Luigi Ganna

Luigi Ganna
Personal information
Luigi Ganna, posing in a studio in Varese, Italy, 18 June 1914
Full name	Luigi Ganna
Born	(1883-12-01)December 1, 1883 Induno Olona, Italy
Died	October 2, 1957(1957-10-02) (aged 73)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1904	Individual
1905	Rudge Whitwort
1906	Bianchi/Rudge Whitwort
1907	Turkheimer
1908	Alycon/Atala
1909–1911	Atala
1912	Atala/Ganna
1913–1915	Ganna
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia General Classification (1909) One-day races and Classics Milan–San Remo (1909)

Luigi Ganna (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1957) was an Italian professional road racing cyclist. He was the overall winner of the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909, as well as the first Italian winner of the classic Milan–San Remo earlier that year. Further highlights in his career were his fifth place in the 1908 Tour de France and several podium places in Italian classic races.^[1] In 1908 he set a new Italian hour record, which he held for six years.

He was born in Induno Olona, near Varese, in Lombardy. Before becoming a professional cyclist, he worked as a bricklayer, commuting up to 100 km to work by bike.^[1]

Major results

1905

3rd Giro di Lombardia

1906

3rd Giro di Lombardia

3rd Giro del Piemonte

1907

2nd Overall Giro della Sicilia

1st 2 Stages

3rd Giro di Lombardia

4th Milan–San Remo

1908

2nd Milan–San Remo

2nd Giro di Lombardia

3rd Roma–Napoli–Roma

5th Tour de France

1909

1st Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 4, 5 & 7

1st Milan-San Remo

3rd Giro dell'Emilia

6th Giro di Lombardia

1910

1st Giro dell'Emilia

2nd Giro di Lombardia

2nd Italian National Road Race Championships

2nd Roma–Napoli–Roma

3rd Overal Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 5, 7 & 10

1911

3rd Milan–San Remo

1913

3rd Roma–Napoli–Roma

1st Stage 1

5th Giro d'Italia

1914

6th Milan–San Remo

References

1 2 "Luigi Ganna". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

Giro d'Italia general classification winners

1909: Luigi Ganna 1910–11: Carlo Galetti 1912^* Team Atala (Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto, Eberardo Pavesi) 1913: Carlo Oriani 1914: Alfonso Calzolari 1915–18 World War I 1919: Costante Girardengo 1920: Gaetano Belloni 1921–22: Giovanni Brunero 1923: Costante Girardengo 1924: Giuseppe Enrici 1925: Alfredo Binda 1926: Giovanni Brunero 1927–29: Alfredo Binda 1930: Luigi Marchisio 1931: Francesco Camusso 1932: Antonio Pesenti 1933: Alfredo Binda 1934: Learco Guerra 1935: Vasco Bergamaschi 1936–37: Gino Bartali 1938–39: Giovanni Valetti 1940: Fausto Coppi 1941–45 World War II 1946: Gino Bartali 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Fiorenzo Magni 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950: Hugo Koblet 1951: Fiorenzo Magni 1952–53: Fausto Coppi 1954: Carlo Clerici 1955: Fiorenzo Magni 1956: Charly Gaul 1957: Gastone Nencini 1958: Ercole Baldini 1959: Charly Gaul 1960: Jacques Anquetil 1961: Arnaldo Pambianco 1962–63: Franco Balmamion 1964: Jacques Anquetil 1965: Vittorio Adorni 1966: Gianni Motta 1967: Felice Gimondi 1968: Eddy Merckx 1969: Felice Gimondi 1970: Eddy Merckx 1971: Gösta Pettersson 1972–74: Eddy Merckx 1975: Fausto Bertoglio 1976: Felice Gimondi 1977: Michel Pollentier 1978: Johan de Muynck 1979: Giuseppe Saronni 1980: Bernard Hinault 1981: Giovanni Battaglin 1982: Bernard Hinault 1983: Giuseppe Saronni 1984: Francesco Moser 1985: Bernard Hinault 1986: Roberto Visentini 1987: Stephen Roche 1988: Andy Hampsten 1989: Laurent Fignon 1990: Gianni Bugno 1991: Franco Chioccioli 1992–93: Miguel Indurain 1994: Evgeni Berzin 1995: Tony Rominger 1996: Pavel Tonkov 1997: Ivan Gotti 1998: Marco Pantani 1999: Ivan Gotti 2000: Stefano Garzelli 2001: Gilberto Simoni 2002: Paolo Savoldelli 2003: Gilberto Simoni 2004: Damiano Cunego 2005: Paolo Savoldelli 2006: Ivan Basso 2007: Danilo Di Luca 2008: Alberto Contador 2009: Denis Menchov 2010: Ivan Basso 2011: Michele Scarponi 2012: Ryder Hesjedal 2013: Vincenzo Nibali 2014: Nairo Quintana 2015: Alberto Contador 2016: Vincenzo Nibali

^*In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification

Milan–San Remo winners

1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)

1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)

1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)

1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)

1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)

2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016)

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