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Giro della Lunigiana

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Giro della Lunigiana
Race details
DateEarly September
RegionLa Spezia, Liguria, Italy and Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
DisciplineRoad race
CompetitionUCI Junior Men
TypeStage race
Web sitegirodellalunigiana.org Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1975 (1975)
Editions48 (as of 2024)
First winner Corrado Donadio (ITA)
Most winsNo repeat winners
Most recent Paul Seixas (FRA)

Giro della Lunigiana is a four-day road bicycle race for junior men (age 17 and 18) in the historical territory Lunigiana (currently the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara), Italy. The race, class 2.1 MJ on the UCI calendar, counts as a big event in the junior men category. Famous Italian pro riders such as Gilberto Simoni, Danilo Di Luca, Damiano Cunego and Vincenzo Nibali won this race when they were juniors; as did future international stars including grand tour winners Tao Geoghegan Hart, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogačar.

Winners

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Year Country Rider Team
1975  Italy Corrado Donadio
1976  Italy Ivano Maffei
1977  Italy Franco Chioccioli
1978  Italy Raniero Gradi
1979  Italy Silvio Rivieri
1980  Soviet Union Viktor Demidenko
1981  Soviet Union Oleg Petrovich Chuzhda
1982  Soviet Union Yuri Abramov
1983  Denmark Alex Pedersen
1984  Italy Gianluca Tonetti
1985  Italy Paolo Ricciuti
1986  Italy Gianluca Bortolami
1987  Italy Stefano Zanini
1988  Italy Giuseppe Guerini
1989  Italy Gilberto Simoni
1990  Soviet Union Pavel Cherkasov
1991  Soviet Union Andrey Mizurov
1992  Italy Marzio Bruseghin
1993  Russia Vitaly Kokorin
1994  Italy Danilo Di Luca
1995  Italy Alessandro Brendolin
1996  Italy Claudio Astolfi
1997  Netherlands Roel Egelmeers
1998  Italy Damiano Cunego
1999  Russia Alexandr Kolobnev
2000  Russia Alexander Arekeev
2001  Ukraine Oleksandr Kvachuk
2002  Italy Vincenzo Nibali
2003  Italy Valerio Agnoli
2004  Netherlands Rob Ruijgh
2005  Denmark Thomas Kvist
2006  Italy Daniele Ratto
2007  Italy Giorgio Cecchinel Vittorio Veneto
2008  Austria Stefan Mair Austria (national team)
2009  Italy Simone Antonini G.S. Stabbia
2010  Kazakhstan Maxat Ayazbayev Kazakhstan (national team)
2011  Italy Alberto Bettiol G.S. Stabbia
2012  Slovenia Matej Mohorič Hit Casinos
2013  Great Britain Tao Geoghegan Hart Great Britain (national team)
2014 No race
2015  Italy Daniel Savini Team Romagnano Guerciotti
2016  Slovenia Tadej Pogačar Radenska–Ljubljana
2017  Italy Andrea Innocenti G.S. Stabbia
2018  Belgium Remco Evenepoel Acrog–Pauwels Sauzen
2019  Italy Andrea Piccolo Team Lvf
2020 No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021  France Lenny Martinez CC Varennes-Vauzelles
2022  Portugal António Morgado Bairrada Cycling Team
2023  France Léo Bisiaux France (national team)
2024  France Paul Seixas France (national team)
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