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1927 Giro d'Italia
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The 1927 Giro d'Italia was the 15th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a Grand Tour organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 15 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 288 km (179 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 6 June after a 291.5 km (181 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,758.3 km (2,335 mi). The race was won by Alfredo Binda of the Legnano team. Second and third respectively were the Italian riders Giovanni Brunero and Antonio Negrini.
266 riders started the race, and 80 crossed the finish line of the final stage.
It was the first Giro with a modern design: in the same period of time of the previous Giro, three more stages were included, which replaced three days of rest. At the same time the stages became shorter (only one passed 300 km).
In 1927 Binda was at the apex of its career, and it triumphed winning 12 stages out of 15: a record still to be surpassed. Binda led the general classification from the first to the last stage (only Girardengo had already done it, in the 1919 Giro). In Binda's team there was also his brother Albino, as a support rider.
Giovanni Rossignoli, "virtual" winner of the first edition in 1909, participated for the last time. He was 45 years old and concluded the race in 44th place, about 7 hours behind Binda.
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Participants
Of the 266 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 15 May, 80 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 6 June. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team. There were six teams that competed in the race: Aliprandi-Pirelli, Bianchi-Pirelli, Berettini-Hutchinson, Ganna-Dunlop, Legnano-Pirelli, and Wolsit-Pirelli.[1]
The peloton was primarily composed of Italians.[1] The field featured three former Giro d'Italia champions in three-time winner and reigning champion Giovanni Brunero, along with one-time winners Alfredo Binda and Giuseppe Enrici.[1] Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Arturo Bresciani, Giovanni Rossignoli, and Domenico Piemontesi. Notable absentee was Costante Girardengo.[1]
Among the starters was Luigi Ferri, almost fifty years old. Ferri is the oldest known rider to participate in the Giro, but did not finish the first stage.[2]
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Race summary
From the start of the Giro, Binda was dominant. He won the first three stages; only Pancera, Giuntelli and Brunero finished in the same group as him in these three stages, and because of the time bonus for the stage wins, Binda was leading them by three minutes in the general classification.[1]
Binda was beaten in the sprint for the fourth stage by Piemontesi, but showed his dominance by winning the next six stages. His winning streak was interrupted by Bresciani in the eleventh stage and Brunero in the thirteenth stage, but Binda won all other stages. In the end, Binda had won 12 out of 15 stages, a record that is unlikely to be ever beaten.[1][3]
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Final standings
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Stage results
An innovation in this Giro was the reduction of rest days. Previous editions always had a rest day in between stages, but in 1927 some stages were run on consecutive days.[1]
General classification
There were 80 cyclists who had completed all fifteen stages. For these cyclists, the times they had needed in each stage was added up for the general classification. There was a time bonus for stage winners: the winner of a stage had one minute subtracted from their time.[4] The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the winner. Aristide Cavallini won the prize for best ranked independent rider in the general classification.[5]
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Notes
- In 1927, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the first, second, third, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth, and fifteenth stages included major mountains.
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