Giancarlo Bellini

Giancarlo Bellini
Bellini at the 1976 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameGiancarlo Bellini
Born (1945-09-15) 15 September 1945 (age 79)
Crosa, Italy
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1971–1973Molteni
1974–1977[1]Brooklyn
1978–1979Zonca–Santini
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Mountains classification (1976)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1978)

Giancarlo Bellini (born 15 September 1945 in Crosa) is an Italian former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1976 Tour de France.[2] He also won a stage in the 1978 Giro d'Italia.[3]

Bellini won the first edition of the Amateur Giro d'Italia in 1970 before spending three years at Molteni in the service of Eddy Merckx.[4]

If doping controls to the standard that the sport has in 2024 existed then Bellini would've finished eighth in the 1978 1978 Giro d'Italia.[5]

Major results

Sources:[3][6][7]

1970
1st Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
1972
10th Overall Tour de la Nouvelle France
1973
6th Giro di Sicilia
10th Giro del Veneto
1975
1st Giro di Campania
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Cronostaffetta
5th Giro dell'Appennino
7th Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 6
8th Overall Tour de Romandie
8th GP Cannes
1976
1st Mountains classification Tour de France
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
8th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
1977
9th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 4
9th Overall Giro di Campania
10th Overall Tour de Suisse
1978
1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse

References

  1. ^ Bloor, Steven (14 May 2015). "Memory Lane: the Giro d'Italia through the years – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Giancarlo Bellini e la maglia a pois". Ciclonews.biz (in Italian). 14 January 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Giancarlo Bellini". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  4. ^ Pastonesi, Marco (27 March 2017). ""Le storie dei vincitori": Giancarlo Bellini". Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (in Italian). Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  5. ^ "cyclisme-dopage.com - Giro d'Italia 1978 : the real numbers of doping". www.cyclisme-dopage.com. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  6. ^ "Giancarlo Bellini". FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Threads of History - Brooklyn". Conquista Cycling Club. Retrieved 21 June 2024.


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