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| Dates | 12 May - 5 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 + Prologue, including one split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,922 km (2,437 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 100h 45' 30" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1983 Giro d'Italia was the 66th running of the Giro. It started in Brescia, on 12 May, with an 8 km (5.0 mi) prologue and concluded in Udine, on 5 June, with a 40 km (24.9 mi) individual time trial. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giuseppe Saronni of the Del Tongo-Colnago team. The second and third places were taken by Italian Roberto Visentini and Spaniard Alberto Fernández, respectively.[1][2][3][4]
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Saronni won the points classification, Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Vivi-Benotto's Franco Chioccioli completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing sixteenth overall. Renault-Elf finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The team points classification was won by Zor-Gemeaz Cusin.
- ^ "Saronni, La Vida En Rosa" [Saronni, the Life in Rose] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 6 June 1983. p. 32. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ "Visentini no pogué impedir el triomf final de Saronni" [Visentini could not prevent the final triumph Saronno]. El Punt (in Catalan). Hermes Comunicacions S.A. 7 June 1983. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Jean Montois (7 June 1983). "Les bonificacions van fer guanyador Saronni" [Bonuses were winning Saronni]. Avui (in Catalan). Hermes Comunicacions S.A. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ "Special Editions – 1983". Giro d'Italia. La Gazzetta dello Sport. 2018. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2019.