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1947 Giro d'Italia

Field	Value
name	1947 Giro d'Italia
date	24 May - 15 June 1947
stages	20
distance	3843
unit	km
time	115h 55' 07"
first	Fausto Coppi
first_nat	ITA
first_team	Bianchi
first_color	pink
second	Gino Bartali
second_nat	ITA
second_team	Legnano
third	Giulio Bresci
third_nat	ITA
third_team	Welter
mountains	Gino Bartali
mountains_nat	ITA
mountains_team	Legnano
team	Welter
previous	[1946](1946-giro-d-italia)
next	[1948](1948-giro-d-italia)

The 1947 Giro d'Italia was the 30th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 24 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 190 km to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 15 June after a 278 km stage and a total distance covered of 3843 km.

The Giro was won by Fausto Coppi of the Bianchi team, with fellow Italians Gino Bartali and Giulio Bresci coming in second and third respectively.

Teams

Main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 1947 Giro d'Italia

While in previous years, the Giro peloton was a mix of teams and groups, from 1947 on only professional teams could join. A total of twelve teams entered the 1947 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of seven riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 84 cyclists. Out of the 84 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 50 riders made it to the finish in Milan.

The teams entering the race were:

Cozzi-Silger
Legnano
Lygie
Olmo
Monterosa
Wally

Route and stages

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner	1	2	3
24 May	Milan to Turin	190 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Renzo Zanazzi
25 May	Turin to Genoa	206 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Gino Bartali
26 May	Genoa to Reggio Emilia	220 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Luciano Maggini
27 May	Reggio Emilia to Prato	190 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Fausto Coppi
28 May	Rest day
29 May	Prato to Bagni di Casciana Terme	84 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Luciano Maggini
Bagni di Casciana Terme to Florence	141 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Renzo Zanazzi
30 May	Florence to Perugia	161 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Giordano Cottur
31 May	Perugia to Rome	240 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Oreste Conte
1 June	Rome to Naples	231 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Fausto Coppi
2 June	Rest day
3 June	Naples to Bari	288 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Elio Bertocchi
4 June	Bari to Foggia	129 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Mario Ricci
5 June	Foggia to Pescara	223 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Oreste Conte
6 June	Rest day
7 June	Pescara to Cesenatico	267 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Giovanni Corrieri
8 June	Cesenatico to Padua	175 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Antonio Bevilacqua
9 June	Padua to Vittorio Veneto	132 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Adolfo Leoni
10 June	Vittorio Veneto to Pieve di Cadore	200 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali
11 June	Rest day
12 June	Pieve di Cadore to Trento	194 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Fausto Coppi
13 June	Trento to Brescia Sant'Eufemia	114 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Adolfo Leoni
14 June	Brescia Sant'Eufemia to Lugano (Switzerland)	180 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Giulio Bresci
15 June	Lugano (Switzerland) to Milan	278 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Adolfo Leoni
Total	3843 km

Race overview

In the fifteenth stage, Bartali dismounted his bike to punch a spectator who shouted an anti-Catholic slur at him. He then continued to win the stage.

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 1947.

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.

There was a black jersey (maglia nera) awarded to the rider placed last in the general classification. The classification was calculated in the same manner as the general classification.

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 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=]]	Mountains classification	Last in General classification
[[Image:Jersey black.svg	25px	link=	alt=]]	Team classification	1	2	3	4	5a	5b	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Final	Fausto Coppi	Gino Bartali	Luigi Malabrocca	Welter
Renzo Zanazzi	Renzo Zanazzi	not awarded	Ernesto Ciardossino	Legnano
Gino Bartali	Armando Peverelli
Luciano Maggini	Giovanni Corrieri	?
Fausto Coppi	Gino Bartali	Gino Bartali	Antonio Ausenda	Benotto
Luciano Maggini	?
Renzo Zanazzi
Giordano Cottur	Antonio Ausenda
Oreste Conte
Fausto Coppi
Elio Bertocchi	Luigi Malabrocca	Welter
Mario Ricci
Oreste Conte
Giovanni Corrieri
Antonio Bevilacqua	Riccardo Sarti
Adolfo Leoni	Luigi Malabrocca
Gino Bartali	Riccardo Sarti
Fausto Coppi	Fausto Coppi	?
Adolfo Leoni
Giulio Bresci
Adolfo Leoni	Luigi Malabrocca

Final standings

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

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	1	2
Fausto Coppi [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Bianchi	115h 55' 07"
Gino Bartali	Legnano	+ 1' 43"
Giulio Bresci	Welter	+ 5' 54"
Ezio Cecchi	Welter	+ 15' 01"
Sylvère Maes	Olmo	+ 15' 06"
Alfredo Martini	Welter	+ 19' 00"
Mario Vicini	Bianchi	+ 30' 46"
Salvatore Crippa	Lygie	+ 31' 05"
Fiorenzo Magni	Viscontea	+ 34' 07"
Angelo Menon	Lygie	+ 35' 49"

Mountains classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Gino Bartali	Legnano
2	Fausto Coppi [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Bianchi
3	Giulio Bresci	Welter
4	Giovanni Corrieri	Viscontea
Sylvère Maes	Olmo
6	Oreste Conte	Benotto
Alfredo Martini	Welter
Ezio Cecchi	Welter
Luigi Casola	Bianchi
10	Sergio Pagliazzi	Cozzi-Silger
Adolfo Leoni	Bianchi
Antonio Bevilacqua	Lygie

Team classification

Team	Time
1	Welter
2	Bianchi
3	Legnano
4	Viscontea
5	Lygie
6	Wally
7	Benotto
8	Arbos-Talbot
9	Wilier-Triestina

Minor awards

Coppi won the blue bracelet for winning the stage with the greatest time between the second placed rider. He managed to achieve a gap of 4' 24" during the stage from Pieve di Cadore to Trento, where he won by a margin of 4' 24". Coppi and Adolfo Leoni split the "premato veloce" classification which was given to the rider with the most stage wins. Leoni and Coppi both won three stages, while four riders won two stages.

References

Citations

Bibliography

References

(24 May 1947). "Il quadro dei partecipanti". Corriere dello Sport.
Bill and Carol McGann. "1947 Giro d'Italia". Dog Ear Publishing.
Laura Weislo. (13 May 2008). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Future Publishing Limited.
(10 June 1940). "L'ultima tappa in una immensa cornice di folla e la vittoria di Leoni". Il Littoriale.
"Informatie over de Giro d'Italia van 1947". tourdefrancestatistieken.nl.
(16 June 1947). "Gino Bartali vince il G.P. della Montagna". Corriere dello Sport.
(16 June 1947). "Classifica a squadre". Corriere dello Sport.

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