Tour of the Alps / Giro del Trentino by BikeRaceInfo (original) (raw)

Tour of the Alps (HC)

Formerly Giro del Trentino, Italy

Winners, placings, distances, average speeds

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The race:

In 2017 The Giro del Trentino was renamed, becoming the "Tour of the Alps".

Started in 1962 and run irregularly until the 1980s, The Tour of the Alps/Giro del Trentino is an important pre-Giro d'Italia tuneup held in the hilly Trentino region, which is close to Austria. The Dolomite mountains in the Trentino region northwest of Venice give the racers a good chance to get in some hard racing and to test their form against other Giro contenders.

The two 1960's editions were single day races. In 1979 it became a stage race.

Much like the 1912 Giro d'Italia, the 1986 edition was a team race with no individual winner. Neither race has ever repeated the team formula.

Currently (2022) the Tour of the Alps is held in mid to late April with the Giro d'Italia coming in early May.

Year 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Distance Average Speed km/hr
1962 Enzo Moser 6hr 59min 30sec Alcide Cerato Gaetano Sarazin 215 km 30.75
1963 Guido De Rosso 6hr 17min 30sec Franco Cribiori @ s.t. Ercole Baldini @ s.t. 222 km 35.284
1964- 1978 Race not held
1979 Knut Knudsen 7hr 19min 1sec Francesco Moser @ 2sec Roger De Vlaeminck @ 6sec 289.5 km 39.566
1980 Francesco Moser Tommy Prim @ 24sec Giambattista Baronchelli @ 40sec 638.5 km
1981 Roberto Visentini 13hr 8min 30sec Francesco Moser @ 13sec Giovanni Mantovani @ 1min 34sec 507.4 km 38.610
1982 Giuseppe Saronni 15hr 30min 23sec Francesco Moser @ s.t. Giambattista Baronchelli @ s.t. 603 km 38.887
1983 Francesco Moser 16hr 17min 31sec Bruno Leali @ 8sec Emanuele Bombini @ 9sec 619.5 km 38.025
1984 Franco Chioccioli 16hr 26min 48sec Emanuele Bombini @ 5sec Luciano Loro @ 17sec 627 km 38.123
1985 Harald Maier 17hr 7min 27sec Silvano Contini @ s.t. Gerhard Zadrobilek @ s.t. 598 km 34.921
1986 "Coppa Italia" Carrera Jeans Del-Tongo Atala-Ofmega
1987 Claudio Corti 15hr 35min 16sec Giambattista Baronchelli @ 4sec Tony Rominger @ 10sec 594.8 km 38.158
1988 Urs Zimmerman 15hr 42min 2sec Tony Rominger @ 7sec Helmut Wechselberger @ 46sec 595.9 km 37.954
1989 Mauro Antonio Santaromita 14hr 40min 16sec Claudio Chiappucci @ 43sec Luca Gelfi @ 58sec 601 km 40.965
1990 Gianni Bugno 17hr 14min 34sec Piotr Ugramov @ 1sec Leonardo Sierra @ 6sec 668 km 38.741
1991 Leonardo Sierra 18hr 31min 49sec Massimiliano Lelli @ 26sec Stephen Hodge @ 30sec 714 km 38.532
1992 Claudio Chiappucci 19hr 35min 19sec Roberto Conti @ 35sec Zenon Jaskula @ 1min 47sec 713 km 36.399
1993 Maurizio Fondriest 18hr 13min 36sec Claudio Chiappucci @ 11sec Leonardo Sierra @ 38sec 695 km 38.131
1994 Moreno Argentin 18hr 15min 45sec Evgeni Berzin @ 19sec Francesco Casagrande @ 28sec 674 km 36.906
1995 Heinz Imboden 13hr 43min 49sec Mariano Piccoli @ 1min 6sec Francesco Frattini @ 1min 21sec 524 km 38.164
1996 Wladimir Belli 22hr 48min 19sec Enrico Zaina @ 4sec Nelson Rodriguez @ s.t. 884 km 38.763
1997 Luc Leblanc 16hr 42min 12sec Pavel Tonkov @ 7sec Leonardo Piepoli @ 39sec 641 km 38.376
1998 Paolo Savoldelli 17hr 29min 45sec Dario Frigo @ 24sec Francesco Casagrande @ 26sec 687.7 km 39.307
1999 Paolo Savoldelli 18hr 18min 49sec Gilberto Simoni @ 7sec Marco Pantani @ s.t. 697 km 38.059
2000 Simone Borgheresi 15hr 31min 2sec Niklas Axelsson @ 23sec Paolo Savoldelli @ 28sec 609.3 km 39.266
2001 Francesco Casagrande 17hr 17min 58sec Leonardo Piepoli @ 1min Raimondas Rumsas @ 1min 2sec 685 km 39.597
2002 Francesco Casagrande 18hr 3min 6sec Julio Perez Cuapio @ 28sec Gilberto Simoni @ 45sec 695.6 km 38.534
2003 Gilberto Simoni 17hr 52min 43sec Stefano Garzelli @ 9sec Tadej Valjavec @ 24sec 658.8 km 36.848
2004 Damiano Cunego 17hr 31min 3sec Jure Golcer @ 49sec Gilberto Simoni @ 53sec 673.3 km 38.486
2005 Julio Perez Cuapio 17hr 45min 29sec Evgeni Petrov @ 34sec Sergio Ghisalberti @ 44sec 682.8 km 38.450
2006 Damiano Cunego 16hr 28min 25sec Luca Mazzanti @ 4sec Eddy Ratti @ 8sec 671.7 km 40.774
2007 Damiano Cunego 16hr 22min 20sec Michele Scarponi @ 18sec Luca Mazzanti @ 40sec 647.8 km 39.567
2008 Vincenzo Nibali 14hr 1min 9sec Stefano Garzelli @ 15sec Domenico Pozzovivo @ 31sec` 540.98 km 38.58
2009 Ivan Basso 13hr 17min 50sec Janez Brajkovic @ 22sec Przemyslaw Niemec @ 33sec 522.3 km 39.278
2010 Alexandre Vinokourov 13hr 50min 23sec Riccardo Riccó @ .14sec Domenico Pozzovivo @ 42sec 494.9 km 35.755
2011 Michele Scarponi 13hr 54min 7sec Tiago Machado @ 7sec Luca Ascani @ 33sec 528.90 km 38.037
2012 Domenico Pozzovivo 12hr 57min 47sec Damiano Cunego @ 40sec Sylvester Szmyd @ 1min 4sec 506.60 km 39.069
2013 Vincenzo Nibali 17hr 49min 11sec Mauro Santambrogio @ 21sec Maxime Bouet @ 55sec 710.30 km 39.852
2014 Cadel Evans 14hr 14min 3sec Domenico Pozzovivo @ 50 seconds Przemyslaw Niemiec @ 1min 1sec 537.5 km 37.740
2015 Richie Porte 13hr 43min 41sec Mikel Landa @ 22sec Leopold Konig @ 58sec 526.2 km 38.330
2016 Mikel Landa 14hr 44min 48sec Tanel Kangert @ 2sec Jakob Fuglsang @ 14sec 597.6 km 40.524 km/hr
2017 Geraint Thomas 20hr 49min 37sec Thibaut Pinot @ 7sec Domenico Pozzovivo @ 20sec 783.6 km 37.624 km/hr
2018 Thibaut Pinot 18hr 28min 48sec Domenico Pozzovivo @ 15sec Miguel Angel Lopez @ s.t. 716.9 km 38.793 km/hr
2019 Pavel Sivakov 18hr 58min 0sec Tao Geoghegan Hart @ 27sec Vincenzo Nibali @ 33sec 710.8 km 37.476 km/hr
2020 Race cancelled because of Covid-19 pandemic
2021 Simon Yates 18hr 36min 6sec Pello Bilbao @ 58sec Aleksandr Vlasov @ 1min 6sec 713.6 km 38.362 km/hr
2022 Romain Bardet 18hr 59min 29sec Michael Storer @ 14sec Thymen Arensman @ 16sec 726.5 km 38.254 km/hr
2023 Tao Geoghegan Hart 19hr 29min 50sec Hugh Carthy @ 22sec Jack Haig @ 28sec 752.6 km 38.600 km/hr
2024 Juan Pedro Lopez 18hr 20min 43sec Ben O'Connor @ 38sec Antonio Tiberi @ 42sec 708.7 km 38.631 km/hr