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1957 Giro d'Italia

Field	Value
name	1957 Giro d'Italia
date	18 May - 9 June 1957
stages	21
distance	3926.7
unit	km
time	104h 45' 06"
first	Gastone Nencini
first_nat	ITA
first_team	Chlorodont
first_color	pink
second	Louison Bobet
second_nat	FRA
second_team	Velo Club Bustese
third	Ercole Baldini
third_nat	ITA
third_team	Legnano
mountains	Raphaël Géminiani
mountains_nat	FRA
mountains_team	Velo Club Bustese
sprints	Rik Van Steenbergen
sprints_nat	BEL
sprints_team	Cora-Elvé
team	Legnano
previous	[1956](1956-giro-d-italia)
next	[1958](1958-giro-d-italia)

The 1957 Giro d'Italia was the 40th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The Giro started in Milan, on 18 May, with a 191 km stage and concluded in Milan, on 9 June, with a 257 km leg. A total of 120 riders from 15 teams entered the 21-stage race, which was won by Italian Gastone Nencini of the Leo-Chlorodont team. The second and third places were taken by Frenchman Louison Bobet and Italian Ercole Baldini, respectively.

Teams

Fifteen teams were invited by the race organizers to participate in the 1957 edition of the Giro d'Italia. The team size increased from seven to eight riders per team, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 120 cyclists. From the riders that began the race, 86 made it to the finish in Milan.

The Giro organisation invited five national teams (most of which for the duration of the Giro were sponsored by an Italian company) and ten Italian teams:

Asborno
Atala
Bianchi
Bif
Bottecchia
Carpano
Chlorodont
Cora (Belgium)
Faema (International)
Girardengo (the Netherlands)
Ignis (Spain)
Legnano
San Pellegrino
Torpado
Velo Club Bustese (France)

The "international" team was a combined Swiss-Luxembourgish team.

Pre-race favorites

Reigning champion Charly Gaul was seen as a favorite to repeat as winner.

Route and stages

The route was revealed on 5 March 1957.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner	1	2	3
18 May	Milan to Verona	191 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen
19 May	Verona to Bosco Chiesanuova	28 km	[[Image:Time Trial.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Individual time trial	Charly Gaul
20 May	Verona to Ferrara	169 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Miguel Poblet
21 May	Ferrara to Cattolica	190 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	André Vlayen
22 May	Cattolica to Loreto	235 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Alessandro Fantini
23 May	Loreto to Terni	175 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Wout Wagtmans
24 May	Terni to Pescara	221 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Antonin Rolland
25 May	Pescara to Naples	250 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Vito Favero
26 May	Naples to Frascati	220 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Miguel Poblet
27 May	Rome to Siena	227 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Miguel Poblet
28 May	Siena to Montecatini Terme	230 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen
29 May	Rest day
30 May	Montecatini to Forte dei Marmi	58 km	[[Image:Time Trial.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Individual time trial	Ercole Baldini
31 May	Forte dei Marmi to Genoa	163 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Bruno Monti
1 June	Genoa to Saint-Vincent	235 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Mario Baroni
2 June	Saint-Vincent to Sion (Switzerland)	134 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Louison Bobet
3 June	Sion (Switzerland) to Campo dei Fiori	229 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Alfredo Sabbadin
4 June	Varese to Como	82 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Alessandro Fantini
Como to Como	34 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen
5 June	Rest day
6 June	Como to Monte Bondone	242 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Miguel Poblet
7 June	Trento to Levico Terme	199 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Charly Gaul
8 June	Levico Terme to Abano Terme	157 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen
9 June	Abano Terme to Milan	257 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Steenbergen
Total	3926.7 km

Classification leadership

One jersey was worn during the 1957 Giro d'Italia. 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 1957.

A secondary classification was the mountains classification. For the first time in Giro history, the climbs were ranked in first and second categories. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. There were two categories of mountains. The first category awarded 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1 points, while the second distributed 5, 3, and 1 points.

There was an intermediate sprints classification. The first three riders at each intermediate sprint received points, 5 for the winner down to 1 for the third.

Also present was the piste classification, in Italian known as Trofeo de Velodromos, a rebranding of 1956's Trofeo della plata. There were eight stages that ended on a velodrome, and the first three riders on those stages received points (5 for the winner, down to 1 for the third).

There was also one classification for the teams, based on stage positions: the stage positions of the three best riders per team were added, and the team with the lowest total rank was the best team. There was no jersey for this classifications.

Stage	Winner	General classification
[[Image:Jersey pink.svg	25px	link=	alt=A pink jersey]]	Mountains classification	Intermediate sprints classification	Piste classification	Team classification	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17a	17b	18	19	20	21	Final	Gastone Nencini	Raphaël Géminiani	Rik Van Steenbergen	Miguel Poblet	Legnano
Rik Van Steenbergen	Rik Van Steenbergen	not awarded	Cleto Maule	not awarded	Cora
Charly Gaul	Louison Bobet	Charly Gaul	Velo Club Bustese
Miguel Poblet	Rik Van Steenbergen	Miguel Poblet
André Vlayen	Bottecchia
Alessandro Fantini	Pierino Baffi
Wout Wagtmans
Antonin Rolland	Raphaël Géminiani
Vito Favero	Nino Defilippis	Rik Van Steenbergen	multiple riders
Miguel Poblet
Miguel Poblet	Miguel Poblet
Rik Van Steenbergen	Legnano
Bruno Monti	Louison Bobet
Ercole Baldini
Mario Baroni	Antonin Rolland
Louison Bobet	Louison Bobet
Alfredo Sabbadin	Charly Gaul
Alessandro Fantini
Rik Van Steenbergen
Miguel Poblet	Gastone Nencini
Charly Gaul
Rik Van Steenbergen
Rik Van Steenbergen

Final standings

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

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	1	2
Gastone Nencini [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Chlorodont	104h 45' 06"
Louison Bobet	Velo Club Bustese	+ 19"
Ercole Baldini	Legnano	+ 5' 59"
Charly Gaul	Faema-Guerra	+ 7' 31"
Raphaël Géminiani	Velo Club Bustese	+ 17' 28"
Miguel Poblet	Ignis-Doniselli	+ 19' 49"
Raymond Impanis	Cora-Elvé	+ 21' 06"
Pasquale Fornara	Bif-Clement	+ 24' 16"
Wout Wagtmans	ERG-Girardengo	+ 24' 29"
Antonin Rolland	Velo Club Bustese	+ 27' 29"

Mountains classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Raphaël Géminiani	Velo Club Bustese
2	Charly Gaul	Faema-Guerra
3	Louison Bobet	Velo Club Bustese
4	Miguel Poblet	Ignis-Doniselli
5	Gastone Nencini [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Chlorodont
6	Ercole Baldini	Legnano
7	Guido Carlesi	Bottecchia-Gripo
8	Emilio Bottecchia	Bottecchia-Gripo
Alfredo Sabbadin	San Pellegrino
10	Antonin Rolland	Velo Club Bustese

Intermediate sprints classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Rik Van Steenbergen	Cora-Elvé
2	Guido Carlesi	Bottecchia-Gripo
3	Emilio Bottecchia	Bottecchia-Gripo
4	Pierino Baffi	Bif
5	Mario Tosato	Torpado
Arrigo Padovan	Atala
7	Miguel Poblet	Ignis-Doniselli
Cleto Maule	Torpado
Armando Pellegrini	Faema
10	Alessandro Fantini	Atala
Raphaël Géminiani	Velo Club Bustese

Trofeo de Velodromos classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Miguel Poblet	Ignis-Doniselli
2	Rik Van Steenbergen	Cora-Elvé
3	Vito Favero	Bianchi
4	Wout Wagtmans	ERG-Girardengo
Antonin Rolland	Velo Club Bustese
Bruno Monti	Bianchi
7	Alessandro Fantini	Atala
8	Ugo Massocco	Legnano
Arrigo Padovan	Atala
10	Nino Defilippis	Bianchi
Nello Fabbri	Legnano
Edgard Sorgeloos	Cora-Elvé
Cleto Maule	Torpado

Team classification

Team	Points
1	Legnano
2	Atala
3	Velo Club Bustese (France)
4	Girardengo (the Netherlands)
5	Botecchia
6	Faema (International)
7	Torpado
8	Cora (Belgium)
9	Bif
10	Chlorodont

References

Citations

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