Lombardy tour
The Lombardy Tour (Italian officially from 2012 "Il Lombardia", formerly "Giro di Lombardia" ) is traditionally the last major cycle race of the season. It is counted among the five so-called monuments of cycling .
The Italian one-day race took place every year in mid-October until 2011, making it the only “monument” that is not held in spring. The 106th edition of the race in 2012 took place for the first time before October 7th, after the UCI brought it forward to the last weekend of September in favor of two Chinese races. The Lombardy Tour was organized for the first time in 1905 at the suggestion of the Italian cyclist Giovanni Gerbi , who also crossed the finish line as the winner of the first edition. Since 1907 the race has been organized by the country's leading sports newspaper, La Gazzetta dello Sport . With the exception of the events in 1943 and 1944 , which were canceled due to World War II , the "Race of the Falling Leaves" was held every year.
Fausto Coppi tops the list of record winners with five (four times in a row) victories, followed by four-time winner Alfredo Binda and Henri Pélissier , Costante Girardengo , Gaetano Belloni , Gino Bartali , Sean Kelly and Damiano Cunego with three wins each.
Since 2011 the race has been part of the UCI WorldTour ( category 1st UWT ).
route
Although the route has undergone numerous changes over the years, the ascent from Bellagio to the Madonna del Ghisallo near Magreglio is traditionally one of the main obstacles in the race and is often the place of the preliminary decision, because the breakaway groups formed there with the eventual winner of the tour. Between 2004 and 2010 the destination was in Como on the shores of Lake Como , before Lecco was the destination of the tour for the first time in 2011 . There have been many different start and finish locations throughout history:
- 1905–1961 from Milan to Milan
- 1962–1984 from Milan to Como
- 1984–1989 from Como to Milan (Piazza Duomo)
- 1990–1994 from Milan to Monza
- 1995–2001 from Varese to Bergamo
- 2002 from Cantù to Bergamo
- 2003 from Como to Bergamo
- 2004–2006 from Mendrisio (SUI) to Como
- 2007–2009 from Varese to Como
- 2010 from Milan to Como
- 2011 from Milan to Lecco
- 2012–2013 from Bergamo to Lecco
- 2014 from Como to Bergamo
- 2015 from Bergamo to Como
- 2016 from Como to Bergamo
- since 2017 from Bergamo to Como
The 1124 meter high Colma di Sormano mountain pass was part of many events, the eastern ramp of which Muro di Sormano is one of the steepest roads used in professional cycling races.
Winners list
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Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
The Piccolo Giro di Lombardia ( German: Small Tour of Lombardy ) is also a one-day race that was originally reserved for amateurs and has been in Category 1.2 of the UCI Europe Tour since the introduction of the standard license . The route is usually 50 to 60 kilometers shorter than the Lombardy tour.
- Winners list
- 2019 Andrea Bagioli
- 2018 Robert Stannard
- 2017 Alexandr Riabushenko
- 2016 Harm Vanhoucke
- 2015 Fausto Masnada
- 2014 Gianni Moscon
- 2013 Davide Villella
- 2012 Jan Polanc
- 2011 Cristiano Monguzzi
- 2010 Alexander Serebryakov
- 2009 not held
- 2008 Daniele Ratto
- 2007 Marco Frapporti
- 2006 Marco Cattaneo
- 2005 Ruslan Hryschtschenko
- 2004 Giairo Ermeti
- 2003 Sergio Ghisalberti
- 2002 Antonio Quadranti
- 2001 Denis Bondarenko
- 2000 Luca Barattero
- 1999 Volodymyr Hustow
- 1998 Leonardo Giordani
- 1997 Christian Auriemma
- 1996 Stefano Garzelli
- 1995 Stefano Faustini
- 1994 Stefano Dante
- 1993 Peter Luttenberger
- 1992 Andrea Peron
- 1991 Diego Pellegrini
- 1990 Dario Nicoletti
- 1989 Mirko Bruschi
- 1988 Mario Manzoni
- 1987 Ettore Badolato
- 1986 Alberto Elli
- 1985 Maurizio Fondriest
- 1984 Walter Magnago
- 1983 Sergio Scremin
- 1982 Gianmarco Saccani
- 1981 Pier Emilio Bergonzi
- 1980 Giovanni Bino
- 1979 Moreno Argentin
- 1978 Pierangelo Bincoletto
- 1977 Maurizio Donati Maurizio
- 1976 Sean Kelly
- 1975 Gabriele Landoni
- 1974 Mario Gualdi
- 1973 Brude Biddle
- 1972 Giuliano Dominoni
- 1971 Alfredo Chinetti
- 1970 Giuseppe Maffeis
- 1969 Luigi Castelletti
- 1968 Angelo Corti
- 1967 Virginio Levati
- 1966 Alberto Della Torre
- 1965 Ercole Gualazzini
- 1964 Giovanni Clay Santini
- 1963 Amadeo Angiulli
- 1962 Adriano Durante
- 1961 Bruno Milesi
- 1960 Attilio Porteri
- 1959 Luigi Zanchetta
- 1958 Ernesto Bono
- 1957 Romeo Venturelli
- 1956 Antonio Margotti
- 1955 Diego Ronchini
- 1954 Angelo Coletto
- 1953 Aldo Moser
- 1952 Bruno Monti
- 1951 Gino Filippini
- 1950 Waldemaro Bartolozzi
- 1949 Carlo Masarati
- 1948 Renate Cornalea
- 1947 not held
- 1946 Luigi Casola
- 1939–1945 not held
- 1938 Serafino Santambrogio
- 1937 Gino Salani
- 1936 Salvator Crippa
- 1935 Diego Marabelli
- 1934 Gino Salani
- 1933 Carlo Castagnoli
- 1932 Augusto Como
- 1931 Mario Grassi
- 1930 Andrea Minasso
- 1929 not held
- 1928 Luigi Marchisio
- 1927 Ambrogio Beretta
- 1926 Mario Lusiani
- 1925 Sante Ferrato
- 1924 not held
- 1923 Liberio Ferrario
- 1922 not held
- 1921 Cesare Garino
- 1915–1920 not held
- 1914 Gaetano Belloni
- 1913 Ercole Nazari
- 1912 Giovanni Bassi
- 1911 Natale Bosco
See also
Web links
- Official website of Gazzetta dello Sport (Italian, English)
- Tour of Lombardy in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Piccolo Giro di Lombardia - Top 3 per edition. In: procyclingstats.com. Accessed March 31, 2019 .