Classica Sarda

Classica Sarda was a road bicycle race that took place on the Italian island Sardinia. It was held after the Giro di Sardegna from 1948 until 1983.

Classica Sarda

Race details
Date	Late February
Region	Sardinia, Italy
Local name(s)	Classica Sarda (in Italian)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
Organiser	RCS Sport
History
First edition	1948 (1948)
Editions	33
Final edition	2011
First winner	Adolfo Leoni (ITA)
Most wins	Edgard Sorgeloos (BEL)  Giancarlo Polidori (ITA)  Roger De Vlaeminck (BEL) (2 wins)
Final winner	Pavel Brutt (RUS)

During this period, it was organized under different names, like GP Alghero from 1965 to 1967, Monte Urpino in 1975 and Cagliari-Sassari in 1951, 1980 and 1982.

The race reappeared again on the cycling calendar in 2010 as Classica Sarda Olbia-Pantogia (from Olbia to Pantogia) as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

In 2011, its final edition was organized as the Classica Sarda Sassari-Cagliari.

Winners

Source^[1][2]

Anno	Winner	Second	Third
1948	Adolfo Leoni	Luciano Maggini	Giovanni Corrieri
1949	Italo De Zan	Vincenzo Rossello	Marcello Paolieri
1950	no edition
1951	Renzo Soldani	Gino Bartali	Giancarlo Astrua
1952	Giovanni Corrieri	Mario Baroni	Ivo Baronti
1953	Fiorenzo Magni	Giuseppe Minardi	Giovanni Corrieri
1954	Hugo Koblet	Stefano Gaggero	Remo Bartalini
1955	Donato Piazza	Vincenzo Zucconelli	Bruno Monti
1956	Nello Fabbri	Giuseppe Pintarelli	Bruno Monti
1957	Alfred De Bruyne	Rik Van Looy	Guido Boni
1958	no edition
1959	Edgard Sorgeloos	Vito Favero	Guido Carlesi
1960	Miguel Poblet	Rik Van Looy	Rino Benedetti
1961	no edition
1962	Guido Carlesi	Livio Trapè	Franco Magnani
1963	Battista Babini	Antonio Suárez	Luigi Mele
1964	Edgard Sorgeloos	Antonio Suárez	Guido Carlesi
1965	Rik Van Looy	Edward Sels	Jean Graczyk
1966	Pasquale Fabbri	Giampiero Macchi	Adriano Durante
1967	Robert Lelangue	Henri De Wolf	Evert Dolman
1968	Franco Bitossi	Jos van der Vleuten[a]	Eddy Merckx
1969	Vittorio Adorni	Giuseppe Milioli	Luigi Sgarbozza
1970	Rudi Altig	Attilio Rota	Giacinto Santambrogio
1971	Albert Van Vlierberghe	Guido Reybrouck	Patrick Sercu
1972	Giancarlo Polidori	Romano Tumellero	Patrick Sercu
1973	Patrick Sercu	Marino Basso	Franco Ongarato
1974	Giancarlo Polidori	Wilmo Francioni	Joseph Bruyère
1975	Eddy Merckx	Gianbattista Baronchelli	Roland Salm
1976	Roger De Vlaeminck	Franco Bitossi	Gary Clively
1977	Ercole Gualazzini	Pierino Gavazzi	Felice Gimondi
1978	Roger De Vlaeminck	Giuseppe Martinelli	Franco Bitossi
1979	no edition
1980	Serge Parsani	Claudio Torelli	Carmelo Barone
1981	no edition
1982	Alfons De Wolf	Pierangelo Bincoletto	Giovanni Mantovani
1983	Giuseppe Saronni	Giovanni Mantovani	Frits Pirard
1984-2009	no editions
2010	Giovanni Visconti	Fabio Sabatini	Geoffroy Lequatre
2011	Pavel Brutt	Emanuele Sella	Peter Sagan

Notes

1. van der Vleuten was disqualified and second place remained unassigned