1997 Giro d'Italia

1997 Giro d'Italia

Race details
Dates		May 17 — June 8
Stages		22
Distance		3,912 km (2,431 mi)
Winning time		102h 53' 58" (38.017 km/h or 23.623 mph)
Palmares
	Winner	Ivan Gotti (ITA)	(Saeco)
	Second	Pavel Tonkov (RUS)	(Mapei-GB)
	Third	Giuseppe Guerini (ITA)	(Team Polti)
	Points	Mario Cipollini (ITA)	(Saeco)
	Mountains	Chepe González (COL)	(Kelme-Costa Blanca)
	Intergiro	Dimitri Konyshev (RUS)	(Roslotto-ZG Mobili)
	Team	Kelme-Costa Blanca
	Team Points	Saeco
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The 1997 Giro d'Italia was the 80th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began on May 17 with a mass-start stage that began and ended in Venice. The race came to a close on June 8 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti of the Saeco team.^[1] Second and third were the Russian rider Pavel Tonkov and Italian Giuseppe Guerini.^[1]

In the race's other classifications, Kelme-Costa Blanca rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Mario Cipollini of the Saeco team won the points classification, and Roslotto-ZG Mobili rider Dimitri Konyshev won the intergiro classification.^[1] Kelme - Costa Blanca finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.^[1] The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams' riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Saeco.^[1]

Teams [edit]

A total of 18 teams were invited to participate in the 1997 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 180 cyclists. Out of the 180 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 110 riders made it to the finish in Milan.

The 18 teams that took part in the race were:

Classification leadership [edit]

In the 1997 Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys were awarded. For the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages, the leader received a pink jersey. This classification was considered the most important of the Giro d'Italia, and the winner was considered the winner of the Giro.^[2]

Additionally, there was a points classification, which awarded a purple, or cyclamen jersey. In the points classification, cyclists got points for finishing in the top 15 in a stage. In addition, points could be won in intermediate sprints.^[2]

There was also a mountains classification, the leadership of which was marked by a green jersey. In the mountains classifications, points were won by reaching the top of a climb before other cyclists. Each climb was categorized as either first, second, or third category, with more points available for the higher-categorized climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded still more points than the other first-category climbs.^[2]

The fourth jersey represented the intergiro classification, which was marked blue jersey. The calculation for the intergiro is similar to that of the general classification, in each stage there is a midway point that the riders pass through a point and where their time is stopped. As the race goes on, their times compiled and the person with the lowest time is the leader of the intergiro classification and wears the blue jersey.^[2]

There was also one classification for the teams. The classification was the Trofeo Fast Team. In this classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time.^[2]

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Intergiro classification	Trofeo Fast Team
1	Mario Cipollini	Mario Cipollini	Mario Cipollini	not awarded	Dimitri Konyshev	Saeco
2	Mario Cipollini
3	Pavel Tonkov	Pavel Tonkov		Pavel Tonkov		Mapei-GB
4	Mario Cipollini
5	Pavel Tonkov					Saeco
6	Roberto Sgambelluri
7	Marcel Wüst
8	Mario Manzoni			Mariano Piccoli		Asics-C.G.A.
9	Dimitri Konyshev
10	Mario Cipollini
11	Gabriele Missaglia
12	Giuseppe Di Grande
13	Glenn Magnusson
14	Ivan Gotti	Ivan Gotti		José Jaime González		Team Polti
15	Alessandro Baronti					Asics-C.G.A.
16	Fabiano Fontanelli
17	Mirco Gualdi					Team Polti
18	Serhij Hončar
19	José Luis Rubiera					Kelme-Costa Blanca
20	José Jaime González
21	Pavel Tonkov
22	Mario Cipollini
Final		Ivan Gotti	Mario Cipollini	José Jaime González	Dimitri Konyshev	Kelme-Costa Blanca

Final Standings [edit]

Legend
	Denotes the winner of the General classification[1][3]		Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification[1][3]
	Denotes the winner of the Points classification[1][3]		Denotes the winner of the Intergiro classification[1][3]

General classification [edit]

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Ivan Gotti (ITA)	Saeco	102h 53' 58"
2	Pavel Tonkov (RUS)	Mapei-GB	+ 1' 27"
3	Giuseppe Guerini (ITA)	Team Polti	+ 7' 40"
4	Nicola Miceli (ITA)	Aki-Safi	+ 12' 20"
5	Serhiy Honchar (UKR)	Aki-Safi	+ 12' 44"
6	Wladimir Belli (ITA)	Brescialat-Oyster	+ 12' 48"
7	Giuseppe Di Grande (ITA)	Mapei-GB	+ 12' 54"
8	Marcos-Antonio Serrano (ESP)	Kelme-Costa Blanca	+ 16' 07"
9	Stefano Garzelli (ITA)	Mercatone Uno	+ 18' 08"
10	José Luis Rubiera (ESP)	Kelme-Costa Blanca	+ 18' 56"

Points classification [edit]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Mario Cipollini (ITA)	Scrigno-Gaerne	202
2	Dimitri Konyshev (RUS)	Roslotto-ZG Mobili	146
3	Glenn Magnusson (SWE)	Amore & Vita-Forzacore	145
4	Pavel Tonkov (RUS)	Mapei-GB	121
5	Ivan Gotti (ITA)	Saeco	102
6	Mariano Piccoli (ITA)	Brescialat-Oyster	93
7	Marcel Wüst (GER)	Festina-Lotus	92
8	Chepe González (COL)	Kelme-Costa Blanca	81
9	Gabriele Missaglia (ITA)	Kelme-Costa Blanca
10	Evgeni Berzin (RUS)	Batik-Del Monte	74

Mountains classification [edit]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Chepe González (COL)	Kelme-Costa Blanca	99
2	Mariano Piccoli (ITA)	Brescialat-Oyster	35
3	Roberto Conti (ITA)	Mercatone Uno	28
4	Pavel Tonkov (RUS)	Mapei-GB	24
5	Ivan Gotti (ITA)	Saeco	23
6	Dimitri Konyshev (RUS)	Roslotto-ZG Mobili	16
7	José Luis Rubiera (ESP)	Kelme-Costa Blanca
8	Andrea Noè (ITA)	Asics-C.G.A.	15
9	Martin Hvastija (SLO)	Cantina Tollo-Carrier
10	Paolo Savoldelli (ITA)	Roslotto-ZG Mobili	14

Intergiro classification [edit]

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Dimitri Konyshev (RUS)	Roslotto-ZG Mobili	52h 48' 18"
2	Mario Cipollini (ITA)	Scrigno-Gaerne	+ 3' 01"
3	Glenn Magnusson (SWE)	Amore & Vita-Forzacore	+ 3' 15"
4	Serhiy Honchar (UKR)	Aki-Safi	+ 3' 22"
5	Evgeni Berzin (RUS)	Batik-Del Monte	+ 3' 41"

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} "Ivan Gotti, primer italiano que gana el Giro desde 1991" [Ivan Gotti, the first Italian to win the Giro since 1991] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 9 June 1997. p. 52. Retrieved 27 May 2012. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Laura Weislo (2008-05-13). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 2009-08-27. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Bill and Carol McGann. "1997 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Retrieved 2012-08-06.