Tour of the Alps (HC)
Formerly Giro del Trentino, Italy
Winners, placings, distances, average speeds
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The race:
In 2017 The Giro del Trentino was renamed, becoming the "Tour of the Alps".
Started in 1962 and run irregularly until the 1980s, The Tour of the Alps/Giro del Trentino is an important pre-Giro d'Italia tuneup held in the hilly Trentino region, which is close to Austria. The Dolomite mountains in the Trentino region northwest of Venice give the racers a good chance to get in some hard racing and to test their form against other Giro contenders.
The two 1960's editions were single day races. In 1979 it became a stage race.
Much like the 1912 Giro d'Italia, the 1986 edition was a team race with no individual winner. Neither race has ever repeated the team formula.
Currently (2022) the Tour of the Alps is held in mid to late April with the Giro d'Italia coming in early May.
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Complete podium history:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
| 1962 | Enzo Moser 6hr 59min 30sec |
Alcide Cerato | Gaetano Sarazin | 215 km | 30.75 |
| 1963 | Guido De Rosso 6hr 17min 30sec |
Franco Cribiori @ s.t. |
Ercole Baldini @ s.t. |
222 km | 35.284 |
| 1964- 1978 | Race not held | ||||
| 1979 | Knut Knudsen 7hr 19min 1sec |
Francesco Moser @ 2sec |
Roger De Vlaeminck @ 6sec |
289.5 km | 39.566 |
| 1980 | Francesco Moser | Tommy Prim @ 24sec |
Giambattista Baronchelli @ 40sec |
638.5 km | |
| 1981 | Roberto Visentini 13hr 8min 30sec |
Francesco Moser @ 13sec |
Giovanni Mantovani @ 1min 34sec |
507.4 km | 38.610 |
| 1982 | Giuseppe Saronni 15hr 30min 23sec |
Francesco Moser @ s.t. |
Giambattista Baronchelli @ s.t. |
603 km | 38.887 |
| 1983 | Francesco Moser 16hr 17min 31sec |
Bruno Leali @ 8sec |
Emanuele Bombini @ 9sec |
619.5 km | 38.025 |
| 1984 | Franco Chioccioli 16hr 26min 48sec |
Emanuele Bombini @ 5sec |
Luciano Loro @ 17sec |
627 km | 38.123 |
| 1985 | Harald Maier 17hr 7min 27sec |
Silvano Contini @ s.t. |
Gerhard Zadrobilek @ s.t. |
598 km | 34.921 |
| 1986 "Coppa Italia" |
Carrera Jeans | Del-Tongo | Atala-Ofmega | ||
| 1987 | Claudio Corti 15hr 35min 16sec |
Giambattista Baronchelli @ 4sec |
Tony Rominger @ 10sec |
594.8 km | 38.158 |
| 1988 | Urs Zimmerman 15hr 42min 2sec |
Tony Rominger @ 7sec |
Helmut Wechselberger @ 46sec |
595.9 km | 37.954 |
| 1989 | Mauro Antonio Santaromita 14hr 40min 16sec |
Claudio Chiappucci @ 43sec |
Luca Gelfi @ 58sec |
601 km | 40.965 |
| 1990 | Gianni Bugno 17hr 14min 34sec |
Piotr Ugramov @ 1sec |
Leonardo Sierra @ 6sec |
668 km | 38.741 |
| 1991 | Leonardo Sierra 18hr 31min 49sec |
Massimiliano Lelli @ 26sec |
Stephen Hodge @ 30sec |
714 km | 38.532 |
| 1992 | Claudio Chiappucci 19hr 35min 19sec |
Roberto Conti @ 35sec |
Zenon Jaskula @ 1min 47sec |
713 km | 36.399 |
| 1993 | Maurizio Fondriest 18hr 13min 36sec |
Claudio Chiappucci @ 11sec |
Leonardo Sierra @ 38sec |
695 km | 38.131 |
| 1994 | Moreno Argentin 18hr 15min 45sec |
Evgeni Berzin @ 19sec |
Francesco Casagrande @ 28sec |
674 km | 36.906 |
| 1995 | Heinz Imboden 13hr 43min 49sec |
Mariano Piccoli @ 1min 6sec |
Francesco Frattini @ 1min 21sec |
524 km | 38.164 |
| 1996 | Wladimir Belli 22hr 48min 19sec |
Enrico Zaina @ 4sec |
Nelson Rodriguez @ s.t. |
884 km | 38.763 |
| 1997 | Luc Leblanc 16hr 42min 12sec |
Pavel Tonkov @ 7sec |
Leonardo Piepoli @ 39sec |
641 km | 38.376 |
| 1998 | Paolo Savoldelli 17hr 29min 45sec |
Dario Frigo @ 24sec |
Francesco Casagrande @ 26sec |
687.7 km | 39.307 |
| 1999 | Paolo Savoldelli 18hr 18min 49sec |
Gilberto Simoni @ 7sec |
Marco Pantani @ s.t. |
697 km | 38.059 |
| 2000 | Simone Borgheresi 15hr 31min 2sec |
Niklas Axelsson @ 23sec |
Paolo Savoldelli @ 28sec |
609.3 km | 39.266 |
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| 2001 | Francesco Casagrande 17hr 17min 58sec |
Leonardo Piepoli @ 1min |
Raimondas Rumsas @ 1min 2sec |
685 km | 39.597 |
| 2002 | Francesco Casagrande 18hr 3min 6sec |
Julio Perez Cuapio @ 28sec |
Gilberto Simoni @ 45sec |
695.6 km | 38.534 |
| 2003 | Gilberto Simoni 17hr 52min 43sec |
Stefano Garzelli @ 9sec |
Tadej Valjavec @ 24sec |
658.8 km | 36.848 |
| 2004 | Damiano Cunego 17hr 31min 3sec |
Jure Golcer @ 49sec |
Gilberto Simoni @ 53sec |
673.3 km | 38.486 |
| 2005 | Julio Perez Cuapio 17hr 45min 29sec |
Evgeni Petrov @ 34sec |
Sergio Ghisalberti @ 44sec |
682.8 km | 38.450 |
| 2006 | Damiano Cunego 16hr 28min 25sec |
Luca Mazzanti @ 4sec |
Eddy Ratti @ 8sec |
671.7 km | 40.774 |
| 2007 | Damiano Cunego 16hr 22min 20sec |
Michele Scarponi @ 18sec |
Luca Mazzanti @ 40sec |
647.8 km | 39.567 |
| 2008 | Vincenzo Nibali 14hr 1min 9sec |
Stefano Garzelli @ 15sec |
Domenico Pozzovivo @ 31sec` |
540.98 km | 38.58 |
| 2009 | Ivan Basso 13hr 17min 50sec |
Janez Brajkovic @ 22sec |
Przemyslaw Niemec @ 33sec |
522.3 km | 39.278 |
| 2010 |
Alexandre Vinokourov 13hr 50min 23sec |
Riccardo Riccó @ .14sec |
Domenico Pozzovivo @ 42sec |
494.9 km | 35.755 |
| 2011 | Michele Scarponi 13hr 54min 7sec |
Tiago Machado @ 7sec |
Luca Ascani @ 33sec | 528.90 km | 38.037 |
| 2012 | Domenico Pozzovivo 12hr 57min 47sec |
Damiano Cunego @ 40sec |
Sylvester Szmyd @ 1min 4sec |
506.60 km | 39.069 |
| 2013 | Vincenzo Nibali 17hr 49min 11sec |
Mauro Santambrogio @ 21sec |
Maxime Bouet @ 55sec |
710.30 km | 39.852 |
| 2014 | Cadel Evans 14hr 14min 3sec |
Domenico Pozzovivo @ 50 seconds |
Przemyslaw Niemiec @ 1min 1sec |
537.5 km | 37.740 |
| 2015 | Richie Porte 13hr 43min 41sec |
Mikel Landa @ 22sec |
Leopold Konig @ 58sec |
526.2 km | 38.330 |
| 2016 | Mikel Landa 14hr 44min 48sec |
Tanel Kangert @ 2sec |
Jakob Fuglsang @ 14sec |
597.6 km | 40.524 km/hr |
| 2017 | Geraint Thomas 20hr 49min 37sec |
Thibaut Pinot @ 7sec |
Domenico Pozzovivo @ 20sec |
783.6 km | 37.624 km/hr |
| 2018 | Thibaut Pinot 18hr 28min 48sec |
Domenico Pozzovivo @ 15sec |
Miguel Angel Lopez @ s.t. |
716.9 km | 38.793 km/hr |
| 2019 | Pavel Sivakov 18hr 58min 0sec |
Tao Geoghegan Hart @ 27sec |
Vincenzo Nibali @ 33sec |
710.8 km | 37.476 km/hr |
| 2020 | Race cancelled because of Covid-19 pandemic | ||||
| 2021 | Simon Yates 18hr 36min 6sec |
Pello Bilbao @ 58sec |
Aleksandr Vlasov @ 1min 6sec |
713.6 km | 38.362 km/hr |
| 2022 | Romain Bardet 18hr 59min 29sec |
Michael Storer @ 14sec |
Thymen Arensman @ 16sec |
726.5 km | 38.254 km/hr |
| 2023 | Tao Geoghegan Hart 19hr 29min 50sec |
Hugh Carthy @ 22sec |
Jack Haig @ 28sec |
752.6 km | 38.600 km/hr |
| 2024 | Juan Pedro Lopez 18hr 20min 43sec |
Ben O'Connor @ 38sec |
Antonio Tiberi @ 42sec |
708.7 km | 38.631 km/hr |
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