1995 Giro d'Italia
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The 1995 Giro d'Italia
of cycling
, the 78th edition of the race, was held from 13 May to 4 June 1995, consisting of 22 stages. It covered a total of 3,736 km, completed at an average speed of 38,26 km/h. It was won by the Swiss
Tony Rominger
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With Marco Pantani absent through injury, the previous year's winner Evgueni Berzin and his Gewiss teammate Piotr Ugrumov were seen as the main opposition to big favorite Tony Rominger.
After the opening stage bunch sprint was won by Mario Cipollini, the second stage, a 19km individual time trial that was half flat, half hillclimb, was dominated by Rominger who put almost a full minute into the other contenders despite the short distance. He would not relinquish the lead for the rest of the race.
The route was, at the time, widely reported as the toughest Grand Tour route in recent memory and featured a relative lack of flat sprint stages when compared to other Grand Tours. Cipollini, Minali and Svorada shared between them the spoils of the rare bunch sprints.
Stage 4 was the first road stage to produce time gaps, on a sawtooth profile hilly circuit in the town of Loreto. Rominger attacked in the final kilometer to take his second stage win and extend his overall lead.
Over the mountain stages of the second week Rominger kept the Gewiss team leaders in check in the mountains, not initiating attacks of his own, but closely marking Ugrumov and Berzin, before dropping them on the final meters of each mountain finish.
The Mapei team controlled proceedings and allowed breakaways to take mountaintop stage wins. Winners included climbers Lale Cubino, Enrico Zaina, Sergey Outchakov and twice Pascal Richard. Rominger's situation was helped by the infighting between Gewiss leaders Ugrumov and Berzin who rode against each other instead of ganging up on the Mapei squad, for which they attracted public criticism by their team manager Emanuele Bombini.
Meanwhile, with dominant performances in the two long time trials of over 40 kilometers each (one flat, one mountain), Rominger further padded his lead by several minutes.
On the penultimate day's stage, not wishing to take any risks in the tricky descent in torrential rain, Rominger allowed Berzin to escape to take the stage win on his 25th birthday and vault to 2nd overall.
Mariano Piccoli took the Mountains classification, with Rominger taking the Overall, Points and Intergiro classifications along with 4 stage wins and wearing the pink leader's jersey after every stage but the first.
Berzin and Ugrumov rounded out the podium.
Giro d'Italia
The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...
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Cycling
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, the 78th edition of the race, was held from 13 May to 4 June 1995, consisting of 22 stages. It covered a total of 3,736 km, completed at an average speed of 38,26 km/h. It was won by the Swiss
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
Tony Rominger
Tony Rominger
Tony Rominger is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother...
.
With Marco Pantani absent through injury, the previous year's winner Evgueni Berzin and his Gewiss teammate Piotr Ugrumov were seen as the main opposition to big favorite Tony Rominger.
After the opening stage bunch sprint was won by Mario Cipollini, the second stage, a 19km individual time trial that was half flat, half hillclimb, was dominated by Rominger who put almost a full minute into the other contenders despite the short distance. He would not relinquish the lead for the rest of the race.
The route was, at the time, widely reported as the toughest Grand Tour route in recent memory and featured a relative lack of flat sprint stages when compared to other Grand Tours. Cipollini, Minali and Svorada shared between them the spoils of the rare bunch sprints.
Stage 4 was the first road stage to produce time gaps, on a sawtooth profile hilly circuit in the town of Loreto. Rominger attacked in the final kilometer to take his second stage win and extend his overall lead.
Over the mountain stages of the second week Rominger kept the Gewiss team leaders in check in the mountains, not initiating attacks of his own, but closely marking Ugrumov and Berzin, before dropping them on the final meters of each mountain finish.
The Mapei team controlled proceedings and allowed breakaways to take mountaintop stage wins. Winners included climbers Lale Cubino, Enrico Zaina, Sergey Outchakov and twice Pascal Richard. Rominger's situation was helped by the infighting between Gewiss leaders Ugrumov and Berzin who rode against each other instead of ganging up on the Mapei squad, for which they attracted public criticism by their team manager Emanuele Bombini.
Meanwhile, with dominant performances in the two long time trials of over 40 kilometers each (one flat, one mountain), Rominger further padded his lead by several minutes.
On the penultimate day's stage, not wishing to take any risks in the tricky descent in torrential rain, Rominger allowed Berzin to escape to take the stage win on his 25th birthday and vault to 2nd overall.
Mariano Piccoli took the Mountains classification, with Rominger taking the Overall, Points and Intergiro classifications along with 4 stage wins and wearing the pink leader's jersey after every stage but the first.
Berzin and Ugrumov rounded out the podium.
General classification
| Cyclist | Country | Time | |
| 1 | Tony Rominger Tony Rominger Tony Rominger is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother... |
100h 41' 21s | |
| 2 | Eugeni Berzin Eugeni Berzin Evgeni Berzin is a Russian cyclist whose best year was 1994, when he won the Giro d'Italia and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Only 24 at the time, Berzin was then tipped as being a future megastar in cycling, but he was never quite able to live up to the results of 1994. In 1995, he was second at the Giro... |
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| 3 | Piotr Ugrumov Piotr Ugrumov Piotr Ugrumov is a former Russian professional road racing cyclist who participated for Latvia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, though he was a part of the Russian delegation at the 1996 Summer Olympics. His career as a professional lasted from 1989 to 1999, he had ten victories... |
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| 4 | Claudio Chiappucci Claudio Chiappucci Claudio Chiappucci is a retired Italian professional cyclist. He was on the podium three times in the Tour de France general classification - second in 1990, third in 1991 and second again in 1992.-Career:... |
+ 9' 23s | |
| 5 | Oliverio Rincón Oliverio Rincón Oliverio Rincón Quintana is a Colombian former road bicycle racer. He is the older brother of Daniel Rincón.-Palmarès:1989... |
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| 6 | Pavel Tonkov Pavel Tonkov Pavel Sergeyevich Tonkov is a former professional road racing cyclist from Russia. His talents were first showcased when winning the world junior title as part of the Soviet Union team in 1987. This alerted the world to his talents and he turned pro in 1992 with the RUSS-Baïkal team. His biggest... |
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| 7 | Enrico Zaina Enrico Zaina Enrico Zaina is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Zaina turned professional in 1989. He won a stage of 1995 Giro d'Italia and two stages of 1996 Giro d'Italia, where he finished second behind Pavel Tonkov. He also won a stage of 1992 Vuelta a España.-Major achievements:1992199319951996-... |
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| 8 | Heinz Imboden | ||
| 9 | Georg Totschnig Georg Totschnig Georg Totschnig is an Austrian former road bicycle racer who raced professionally between 1993 and 2006.-Career:In 1989, Totschnig became the Junior Austrian National Time Trial Champion. He turned professional with the Italian Lampre - Polti team in 1993, remaining with the team in 1994 when... |
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| 10 | Francesco Casagrande Francesco Casagrande Francesco Casagrande is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Casagrande was a professional cyclist between 1992 and 2005.-Biography:He is a proven performer in the Grand Tours and the major one-day races... |
Maglia rosa holders
| Cyclist | Country | Stages |
|---|---|---|
| Mario Cipollini Mario Cipollini Mario Cipollini , often abbreviated to "Cipo", is a retired Italian professional road cyclist most noted for his sprinting ability, the longevity of his dominance and his colourful personality. His nicknames include Il Re Leone and Super Mario... |
1st | |
| Tony Rominger Tony Rominger Tony Rominger is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother... |
2nd-final |
Other jerseys
- Maglia ciclamino: Tony RomingerTony RomingerTony Rominger is a Swiss former professional road racing cyclist who won the Vuelta a España in 1992, 1993 and 1994 and the Giro d'Italia in 1995.He began cycling late, allegedly spurred by competition with his brother...
- Maglia verdeMountains classification in the Giro d'ItaliaThe mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia is a secondary classification. In this classification, points are awarded to the leading riders over designated climbs. Most climbs are sorted into one of three scales based on difficulty and its position on that day's stage...
: Mariano PiccoliMariano PiccoliMariano Piccoli is an Italian former road bicycle racer.-External links:*...