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| Dates | 13 May – 7 June 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 + Prologue, including one split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,895.6 km (2,421 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 104h 50' 36" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1981 Giro d'Italia was the 64th running of the Giro. It started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 6.6 km (4.1 mi) prologue and concluded in Verona, on 7 June, with a 42 km (26.1 mi) 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.[1]
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.
- ^ "Battaglin: Despues de la <<Vuelta>>... El <<Giro>>" [Battaglin: After the <<Vuelta>>... the <<Giro>>] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 8 June 1981. p. 30. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.