Giro della Lunigiana

Giro della Lunigiana
Race details
Date Early-September
Region La Spezia, Liguria, Italy and Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Discipline Road race
Competition UCI Junior Men
Type Stage race
Web site girodellalunigiana.org
History
First edition 1975
Editions 46 (as of 2021)
First winner Corrado Donadio (ITA)
Most wins No repeat winners
Most recent António Morgado (POR)

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

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