, his starting number 108 will never be awarded again at the Giro d'Italia.

Attendees

The 18 ProTeams were entitled to start . In addition, the organizer RCS gave four wildcards to Professional Continental Teams , including, surprisingly, the German team NetApp . Acqua e Sapone around the former Giro winner Stefano Garzelli , who actually wanted to end his career at the 2012 Tour of Italy, was not invited . Each team sent nine riders to the start, bringing a total of 198 professional cyclists to the start. There were three Germans, six Swiss, five Austrians and two Luxembourgers.

ProTeams Ag2r Astana Pro Team BMC Racing Team Euskaltel-Euskadi FDJ-Big Mat Garmin Barracuda	Orica GreenEdge Katusha team Lampre ISD Liquigas-Cannondale Lotto Belisol team Movistar	Omega Pharma-Quick Step Rabobank Cycling Team RadioShack Nissan Sky ProCycling Team Saxo Bank Vacansoleil DCM
Professional Continental Teams Androni Giocattoli Venezuela Colnago-CSF Inox	Farnese Vini-Selle Italia Team NetApp

→ Detailed start list: 2012 drivers field

In the absence of last year's suspended winner, Alberto Contador , last year's runner-up Michele Scarponi officially received the winner's pink jersey two days before the start of the tour , which he had subsequently been awarded by Contador's suspension. In addition to the man from Lampre-ISD , his compatriot Ivan Basso ( Liquigas-Cannondale ), the winner of 2010, is considered to be the biggest favorite for the overall victory in 2012. However, both drivers had barely achieved good results in the season so far, so that many experts at the start of the Giro were still in doubt whether they would get in shape in time. With Damiano Cunego and Sylwester Szmyd, they both had strong helpers at their side who could have taken on the role of team captains if necessary. Other possible overall winners were Fränk Schleck from Luxembourg from RadioShack-Nissan , who was nominated for his injured teammate Jakob Fuglsang at short notice , and Domenico Pozzovivo ( Colnago-CSF Inox ), who won the Giro del Trentino in April . John Gadret ( Ag2r La Mondiale ), José Rujano ( Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela ) and Roman Kreuziger ( Astana Pro Team ) were given outsider chances to win .

World champion Mark Cavendish ( Sky ProCycling ) was the main candidate for the victories in the mass sprints on the flat stages . In addition to the British, almost all other world-class sprinters such as Tyler Farrar , Matthew Goss , Theo Bos , Mark Renshaw and Andrea Guardini were at the start.

Since Stefano Garzelli's team Acqua e Sapone had not received a wildcard, the defending champion did not start in the mountain classification. As his possible successors, for example, Emanuele Sella or José Serpa (both Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela ) were traded, but there was no clear favorite in this special ranking. For the first time this year, the leader's jersey was no longer green, but instead blue at the sponsor's request.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	Type	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
01.	Sat 0May 5th	Herning ( Denmark ) EZF		008.7	Taylor Phinney (BMC)	Taylor Phinney
02.	Sun 0May 6th	Herning - Herning (Denmark)		206	Mark Cavendish (SKY)
03.	Mon, 0May 7th	Horsens - Horsens (Denmark)		190	Matthew Goss (OGE)
R.	Tuesday, 0May 8th	1st day of rest
04th	Wed, 0May 9th	Verona - Verona MZF		033.2	Garmin Barracuda	Ramūnas Navardauskas
05.	Thursday, May 10th	Modena - Fano		209	Mark Cavendish (SKY)
06th	Fri, May 11th	Urbino - Porto Sant'Elpidio		210	Miguel Ángel Rubiano (AND)	Adriano Malori
07th	Sat, May 12th	Recanati - Rocca di Cambio		205	Paolo Tiralongo (AST)	Ryder Hesjedal
08th.	Sun 13 May	Sulmona - Lake Laceno		229	Domenico Pozzovivo (COG)
09.	Mon, May 14th	San Giorgio del Sannio - Frosinone		166	Francisco José Ventoso (MOV)
10.	Tuesday, May 15th	Civitavecchia - Assisi		186	Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)	Joaquim Rodríguez
11.	Wed, May 16	Assisi - Montecatini Terme		255	Roberto Ferrari (AND)
12.	Thu, May 17th	Seravezza - Sestri Levante		155	Lars Bak (LTB)
13.	Fri, May 18	Savona - Cervere		121	Mark Cavendish (SKY)
14th	Sat, May 19	Cherasco - Cervinia		206	Andrey Amador (MOV)	Ryder Hesjedal
15th	Sun May 20th	Busto Arsizio - Lecco / Pian dei Resinelli		169	Matteo Rabottini (FAR)	Joaquim Rodríguez
R.	Mon, May 21	2nd day off
16.	Tue, May 22	Limone sul Garda - Falzes		173	Jon Izaguirre (EUS)
17th	Wed 23 May	Falzes - Cortina d'Ampezzo		186	Joaquim Rodríguez (KAT)
18th	Thursday May 24th	San Vito di Cadore - Vedelago		149	Andrea Guardini (FAR)
19th	Fri, May 25th	Treviso - Alpe di Pampeago		198	Roman Kreuziger (AST)
20th	Sat, May 26th	Caldes / Val di Sole - Stilfser Joch		219	Thomas De Gendt (VCD)
21st	Sun, May 27th	Milan EZF		030.1	Marco Pinotti (BMC)	Ryder Hesjedal

Ratings in the course of the race

The table shows the leaders of the respective overall standings after completing the stage.

stage	Overall rating	Scoring	Mountain scoring	Young talent evaluation	Trofeo Fast Team team competition
01.	Taylor Phinney	Taylor Phinney	not forgiven	Taylor Phinney	Garmin Barracuda
02.		Mark Cavendish	Alfredo Balloni
03.		Matthew Goss
04th	Ramūnas Navardauskas			Ramūnas Navardauskas
05.
06th	Adriano Malori		Miguel Ángel Rubiano	Adriano Malori
07th	Ryder Hesjedal			Peter Stetina
08th.				Damiano Caruso	Liquigas-Cannondale
09.
10.	Joaquim Rodríguez
11.		Mark Cavendish
12.			Michał Gołaś		Movistar
13.
14th	Ryder Hesjedal			Rigoberto Urán
15th	Joaquim Rodríguez		Matteo Rabottini	Sergio Henao
16.
17th				Rigoberto Urán
18th
19th
20th		Joaquim Rodríguez			Lampre ISD
21st	Ryder Hesjedal

Reporting in Germany

For the second time, a German-language program booklet 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

• Tour de France 2012
• Vuelta a España 2012

Web links

• Official website
• Giro d'Italia 2012 in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mortirolo das L'Alpe d'Huez des Giro d'Italia. (No longer available online.) Eurosport.yahoo.com, May 25, 2012, archived from the original on May 29, 2012 ; Retrieved July 7, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ 2012 Giro d'Italia wildcards named. cyclingnews.com, January 10, 2012, accessed April 24, 2012 .