Giro di Sicilia (English: Tour of Sicily) is a men's multi-stage bicycle race held on Sicily, Italy. The race was first held in 1907 and was won by Carlo Galetti.[2] The race disappeared from the calendar after the 1977 edition won by Giuseppe Saronni, until it was revived by RCS Sports in 2019.[3] The first edition of the revived race was won by American rider Brandon McNulty.[4] It is part of the UCI Europe Tour, classified as a 2.1 event.[5]

Giro di Sicilia
2023 Giro di Sicilia
Race details
DateApril
RegionSicily
English nameTour of Sicily
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Europe Tour
TypeStage race
OrganiserRCS Sport
Web siteilgirodisicilia.it Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1907 (1907)
Editions27 (as of 2023)[1]
First winner Carlo Galetti (ITA)
Most recent Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)

The 2024 edition was cancelled as RCS Sport, in collaboration with the Abruzzo Region, will organize the Giro d'Abruzzo instead.[6]

Winners

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Year Winner Second Third
1907   Carlo Galetti   Luigi Ganna   Umberto Zoffoli
1908   Carlo Galetti   Pierino Albini   Ernesto Azzini
1926   Domenico Caratozzolo   Francisco Gambino   Gianbattista Gilli
1929   Nicola Mammina   Leonida Frascarelli   Albino Binda
1932   Nicola Mammina   Attilio Pavesi   Antonio Nicolosi
1936   Francesco Patti   Ernesto Zuppa   Alfredo Mazzocchetti
1939   Remo Cerasa   Francesco Patti   Giovanni Corrieri
1940–1947 Not held (WW II)
1948   Francesco Patti   Marcello Spadolini   Italiano Lazzerini
1949   Dino Rossi   Sergio Pagliazi   Angelo Fumagali
1950   Donato Zampini   Giacomo Zampieri   Arigo Padovan
1951   Primo Volpi   Francesco Patti   Ugo Fondelli
1952 Not held
1953   Elio Brasola   Pietro Giudici   Luigi Mastroianni
1954   Ugo Massocco   Livio Isotti   Giovanni Roma
1955   Gilberto Dall'Agata   Franco Franchi   Renzo Accordi
1956   Piero Polo   Luciano Ciancola   Walter Serena
1957   Alberto Emiliozzi   Alfredo Sabbadin   Giuseppe Cainero
1958   Carlo Azzini   Gianbattista Milesi   Antonio Catalano
1958[7]   Diego Ronchini   Noè Conti   Mario Mori
1959   Loris Guernieri   Federico Galeaz   Noé Conti
1960   Giorgio Tinazzi   Aurelio Cestari   Idrio Bui
1961–1972 Not held
1973   Enrico Maggioni   Michele Dancelli   Enrico Paolini
1974   Roger De Vlaeminck   Patrick Sercu   Marino Basso
1975–1976 Not held
1977   Giuseppe Saronni   Pierino Gavazzi   Carmelo Barone
1978–2018 Not held
2019   Brandon McNulty   Guillaume Martin   Fausto Masnada
2020 Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021   Vincenzo Nibali   Alejandro Valverde   Alessandro Covi
2022   Damiano Caruso   Jefferson Alexander Cepeda   Louis Meintjes
2023[8]   Alexey Lutsenko   Louis Meintjes   Vincenzo Albanese

References

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  1. ^ "Il Giro Di Sicilia Is Back After 42 Years". Il Giro Di Sicilia. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Giro di Sicilia "en ligne" (Ita) - Ex". Memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Sicily confirmed as host of Giro d'Italia 2021 start". www.cyclingnews.com. 26 March 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  4. ^ "Giro di Sicilia". FirstCycling.com. 5 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Giro di Sicilia 2019". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  6. ^ "Bye Bye Sicilia: RCS si sposta al Giro d'Abruzzo" (in Italian). ciclismoweb.net. 5 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
  7. ^ Cursa en línia
  8. ^ Farr, Stephen (14 April 2023). "Giro di Sicilia: Alexey Lutsenko captures overall title with Mount Etna stage 4 solo victory". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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