1931 Giro d'Italia

1931 Giro d'Italia Giro Italia 1931-map.png Race Route 10–30 May 1931 12 3012 km 102h 40' 46" Francesco Camusso ITA 1861 Gloria-Hutchinson pink Luigi Giacobbe ITA 1861 Maino Luigi Marchisio ITA 1861 Legnano Legnano 1930 1932 The 1931 Giro d'Italia was the 19th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 10 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 206 km 0 on to Mantua, finishing back in Milan on 31 May after a 263 km 0 on stage and a total distance covered of 3,012 km 0 on. The race was won by the Francesco Camusso of the Gloria team. Second and third respectively were the Italian riders Luigi Giacobbe and Luigi Marchisio.http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,4/articleid,1149_01_1931_0129A_0004_24894464/ La Stampa - Consultazione Archivio Camusso brillante vincitore dell'appassionante Giro ciclistico d'Italia 4 1 June 1931 It was the first edition in which the leader used the pink jersey (maglia rosa) for the leader of the general classification. The first cyclist to wear it was Learco Guerra. Participants Of the 109 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 10 May, 65 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 31 May. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team. There were seven teams that competed in the race: Bianchi-Pirelli, Ganna-Dunlop, Gloria-Hutchinson, Legnano-Hutchinson, Maino-Clément, Touring-Pirelli, and Olympia-Spiga.http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1931.html 1931 Giro d'Italia Bike Race Info Bill and Carol McGann Dog Ear Publishing 2012-07-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20140227163634/http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1931.html 2014-02-27 live The peloton was primarily composed of Italians. The field featured three former Giro d'Italia champions in four-time winner Alfredo Binda, single-time winner Gaetano Belloni, and reigning champion Luigi Marchisio. Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Learco Guerra, Michele Mara, Felice Gremo, and Domenico Piemontesi. Frenchman Antonin Magne — who would go on to win the Tour de France twice — competed in the race, as well as future world champion, Belgian rider Jean Aerts. This race also saw the first Spanish riders compete with Mariano Cañardo and Ricardo Montero. Race overview The first stage was won in a sprint by Guerra, who became the leader of the general classification, and thus the first rider ever to don the pink jersey. Guerra also won the sprint in the second stage, but lost several minutes in the third stage. Binda won that third stage, and became the new leader.http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&c=1&f=612&p=1#page/1/mode/2up Con un'offensiva sferrata al momento migliore Binda distacca Guerra di ben cinque minuti Italian 14 May 1931 Il Littoriale The sixth stage was won by Ettore Meini, who was an isolated rider without team support. This was the last time that an isolated rider won a stage in the Giro d'Italia.van den Akker 2023 62 Binda crashed during that stage and lost the lead, and would abandon before the next stage.https://web.archive.org/web/20230527230308/http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,7/articleid,1149_01_1931_0119_0007_24893823/ http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,7/articleid,1149_01_1931_0119_0007_24893823/ La Stampa Meini vince la tappe che ha visto le prodezze degli isolati 20 May 1931 7 27 May 2023 In the next few stages, the lead changed a few times. Guerra became leader after the eighth stage. In the ninth stage, Guerra collided with another rider, and had to leave the race in the leader's jersey.van den Akker 2023 76 Marchisio inherited the pink jersey, with Giacobbe and Mara close behind him. In the tenth stage, a group of three riders (Luigi Giacobbe, Francesco Camusso and Aristide Cavallini) beat the rest with a margin of a few minutes, and Giacobbe became the new race leader, with Camusso in second place. In the eleventh stage, Camusso attacked. Giacobbe was not able to follow him, and Camusso won solo, taking the lead in the general classification.https://www.cyclingrevealed.com/timeline/Race%20Snippets/GdI/GdI_1931.htm 19th Giro d'Italia 1931 (Italy), Camusso's late charge to victory Barry Boyce Cycling Revealed In the last stage, the standings did not change, so Camusso became the winner of the 1931 Giro d'Italia. Final standings Stage results + Stage resultsStageDateCourseDistanceTypeIn 1931, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth stages included major mountains.WinnerRace Leader 1 10 May Milan to Mantua 206 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Learco Guerra ITA 1861 Learco Guerra ITA 1861 2 11 May Mantua to Ravenna 216 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Learco Guerra ITA 1861 Learco Guerra ITA 1861 3 13 May Ravenna to Macerata 288 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 4 15 May Macerata to Pescara 234 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 5 17 May Pescara to Naples 282 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Michele Mara ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 6 19 May Naples to Rome 256 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Ettore Meini ITA 1861 Michele Mara ITA 1861 7 21 May Rome to Perugia 247 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Learco Guerra ITA 1861 Luigi Marchisio ITA 1861 8 23 May Perugia to Montecatini Terme 246 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Learco Guerra ITA 1861 Learco Guerra ITA 1861 9 25 May Montecatini Terme to Genoa 248 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Michele Mara ITA 1861 Luigi Marchisio ITA 1861 10 27 May Genoa to Cuneo 263 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Luigi Giacobbe ITA 1861 Luigi Giacobbe ITA 1861 11 29 May Cuneo to Turin 252 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Francesco Camusso ITA 1861 Francesco Camusso ITA 1861 12 31 May Turin to Milan 263 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Ambrogio Morelli ITA 1861 Francesco Camusso ITA 1861 Total 3012 km 0 on General classification There were 65 cyclists who had completed all fifteen stages. For these cyclists, the times they had needed in each stage was added up for the general classification. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the winner. Aristide Cavallini won the prize for best ranked isolati rider in the general classification.http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&c=1&f=7924&p=5#page/5/mode/2up I vincitori delle categorie speciali Corriere dello Sport 14 June 1950 6 7 July 2013 it The winners of the special categories https://web.archive.org/web/20141222201219/http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&c=1&f=7924&p=5 22 December 2014 live + Final general classification (1–10)http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&f=625&p=1&c=1#page/1/mode/1up Il XIX Giro d'Italia, ricco di lotta e d'imprevisti si e chiuso con lat vittoria del "garibaldino" Camusso Il Littoriale 1 June 1931e Milan, Italy 1 7 July 2013 it The 19th Giro d'Italia, full of struggle and unexpected events, ended with a victory for the "garibaldino" Camusso https://web.archive.org/web/20180809175457/http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&f=625&p=1&c=1#page/1/mode/2up 9 August 2018 livehttp://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD02/HEM/1931/06/01/MD19310601-002.pdf El "comingman" Camusso definitive vencedor de la Vuelta a Italia es 1 June 1931 2 El Mundo Deportivo El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 27 May 2012 The "comingman" Camusso definitive winner of the Tour of Italy dmy RankNameTeamTime 1 Francesco Camusso ITA 1861 20px|link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia|alt=Pink jersey Gloria-Hutchinson 102h 40' 46" 2 Luigi Giacobbe ITA 1861 Maino + 2' 47" 3 Luigi Marchisio ITA 1861 Legnano + 6' 15" 4 Aristide Cavallini ITA 1861 — + 10' 15" 5 Ettore Balmamion ITA 1861 — + 12' 15" 6 Augusto Zanzi ITA 1861 Ganna + 12' 16" 7 Antonio Pesenti ITA 1861 — + 13' 50" 8 Ambrogio Morelli ITA 1861 Bianchi + 16' 59" 9 Felice Gremo ITA 1861 Legnano + 27' 05" 10 Eugenio Gestri ITA 1861 Legnano + 32' 25" Isolati +Isolati classification (1–5)RankNameTime1Aristide Cavallini ITA 1861102h 51' 01"2Ettore Balmamion ITA 1861+ 2' 30"3Antonio Pesenti ITA 1861+ 3' 35"4Renato Scorticati ITA 1861+ 40' 55"5Casimiro Bianchin ITA 1861+ 52' 20" Team classification + Team classification (1–4)https://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/giroak.php?jaar=1931 Algemeen klassement ploegen Dutch Tourdefrancestatistieken.nl 6 August 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240806103854/https://www.tourdefrancestatistieken.nl/giroak.php?jaar=1931RankTeam 1 Legnano 2 Gloria 3 Ganna 4 Maino-Clement There was no team that finished with all riders,van den Akker 2023 24 while Olympia-Spina was the only team that did not have any rider finish.van den Akker 2023 25 References Footnotes "Notes" Citations 30em Bibliography van den Akker Pieter Giro d'Italia, Rules and Statistics 2023 979-8863173719 G Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia Category:Giro d'Italia by year