Giro di Sicilia
| 2023 Giro di Sicilia | |
| Race details | |
|---|---|
| Date | April |
| Region | Sicily |
| English name | Tour of Sicily |
| Discipline | Road |
| Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
| Type | Stage race |
| Organiser | RCS Sport |
| Web site | ilgirodisicilia |
| History | |
| First edition | 1907 |
| Editions | 27 (as of 2023)[1] |
| First winner | Carlo Galetti (ITA) |
| Most recent | Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) |
Giro di Sicilia (English: Tour of Sicily) is a men's multi-stage bicycle race held on Sicily, Italy. The race was first held in 1907 and was won by Carlo Galetti.[2] The race disappeared from the calendar after the 1977 edition won by Giuseppe Saronni, until it was revived by RCS Sports in 2019.[3] The first edition of the revived race was won by American rider Brandon McNulty.[4] It is part of the UCI Europe Tour, classified as a 2.1 event.[5]
The 2024 edition was cancelled as RCS Sport, in collaboration with the Abruzzo Region, will organize the Giro d'Abruzzo instead.[6]
Winners
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Carlo Galetti | Luigi Ganna | Umberto Zoffoli |
| 1908 | Carlo Galetti | Pierino Albini | Ernesto Azzini |
| 1926 | Domenico Caratozzolo | Francisco Gambino | Gianbattista Gilli |
| 1929 | Nicola Mammina | Leonida Frascarelli | Albino Binda |
| 1932 | Nicola Mammina | Attilio Pavesi | Antonio Nicolosi |
| 1936 | Francesco Patti | Ernesto Zuppa | Alfredo Mazzocchetti |
| 1939 | Remo Cerasa | Francesco Patti | Giovanni Corrieri |
| 1940–1947 | Not held (WW II) | ||
| 1948 | Francesco Patti | Marcello Spadolini | Italiano Lazzerini |
| 1949 | Dino Rossi | Sergio Pagliazi | Angelo Fumagali |
| 1950 | Donato Zampini | Giacomo Zampieri | Arigo Padovan |
| 1951 | Primo Volpi | Francesco Patti | Ugo Fondelli |
| 1952 | Not held | ||
| 1953 | Elio Brasola | Pietro Giudici | Luigi Mastroianni |
| 1954 | Ugo Massocco | Livio Isotti | Giovanni Roma |
| 1955 | Gilberto Dall'Agata | Franco Franchi | Renzo Accordi |
| 1956 | Piero Polo | Luciano Ciancola | Walter Serena |
| 1957 | Alberto Emiliozzi | Alfredo Sabbadin | Giuseppe Cainero |
| 1958 | Carlo Azzini | Gianbattista Milesi | Antonio Catalano |
| 1958[7] | Diego Ronchini | Noè Conti | Mario Mori |
| 1959 | Loris Guernieri | Federico Galeaz | Noé Conti |
| 1960 | Giorgio Tinazzi | Aurelio Cestari | Idrio Bui |
| 1961–1972 | Not held | ||
| 1973 | Enrico Maggioni | Michele Dancelli | Enrico Paolini |
| 1974 | Roger De Vlaeminck | Patrick Sercu | Marino Basso |
| 1975–1976 | Not held | ||
| 1977 | Giuseppe Saronni | Pierino Gavazzi | Carmelo Barone |
| 1978–2018 | Not held | ||
| 2019 | Brandon McNulty | Guillaume Martin | Fausto Masnada |
| 2020 | Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||
| 2021 | Vincenzo Nibali | Alejandro Valverde | Alessandro Covi |
| 2022 | Damiano Caruso | Jefferson Alexander Cepeda | Louis Meintjes |
| 2023[8] | Alexey Lutsenko | Louis Meintjes | Vincenzo Albanese |
References
- ^ "Il Giro Di Sicilia Is Back After 42 Years". Il Giro Di Sicilia. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ "Giro di Sicilia "en ligne" (Ita) - Ex". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Sicily confirmed as host of Giro d'Italia 2021 start". www.cyclingnews.com. 26 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Giro di Sicilia". FirstCycling.com. 5 October 2023.
- ^ "Giro di Sicilia 2019". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
- ^ "Bye Bye Sicilia: RCS si sposta al Giro d'Abruzzo" (in Italian). ciclismoweb.net. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
- ^ Cursa en línia
- ^ Farr, Stephen (14 April 2023). "Giro di Sicilia: Alexey Lutsenko captures overall title with Mount Etna stage 4 solo victory". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
External links
- Official site Archived 2019-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ProCyclingStats