Giancarlo Bellini

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Giancarlo Bellini
Giancarlo Bellini - Tour 1976 (cropped).jpg
Bellini at the 1976 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameGiancarlo Bellini
Born (1945-09-15) 15 September 1945 (age 80)
Crosa, Italy
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1971–1973 Molteni
1974–1977 [1] Brooklyn
1978–1979 Zonca–Santini
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Mountains classification (1976)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1978)

Giancarlo Bellini (born 15 September 1945 in Crosa) is an Italian former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1976 Tour de France. [2] He also won a stage in the 1978 Giro d'Italia. [3]

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Bellini won the first edition of the Amateur Giro d'Italia in 1970 before spending three years at Molteni in the service of Eddy Merckx. [4]

If doping controls to the standard that the sport has in 2024 existed then Bellini would've finished eighth in the 1978 1978 Giro d'Italia. [5]

Major results

Sources: [3] [6] [7]

1970
1st Jersey pink.svg Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
1972
10th Overall Tour de la Nouvelle France
1973
6th Giro di Sicilia
10th Giro del Veneto
1975
1st Giro di Campania
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Cronostaffetta
5th Giro dell'Appennino
7th Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 6
8th Overall Tour de Romandie
8th GP Cannes
1976
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification Tour de France
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
8th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Jersey blue.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
1977
9th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 4
9th Overall Giro di Campania
10th Overall Tour de Suisse
1978
1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

References

  1. ↑ Bloor, Steven (14 May 2015). "Memory Lane: the Giro d'Italia through the years – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Giancarlo Bellini e la maglia a pois". Ciclonews.biz (in Italian). 14 January 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Giancarlo Bellini". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  4. ↑ Pastonesi, Marco (27 March 2017). ""Le storie dei vincitori": Giancarlo Bellini". Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (in Italian). Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  5. ↑ "cyclisme-dopage.com - Giro d'Italia 1978 : the real numbers of doping". www.cyclisme-dopage.com. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  6. ↑ "Giancarlo Bellini". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  7. ↑ "Threads of History - Brooklyn". Conquista Cycling Club. Retrieved 21 June 2024.


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