1989 Giro d'Italia

1989 Giro d'Italia

Race details
Dates		May 21 — June 11
Stages		22, including one split stage
Distance		3,418 km (2,124 mi)
Winning time		93h 30' 16" (36.512 km/h or 22.688 mph)
Palmares
	Winner	Laurent Fignon (FRA)	(Système U)
	Second	Flavio Giupponi (ITA)	(Malvor-Sidi)
	Third	Andrew Hampsten (USA)	(7-Eleven)
	Points	Giovanni Fidanza (ITA)	(Chateau d'Ax-Salotti)
	Mountains	Luis Herrera (COL)	(Café de Colombia-Mavic)
	Youth	Vladimir Poulnikov (URS)	(Alfa Lum-STM)
	Intergiro	Jure Pavlič (YUG)	(Carrera Jeans–Vagabond)
	Team	Fagor - MBK

The 1989 Giro d'Italia was the 72nd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Taormina on 21 May with a 123 km (76.4 mi) flat stage that ended in Catania. The race concluded in Florence with a 53 km (32.9 mi) individual time trial on 11 June. Twenty-two teams entered the race, which was won by the Frenchman Laurent Fignon of the Super U team. Second and third respectively were the Italian Flavio Giupponi and the American rider, Andrew Hampsten.^[1][2][3]

In the race's other classifications, Vladimir Poulnikov of the Alfa Lum-STM finished the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing in eleventh place overall; Café de Colombia rider Luis Herrera won the mountains classification, Giovanni Fidanza of the Chateau d'Ax-Salotti team won the points classification, and Carrera Jeans–Vagabond rider Jure Pavlič won the inaugural intergiro classification. Fagor - MBK finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the twenty-two teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.

Teams

There were 22 teams that were invited to compete in the 1989 Giro d'Italia. Each team consisted of nine riders, so the Giro started with 198 riders. Of the 198 riders that started the race, 141 of them reached the finish line in Florence

The teams entering the race were:^[4][5]

7-Eleven ADR-Agrigel-Bottechia Alfa Lum Ariostea Atala Café de Colombia Caja Rural Carrera Jeans–Vagabond

Chateau d'Ax Del Tongo Fagor Frank Gewiss Hitachi Jolly

Malvor Panasonic–Isostar–Colnago–Agu Pepsi Selca Seur Système U TVM

Route and stages

Mount Etna hosted the end of the 132 km (82 mi) second stage that began in the nearby city of Catania.

The route for the 1989 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public on television by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani, on 21 January 1989.^[6][7][8] It contained four time trial events, three of which were individual and one a team event. There were fourteen stages containing thirty-five categorized climbs, of which three had summit finishes: stage 2, to Mount Etna; stage 8, to Gran Sasso d'Italia; and stage 13, to Tre Cime di Lavaredo.^[9] Another stage with a mountain-top finish was stage 18, which consisted of a climbing time trial to Monte Generoso.^[9] The organizers chose to not include any rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 161 km (100 mi) shorter, contained the number of rest days and time trials, and had one more stage. In addition, this race contained one less set of half stages.

The race's sixteenth stage was supposed to go through both the Gavia and the Tonale, but due to poor weather on the day the stage was cancelled.

Stage characteristics and winners^{[4][10][9][11]}

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	21 May	Taormina to Catania	123 km (76 mi)		Plain stage	Jean-Paul van Poppel (NED)
2	22 May	Catania to Mount Etna	132 km (82 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Acácio da Silva (POR)
3	23 May	Villafranca Tirrena to Messina	32.5 km (20 mi)		Team time trial	Ariostea
4	24 May	Scilla to Cosenza	204 km (127 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Rolf Järmann (SUI)
5	25 May	Cosenza to Potenza	275 km (171 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Stefano Giuliani (ITA)
6	26 May	Potenza to Campobasso	223 km (139 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Stefan Joho (SUI)
7	27 May	Isernia to Rome	208 km (129 mi)		Plain stage	Urs Freuler (SUI)
8	28 May	Rome to Gran Sasso d'Italia	179 km (111 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	John Carlsen (DEN)
9	29 May	L'Aquila to Gubbio	221 km (137 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Bjarne Riis (DEN)
10	30 May	Pesaro to Riccione	36.8 km (23 mi)		Individual time trial	Lech Piasecki (POL)
11	31 May	Riccione to Mantua	244 km (152 mi)		Plain stage	Urs Freuler (SUI)
12	1 June	Mantua to Mira	148 km (92 mi)		Plain stage	Mario Cipollini (ITA)
13	2 June	Padua to Auronzo di Cadore	207 km (129 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Luis Herrera (COL)
14	3 June	Auronzo di Cadore to Corvara	131 km (81 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Flavio Giupponi (ITA)
15a	4 June	Corvara to Trento	131 km (81 mi)		Plain stage	Jean-Paul van Poppel (NED)
15b		Trento to Trento	83.2 km (52 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Lech Piasecki (POL)
16	5 June	Trento to Santa Caterina di Valfurva	208 km (129 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Stage Cancelled
17	6 June	Sondrio to Meda	137 km (85 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Phil Anderson (AUS)
18	7 June	Mendrisio (Switzerland) to Monte Generoso (Switzerland)	10.7 km (7 mi)		Individual time trial	Luis Herrera (COL)
19	8 June	Meda to Tortona	198 km (123 mi)		Plain stage	Jesper Skibby (DEN)
20	9 June	Voghera to La Spezia	220 km (137 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Laurent Fignon (FRA)
21	10 June	La Spezia to Prato	216 km (134 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Gianni Bugno (ITA)
22	11 June	Prato to Florence	53 km (33 mi)		Individual time trial	Lech Piasecki (POL)
	Total		3,418 km (2,124 mi)

Classification leadership

Four different jerseys were worn during the 1989 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.^[12]

The Passo di Gavia was the Cima Coppi for the 1989 Giro d'Italia.

For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.^[12] The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Passo di Gavia, but due to inclement weather the stage containing the Gavia was cancelled. The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing).

The intergiro classification was marked by a blue jersey.^[12] The calculation for the intergiro is similar to that of the general classification, in each stage there is a midway point that the riders pass through a point and where their time is stopped. As the race goes on, their times compiled and the person with the lowest time is the leader of the intergiro classification and wears the blue jersey.^[12][13] Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.^[12]

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

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Team classification
1	Jean-Paul van Poppel	Jean-Paul van Poppel	Jean-Paul van Poppel	not awarded	?	Atala
2	Acácio da Silva	Acácio da Silva	Acácio da Silva	Acácio da Silva	Piotr Ugrumov	Chateau d'Ax
3	Ariostea	Silvino Contini		?
4	Rolf Järmann
5	Stefano Giuliani
6	Stefan Joho
7	Urs Freuler		Giovanni Fidanza
8	John Carlsen	Erik Breukink				Fagor
9	Bjarne Riis	Acácio da Silva	Acácio da Silva
10	Lech Piasecki	Erik Breukink	Rolf Sörensen			Alfa Lum
11	Urs Freuler
12	Mario Cipollini
13	Luis Herrera		Giovanni Fidanza			Fagor
14	Flavio Giupponi	Laurent Fignon			Vladimir Poulnikov
15a	Jean-Paul van Poppel			Luis Herrera	Piotr Ugrumov
15b	Lech Piasecki
16	Stage Cancelled
17	Phil Anderson
18	Luis Herrera				Vladimir Poulnikov
19	Jesper Skibby
20	Laurent Fignon
21	Gianni Bugno
22	Lech Piasecki
Final		Laurent Fignon	Giovanni Fidanza	Luis Herrera	Vladimir Poulnikov	Fagor

Final standings

Legend
	Denotes the winner of the General classification[14]		Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification[14]
	Denotes the winner of the Points classification[14]		Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification[14]
	Denotes the winner of the Intergiro classification

General classification

Final general classification (1–10)^[14][15]

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Laurent Fignon (FRA)	Système U	93h 30' 16"
2	Flavio Giupponi (ITA)	Malvor	+ 1' 15"
3	Andrew Hampsten (USA)	7 Eleven-American Airlines	+ 2' 46"
4	Erik Breukink (NED)	Panasonic–Isostar–Colnago–Agu	+ 5' 02"
5	Franco Chioccioli (ITA)	Del Tongo	+ 5' 43"
6	Urs Zimmermann (SUI)	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond	+ 6' 28"
7	Claude Criquielion (BEL)	Hitachi	+ 6' 34"
8	Marco Giovannetti (ITA)	Seur	+ 7' 44"
9	Stephen Roche (IRL)	Fagor	+ 8' 09"
10	Marino Lejarreta (ESP)	Caja Rural	+ 8' 09"

Points classification

Final points classification (1–5)^[15][16]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Giovanni Fidanza (ITA)	Chateau d'Ax	172
2	Laurent Fignon (FRA)	Système U	139
3	Erik Breukink (NED)	Panasonic–Isostar–Colnago–Agu	128
4	Claudio Chiappucci (ITA)	Del Tongo	116
5	Acácio da Silva (POR)	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond	111

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification (1–5)^[15][16]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Luis Herrera (COL)	Café de Colombia	70
2	Stefano Giuliani (ITA)	Jolly	38
3	Henry Cardenas (COL)	Café de Colombia	34
	Jure Pavlič (YUG)	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond
5	Flavio Giupponi (ITA)	Malvor	28

Young rider classification

Final young rider classification (1–5)^[15][16]

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Vladimir Poulnikov (URS)	Alfa Lum	93h 40' 06"
2	Piotr Ugrumov (URS)	Alfa Lum	+ 4' 37"
3	Luca Gelfi (ITA)	Del Tongo	+ 27' 49"
4	Jos van Aert (NED)	Hitachi	+ 31' 00"
5	Jure Pavlič (YUG)	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond	+ 39' 24"

Intergiro classification

Final intergiro classification (1–3)^[16]

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Jure Pavlič (YUG)	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond	49h 50' 00"
2	Laurent Fignon (FRA)	Système U	+ 4' 07"
3	Claude Criquielion (BEL)	Hitachi	+ 4' 24"
4	Flavio Giupponi (ITA)	Malvor	+ 4' 32"
5	Jesper Skibby (DEN)	TVM	+ 4' 54"

Combativity classification

Final combativity classification (1–5)^[16]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Stefano Giuliani (ITA)	Jolly	98
2	Peter Winnen (NED)	Panasonic–Isostar–Colnago–Agu	54
3	Phil Anderson (AUS)	TVM	48
4	Jesper Worre (DEN)	Café de Colombia	28
5	John Carlsen (DEN)	Fagor	24

Intermediate sprints classification

Final intermediate sprints classification (1–5)^[16]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Luigi Bielli (ITA)	Del Tongo	35
2	Alessio Di Basco (ITA)	Fanini-Seven Up	31
3	Stefanino Cecini (ITA)	Jolly	21
4	Danilo Gioia (ITA)	Atala	18
4	Andrei Tchmil (URS)	Alfa Lum	12

Final kilometer classification

Final final kilometer classification (1–5)^[16]

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Laurent Fignon (FRA)	Système U	14
2	Gianni Bugno (ITA)	Chateau d'Ax	10
3	Rolf Järmann (SUI)	Frank
4	Stefano Giuliani (ITA)	Jolly	9
4	Luis Herrera (COL)	Café de Colombia	8

Team classification

Final team classification (1–4)^[15][16]

	Team	Time
1	Fagor	279h 59' 13"
2	Caja Rural	+ 13' 27"
3	Alfa Lum	+ 16' 11"
4	Seur	+ 16' 37"
5	Del Tongo	+ 20' 35"

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