1997 Giro d'Italia

1997 Giro d'Italia
Race details
Dates17 May — 8 June 1997
Stages22
Distance3,912 km (2,431 mi)
Winning time102h 53' 58"
Results
Winner  Ivan Gotti (ITA) (Saeco–Estro)
  Second  Pavel Tonkov (RUS) (Mapei–GB)
  Third  Giuseppe Guerini (ITA) (Team Polti)
Points  Mario Cipollini (ITA) (Saeco–Estro)
Mountains  Chepe González (COL) (Kelme–Costa Blanca)
Intergiro  Dimitri Konyshev (RUS) (Roslotto–ZG Mobili)
  Team Kelme–Costa Blanca
  Team points Saeco–Estro
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The 1997 Giro d'Italia was the 80th edition of the Giro. It began on 17 May with a mass-start stage that began and ended in Venice. The race came to a close on 8 June with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti of the Saeco–Estro team.[1] Second and third were the Russian rider Pavel Tonkov and Italian Giuseppe Guerini.[1]

In the race's other classifications, Kelme–Costa Blanca rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Mario Cipollini of the Saeco team won the points classification, and Roslotto–ZG Mobili rider Dimitri Konyshev won the intergiro classification.[1] Kelme – Costa Blanca finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.[1] The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams' riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Saeco.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ivan Gotti, primer italiano que gana el Giro desde 1991" [Ivan Gotti, the first Italian to win the Giro since 1991] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 9 June 1997. p. 52. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.