Giro della Lunigiana

Giro della Lunigiana is a four-day road bicycle race for junior men (age 17 and 18) in the historical territory Lunigiana (currently the provinces of La Spezia and Massa Carrara), Italy. The race, class 2.1 MJ on the UCI calendar, counts as a big event in the junior men category. Famous Italian pro riders such as Gilberto Simoni, Danilo Di Luca, Damiano Cunego and Vincenzo Nibali won this race when they were juniors; as did future international stars including grand tour winners Tao Geoghegan Hart, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogačar.

Giro della Lunigiana

Race details
Date	Early September
Region	La Spezia, Liguria, Italy and Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI Junior Men
Type	Stage race
Web site	girodellalunigiana.org
History
First edition	1975 (1975)
Editions	48 (as of 2024)
First winner	Corrado Donadio (ITA)
Most wins	No repeat winners
Most recent	Paul Seixas (FRA)

Winners

Year	Country	Rider	Team
1975	Italy	Corrado Donadio
1976	Italy	Ivano Maffei
1977	Italy	Franco Chioccioli
1978	Italy	Raniero Gradi
1979	Italy	Silvio Rivieri
1980	Soviet Union	Viktor Demidenko
1981	Soviet Union	Oleg Petrovich Chuzhda
1982	Soviet Union	Yuri Abramov
1983	Denmark	Alex Pedersen
1984	Italy	Gianluca Tonetti
1985	Italy	Paolo Ricciuti
1986	Italy	Gianluca Bortolami
1987	Italy	Stefano Zanini
1988	Italy	Giuseppe Guerini
1989	Italy	Gilberto Simoni
1990	Soviet Union	Pavel Cherkasov
1991	Soviet Union	Andrey Mizurov
1992	Italy	Marzio Bruseghin
1993	Russia	Vitaly Kokorin
1994	Italy	Danilo Di Luca
1995	Italy	Alessandro Brendolin
1996	Italy	Claudio Astolfi
1997	Netherlands	Roel Egelmeers
1998	Italy	Damiano Cunego
1999	Russia	Alexandr Kolobnev
2000	Russia	Alexander Arekeev
2001	Ukraine	Oleksandr Kvachuk
2002	Italy	Vincenzo Nibali
2003	Italy	Valerio Agnoli
2004	Netherlands	Rob Ruijgh
2005	Denmark	Thomas Kvist
2006	Italy	Daniele Ratto
2007	Italy	Giorgio Cecchinel	Vittorio Veneto
2008	Austria	Stefan Mair	Austria (national team)
2009	Italy	Simone Antonini	G.S. Stabbia
2010	Kazakhstan	Maxat Ayazbayev	Kazakhstan (national team)
2011	Italy	Alberto Bettiol	G.S. Stabbia
2012	Slovenia	Matej Mohorič	Hit Casinos
2013	Great Britain	Tao Geoghegan Hart	Great Britain (national team)
2014	No race
2015	Italy	Daniel Savini	Team Romagnano Guerciotti
2016	Slovenia	Tadej Pogačar	Radenska–Ljubljana
2017	Italy	Andrea Innocenti	G.S. Stabbia
2018	Belgium	Remco Evenepoel	Acrog–Pauwels Sauzen
2019	Italy	Andrea Piccolo	Team Lvf
2020	No race due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	France	Lenny Martinez	CC Varennes-Vauzelles
2022	Portugal	António Morgado	Bairrada Cycling Team
2023	France	Léo Bisiaux	France (national team)
2024	France	Paul Seixas	France (national team)

External links

• Official website (in Italian)