Race details | |
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Date | Early-October |
Region | Emilia, Italy |
English name | Tour of Emilia |
Local name(s) | Giro dell'Emilia (in Italian) |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI ProSeries |
Type | Single-day |
Web site | www |
History | |
First edition | 1909 |
Editions | 107 (as of 2024) |
First winner | Eberardo Pavesi (ITA) |
Most wins | Costante Girardengo (ITA) (5 wins) |
Most recent | Tadej Pogačar (SLO) |
The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar.[1] The race starts from Bologna, it generally takes a tour of Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park and ends in Bologna with 5 reps on the brutal climbing ring (Orfanelle climb, Montalbano climb and Casaglia downhill) of Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. It is considered[by whom?] one of the most important and historical classic bicycle races of the calendar, the palmarès shows great champions like Coppi, Bartali, Merckx, Roglič and Pogačar.[2]