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1939 Giro d'Italia

Field	Value
name	1939 Giro d'Italia
date	28 April - 18 May 1939
stages	17, including two split stages
distance	3011.4
unit	km
time	88h 02' 00"
first	Giovanni Valetti
first_nat	ITA
first_natvar	1861
first_team	Fréjus
first_color	pink
second	Gino Bartali
second_nat	ITA
second_natvar	1861
second_team	Legnano
third	Mario Vicini
third_nat	ITA
third_natvar	1861
third_team	Lygie
mountains	Gino Bartali
mountains_nat	ITA
mountains_natvar	1861
mountains_team	Legnano
team	Fréjus
previous	[1938](1938-giro-d-italia)
next	[1940](1940-giro-d-italia)

The 1939 Giro d'Italia was the 27th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 28 April in Milan with a stage that stretched 182 km to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 18 May after a split stage and a total distance covered of 3011.4 km. The race was won by the Italian rider Giovanni Valetti of the Fréjus team, with fellow Italians Gino Bartali and Mario Vicini coming in second and third respectively.

Valetti had the lead halfway the race. Bartali then took over the lead in the mountains, but Valetti took it back in the penultimate stage. Bartali attacked on the last stage, but Valetti stayed in his wake and won the race.

Participants

Of the 89 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 28 April, 54 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 18 May. Riders were allowed to ride as a member of a team or group; 56 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 33 competed as a part of a group. The eight teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Fréjus, Ganna, Gloria, Legnano, Lygie, Olympia, and Belgium. The teams ranged from six to eight riders each. There were also seven groups, made up of three to five riders each, that participated in the race. Those groups were: U.S. Azzini, Dopolavoro Di Novi, S.S. Genova 1913, Il Littoriale, La Voce Di Mantova, U.C. Modenese, and S.C. Vigor.

The peloton was composed primarily of Italian riders. The field featured three former Giro d'Italia winners with two-time winner Gino Bartali, Vasco Bergamaschi who won the 1935 edition, and reigning champion Giovanni Valetti. Other notable Italian riders included Olimpio Bizzi, Ezio Cecchi, and Cino Cinelli.

Route and stages

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	TypeIn 1939, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the stages 7, 9b, 10, 14, 15, 16, and 17 included mountains counting towards the mountains classification. The stage 6b individual time trial also contained a summit finish to Monte Terminillo.	Winner	1	2	3
28 April	Milan to Turin	180 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Vasco Bergamaschi
29 April	Turin to Genoa	226.7 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Gino Bartali
30 April	Genoa to Pisa	187 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Cino Cinelli
1 May	Pisa to Grosseto	154 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Carmine Saponetti
2 May	Grosseto to Rome	222 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Olimpio Bizzi
3 May	Rest day
4 May	Rome to Rieti	85.7 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Carmine Saponetti
Rieti to Monte Terminillo	14 km	[[File:Time Trial.svg	20px	link=]]	Individual time trial	Giovanni Valetti
5 May	Rieti to Pescara	191.3 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Adolfo Leoni
6 May	Pescara to Senigallia	177 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Diego Marabelli
7 May	Senigallia to Forlì	116.5 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Glauco Servadei
Forlì to Florence	106.6 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali
8 May	Rest day
9 May	Florence to Bologna	120 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Olimpio Bizzi
10 May	Bologna to Venezia	231.8 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Pietro Chiappini
11 May	Venezia to Trieste	173.8 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Giordano Cottur
12 May	Rest day
13 May	Trieste to Gorizia	39.8 km	[[File:Time Trial.svg	20px	link=]]	Individual time trial	Giovanni Valetti
14 May	Gorizia to Cortina d'Ampezzo	195 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Secondo Magni
15 May	Cortina d'Ampezzo to Trento	256.2 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali
16 May	Rest day
17 May	Trento to Sondrio	166 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Giovanni Valetti
18 May	Sondrio to Milan	168 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali
Total	3011.4 km

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. There were no time bonuses in 1939.

There was a special classification for the grouped riders, calculated in the same way as the general classification. The leader of this classification was given the white jersey. In 1939, three stages were won by grouped riders: stages 4 and 6 by Saponetti from La Voce di Mantova, and stage 13 by Chiappini from Il Littoriale.

In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the five riders who crossed them first.

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. The group classification was decided in the same manner, but the classification was exclusive to the competing groups.

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

Stage	Winner	General classification
[[Image:Jersey pink.svg	25px	link=	alt=]]	Best grouped rider
[[Image:Jersey white.svg	25px	link=	alt=]]	Mountains classification	Team classification	Group classification	1	2	3	4	5	6a	6b	7	8	9a	9b	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Final	Giovanni Valetti	Settimo Simonini	Gino Bartali	Fréjus	S.C. Vigor
Vasco Bergamaschi	Vasco Bergamaschi	Serafino Santambrogio	not awarded	shared	S.C. Vigor
Gino Bartali	Gino Bartali	Settimo Simonini	Legnano
Cino Cinelli	Cino Cinelli	Fréjus
Carmine Saponetti	La Voce di Mantova
Olimpio Bizzi
Carmine Saponetti
Giovanni Valetti	Giovanni Valetti
Adolfo Leoni	Giovanni Valetti & Gino Bartali	S.C. Vigor
Diego Marabelli
Glauco Servadei	Secondo Magni
Gino Bartali	Giovanni Valetti	Enrico Mollo
Olimpio Bizzi	Enrico Mollo & Michele Benente
Pietro Chiappini
Giordano Cottur
Giovanni Valetti
Secondo Magni	Gino Bartali
Gino Bartali	Gino Bartali
Giovanni Valetti	Giovanni Valetti
Gino Bartali

Final standings

Legend
[[Image:Jersey pink.svg	20px	alt=A pink jersey]]
[[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px	link=	alt=White jersey]]

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	1	2
Giovanni Valetti [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Fréjus	88h 02' 00"
Gino Bartali	Legnano	+ 2' 59"
Mario Vicini	Lygie	+ 5' 07"
Severino Canavesi	Gloria	+ 7' 55"
Settimo Simonini [[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px	link=	alt=White jersey]]	Il Littoriale	+ 16' 40"
Salvatore Crippa	Ganna	+ 17' 52"
Giordano Cottur	Lygie	+ 18' 40"
Cesare Del Cancia	Ganna	+ 24' 34"
Cino Cinelli	Fréjus	+ 26' 10"
Bernardo Rogora	Gloria	+ 27' 40"

Group rider classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	1	2
Settimo Simonini[[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px	link=	alt=White jersey]]	Il Littoriale	88h 18' 40"
Aladino Mealli	S.C. Vigor	+ 51' 32"
Bruno Pasquini	La Voce Di Mantova	+ 1h 09' 31"
Spirito Godio	S.C. Vigor	+ 1h 15' 39"
Primo Zuccotti	Dopolavoro Di Novi	+ 2h 02' 49"
Lino Marini	S.S. Genova 1913	+ 2h 16' 20"
Guerrino Amadori	La Voce Di Mantova	+ 2h 23' 45"
Renzo Silvestri	U.C. Modenese	+ 2h 35' 45"
Gino Malavasi	La Voce Di Mantova	+ 2h 41' 12"
Amilcare Amilsano	S.C. Vigor	+ 2h 43' 41"

Mountains classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Gino Bartali	Legnano
2	Giovanni Valetti [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Fréjus
3	Michele Benente	Olympia
4	Enrico Mollo	Olympia
Settimo Simonini [[Image:Jersey white.svg	20px	link=	alt=White jersey]]	Il Littoriale
6	Olimpio Bizzi	Fréjus
Giordano Cottur	Lygie
Secondo Magni	Fréjus
9	Adolfo Leoni	Bianchi
Aladino Mealli	S.C Vigor

Team classification

Team	Time
1	Fréjus
2	Ganna
3	Gloria
4	Lygie
5	Legnano
6	Bianchi
7	Olympia
8	Belgio

Group classification

Team	Time
1	S.C. Vigor
2	La Voce di Mantova
3	Il Littoriale

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

References

(28 April 1938). "Gli iscritti". Il Littoriale.
Bill and Carol McGann. "1939 Giro d'Italia". Dog Ear Publishing.
Laura Weislo. (13 May 2008). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Future Publishing Limited.
"Informatie over de Giro van 1939". tourdefrancestatistieken.nl.
(19 May 1939). "Tutto finito: Valetti l'ha spuntata su Bartali". Il Littoriale.
(14 June 1950). "I vincitori delle categorie speciali". Corriere dello Sport.

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