Giro di Sicilia

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Giro di Sicilia
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Race details
DateApril
RegionSicily
English nameTour of Sicily
Discipline Road
Competition UCI Europe Tour
Type Stage race
Organiser RCS Sport
Web site ilgirodisicilia.it OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
History
First edition1907 (1907)
Editions27 (as of 2023) [1]
First winnerFlag of Italy.svg  Carlo Galetti  (ITA)
Most recentFlag of Kazakhstan.svg  Alexey Lutsenko  (KAZ)

Giro di Sicilia (English: Tour of Sicily) is a men's multi-stage bicycle race held on Sicily, Italy. The race was first held in 1907 and was won by Carlo Galetti. [2] The race disappeared from the calendar after the 1977 edition won by Giuseppe Saronni, until it was revived by RCS Sports in 2019. [3] The first edition of the revived race was won by American rider Brandon McNulty. [4] It is part of the UCI Europe Tour, classified as a 2.1 event. [5]

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The 2024 edition was cancelled as RCS Sport, in collaboration with the Abruzzo Region, will organize the Giro d'Abruzzo instead. [6]

Winners

YearWinnerSecondThird
1907 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Carlo Galetti Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Luigi Ganna Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Umberto Zoffoli
1908 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Carlo Galetti Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Pierino Albini Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Ernesto Azzini
1926 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Domenico Caratozzolo Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Francisco Gambino Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Gianbattista Gilli
1929 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Nicola Mammina Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Leonida Frascarelli Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Albino Binda
1932 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Nicola Mammina Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Attilio Pavesi Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Antonio Nicolosi
1936 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Francesco Patti Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Ernesto Zuppa Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Alfredo Mazzocchetti
1939 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Remo Cerasa Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Francesco Patti Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Giovanni Corrieri
1940–1947Not held (WW II)
1948 Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Patti Flag of Italy.svg Marcello Spadolini Flag of Italy.svg Italiano Lazzerini
1949 Flag of Italy.svg Dino Rossi Flag of Italy.svg Sergio Pagliazi Flag of Italy.svg Angelo Fumagali
1950 Flag of Italy.svg Donato Zampini Flag of Italy.svg Giacomo Zampieri Flag of Italy.svg Arigo Padovan
1951 Flag of Italy.svg Primo Volpi Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Patti Flag of Italy.svg Ugo Fondelli
1952Not held
1953 Flag of Italy.svg Elio Brasola Flag of Italy.svg Pietro Giudici Flag of Italy.svg Luigi Mastroianni
1954 Flag of Italy.svg Ugo Massocco Flag of Italy.svg Livio Isotti Flag of Italy.svg Giovanni Roma
1955 Flag of Italy.svg Gilberto Dall'Agata Flag of Italy.svg Franco Franchi Flag of Italy.svg Renzo Accordi
1956 Flag of Italy.svg Piero Polo Flag of Italy.svg Luciano Ciancola Flag of Italy.svg Walter Serena
1957 Flag of Italy.svg Alberto Emiliozzi Flag of Italy.svg Alfredo Sabbadin Flag of Italy.svg Giuseppe Cainero
1958 Flag of Italy.svg Carlo Azzini Flag of Italy.svg Gianbattista Milesi Flag of Italy.svg Antonio Catalano
1958 [7] Flag of Italy.svg Diego Ronchini Flag of Italy.svg Noè Conti Flag of Italy.svg Mario Mori
1959 Flag of Italy.svg Loris Guernieri Flag of Italy.svg Federico Galeaz Flag of Italy.svg Noé Conti
1960 Flag of Italy.svg Giorgio Tinazzi Flag of Italy.svg Aurelio Cestari Flag of Italy.svg Idrio Bui
1961–1972Not held
1973 Flag of Italy.svg Enrico Maggioni Flag of Italy.svg Michele Dancelli Flag of Italy.svg Enrico Paolini
1974 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Roger De Vlaeminck Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Patrick Sercu Flag of Italy.svg Marino Basso
1975–1976Not held
1977 Flag of Italy.svg Giuseppe Saronni Flag of Italy.svg Pierino Gavazzi Flag of Italy.svg Carmelo Barone
1978–2018Not held
2019 Flag of the United States.svg Brandon McNulty Flag of France.svg Guillaume Martin Flag of Italy.svg Fausto Masnada
2020Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Flag of Italy.svg Vincenzo Nibali Flag of Spain.svg Alejandro Valverde Flag of Italy.svg Alessandro Covi
2022 Flag of Italy.svg Damiano Caruso Flag of Ecuador.svg Jefferson Alexander Cepeda Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Meintjes
2023 [8] Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Alexey Lutsenko Flag of South Africa.svg Louis Meintjes Flag of Italy.svg Vincenzo Albanese

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