1935 Giro d'Italia

The 1935 Giro d'Italia was the 23rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 18 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 165 km (103 mi) to Cremona, finishing back in Milan on 9 June after a 290 km (180 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,577 km (2,223 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Vasco Bergamaschi of the Maino team, with fellow Italians Giuseppe Martano and Giuseppe Olmo coming in second and third respectively.^[1]

1935 Giro d'Italia

Race Route
Race details
Dates	18 May – 9 June 1935
Stages	18, including two split stages
Distance	3,577 km (2,223 mi)
Winning time	113h 22' 46"
Results
Winner  Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA) (Maino)   Second  Giuseppe Martano (ITA) (Fréjus)   Third  Giuseppe Olmo (ITA) (Bianchi)   Mountains  Gino Bartali (ITA) (Fréjus)   Team Fréjus
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This Giro saw the last participation of Alfredo Binda and the first of Gino Bartali, then 20 years old, who won the mountains classification.

Participants

Of the 101 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 18 May,^[2] 62 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 9 June. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team; 55 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 46 competed independently.^[2] There were eight teams that competed in the race: Bianchi, Dei, Fréjus, Gloria, Helyett, Legnano, and Maino.

The peloton was primarily composed of Italians.^[3] The field featured seven former Giro d'Italia champions in five-time winner Alfredo Binda, two-time champion Costante Girardengo, and single race winners, Francesco Camusso, Luigi Marchisio, Antonio Pesenti, Learco Guerra, and Vasco Bergamaschi.^[2][3] Other notable Italian riders that started the race included Giuseppe Olmo, Raffaele Di Paco, Remo Bertoni, and Domenico Piemontesi.^[2][3] French cyclist and two-time Tour de France champion André Leducq entered the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career.^[2][3] Other notable non-Italian riders included: Maurice Archambaud, Jef Demuysere, and René Vietto.^[3]

Route and stages

Stage results^[3]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type[Notes 1]		Winner
1	18 May	Milan to Cremona	165 km (103 mi)		Plain stage	Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)
2	19 May	Cremona to Mantua	175 km (109 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Domenico Piemontesi (ITA)
3	20 May	Mantua to Rovigo	162 km (101 mi)		Plain stage	Learco Guerra (ITA)
4	21 May	Rovigo to Cesenatico	140 km (87 mi)		Plain stage	Learco Guerra (ITA)
5a	22 May	Cesena to Riccione	35 km (22 mi)		Individual time trial	Giuseppe Olmo (ITA)
5b		Riccione to Portocivitanova	136 km (85 mi)		Plain stage	Antonio Folco (ITA)
	23 May	Rest day
6	24 May	Portocivitanova to L'Aquila	171 km (106 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Gino Bartali (ITA)
7	25 May	L'Aquila to Lanciano	146 km (91 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Learco Guerra (ITA)
8	26 May	Lanciano to Bari	308 km (191 mi)		Plain stage	Learco Guerra (ITA)
	27 May	Rest day
9	28 May	Bari to Naples	333 km (207 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Raffaele Di Paco (ITA)
	29 May	Rest day
10	30 May	Naples to Rome	250 km (155 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Learco Guerra (ITA)
11	31 May	Rome to Florence	317 km (197 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)
	1 June	Rest day
12	2 June	Florence to Montecatini Terme	134 km (83 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Olmo (ITA)
13a	3 June	Montecatini Terme to Lucca	99 km (62 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	René Debenne (FRA)
13b		Lucca to Viareggio	55 km (34 mi)		Individual time trial	Maurice Archambaud (FRA)
14	4 June	Viareggio to Genoa	172 km (107 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Raffaele Di Paco (ITA)
	5 June	Rest day
15	6 June	Genoa to Cuneo	148 km (92 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Olmo (ITA)
16	7 June	Cuneo to Asti	91 km (57 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Olmo (ITA)
17	8 June	Asti to Turin	250 km (155 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Raffaele Di Paco (ITA)
18	9 June	Turin to Milan	290 km (180 mi)		Plain stage	Raffaele Di Paco (ITA)
	Total		3,577 km (2,223 mi)

Classification leadership

The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.^[4]

The highest ranked non-Italian cyclist in the general classification and the highest ranked isolati cyclist in the general classification were tracked.

In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.^[4]

The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.^[5] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.^[5]

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Stage	Winner	General classification	Best foreign rider	Best isolati rider	Mountains classification	Team classification
1	Vasco Bergamaschi	Vasco Bergamaschi	Malachie Adrien Buttafochi	Armando Zucchini	not awarded	Maino
2	Domenico Piemontesi	Domenico Piemontesi
3	Learco Guerra
4	Learco Guerra	Walter Fantini				Gloria
5a	Giuseppe Olmo	Giuseppe Olmo				Maino
5b	Antonio Folco
6	Gino Bartali	Vasco Bergamaschi	René Debenne	Ambrogio Morelli	Gino Bartali	Fréjus
7	Learco Guerra
8	Learco Guerra
9	Raffaele Di Paco
10	Learco Guerra
11	Vasco Bergamaschi		Maurice Archambaud
12	Giuseppe Olmo
13a	René Debenne
13b	Maurice Archambaud
14	Raffaele Di Paco
15	Giuseppe Olmo
16	Giuseppe Olmo
17	Raffaele Di Paco
18	Raffaele Di Paco
Final		Vasco Bergamaschi	Maurice Archambaud	Ambrogio Morelli	Gino Bartali	Fréjus

Final standings

Legend
	Denotes the winner of the General classification

General classification

Final general classification (1–10)^[3][6]

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)	Maino	113h 22' 46"
2	Giuseppe Martano (ITA)	Fréjus	+ 3' 07"
3	Giuseppe Olmo (ITA)	Gloria	+ 6' 12"
4	Learco Guerra (ITA)	Maino	+ 7' 22"
5	Maurice Archambaud (FRA)	Dei	+ 9' 19"
6	Remo Bertoni (ITA)	Legnano	+ 9' 46"
7	Gino Bartali (ITA)	Fréjus	+ 9' 46"
8	Ezio Cecchi (ITA)	Gloria	+ 16' 01"
9	Augusto Introzzi (ITA)	Gloria	+ 16' 03"
10	Ambrogio Morelli (ITA)	—	+ 17' 01"

Foreign rider classification

Final foreign rider classification (1–10)^[6]

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Maurice Archambaud (FRA)	Dei	113h 32' 02"
2	René Debenne (FRA)	Dei	+ 21' 55"
3	Karl Altenburger (GER)	Fréjus	+ 23' 53"
4	Léon Level (FRA)	Helyett	+ 37' 14"
5	Albert Gabard (FRA)	Helyett	+ 48' 54"
6	Jef Demuysere (BEL)	Bianchi	+ 1h 02' 10"
7	Eugène Le Goff (FRA)	Dei	+ 1h 04' 41"
8	René Bernard (FRA)	Helyett	+ 1h 15' 07"
9	Pierre Cloarec (FRA)	Dei	+ 1h 15' 56"
10	Lucien Lauk (FRA)	Helyett	+ 1h 37' 39"

Isolati rider classification

Final isolati rider classification (1–10)^[6]

Rank	Name	Time
1	Ambrogio Morelli (ITA)	113h 40' 09"
2	Eugenio Gestri (ITA)	+ 2' 03"
3	Cesare Grassi (ITA)	+ 22' 10"
4	Renato Scorticati (ITA)	+ 23' 03"
5	Giovanni Baroni (ITA)	+ 24' 26"
6	Carlo Moretti (ITA)	+ 32' 05"
7	Armando Zucchini (ITA)	+ 32' 40"
8	Carlo Romanatti (ITA)	+ 33' 17"
9	Carlo Oria (ITA)	+ 33' 30"
10	Giovanni Zandonà (ITA)	+ 37' 18"

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification (1–5)^[3]

	Name	Team	Points
1	Gino Bartali (ITA)	Fréjus	44
2	Remo Bertoni (ITA)	Legnano	28
3	Mario Cipriani (ITA)	Fréjus	14
4	Francesco Camusso (ITA)	Legnano	9
5	Giuseppe Martano (ITA)	Fréjus	9

Team classification

Final team classification (1–6)^[6]

	Team	Time
1	Fréjus	340h 54' 42"
2	Maino	+ 9' 35"
3	Dei	+ 16' 35"
4	Gloria	+ 25' 58"
5	Legnano	+ 27' 30"
6	Helyett	+ 2h 22' 39"