Gran Premio della Liberazione

The Gran Premio della Liberazione (German: Great Price of Liberation ) is an Italian cycling race that has been held every April 25th since 1946 on a circuit at the Caracalla Baths in Rome .

meaning

The name and the date of the race refer to the Italian national holiday Anniversario della Liberazione (Eng .: Anniversary of the Liberation), on which the Italian Republic celebrates the liberation from fascism in 1945.

This symbolic meaning of the race exceeds the formal sporting value. The race, which was reserved for amateurs until 2004 and has been held as a U23 junior race in UCI category 1.2U since the introduction of the standard license in 2005 , is broadcast live on the Italian state television RAI , like otherwise only professional races .

Among the winners of the race are numerous riders who were later very successful in international cycling, e.g. the later winner of the Giro d'Italia and two-time road world champion Gianni Bugno in 1985 or the winner of Milan – Sanremo 2011 , Mathew Goss , who won here in 2006 .

The length of the race in 2012 was 138 km. It was held on a circuit of approx. 6 km. This makes it a circuit race .

The organizer is the Velo Club Primavera Ciclistica , which also organized the Giro delle Regioni junior stage race .

winner

1946 Gustavo Guglielmetti 1947 Spartaco Rosati 1948 Bruno Fossa 1949 Alfio Benfenati 1950 Donato Piazza 1951 Vincenzo Zucconelli 1952 Renzo Maurizi 1953 Nazareno Venturini 1954 Cleto Maule 1955 Giancarlo Ceppi 1956 Aurelio Cestari 1957 Salvatore Morucci 1958 Remo Tamagni 1959 Romeo Venturelli 1960 Aurelio Bianchi 1961 Teodoro Cerbella 1962 Antonio Toniolo 1963 Antonio Toniolo 1964 Carlo Storai 1965 Ferruccio Manza 1966 Jaroslav Kvapil 1967 Carlo Galazzi 1968 Attilio Rota 1969 Pietro Mingardi

1970 Rudolf Labus 1971 Giuseppe De Matteis 1972 Juri Osincev 1973 Ivan Trifonov 1974 Cvitko Bilić 1975 Palmiro Masciarelli 1976 William Nickson 1977 Bob Downs 1978 Henning Jörgensen 1979 Walter Delle Case 1980 Marco Cattaneo 1981 Ivan Mitchenko 1982 Mauro Longo 1983 Claudio Golinelli 1984 Jorge Dominguez 1985 Gianni Bugno 1986 Mark van Orsouw 1987 Dmitry Konyšev 1988 Bernd Gröne 1989 Joachim Halupczok 1990 Uwe Winter 1991 Andrea Solagna 1992 Vasily Davidenko 1993 Alessandro Bertolini

1994 Alex Petersen 1995 Paolo Valoti 1996 Davide Casarotto 1997 Cristiano Citton 1998 Roberto Savoldi 1999 Marco Zanotti 2000 Lorenzo Bernucci 2001 Alberto Loddo 2002 Andrea Sanvido 2003 Davide Garbelli 2004 Daniele Colli 2005 Chris Sutton 2006 Matthew Goss 2007 Manuele Boaro 2008 Andrea Grendene 2009 Sacha Modolo 2010 Jan Tratnik 2011 Matteo Trentin 2012 Enrico Barbin 2013 Ilya Koschewoj 2014 Yevgeny Shalunov 2015 Lucas Gaday 2016 Vincenzo Albanese 2017 Be Lizde 2018 Alessandro Fedeli 2019 failed

Gran Premio della Liberazione Pink

The race should not be confused with the women's race Gran Premio della Liberazione Donne , which also took place annually on Liberation Day, but, unlike the men's race, was held in the Lombardy Crema until 2012 . The winner of the 2011 event was the two-time road world champion Giorgia Bronzini . Bronzini was already able to win in 2007 and 2009, making it the record winner. She was followed by the German Regina Schleicher , who won in 2005 and 2008. In 2013 the race was canceled. The tradition was resumed in 2016 and the race was held at the site of the men's race under the name Gran Premio della Liberazione . The first winner of the new edition was Marta Bastianelli .

Winners

• 2016 Marta Bastianelli
• 2017 Marta Bastianelli
• 2018 Letizia Paternoster

Web links

• Official website
• List of winners on memoire-du-cyclisme.net
• Gran Premio della Liberazione in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Gran Premio della Liberazione Donne in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Gran Premio della Liberazione Pink in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. only Spostata alle ore 9:00 am la partenza del Gran Premio della Liberazione on primaveracicilstica.com ( Memento from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Il GP della Liberazione paradigma della storia mondiale . sport24h.it on March 31, 2012
3. ^ Il Gran Premio della Liberazione aderisce alla campagna “Salva i ciclisti”. Il parcorso del Gran Premio della Liberazione nel dettaglio. (No longer available online.) Primaverciclistica.com, archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved September 11, 2012 (Italian). 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.  
4. ↑ GP Liberazione donne: A Crema trionfano Bronzini e Boldrini on cicloweb.it ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved February 19, 2012 
5. ↑ Annullato il Gran Premio Liberazione a Crema on tuttobiciweb.it v. March 19, 2013 (Italian) ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.