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1965 Giro d'Italia

Field	Value
name	1965 Giro d'Italia
image	Adorni Giro 1965.jpg
date	15 May - 6 June 1965
stages	22
distance	4051
unit	km
time	121h 08' 18"
first	Vittorio Adorni
first_nat	ITA
first_team	Salvarani
first_color	pink
second	Italo Zilioli
second_nat	ITA
second_team	Sanson
third	Felice Gimondi
third_nat	ITA
third_team	Salvarani
mountains	Franco Bitossi
mountains_nat	ITA
mountains_team	Filotex
previous	[1964](1964-giro-d-italia)
next	[1966](1966-giro-d-italia)

The 1965 Giro d'Italia was the 48th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The Giro started in San Marino, on 15 May, with a 295 km stage and concluded in Florence, on 6 June, with a 136 km leg. A total of 100 riders from 10 teams entered the 22-stage race, which was won by Italian Vittorio Adorni of the Salvarani team. The second and third places were taken by Italian riders Italo Zilioli and Felice Gimondi, respectively.

Teams

Ten teams were invited by the race organizers to participate in the 1965 edition of the Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 100 cyclists. From the riders that began the race, 80 made it to the finish in Florence.

The teams entering the race were:

Maino

From the 100 riders that started the Giro, only 10 were not Italian.

Route and stages

The race route was revealed to the public on 25 March 1965 by race director Vincenzo Torriani.{{cite news |url=https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1965/03/25/page_006.pdf|title=Questo il Giro d'Italia|language=it |date=26 March 1965 |page=6 |newspaper=l'Unità |publisher=PCI |access-date=22 June 2018|author=Attilio Camoriano|format=PDF |trans-title=This is the Tour of Italy |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429040102/https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1965/03/25/page_006.pdf|archive-date=29 April 2019 |url-status=live}} San Marino hosted the start of the race, which marked the first time in race history that the race began outside of Italy. The small country only hosted the stage's start as the stage concluded in Perugia.

To transfer from Sicily to Milan, a plane flight was planned during the rest day. This caused some controversy, because not all riders were happy to fly, and some chose to travel by train.

The twentieth stage was originally planned to end in Solda after 190 km, but was shortened to end on the Passo dello Stelvio because of the risk of an avalanche.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner	1	2	3
15 May	City of San Marino (San Marino) to Perugia	198 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Michele Dancelli
16 May	Perugia to L'Aquila	180 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Guido Carlesi
17 May	L'Aquila to Rocca di Cambio	199 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Luciano Galbo
18 May	Rocca di Cambio to Benevento	239 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Adriano Durante
19 May	Benevento to Avellino	175 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Michele Dancelli
20 May	Avellino to Potenza	161 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Vittorio Adorni
21 May	Potenza to Maratea	164 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Luciano Armani
22 May	Maratea to Catanzaro	103 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Frans Brands
23 May	Catanzaro to Reggio Calabria	161 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Adriano Durante
24 May	Messina to Palermo	260 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Domenico Meldolesi
25 May	Palermo to Agrigento	146 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Guido Carlesi
26 May	Agrigento to Siracusa	230 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Raffaele Marcoli
27 May	Catania to Taormina	50 km	[[Image:Time Trial.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Individual time trial	Vittorio Adorni
28 May	Rest day
29 May	Milan to Novi Ligure	100 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Danilo Grassi
30 May	Novi Ligure to Diano Marina	223 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Bruno Mealli
31 May	Diano Marina to Turin	205 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Aldo Pifferi
1 June	Turin to Biandronno	163 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Raffaele Marcoli
2 June	Biandronno to Saas Fee (Switzerland)	178 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Italo Zilioli
3 June	Saas Fee (Switzerland) to Madesimo	282 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Vittorio Adorni
4 June	Madesimo to Passo dello Stelvio	160 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Graziano Battistini
5 June	Bormio to Brescia	179 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Franco Bitossi
6 June	Brescia to Florence	295 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	René Binggeli
Total	4051 km

Race summary

Adorni took the lead in stage six, but lost it in stage eight because of a break-away that took 15 minutes. Adorni re-took the lead in an individual time trial, and increased his lead to a margin that had not been seen since Fausto Coppi won in 1949.

The twentieth stage ended on the Passo dello Stelvio. The top was covered by snow, and cyclists had to cross it on foot. When Graziano Battistini reached the finish line as the stage winner, he did not celebrate but asked for a blanket.

Classification leadership

One leader's jersey was worn during the 1965 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 1965.

A major secondary classification was the mountains classification. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. There were three categories of mountains. The first category awarded 50, 40, 30, 20, and 10 points, the second distributed 40, 30, 20, and 10 points, and the third category gave 30, 20, and 10 points. In addition, the Cima Coppi was introduced: the highest climb of the Giro gave 200, 100, 80, 70 and 50 points. From this year on, a rider had to finish the Giro to be eligible for the mountains classification.

There was also a classification for intermediate sprints, named the Traguardi tricolori in honor of the Italian flag, where riders scored 15, 10 and 5 points at each intermediate sprint.

Stage	Winner	General classification
[[Image:Jersey pink.svg	25px	link=	alt=A pink jersey]]	Mountains classification	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	Final	Vittorio Adorni	Franco Bitossi
Michele Dancelli	Michele Dancelli	not awarded
Guido Carlesi	Carlo Chiappano
Luciano Galbo	Luciano Galbo	Vito Taccone & Antonio Bailetti
Adriano Durante	Albano Negro	Michele Dancelli
Michele Dancelli
Vittorio Adorni	Vittorio Adorni
Luciano Armani
Frans Brands	Bruno Mealli
Adriano Durante
Domenico Meldolesi
Guido Carlesi
Raffaele Marcoli
Vittorio Adorni	Vittorio Adorni
Danilo Grassi
Bruno Mealli
Aldo Pifferi	Franco Bitossi
Raffaele Marcoli
Italo Zilioli
Vittorio Adorni
Graziano Battistini
Franco Bitossi
René Binggeli

Final standings

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

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	1	2
Vittorio Adorni [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Salvarani	121h 08' 18"
Italo Zilioli	Sanson	+ 11' 26"
Felice Gimondi	Salvarani	+ 12' 57"
Marcello Mugnaini	Maino	+ 14' 30"
Franco Balmamion	Sanson	+ 15' 05"
Vito Taccone	Salvarani	+ 15' 33"
Franco Bitossi	Filotex	+ 15' 37"
Roberto Poggiali	Ignis	+ 19' 22"
Imerio Massignan	Ignis	+ 19' 30"
Guido De Rosso	Molteni	+ 21' 03"

Mountains classification

Name	Team	Points
1	Franco Bitossi	Filotex
2	Vito Taccone	Salvarani
3	Vittorio Adorni [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	Salvarani
4	Italo Zilioli	Sanson
5	Michele Dancelli	Molteni
Marcello Mugnaini	Maino
7	Antonio Bailetti	Sanson
Carlo Brugnami	Molteni
Silvano Schiavon	Legnano
10	Franco Cribori	Ignis
Roberto Poggiali	Ignis
Angelo Ottaviani	Vittadello
Giancarlo Ferretti	Legnano
Imerio Massignan	Ignis

References

Citations

Bibliography

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