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| Dates | May 15 — June 6, 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,757 km (2,334 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 99h 55' 56" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1999 Giro d'Italia was the 82nd edition of the Giro. It began on May 15 with a mass-start stage that stretched from Agrigento to Modica. The race came to a close on June 6 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 (sub judice [1])of the Team Polti team. Second and third were the Italians riders Paolo Savoldelli and Gilberto Simoni. Marco Pantani is credited with four high mountain stage victories.
Late in the race Marco Pantani was accused of using EPO and was expelled either as the result of a failed doping control, or due to a conspiracy involving drug tests being manipulated.[2]
In the race's other classifications, Kelme–Costa Blanca rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE–Deutsche Bank team won the points classification, and Team Polti rider Fabrizio Guidi won the intergiro classification. Vitalicio Seguros finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. 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 Team Polti.
- ^ http://sport.sky.it/sport/ciclismo/2016/03/23/pantani-avvocato-de-rensis-chiede-assegnazione-giro-99.html [dead link]
- ^ Rosso, Stefano (14 March 2016). "Cycling: Forlí public prosecutor's case based on phone tapping and testimony of mafia member La Camorra faked Pantani's blood tests". Marca. Photo by Reuters. Retrieved 11 July 2022.