1980 Giro d'Italia | |
Date: | 15 May – 7 June 1980 |
Stages: | 22 + Prologue |
Distance: | 4025 |
Unit: | km |
Time: | 112h 08' 20" |
Speed: | 35.897 |
First: | Bernard Hinault |
First Nat: | FRA |
First Team: | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo |
First Color: | pink |
Second: | Wladimiro Panizza |
Second Nat: | ITA |
Second Team: | Gis Gelati |
Third: | Giovanni Battaglin |
Third Nat: | ITA |
Third Team: | Inoxpran |
Points: | Giuseppe Saronni |
Points Nat: | ITA |
Points Team: | Gis Gelati |
Points Color: | violet |
Mountains: | Claudio Bortolotto |
Mountains Nat: | ITA |
Mountains Team: | Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto |
Mountains Color: | green |
Youth: | Tommy Prim |
Youth Nat: | SWE |
Youth Team: | Bianchi–Piaggio |
Combination: | Bernard Hinault |
Combination Nat: | FRA |
Combination Team: | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo |
Team: | Bianchi–Piaggio |
Next: | 1981 |
The 1980 Giro d'Italia was the 63rd running of the Giro. It started in Genoa, on 15 May, with a 7km (04miles) prologue and concluded in Milan, on 8 June, with a 114km (71miles) mass-start stage. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman Bernard Hinault of the Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo team. The second and third places were taken by Italians Wladimiro Panizza and Giovanni Battaglin, respectively.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati's Giuseppe Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto won the mountains classification, and Bianchi–Piaggio's Tommy Prim completed the Giro as the best rider aged 24 or under in the general classification, finishing fourth overall. Bianchi–Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.[6]
See main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 1980 Giro d'Italia. A total of thirteen teams were invited to participate in the 1980 Giro d'Italia.[7] [8] Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists.[7] [8] [9] From the riders that began this edition, 89 made it to the finish in Milan.[9] [10] [11]
The teams entering the race were:[7] [8]
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The route for the 1980 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 31 January 1980.[12] [13] [14] Covering a total of 4025km (2,501miles), it included three individual time trials, and ten stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points.[15] Four of these ten stages had summit finishes: stage 8, to Fiuggi; stage 11, to Campotenese; stage 14, to Roccaraso; and stage 18, to Zoldo Alto.[16] In the case the Stelvio was not passable by bike, the nineteenth and twentieth stages had a back-up plan where that took an alternate route through the Pordoi Pass in stage nineteen and would be the new Cima Coppi.[12] The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 724km (450miles) longer and contained two less time trials. In addition, this race contained three more stages.
Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |||
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P | 15 May | Genoa | 7km (04miles) | Individual time trial | Francesco Moser | |||
1 | 16 May | Genova to Imperia | 123km (76miles) | Plain stage | ||||
2 | 17 May | Imperia to Turin | 179km (111miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
3 | 18 May | Turin to Parma | 243km (151miles) | Plain stage | ||||
4 | 19 May | Parma to Marina di Pisa | 193km (120miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
5 | 20 May | Pontedera to Pisa | 36km (22miles) | Individual time trial | ||||
21 May | Rest day | |||||||
6 | 22 May | Rio Marina to Portoferraio | 126km (78miles) | Plain stage | ||||
7 | 23 May | Castiglione della Pescaia to Orvieto | 200km (100miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
8 | 24 May | Orvieto to Fiuggi | 216km (134miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
9 | 25 May | Fiuggi to Sorrento | 247km (153miles) | Plain stage | ||||
10 | 26 May | Sorrento to Palinuro | 177km (110miles) | Plain stage | ||||
11 | 27 May | Palinuro to Campotenese | 145km (90miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
12 | 28 May | Villapiana Lido to Campi Salentina | 203km (126miles) | Plain stage | ||||
13 | 29 May | Campi Salentina to Barletta | 220km (140miles) | Plain stage | ||||
14 | 30 May | Foggia to Roccaraso | 186km (116miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
15 | 31 May | Roccaraso to Teramo | 194km (121miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
16 | 1 June | Giulianova to Gatteo a Mare | 229km (142miles) | Plain stage | ||||
17 | 2 June | Gatteo a Mare to Sirmione | 237km (147miles) | Plain stage | ||||
18 | 3 June | Sirmione to Zoldo Alto | 239km (149miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
19 | 4 June | Longarone to Cles | 241km (150miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
20 | 5 June | Cles to Sondrio | 221km (137miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
21 | 6 June | Saronno to Turbigo | 50km (30miles) | Individual time trial | ||||
22 | 7 June | Milan to Milan | 114km (71miles) | Plain stage | ||||
Total | 4025km (2,501miles) |
Three different jerseys were worn during the 1980 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[17]
For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.[17] The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Stelvio Pass. The first rider to cross the Stelvio was French rider Jean-René Bernaudeau. The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only riders aged 24 and younger.[18]
Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
Rank | Name | Team | Time | |
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1 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | |||
2 | Gis Gelati | + 5' 43" | ||
3 | Inoxpran | + 6' 30" | ||
4 | Bianchi–Piaggio | + 7' 53" | ||
5 | Bianchi–Piaggio | + 11' 49" | ||
6 | Hoonved–Bottecchia | + 12' 47" | ||
7 | Gis Gelati | + 12' 53" | ||
8 | Gis Gelati | + 20' 26" | ||
9 | Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto | + 20' 37" | ||
10 | Magniflex–Olmo | + 21' 30" |
Rider | Team | Points | |
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1 | Gis Gelati | 301 | |
2 | Hoonved–Bottecchia | 215 | |
3 | Bianchi–Piaggio | 179 | |
4 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | 160 | |
5 | Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto | 151 | |
Rider | Team | Points | |
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1 | Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto | 670 | |
2 | Gis Gelati | 400 | |
3 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | 350 | |
4 | Inoxpran | 280 | |
5 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | 265 | |
6 | Bianchi–Piaggio | 255 | |
7 | Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo | 170 | |
8 | Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo | 155 | |
Rider | Team | Time | |
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1 | Bianchi–Piaggio | ||
2 | Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto | + 12' 44" | |
3 | Magniflex–Olmo | + 13' 37" | |
4 | Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo | + 13' 40" | |
5 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | + 20' 25" | |
Rider | Team | Points | |
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1 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | 8 | |
2 | Gis Gelati | 11 | |
3 | Bianchi–Piaggio | 12 | |
Team | Time | ||
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1 | Bianchi–Piaggio | ||
2 | Gis Gelati | + 5' 21" | |
3 | Inoxpran | + 46' 59" | |
4 | Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo | + 52' 18" | |
5 | Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo | + 1h 17' 40" |