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 (183.3 mi) stage and concluded in Florence, on 6 June, with a 136 km (84.5 mi) 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.
Marta Bastianelli is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Alé BTC Ljubljana.
Antonio Bevilacqua was an Italian professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1951 Paris–Roubaix.
The 1940 Giro d'Italia was the 28th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 17 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 180 km (112 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 9 June after a 180 km (112 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,574 km (2,221 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Fausto Coppi of the Legnano team, with fellow Italians Enrico Mollo and Giordano Cottur coming in second and third respectively.
The 1939 Giro d'Italia was the 27th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 28 April in Milan with a stage that stretched 182 km (113 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 18 May after a split stage and a total distance covered of 3,011.4 km (1,871 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Giovanni Valetti of the Fréjus team, with fellow Italians Gino Bartali and Mario Vicini coming in second and third respectively.
Primo Magnani was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling.
The 1938 Giro d'Italia was the 26th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a cycling race organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 7 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 182 km (113 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 29 May after a split stage and a total distance covered of 3,645.8 km (2,265 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Giovanni Valetti of the Fréjus team, with fellow Italians Ezio Cecchi and Severino Canavesi coming in second and third respectively.
Atala was a cycling team that was created in 1908 and officially retired in 1989. In 1912, the 1912 Giro d'Italia was contested by teams, and Team Atala, consisting of Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto and Eberardo Pavesi emerged as the winner.
Trek–Segafredo is a professional road bicycle racing team at UCI WorldTeam level licensed in the United States. Formerly RadioShack–Nissan, in 2014, Trek took over the ownership of the team and its ProTeam License.
The Men's Individual Road Race of the 1987 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on September 6 in Villach, Austria. The route consisted of twenty-three laps totaling to a length of 276 km (171 mi). Irishman Stephen Roche won the race, while Italian Moreno Argentin and Spaniard Juan Fernández finished second and third, respectively. By winning the race, Roche also completed the Triple Crown of Cycling, which consists of winning two Grand Tour races and the men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships in a calendar year.
Andrea Peron is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Novo Nordisk.
Maria Giulia Confalonieri is an Italian track and road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling.
Federico Zurlo is an Italian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Giotti Victoria. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España, but he withdrew on stage 4.
Michele Scartezzini is an Italian road and track cyclist, who currently competes for UCI Continental team Biesse Arvedi. He has competed at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, since 2011, winning a silver medal in the scratch race in 2018 and bronze medals in the team pursuit in 2017 and 2020.
Francesco Lamon is an Italian professional track and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Biesse Arvedi. He rode in the men's team pursuit at the 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Team Bahrain McLaren is a UCI WorldTeam cycling team from Bahrain which was founded in 2017. Its title sponsors are the government of Bahrain and the British sports car manufacturer McLaren.
Italy is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Italian athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.
The 2020 Giro d'Italia was to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race. The start of the 2020 Giro had been planned to take place in Budapest, Hungary, which would have been the 14th time the Giro has started outside Italy, and the first time a Grand Tour has visited Hungary.
The 2020 UCI World Tour is a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season, although some of these are at least postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and is scheduled to conclude with the final stage of the Vuelta a España on 8 November.
The 2020 Milan–San Remo was scheduled to be held on 21 March 2020, but was postponed to 8 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The postponement was made by RCS Sport on 6 March. It will be the 111th edition of the Milan–San Remo one-day cycling classic in Northern Italy, and part of the 2020 UCI World Tour calendar. French rider Julian Alaphilippe is the defending champion.
