1980 Giro d'Italia

1980 Giro d'Italia
Race details
Dates15 May – 7 June 1980
Stages22 + Prologue
Distance4,025 km (2,501 mi)
Winning time112h 08' 20"
Results
Winner  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo)
  Second  Wladimiro Panizza (ITA) (Gis Gelati)
  Third  Giovanni Battaglin (ITA) (Inoxpran)
Points  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) (Gis Gelati)
Mountains  Claudio Bortolotto (ITA) (Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto)
  Youth  Tommy Prim (SWE) (Bianchi–Piaggio)
  Combination  Bernard Hinault (FRA) (Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo)
  Team Bianchi–Piaggio
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The 1980 Giro d'Italia was the 63rd running of the Giro. It started in Genoa, on 15 May, with a 7 km (4.3 mi) prologue and concluded in Milan, on 8 June, with a 114 km (70.8 mi) mass-start stage. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman Bernard Hinault of the Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo team. The second and third places were taken by Italians Wladimiro Panizza and Giovanni Battaglin, respectively.[1][2][3][4][5]

Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati's Giuseppe Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto won the mountains classification, and Bianchi–Piaggio's Tommy Prim completed the Giro as the best rider aged 24 or under in the general classification, finishing fourth overall. Bianchi–Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.[6]

  1. ^ "Hinault Apacento Sus Ovejas" [Hinault Grazed His Sheep] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 9 June 1980. p. 32. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Così in piazza del Duomo" [So in the Piazza del Duomo] (PDF). La Stampa (in Italian). 8 June 1980. p. 22. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Possono infiammare la corsa" [They can ignite the race] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). 12 May 1980. p. 17. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  4. ^ Paul Maunder (14 May 2018). "Part 3: A Badger in the Snow". Soigneur. Archived from the original on 24 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Quel giorno Imperatore si mostrò al popolo: La prima volta di Hinault – la Gazzetta dello Sport – Tutto il rosa della vita". Archived from the original on 22 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant | 9 juni 1980 | pagina 15".