Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini

The Giro Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini is annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Italy since 1995.[1]

Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
Race details
DateLate August / September
RegionItaly
English nameTour of Tuscany
DisciplineRoad
TypeStage race
Web sitewww.michelafanini.com Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1995 (1995)
Editions27 (as of 2022)
First winner Imelda Chiappa (ITA)
Most wins Susanne Ljungskog (SWE) (3 wins)
Most recent Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka (POL)

During the 2013 race, 63 of the 112 riders refused to compete in the fourth and final stage of the race due to safety concerns, including having to race in open car traffic without sufficient police protection. After briefly listening to the riders' complaints at a meeting before the fourth stage, the organizer, Brunello Fanani, told the protesting riders and team representatives to "go home." Among the protesting riders were Italy's two top women's riders, Elisa Longo Borghini and Giorgia Bronzini, and Marianne Vos, the overall leader after the third stage.[2] The race returned in 2014 but was reduced to two stages plus a prologue time trial, and its UCI race classification was downgraded from 2.1 to 2.2.

Past winners

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Year Country Rider Team
1995   Italy Imelda Chiappa
1995   Italy Greta Zocca
1996    Switzerland Barbara Heeb
1997   Italy Imelda Chiappa
1998   Italy Valeria Cappellotto
1999   Lithuania Edita Pučinskaitė
2000   Belarus Sinaida Stahurskaja
2001    Switzerland Nicole Brändli
2002   Sweden Susanne Ljungskog Vlaanden–T Interim
2003   Sweden Susanne Ljungskog Bik–Powerplate
2004   Germany Trixi Worrack Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
2005   Sweden Susanne Ljungskog Team Flexpoint
2006   Russia Svetlana Bubnenkova Fenixs–Colnago
2007   Italy Noemi Cantele Bigla Cycling Team
2008   Germany Judith Arndt Team Columbia Women
2009   Lithuania Diana Žiliūtė Safi–Pasta Zara–Titanedi
2010   Germany Judith Arndt Team T-Mobile Women
2011   United States Megan Guarnier Team TIBCO–To The Top
2012   Poland Małgorzata Jasińska MCipollini–Giambenini–Gauss
2013   Germany Claudia Häusler Team TIBCO–To The Top
2014   United States Shelley Olds Alé–Cipollini
2015   Poland Małgorzata Jasińska Alé–Cipollini
2016   South Africa Ashleigh Moolman Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling
2017   South Africa Ashleigh Moolman Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling
2018   Italy Soraya Paladin Alé–Cipollini
2019   Cuba Arlenis Sierra Astana
2020 No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021   Cuba Arlenis Sierra A.R. Monex
2022   Poland Agnieszka Skalniak-Sójka ATOM Deweloper Posciellux.pl Wrocław

References

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  1. ^ "Giro della Toscana Femminile/Memorial Michela Fanini" (in French). memoire-du-cyclisme.net. Archived from the original on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  2. ^ Women riders protest security at Giro della Toscana
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