Memorial Marco Pantani (1.1), Italy
Winners, podium, distance, average speed.
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The race:
The Memorial Marco Pantani is a single-day road race started in 2004 to honor the memory of one of Italy's most-loved racers.
The race, run in the region of Emilia-Romagna, now runs in and around Pantani's home town of Cesenatico and the city of his birth, Cesena.
About Marco Pantani: His career was beset with accidents, particularly his terrible collision with a car late in 1995 and his crash in the 1997 Giro. By early 1998 he was showing good form and delivered jaw-dropping performances in the Giro and Tour. In 1999 he was riding even more powerfully and about had the Giro wrapped up when he was booted after a blood test showed he had an excessively high hematocrit.
Pantani went into depression, became a cocaine addict and was never again the force he had been in cycling. He was found dead of a cocaine overdose in February, 2004.
Originally a summer race, the Memorial Marco Pantani is currently (2014) held late in the season.
Since 2006 the UCI has ranked it 1.1 made made it part of the Europe Tour.
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Complete Memorial Marco Pantani podium history :
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 2004 | Damiano Cunego 1hr 44min 0sec |
Franco Pellizotti @ s.t. |
Luca Mazzanti @ 13sec |
60km | 34.615 |
| 2005 | Gilberto Simoni 2hr 15min 0sec |
Luca Mazzanti @ s.t. |
Emanuele Sella @ 10sec |
76.5 km | 34.0 |
| 2006 | Daniele Bennati 4hr 32min 32sec |
Luca Mazzanti @ s.t. |
Ruslan Pidgornyy @ sec |
176.6 km | 38.879 |
| 2007 | Franco Pellizotti @ s.t. |
Luca Mazzanti @ s.t. |
Pasquale Muto @ 38sec |
176.6 km | 41.189 |
| 2008 | Enrico Rossi 4hr 33min 50sec |
Damiano Cunego @ 5sec |
Ruslan Pidgornyy @ s.t. |
172.1 km | 37.709 |
| 2009 | Roberto Ferrari 4hr 29min 49sec |
Giovanni Visconti @ s.t. |
Valerio Agnoli @ s.t. |
183.7 km | 40.849 |
| 2010 | Elia Viviani 4hr 23min 31sec |
José Rodolfo Serpa @ s.t. |
Manuel Belletti @ s.t. |
183.7 km | 41.827 |
| 2011 | Fabio Taborre 4hr 25min 31sec |
Davide Rebellin @ s.t. |
Daniel Martin @ s.t. |
183.7 km | 41.512 |
| 2012 | Fabio Felline 4hr 27min 14sec |
Elia Viviani @ s.t. |
Giovanni Visconti @ s.t. |
183.7 km | 41.245 |
| 2013 | Sacha Modolo 4hr 45min 26sec |
Enrico Rossi @ s.t. |
Andrea Piechele @ s.t. |
195 km | 40.990 |
| 2014 | Sonny Colbrelli 4hr 34min 49sec |
Grega Bole @ s.t. | Fabio Chinello @ s.t. |
189.8 km | 41.439 |
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| 2015 | Diego Ulissi 4hr 39min 23sec |
Giovanni Visconti @ s.t. |
Vincenzo Nibali @ s.t. |
199.5 km | 42.884 |
| 2016 | Francesco Gavazzi 4hr 28min 50sec |
Matteo Busato @ s.t. |
Paolo Toto @ s.t. |
189.8 km | 42.361 km/hr |
| 2017 | Marco Zamparella 4hr 30min 28sec |
Diego Ulissi @ s.t. |
Egan Bernal @ s.t. |
189.8 km | 42.105 km/hr |
| 2018 | Davide Ballerini 5hr 3min 7sec |
David Gaudu @ s.t. |
Francesco Gavazzi @ s.t. |
199.8 km | 39.549 km/hr |
| 2019 | Alexey Lutsenko 4hr 50min 26sec |
Diego Rosa @ s.t. |
Guillaume Martin @ s.t. |
199.8 km | 41.276 km/hr |
| 2020 | Febio Felline 5hr 5min 25sec |
Ethan Hayter @ s.t. |
Aleksandr Riabushenko @ s.t. |
199.8 km | 39.251 km/hr |
| 2021 | Sonny Colbrelli 4hr 50min 29sec |
Vincenzo Albanese @ s.t. |
Alex Aranburu @ s.t. |
196 km | 40.484 km/hr |
| 2022 | Race cancelled because of bad weather | ||||
| 2023 | Alexey Lutsenko 4hr 21min 32sec |
Marc Hirschi @ s.t. |
Pavel Sivakov @ s.t. |
193.3 km | 44.346 km/hr |
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