 Overall winner Laurent Fignon taking victory on stage 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 21 May – 11 June 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22, including one split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,418 km (2,124 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 93h 30' 16" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1989 Giro d'Italia was the 72nd edition of the race. It started off in Taormina on 21 May with a 123 km (76.4 mi) flat stage that ended in Catania. The race concluded in Florence with a 53 km (32.9 mi) individual time trial on 11 June. Twenty-two teams entered the race, which was won by the Frenchman Laurent Fignon of the Super U team. Second and third respectively were the Italian Flavio Giupponi and the American rider, Andrew Hampsten.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
In the race's other classifications, Vladimir Poulnikov of the Alfa Lum-STM finished the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing in eleventh place overall; Café de Colombia rider Luis Herrera won the mountains classification, Giovanni Fidanza of the Chateau d'Ax-Salotti team won the points classification, and Carrera Jeans–Vagabond rider Jure Pavlič won the inaugural intergiro classification. Fagor - MBK finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the twenty-two teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.
- ^ Dario Ceccarelli (21 May 1989). "<<C'e del doping nel regno del pedale>>" [<< There is doping in the realm of the pedal >>] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Dario Ceccarelli (20 May 1989). "Polvere, sudore, montagne: e ancora Giro" [Dust, sweat, mountains: and again Giro] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Dario Ceccarelli (15 May 1989). "<<Finalmente un Giro come si deve Avrei voluto io frane uno cosi>>" [<< Finally a Giro as it should have been>>] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 25. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Dario Ceccarelli (15 May 1989). "Fondriest-Bugno: ormai e finito il <<tempo delle mele>>" [Fondriest-Bugno: the time for apples is over now >>] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Emile Besson (15 May 1989). "Solo buono per un giorno?" [Only good for a day?] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Oreste Pivetti (15 May 1989). "Freddo, duro, maledetto Gavia" [Cold, hard, damn Gavia] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
- ^ Sertino Bertini (15 May 1989). "L'incerto identikit dell'atleta perfetto" [The uncertain identikit of the perfect athlete] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.