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1961 Giro d'Italia

Field	Value
name	1961 Giro d'Italia
image	Giro1961.png
image_caption	The race route for the 1961 Giro d'Italia
image_alt	Race route
date	20 May - 11 June 1961
stages	21
distance	4001
unit	km
time	111h 25' 28"
first	Arnaldo Pambianco
first_nat	ITA
first_team
first_color	pink
second	Jacques Anquetil
second_nat	FRA
second_team
third	Antonio Suárez
third_nat	ESP
third_natvar	1945
third_team
mountains	Vito Taccone
mountains_nat	ITA
mountains_team
team
previous	1960
next	1962

The 1961 Giro d'Italia was the 44th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The Giro started in Turin, on 20 May, with a 115 km stage and concluded in Milan, on 11 June, with a 214 km leg. A total of 170 riders from 17 teams entered the 21-stage race, which was won by Italian Arnaldo Pambianco of the team. The second and third places were taken by Frenchman Jacques Anquetil and Spaniard Antonio Suárez, respectively.{{cite news |url=https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1961/05/18/page_007.pdf|title=Un grande poker il del '61|language=it |date=18 May 1961 |page=7 |newspaper=l'Unità |publisher=PCI |access-date=22 June 2018|author=Attilio Camoriano|format=PDF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429044015/https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1961/05/18/page_007.pdf|archive-date=29 April 2019 |url-status=dead }}

Teams

Main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 1961 Giro d'Italia

A total of 17 teams were invited to participate in the 1961 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 170 cyclists. Out of the 170 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 92 riders made it to the finish in Milan. Legnano initially threatened to not participate in the Giro.

The 17 teams that took part in the race were:

Baratti
San Pelligrino
Torpado

Pre-race favorites

There was initial belief that Charly Gaul would not race the Giro.

Route and stages

The route was revealed on 22 April 1961.

The fourth stage on Sardinia was the first time in Giro history that this Island was visited.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner	1	2	3
20 May	Turin to Turin	115 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Miguel Poblet
21 May	Turin to Sanremo	185 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Miguel Poblet
22 May	Sanremo to Genoa	149 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Willy Schroeders
23 May	Cagliari to Cagliari	118 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Oreste Magni
24 May	Marsala to Palermo	144 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Louis Proost
25 May	Rest day
26 May	Palermo to Milazzo	224 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Nino Defilippis
27 May	Reggio Calabria to Cosenza	221 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Antonio Suárez
28 May	Cosenza to Taranto	237 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Piet van Est
29 May	Castellana Grotte to Bari	53 km	[[Image:Time Trial.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Individual time trial	Jacques Anquetil
30 May	Bari to Potenza	140 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Vito Taccone
31 May	Potenza to Teano	252 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Pietro Chiodini
1 June	Gaeta to Rome	149 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Renato Giusti
2 June	Mentana to Castelfidardo	279 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Rik Van Looy
3 June	Ancona to Florence	250 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Silvano Ciampi
4 June	Florence to Modena	178 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Rik Van Looy
5 June	Modena to Vicenza	207 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Adriano Zamboni
6 June	Vicenza to Trieste	204 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Rik Van Looy
7 June	Rest day
8 June	Trieste to Vittorio Veneto	161 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Renato Giusti
9 June	Vittorio Veneto to Trento	249 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Willy Schroeders
10 June	Trento to Bormio	275 km	[[Image:Mountainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Stage with mountain(s)	Charly Gaul
11 June	Bormio to Milan	214 km	[[Image:Plainstage.svg	22px	link=	alt=]]	Plain stage	Miguel Poblet
Total	4004 km

Classification leadership

A cyclist pouring water on another. — 1961}}) dump a bucket of water on his head during the sixteenth stage of the race.

One leader's jersey was worn during the 1961 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 1961.

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.

Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the teams were awarded points for their rider's performance during the stages. This classification was named the "Ramazzotti" classification, and points were given for high positions in stages, intermediate sprints and mountain tops, and leading the general classification.

To honor the 100th birthday of Italy, the intermediate sprints were called "traguardi tricolori", named after the flag of Italy. There was no classification calculated from these sprints in 1961, but they were used in the calculation of the team classification.

Stage	Winner	General classification
[[Image:Jersey pink.svg	25px	link=	alt=A pink jersey]]	Mountains classification	Team classification	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Final	Arnaldo Pambianco	Vito Taccone	Faema
Miguel Poblet	Miguel Poblet	not awarded
Miguel Poblet	Angelo Conterno
Willy Schroeders	Faema
Oreste Magni
Louis Proost
Nino Defilippis
Antonio Suárez	Antonio Suárez	Angelo Conterno & Edouard Delberghe
Piet van Est	Guillaume Van Tongerloo
Jacques Anquetil
Vito Taccone	Jacques Anquetil
Pietro Chiodini	Vito Taccone & Federico Bahamontes
Renato Giusti
Rik Van Looy
Silvano Ciampi	Arnaldo Pambianco	Vito Taccone
Rik Van Looy
Adriano Zamboni
Rik Van Looy
Renato Giusti
Willy Schroeders
Charly Gaul
Miguel Poblet

Final standings

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

General classification

Rank	Name	Team	Time	2
Arnaldo Pambianco [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]	111h 25' 28"
Jacques Anquetil		+ 3' 45"
Antonio Suárez		+ 4' 17"
Charly Gaul		+ 4' 22"
Guido Carlesi		+ 8' 08"
Hans Junkermann		+ 12' 25"
Rik Van Looy		+ 12' 38"
Guillaume Van Tongerloo		+ 14' 18"
Carlo Brugnami	Torpado	+ 16' 05"
Nino Defilippis		+ 16' 23"

Mountains classification

Rank	Name	Team	Points
Vito Taccone		270
Gabriel Mas		130
Imerio Massignan		120
Hans Junkermann		70
Jesús Galdeano
Angelo Conterno	Baratti
Guido Carlesi		50
Rik Van Looy
Charly Gaul
Edouard Delberghe		40
Arnaldo Pambianco [[File:Jersey pink.svg	20px	link=General classification in the Giro d'Italia	alt=Pink jersey]]

Team classification

Rank	Team	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	4959
Torpado	1964
	1787
	1591
	1326
	1137
Baratti	1010
	950
	849
	838

References

Citations

Bibliography

References

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(12 June 1961). "La media del Giro: km. 36,289 sul percorso totale di km. 3.908". Editrice La Stampa.

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