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| Dates | 13 May – 6 June 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 + Prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 4,010.5 km (2,492 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 110h 07' 55" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1982 Giro d'Italia was the 65th running of the Giro. It started in Brescia, on 13 May, with a 16 km (9.9 mi) team time trial and concluded in Turin, on 6 June, with a 42.5 km (26.4 mi) individual time trial. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman Bernard Hinault of the Renault–Elf team. The second and third places were taken by Swede Tommy Prim and Italian Silvano Contini, respectively.[1]
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Famcucine's Francesco Moser won the points classification, Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Metauro Mobili's Marco Groppo completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing ninth overall. Bianchi finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi won the team points classification.
- ^ "Hinault: La Vida En Rosa" [Hinault: the Life in Rose] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 7 June 1982. p. 32. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.