1938 Giro d'Italia
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| Dates | May 7–29, 1938 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 18, including three split stages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,645.8 km (2,265 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 112h 49' 28" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1938 Giro d'Italia was the 26th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 7 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 182 km (113 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 29 May after a split stage and a total distance covered of 3,645.8 km (2,265 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Giovanni Valetti of the Fréjus team, with fellow Italians Ezio Cecchi and Severino Canavesi coming in second and third respectively.[1]
Participants
Of the 94 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 7 May,[2] 50 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 29 May.[3] Riders were allowed to ride as a member of a team or group; 61 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 33 competed as a part of a group.[2] The nine teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Dei, Fréjus, Ganna, Gloria-Ambrosiana, Lygie-Settebello, Legnano, Olympia, and Wolsit-Binda.[2][3] The teams ranged from six to eight riders each.[2] There were also seven groups, made up of three to five riders each, that participated in the race.[2] Those groups were: U. C. Modenese, Il Littoriale, La Voce di Mantova, U.S. Azzini, U.S. Canelli, Dopolavoro Mater, and Gruppo A.[2][3] The peloton was composed primarily of Italian riders.[3] The field featured one former Giro d'Italia winners with Francesco Camusso who won the race in 1931.[2][3] Reigning champion Gino Bartali did not enter the race because the Italian government ordered him to race the Tour de France instead.[3] Other notable Italian riders included Olimpio Bizzi, Giovanni Valetti, Ezio Cecchi, and Giuseppe Olmo.[2][3] Swiss rider Leo Amberg who placed high at the 1936 and 1937 Tours de France competed in the race.[2][3][4]
Route and stages
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Classification leadership
The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[5] In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.[5] The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.[3][6] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[6] The group classification was decided in the same manner, but the classification was exclusive to the competing groups.[6] The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
| Stage | Winner | General classification File:Jersey pink.svg |
Best isolati rider File:Jersey white.svg |
Mountains classification | Team classification | Group classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marco Cimatti | Marco Cimatti | Edoardo Molinar | not awarded | Bianchi | Il Littoriale |
| 2 | Mario Vicini | Mario Vicini | Settimo Simonini | Mario Vicini | U.S. Canelli | |
| 3 | Giovanni Gotti | Cesare Del Cancia | Il Littoriale | |||
| 4a | Giovanni Valetti | Dopolavoro Mater | ||||
| 4b | Walter Generati | |||||
| 5 | Salvatore Crippa | Michele Benente | Giovanni Valetti | U.S. Canelli | ||
| 6 | Adolfo Leoni | Il Littoriale | ||||
| 7a | Giovanni Valetti | |||||
| 7b | Cino Cinelli | |||||
| 8 | Raffaele Di Paco | |||||
| 9 | Giordano Cottur | Giovanni Valetti | Fréjus | Dopolavoro Mater | ||
| 10 | Raffaele Di Paco | Il Littoriale | ||||
| 11 | Cino Cinelli | |||||
| 12 | Raffaele Di Paco | U.S. Canelli | ||||
| 13 | Cesare Del Cancia | Bianchi | ||||
| 14 | Olimpio Bizzi | |||||
| 15 | Giovanni Valetti | Settimo Simonini | Gloria-Ambrosiana | |||
| 16 | Diego Marabelli | |||||
| 17 | Cesare Del Cancia | |||||
| 18a | Leo Amberg | |||||
| 18b | Olimpio Bizzi | |||||
| Final | Giovanni Valetti | Settimo Simonini | Giovanni Valetti | Gloria-Ambrosiana | U.S. Canelli | |
Final standings
| Legend | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pink jersey | Denotes the winner of the General classification | White jersey | Denotes the winner of the Best Isolati Rider classification[7] |
General classification
| Rank | Name | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Giovanni Valetti (ITA) Pink jersey | Fréjus | 112h 49' 28" |
| 2 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Ezio Cecchi (ITA) | Gloria | + 8' 52" |
| 3 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Severino Canavesi (ITA) | Gloria | + 9' 06" |
| 4 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Settimo Simonini (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | + 15' 50" |
| 5 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Michele Benente (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | + 19' 40" |
| 6 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Walter Generati (ITA) | Bianchi | + 22' 02" |
| 7 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Cesare Del Cancia (ITA) | Ganna | + 24' 07" |
| 8 | File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Karl Litschi (SUI) | Olympia | + 29' 24" |
| 9 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Ruggero Balli (ITA) | Bianchi | + 32' 23" |
| 10 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Adalino Mealli (ITA) | Wolsit | + 38' 38" |
Isolati classification
| Rank | Name | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Settimo Simonini (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | 113h 05' 17" |
| 2 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Michele Benente (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | + 3' 57" |
| 3 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Richard Menapace (ITA) | Dopolavoro Mater | + 1h 04' 56" |
| 4 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Remo Cerasa (ITA) | Il Littoriale | + 2h 05' 29" |
| 5 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Zoarino Guidi (ITA) | Il Littoriale | + 2h 08' 03" |
| 6 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Edgardo Scappini (ITA) | U.S. Azzini | + 2h 09' 54" |
| 7 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Fulvio Montini (ITA) | U.S. Azzini | + 2h 17' 17" |
| 8 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Ascanio Arcangeli (ITA) | Il Littoriale | + 2h 42' 08" |
| 9 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Gilberto De Paolis (ITA) | Dopolavoro Mater | + 2h 43' 12" |
| 10 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Walter Fantini (ITA) | U.C. Modenese | + 3h 15' 28" |
Mountains classification
| Name | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Giovanni Valetti (ITA) Pink jersey | Fréjus | 29 |
| 2 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Giordano Cottur (ITA) | Lygie | 26 |
| 3 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Ezio Cecchi (ITA) | Gloria | 18 |
| 4 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Settimo Simonini (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | 13 |
| 5 | File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Karl Litschi (SUI) | Olympia | 9 |
| File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Adalino Mealli (ITA) | Wolsit | ||
| 7 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Severino Canavesi (ITA) | Gloria | 8 |
| 8 | File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Bernardo Rogora (ITA) | Gloria | 5 |
| File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Michele Benente (ITA) | U.S. Canelli | ||
| File:Flag of Italy (1861–1946).svg Olimpio Bizzi (ITA) | Fréjus |
Team classification
| Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gloria-Ambrosiana | 340h 5' 28" |
| 2 | Bianchi | + 3' 06" |
| 3 | Fréjus | + 51' 18" |
| 4 | Ganna | + 1h 49' 00" |
| 5 | Wolsit-S.C. Binda | + 4h 22' 32" |
| 6 | Dei | + 5h 15' 52" |
| 7 | Olympia | + 9h 11' 44" |
Group classification
| Rank | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | U.S. Canelli | 243h 17' 44" |
| 2 | Il Littoriale | + 2h 53' 47" |
| 3 | Dopolavoro Mater | + 3h 36' 32" |
References
- Notes
- ↑ In 1938, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the stages 2, 4a, 9, 14, 15, 16, 18a, and 18b included major mountains. The stage 7a individual time trial also contained a summit finish.
- Citations
- ↑ "La Stampa - Consultazione Archivio". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "I corridori iscritti" [The runners registered]. Il Littoriale (in italiano). 7 May 1938. p. 4. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Bill and Carol McGann. "1938 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ Bill and Carol McGann. "1937 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Laura Weislo (13 May 2008). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Il valore del rinnovato spirito di gara nelle cifre del XXVI Giro d'Italia" [The value of the renewed spirit of competition in the figures of the XXVI Tour of Italy]. Il Littoriale (in italiano). Milan, Italy. 30 May 1938. p. 3. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Il Giro-Primato: 3754km. percorsi a 33,272 all'ora è vinto da Valetti" [The Tour-Primacy: 3,754 km ridden at 33.272 km per hour was won by Valetti]. Il Littoriale (in italiano). Milan, Italy. 30 May 1938. p. 1. Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
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