1925 Giro d'Italia

1925 Giro d'Italia Giro Italia 1925-map.png Route of the 13th Giro d'Italia 16 May – 7 June 1925 12 3520.5 km 137h 31' 13" Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Giovanni Brunero ITA 1861 1924 1926 The 1925 Giro d'Italia was the 13th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Tour organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 16 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 278.1 km 0 on to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 7 June after a 307.9 km 0 on stage and a total distance covered of 3520.5 km 0 on. The race was won by the Alfredo Binda of the Legnano team. Second and third respectively were the Italian riders Costante Girardengo and Giovanni Brunero.http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=%2Farchivio%2Funi_1925_05%2F19250521_0003.pdf Archived copy 2019-02-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082559/http://archiviostorico.unita.it/cgi-bin/highlightPdf.cgi?t=ebook&file=%2Farchivio%2Funi_1925_05%2F19250521_0003.pdf 2016-03-04 dead Participants Of the 126 riders who began the Giro d'Italia on 16 May, 39 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 7 June.http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1925.html 1925 Giro d'Italia Bike Race Info Bill and Carol McGann Dog Ear Publishing 2012-07-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20140227183412/http://bikeraceinfo.com/giro/giro1925.html 2014-02-27 live As in the previous Giro, riders entered the race individually, not as part of a team.van den Akker 2023 19 Most of the disagreements between the professional teams and the Giro organisation were resolved, so most teams agreed to send riders. There were six professional teams that had one or more riders competing in the race: Aliprandi-Pirelli, Jenis, Legnano-Pirelli, Olympia-Pirelli, Peugeot-Pirelli, and Wolsit-Pirelli. The peloton was completely composed of Italians, a trend which continued until the 1950s because of Italy's fascist policies and political climate.http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/editions/1923-1932/ 1925 2017 Giro d'Italia La Gazzetta dello Sport 13 June 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170701123815/http://www.giroditalia.it/eng/editions/1923-1932/ 1 July 2017 live The field featured two former Giro d'Italia champions in the 1919 Giro d'Italia winner Costante Girardengo and returning champion Giovanni Brunero. Other notable Italian riders who started the race included Gaetano Belloni, Giovanni Rossignoli, and Pietro Bestetti. This was the first Giro d'Italia that Alfredo Binda competed in. The winner of 1924, Giuseppe Enrici, did not start this race, as he had moved to the French Armor-Dunlop team, and targeted the 1925 Tour de France. Race summary In the first stage, eighteen riders rode away, taking almost five minutes on the others. Linari won the stage and became the leader, the main favourites were behind him in this group. In the second stage, a group of four riders was away. The sprint was won by Girardengo, who then became the new leader based on his stage positions, Binda and Brunero were second and third in the general classification with the same time. Girardengo and Binda finished in the first groups in the third and fourth stage, such that Girardengo was still leading with Binda in second place in the same time. Girardengo helped his team mate Bestetti to win the third stage, and won the fourth stage himself. Another team mate of Girardengo was Gaetano Belloni, the winner of the 1920 Giro d'Italia. Belloni was not satisfied with Girardengo's support for Bestetti in a stage where Belloni struggled. In the fifth stage, Girardengo had a flat tire; Belloni decided to not help his team mate, but to help Binda escape. Belloni won the stage, but Girardengo lost more than five minutes, making Binda the new leader. Girardengo tried to win back the lead in the next stages. He only won back seconds in the seventh stage. Despite winning six stages, he ended in second place in the general classification, with Binda as winner. Final standings Stage results + Stage resultsStageDateCourseDistanceTypeIn 1925, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and twelfth stages included major mountains.WinnerRace Leader 1 16 May Milan to Turin 278.1 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Pietro Linari ITA 1861 Pietro Linari ITA 1861 2 18 May Turin to Arenzano 279.2 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Giovanni Brunero ITA 1861 3 20 May Arenzano to Pisa 315 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Pierino Bestetti ITA 1861 Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 4 22 May Pisa to Rome 337.1 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 5 24 May Rome to Naples 260 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Gaetano Belloni ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 6 26 May Naples to Bari 314.2 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 7 28 May Bari to Benevento 234.9 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 8 30 May Benevento to Sulmona 275 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Giovanni Brunero ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 9 1 June Sulmona to Arezzo 376.8 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 10 3 June Arezzo to Forlì 224.3 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 11 5 June Forlì to Verona 318 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Plain stage Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 12 7 June Verona to Milan 307.9 km 0 on 22px|link=|alt=Stage with mountain(s) Gaetano Belloni ITA 1861 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Total 3520 km 0 on General classification There were 39 cyclists who had completed all twelve 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; there were no time bonuses for stage winners.van den Akker 2023 68 Riccardo Gagliardi won the prize for best ranked "indipendente" 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 this was a category in between professional and amateur.van den Akker 2023 64 + Final general classification (1–10)RankNameTeamRiders rode individually in the 1925 Giro d'Italia; the team indicated here is the team that the riders rode for in the rest of the season.Time 1 Alfredo Binda ITA 1861 Legnano 137h 31' 13" 2 Costante Girardengo ITA 1861 Wolsit + 4' 58" 3 Giovanni Brunero ITA 1861 Legnano + 7' 22" 4 Gaetano Belloni ITA 1861 Wolsit + 26' 29" 5 Nello Ciaccheri ITA 1861 Legnano + 37' 57" 6 Ermanno Vallazza ITA 1861 Legnano + 1h 00' 27" 7 Pierino Bestetti ITA 1861 Wolsit + 1h 15' 10" 8 Gianbattista Gilli ITA 1861 — + 1h 25' 18" 9 Giovanni Trentarossi ITA 1861 — + 1h 40' 45" 10 Pasquale Di Pietro ITA 1861 — + 2h 31' 23" Final general classification (11–39)RankNameTeamTime 11 Giuseppe Pancera ITA 1861 Aliprandi-Pirelli + 2h 32' 24" 12 Michele Gordini ITA 1861 — + 3h 08' 22" 13 Antonio Tecchio ITA 1861 — + 3h 30' 39" 14 Ottavio Pratesi ITA 1861 — + 4h 28' 47" 15 Riccardo Gagliardi ITA 1861 — + 4h 45' 44" 16 Antonio Pancera ITA 1861 — + 5h 17' 03" 17 Angelo Verona ITA 1861 — + 5h 29' 24" 18 Azzelio Terreni ITA 1861 — + 5h 50' 35" 19 Giovanni Rossignoli ITA 1861 — + 6h 27' 46" 20 Giovanni Del Taglio ITA 1861 — + 7h 41' 02" 21 Giuseppe Casadio ITA 1861 — + 7h 54' 52" 22 Luigi Cecilli ITA 1861 — + 8h 18' 18" 23 Guido Oddone ITA 1861 — + 8h 50' 44" 24 Gino Petri ITA 1861 — + 9h 04' 55" 25 Antonio De Franceschi ITA 1861 — + 9h 26' 09" 26 Arnaldo Bergami ITA 1861 — + 9h 39' 52" 27 Guido Messina ITA 1861 — + 10h 09' 21" 28 Tito Brambilla ITA 1861 — + 11h 09' 21" 29 Pierino Cazzaniga ITA 1861 — + 11h 09' 39" 30 Antonio Buelli ITA 1861 — + 11h 46' 24" 31 Augusto Rho ITA 1861 — + 12h 26' 22" 32 Umberto Ripamonti ITA 1861 — + 13h 11' 15" 33 Andrea Cazzaniga ITA 1861 — + 15h 12' 24" 34 Paolo Baldieri ITA 1861 — + 15h 23' 03" 35 Angelo Brumana ITA 1861 — + 16h 07' 40" 36 Francesco Barbalonga ITA 1861 — + 16h 48' 26" 37 Giuseppe Brenna ITA 1861 — + 18h 41' 45" 38 Angelo Guidi ITA 1861 — + 18h 45' 38" 39 Luigi Brivio ITA 1861 — + 20h 29' 10" Aftermath Girardengo lost the Giro despite winning a plurality of stages. In the next year, the Giro organization introduced a time bonus of 1:30 for the stage winner; had this been in place in 1925, Girardengo would have won the Giro.van den Akker 2023 68 Notes "Notes" References Bibliography van den Akker Pieter Giro d'Italia, Rules and Statistics 2023 979-8863173719 1925 Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia