Coppa Bernocchi

Coppa Bernocchi
Race details
DateMid-August
RegionLombardy, Italy
English nameBernocchi Cup
Local name(s)Coppa Bernocchi (in Italian)
Nickname(s)La Bernocchi
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI ProSeries
TypeSingle-day
Race directorPino Cozzi
Web sitewww.uslegnanese.it/coppa-bernocchi/ Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1919 (1919)
Editions105 (as of 2024) *see below
First winner Ruggero Ferrario (ITA)
Most wins Danilo Napolitano (ITA)
(3 wins)
Most recent Stan Van Tricht (BEL)
Antonio Bernocchi, founder and patron of Bernocchi Cup, Legnano, 1919

The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before joining the UCI ProSeries in 2020.

In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup), with his brothers Andrea and Michele Bernocchi in Legnano, and give the executive organization of the race to the family friend Pino Cozzi, President of the "Unione Sportiva Legnanese", sports club which has since organized the cycling race, which used the prestige of the Bernocchi brand license, already known all over the world, to publicize the race that will become one of the most prestigious in Europe. At the Bernocchi Cup have participated, and sometimes won all the greatest champions in the history of cycling, including Fausto Coppi, Pierino Bestetti, Michele Gismondi, Gino Bartali.

Departure of the 1935 Coppa Bernocchi

It is the last race of Trittico Lombardo, which includes three races held around the region of Lombardy in three consecutive days. These races are Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi.

Coppa Bernocchi is one of the most historic cycling races in Europe, with over a hundred years of history, and one of the most important in Italy.