1981 Giro d'Italia

December 2015 1981 Giro d'Italia 13 May – 7 June 1981 22 + Prologue, including one split stage 3895.6 km 104h 50' 36" Giovanni Battaglin ITA Inoxpran pink Tommy Prim SWE Bianchi-Piaggio Giuseppe Saronni ITA Gis Gelati-Campagnolo Giuseppe Saronni ITA Gis Gelati-Campagnolo violet Claudio Bortolotto ITA Santini green Giuseppe Faraca ITA Hoonved-Bottecchia white Bianchi-Piaggio Bianchi-Piaggio 1980 1982 The 1981 Giro d'Italia was the 64th running of the Giro. It started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 6.6 km 1 on prologue and concluded in Verona, on 7 June, with a 42 km 1 on individual time trial. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giovanni Battaglin of the Inoxpran team. The second and third places were taken by Swede Tommy Prim and Italian Giuseppe Saronni, respectively.http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1981/06/08/pagina-30/1069292/pdf.html# Battaglin: Despues de la <<Vuelta>>... El <<Giro>> es 8 June 1981 30 El Mundo Deportivo 27 May 2012 PDF Battaglin: After the <<Vuelta>>... the <<Giro>> https://web.archive.org/web/20140508224646/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1981/06/08/pagina-30/1069292/pdf.html 8 May 2014 live dmy Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati-Campagnolo's Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Santini-Selle Italia won the mountains classification, and Hoonved-Bottecchia's Giuseppe Faraca completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing eleventh overall. Bianchi-Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi-Piaggio won the team points classification. Teams List of teams and cyclists in the 1981 Giro d'Italia A total of thirteen teams were invited to participate in the 1981 Giro d'Italia.http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,avanzata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,13/articleid,1431_02_1981_0128_0013_20283699/ Centotrenta al via it 13 May 1981 13 Stampa Sera Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF One hundred and thirty at the start The starting riders came from a total of 11 different countries; Italy (82), Switzerland (11), Belgium (11), and Spain (10) all had 10 or more riders represented.Giro d'Italia – 1981 Competitors per Country https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/competitors-per-country ProCyclingStats https://web.archive.org/web/20250522190629/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/competitors-per-country 22 May 2025 13 October 2016 Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists.http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1981.html 1981 Giro d'Italia Bike Race Info Dog Ear Publishing Bill and Carol McGann 6 August 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20140317082913/http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1981.html 17 March 2014 live Of those starting, 45 were riding the Giro d'Italia for the first time.Giro d'Italia – 1981 Debutants https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/debutants ProCyclingStats https://web.archive.org/web/20250522190657/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/debutants 22 May 2025 13 October 2016 The average age of riders was 25.76 years,Giro d'Italia – 1981 Peloton averages https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/peloton-averages ProCyclingStats https://web.archive.org/web/20250522190943/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/peloton-averages 22 May 2025 13 October 2016 ranging from 20–year–old Moreno Argentin (Sammontana-Benotto) to 35–year–old Wladimiro Panizza (Gis Gelati-Campagnolo).Giro d'Italia – 1981 Youngest and Oldest competitors https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/youngest-oldest ProCyclingStats https://web.archive.org/web/20250522191350/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/startlist/youngest-oldest 22 May 2025 13 October 2016 The team with the youngest average rider age was Hoonved-Bottecchia (23), while the oldest was Gis Gelati-Campagnolo (27).Giro d'Italia – 1981 Youngest Team https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/teams/youngest-team ProCyclingStats https://web.archive.org/web/20250522191624/https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/giro-d-italia/1981/teams/youngest-team 22 May 2025 13 October 2016 From the riders that began this edition, 104 made it to the finish in Verona.La dernière chance de Franceso Moser http://doc.rero.ch/record/280071/files/1981-05-13.pdf La Liberté 13 May 1981Le Tour cycliste d'Italie débute ce jour par le prologue http://doc.rero.ch/record/108299/files/1981-05-13.pdf L'Impartial 13 May 1981 The teams entering the race were: 22em Bianchi-Piaggio Cilo-Aufina Famcucine–Campagnolo Gemeaz Cusin-Zor-Helios Gis Gelati-Campagnolo Hoonved-Bottecchia Inoxpran Kotter's-G.B.C. Magniflex-Olmo Safir-Galli-Maillard Sammontana-Benotto Santini-Selle Italia Selle San Marco-Gabrielli Route and stages right|thumb|Borno hosted the end of the 215 km 0 on seventeenth stage.|alt=An Italian city in the mountains. The route for the 1981 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 21 February 1981.Maurizio Caravella http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,31/articleid,1428_02_1981_0051_0031_20229396/ Giro, oggi la presentazione it 21 February 1981 31 Stampa Sera Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF Tour, Today the PresentationGian Paolo Ormezzano http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,1047_01_1981_0045_0023_14824937/ Il Giro con abbuoni chiama Saronni it 22 February 1981 21 La Stampa Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF The Giro with rebates called SaronniGino Sala http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=/archivio/uni_1981_02/19810222_0015.pdf Una corsa dal finale tremendo it 22 February 1981 15 l'Unità PCI 27 May 2012 A ride from the tremendous final https://web.archive.org/web/20150208142609/http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=%2Farchivio%2Funi_1981_02%2F19810222_0015.pdf 8 February 2015 dead dmy-all http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1981/02/22/MD19810222-033.pdf Presentado El Giro – 81 es 22 February 1981 33 El Mundo Deportivo El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 27 May 2012 Presenting the Tour – 81 https://web.archive.org/web/20150208141910/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1981/02/22/MD19810222-033.pdf EFE 8 February 2015 live Covering a total of 3895.6 km on, it included four time trials (three individual and one for teams), and ten stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points. Two of these ten stages had summit finishes: stage 17, to Borno; and stage 20, to Tre Cime di Lavaredo.http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=/archivio/uni_1981_02/19810222_0015.pdf Le tappe e le montagne it 22 February 1981 15 l'Unità PCI 27 May 2012 The stages and the mountains https://web.archive.org/web/20150208142609/http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=%2Farchivio%2Funi_1981_02%2F19810222_0015.pdf 8 February 2015 dead dmy-all The organizers chose to include three rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 129.4 km 0 on shorter and contained one more time trial. In addition, this race contained one more set of split stages. It was the first time in the history of the Giro that the Giro ended in Verona. The team time trial in stage 1 was the first team time trial in the Giro d'Italia since 1956.van den Akker 2023 43 +Stage characteristics and winnershttp://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,avanzata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,32/articleid,1431_02_1981_0128_0028_20284076/ Un'avventura di 3873 km it 13 May 1981 28 Stampa Sera Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF An Adventure of 3873 kmStageDateCourseDistanceTypeWinnerP13 MayTrieste 6.6 km 0 on22px|link=|alt=Individual time trial Knut Knudsen NOR1a14 MayTrieste to Bibione 100 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Guido Bontempi ITA1bLignano Sabbiadoro to Bibione 15 km 0 on22px|link=|alt=Team time trial Hoonved-Bottecchia215 MayBibione to Ferrara 211 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Paolo Rosola ITA316 MayBologna to Recanati 255 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Giuseppe Saronni ITA17 May Rest day418 MayRecanati to Lanciano 214 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Mario Beccia ITA519 MayMarina di San Vito to Rodi Garganico 180 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Giuseppe Saronni ITA620 MayRodi Garganico to Bari 225 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Giuseppe Saronni ITA721 MayBari to Potenza 143 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Palmiro Masciarelli ITA822 MaySala Consilina to Cosenza 202 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Moreno Argentin ITA923 MayCosenza to Reggio Calabria 231 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Serge Parsani ITA24 May Rest day1025 MayRome to Cascia 166 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Gianbattista Baronchelli ITA1126 MayCascia to Arezzo 199 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Giovanni Renosto ITA1227 MayArezzo to Livorno Montenero 224 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Moreno Argentin ITA1328 MayEmpoli to Montecatini Terme 35 km 0 on22px|link=|alt=Individual time trial Knut Knudsen NOR1429 MayMontecatini Terme to Salsomaggiore Terme 224 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Francesco Moser ITA1530 MaySalsomaggiore Terme to Pavia 198 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Daniel Gisiger SUI1631 MayMilan to Mantua 178 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Claudio Torelli ITA171 JuneMantua to Borno 215 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Benedetto Patellaro ITA182 JuneBorno to Dimaro 127 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Miguel María Lasa ESP 19773 June Rest day194 JuneDimaro to San Vigilio di Marebbe 208 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Giovanni Battaglin ITA205 JuneSan Vigilio di Marebbe to Tre Cime di Lavaredo 100 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Beat Breu SUI216 JuneAuronzo di Cadore to Arzignano 197 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Pierino Gavazzi ITA227 JuneSoave to Verona 42 km 0 on22px|link=|alt=Individual time trial Knut Knudsen NOR Total 3895.6 km 0 on Classification leadership right|thumb|alt=A picture of three mountain.|The Tre Cime di Lavaredo was the Cima Coppi for the 1981 running of the Giro d'Italia. Three different jerseys were worn during the 1981 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. The time bonuses for the 1981 Giro were thirty seconds for first, twenty seconds for second, and ten seconds for third place on the stage.Javier http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1981/05/13/MD19810513-024.pdf Un <<Giro>> Que <<Fila Prim>> es 13 May 1981 24 El Mundo Deportivo El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 27 May 2012 A <<Tour>> That <<Fila Prim>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150208141910/http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1981/02/22/MD19810222-033.pdf 8 February 2015 liveGian Paolo Ormezzano http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,avanzata/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,23/articleid,1050_01_1981_0112_0026_15142501/ Trieste offre al Giro la prima maglia rosa it 13 May 1981 23 La Stampa Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF Trieste offers the Tour's first pink jerseyvan den Akker 2023 54 This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.Laura Weislo http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/giro08/?id=/features/2008/giro_classifications08 Giro d'Italia classifications demystified 13 May 2008 Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 13 July 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130508234448/http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2008/giro08/?id=/features/2008/giro_classifications08 8 May 2013 live dmy 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.van den Akker 2023 84 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. The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Tre Cime di Lavaredo. The first rider to cross the Tre Cime di Lavaredo was Swiss rider Beat Breu. 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 neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing). 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. There was another team classification that awarded points to each team based on their riding's finishing position in every stage. The team with the highest total of points was the leader of the classification. There was also a secondary team classification, based on points.van den Akker 2023 83 In 1981, the campionate delle regioni and FIAT sprints were combined into one classification, also sponsored by FIAT, for which the leader wore the light-blue jersey that was previously worn by the leader of the campionate delle regioni classification.van den Akker 2023 97 The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run. +Classification leadership by stagehttps://www.grandtourstatistics.nl/giro.php?jaar=1981 grandtourstatistics.nl Information about the Giro d'Italia of 1981 22 December 2025 Stage WinnerGeneral classification25px|link=|alt=Points classification25px|link=|alt=Mountains classification25px|link=|alt=Young rider classification25px|link=|alt= FIAT 25px|link=|alt=Team classification P Knut Knudsen Knut Knudsen Knut Knudsen not awarded ? not awarded not awarded 1a Guido Bontempi Guido Bontempi Giovanni Mantovani Guido Bontempi Dante Morandi 1b Hoonved-Bottecchia Francesco Moser Hoonved-Bottecchia 2 Paolo Rosola Gregor Braun Famcucine-Campagnolo 3 Giuseppe Saronni Francesco Moser Giuseppe Faraca 4 Mario Beccia Paolo Rosola Hoonved-Bottecchia 5 Giuseppe Saronni Giuseppe Saronni Fiorenzo Aliverti Famcucine-Campagnolo 6 Giuseppe Saronni Giuseppe Saronni 7 Palmiro Masciarelli Beat Breu 8 Moreno Argentin Bruno Wolfer 9 Serge Parsani Claudio Bortolotto 10 Gianbattista Baronchelli Giuseppe Faraca Bianchi-Piaggio 11 Giovanni Renosto 12 Moreno Argentin 13 Knut Knudsen Roberto Visentini 14 Francesco Moser Silvano Contini 15 Daniel Gisiger 16 Claudio Torelli 17 Benedetto Patellaro 18 Miguel María Lasa 19 Giovanni Battaglin 20 Beat Breu Giovanni Battaglin 21 Pierino Gavazzi 22 Knut Knudsen Final Giovanni Battaglin Giuseppe Saronni Claudio Bortolotto Giuseppe Faraca Paolo Rosola Bianchi-Piaggio Final standings Legendvan den Akker 2023 109   20px|alt=Pink jersey   Denotes the winner of the General classificationGian Paolo Ormezzano http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,12/articleid,1432_02_1981_0153A_0014_22858701/ Giro: i protagonisti divisi da tre secondi it 8 June 1981 12 La Stampa Editrice La Stampa 27 May 2012 PDF Tour: the protagonists divided by three seconds   20px|alt=Purple jersey   Denotes the winner of the Points classification   20px|alt=Green jersey   Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification   20px|alt=Blue white   Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification   20px|alt=Blue jersey   Denotes the winner of the FIAT classification General classification + Final general classification (1–10)RankNameTeamTime 1 Giovanni Battaglin ITA 20px|alt=Pink jersey Inoxpran 104h 50' 36" 2 Tommy Prim SWE Bianchi-Piaggio + 38" 3 Giuseppe Saronni ITA 20px|alt=Purple jersey Gis Gelati-Campagnolo + 50" 4 Silvano Contini ITA Bianchi-Piaggio + 1' 59" 5 Josef Fuchs SUI Cilo-Aufina + 2' 19" 6 Roberto Visentini ITA Sammontana-Benotto + 5' 37" 7 Alfio Vandi ITA Selle San Marco-Gabrielli + 9' 32" 8 Beat Breu SUI Cilo-Aufina + 10' 02" 9 Claudio Bortolotto ITA 20px|alt=Green jersey Santini-Selle Italia + 10' 12" 10 Gianbattista Baronchelli ITA Bianchi-Piaggio + 12' 01" Points classification +Final points classification (1–5)RiderTeamPoints 1 Giuseppe Saronni ITA 20px|alt=Purple jersey Gis Gelati-Campagnolo 215 2 Tommy Prim SWE Bianchi-Piaggio 133 3 Giovanni Mantovani ITA Hoonved-Bottecchia 127 4 Francesco Moser ITA Famcucine-Campagnolo 117 5 Silvano Contini ITA Bianchi-Piaggio 112 Mountains classification +Final mountains classification (1–10)RiderTeamPoints 1 Claudio Bortolotto ITA 20px|alt=Green jersey Santini-Selle Italia 510 2 Beat Breu SUI Cilo-Aufina 500 3 Benedetto Patellaro ITA Hoonved-Bottecchia 290 4 Giovanni Battaglin ITA 20px|alt=Pink jersey Inoxpran 265 5 Leonardo Natale ITA Magniflex-Olmo 180 6 Josef Fuchs SUI Cilo-Aufina 150 7 Mario Noris ITA Magniflex-Olmo 1258 Guillermo De La Pena ESP Gemeaz Cusin-Zor-Helios 120 Francesco Moser ITA Famcucine-Campagnolo 10 Alfio Vandi ITA Selle San Marco-Gabrielli 115 Young rider classification +Final young rider classification (1–5)RiderTeamTime 1 Giuseppe Faraca ITA 20px|alt=White jersey Hoonved-Bottecchia 105h 05' 30" 2 Alberto Minetti ITA Famcucine-Campagnolo + 23' 51" 3 George Mount USA Sammontana-Benotto + 25' 46" 4 Moreno Argentin ITA Sammontana-Benotto + 46' 12" 5 Maurizio Piovani ITA Gis Gelati-Campagnolo + 46' 40" Traguardi Fiat classification +Final traguardi fiat classification (1–5)RiderTeamPoints 1 Paolo Rosola ITA 20px|alt=Blue jersey Magniflex-Olmo 128 2 Dante Morandi ITA Famcucine-Campagnolo 70 3 Giovanni Renosto ITA Magniflex-Olmo 48 4 Benny Schepmans BEL Safir-Galli-Maillard 33 5 Alessio Antonini ITA Santini-Selle Italia 32 Team classification +Final team classification (1–3)TeamTime 1 Bianchi-Piaggio 313h 55' 08" 2 Cilo-Aufina + 25' 01" 3 Inoxpran + 44' 32" Team points classification +Final team points classification (1–3)TeamPoints 1 Bianchi-Piaggio 189 2 Famcucine-Campagnolo 137 3 Hoonved-Bottecchia 129 Doping There were no positive doping tests in the Giro of 1981.van den Akker 2023 54 Aftermath With his Giro victory, Battaglin completed the Vuelta–Giro double, the second rider to achieve the feat (Eddy Merckx was the first in 1973).Barry Ryan https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/the-smoking-kangaroo-john-trevorrow-and-the-1981-giro-ditalia/ The Smoking Kangaroo: John Trevorrow and the 1981 Giro d'Italia 11 May 2020 Cycling News Future Publishing Limited 11 May 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200511034249/http://cyclingnews.com/features/the-smoking-kangaroo-john-trevorrow-and-the-1981-giro-ditalia/ 11 May 2020 live Only 48 days separated the Vuelta's start on 21 April from the Giro's end on 7 June. 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