1932 Giro d'Italia

Participants

Main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 1932 Giro d'Italia

Of the 109 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 14 May, 66 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 5 June. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team. There were ten teams that competed in the race: Atala-Hutchinson, Bianchi-Pirelli, France Sport-Pirelli, Ganna-Dunlop, Gloria-Hutchinson, Ilva-Pirelli, Legnano-Hutchinson, Maino-Clément, Olympia-Superga, and Wolsit-Hutchinson.

The peloton was primarily composed of Italians. The field featured four former Giro d'Italia champions in four-time winner Alfredo Binda, two-time champion Costante Girardengo, 1920 winner Gaetano Belloni, and reigning winner Francesco Camusso. Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Learco Guerra, Giovanni Gerbi, Felice Gremo, and Domenico Piemontesi. The reigning winner of the Tour de France, Frenchman Antonin Magne, raced started the Giro, along with Belgian Jef Demuysere who finished second at the 1931 Tour de France.

Race summary

As in the year before, Guerra won the first stage, and became the first leader in the general classification.

In the second stage, Buse escaped solo, and won by a margin of more than eleven minutes. He became the first German rider to ever lead the Giro.

Buse stayed in the lead until the sixth stage. In the seventh stage, Pesenti attacked. The riders rode faster than expected, and reached the finish one hour earlier than scheduled, which almost caused a problem because the stadium had to be opened for the riders to enter. Pesenti won the stage, and took enough time to become the new leader of the general classification. Pesenti had started the race as team mate of Alfredo Binda, and was not seen as a favorite for the victory. After this seventh stage, Binda declared that Pesenti would be the new captain in the team.

In the eighth stage, Gerbi was disqualified after receiving help from a car. Gerbi did not accept this, and continued to ride all stages, joining the race. He was not included in the results.

The twelfth stage ended in a sprint, won by Giaccobe. The jury decided that his sprint had been irregular, and he was demoted to the last place of the group, giving the stage victory to Bertoni who originally had finished in second place.

Pesenti's lead was never in danger, and Pesenti became the winner of the 1932 Giro.

Route and stages

Classification leadership

The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.

The race organizers allowed isolated riders to compete in the race, which had a separate classification calculated the same way as the general classification. In addition, there was a classification dedicated to only foreign, non-Italian riders, which was calculated in the same manner.

The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner. If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.

Il Trofeo Magno () was a classification for independent Italian riders competing in the race. The riders were divided into teams based on the region of Italy they were from. The calculation of the standings was the same for the team classification. At the end of the race, a trophy was awarded to the winning team and it was then stored at the Federal Secretary of the P.N.P. in their respective province.

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Final standings

General classification

There were 66 cyclists who had completed all thirteen stages. For these cyclists, the times they had needed in each stage was added up for the general classification. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the winner.

Foreign rider classification

Isolati rider classification

Team classification

Il Trofeo Magno

References

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