Points classification in the Giro d'Italia

Rosso passione jersey

Award details
Sport	Road cycling
Competition	Giro d'Italia
Given for	Most consistent finisher
Local name	Maglia rosso passione (Italian)
History
First award	1966
Editions	41 (as of 2016)
First winner	Gianni Motta (ITA)
Most wins	Francesco Moser (ITA)  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 4 times
Most recent	Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA)

The points classification in the Giro d'Italia is one of the secondary classifications in the Giro d'Italia. It is determined by the placements in the daily stages, independent from time distances. From 1967 to 1969 the leader wore a red jersey but in 1970 it was changed to mauve, named maglia ciclamino (from Italian: mauve jersey), named for its color of the alpine flower cyclamen. The red jersey was re-introduced in 2010. It will now be called the maglia rosso passione.^[1]

History

The first points classification in the Giro was used in 1958, called Trofeo A. Carli. The first rider in each stage was given 15 points, down to one point for the fifteenth rider. There was no jersey associated, and the next year it was not used again.

The ranking points system was reintroduced in 1966,^[2] when there was no associated jersey, while for the two subsequent editions a red jersey was awarded to the leader of the classification. From 1969 to 2009, the jersey was mauve, but often referred to as cyclamen.

Points are given to riders who finish among the first in a stage, independent of the time difference. There are also points given to the first cyclists to reach the intermediate sprints. There is an intermediate sprints competition, with names changing from year to year, (Intergiro, Expo Milano 2015, Traguardo Volante), which used to give a blue jersey to its leader.

Among the winners of the points classification are Mario Cipollini (three times), Alessandro Petacchi and in 2006 the future world champion Paolo Bettini.

At the other grand tours, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, there are also points classifications; the points classification in the Tour de France rewards a green jersey to its leader, as does the points classification in the Vuelta a España.

Current rules

From 2009 to 2013, the winner of each stage receives 25 points, independent of the type of stage (unlike the better known points classification in the Tour de France, where winning a mountain stage gives fewer points than winning flat stage). The next cyclist receives 20 points, the next ones 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, until the fifteenth cyclist who receives one point. Every stage (excluding time trials) also has an intermediate sprint. The first to cross that sprint receives 8 points, the next one 6 points, the next ones 4, 3, 2, until the sixth cyclist who receives one point.

In 2014 this was changed so that there are three levels of stages, each with its own point classification scheme. The first level, presumably the flat stages, will award points to 20 riders on a scale from 50 to 1 point. Level two stages will award points to the top 15 riders on a scale of 25 to 1 and level three stages will award points to the top 10 riders on a scale of 15 to 1 point. Points at intermediate sprints will follow a similar scale.^[3]

If two or more cyclists have the same number of points, the ranking is determined by the most number of stage victories, followed by the most number of intermediate sprint victories, followed by the lowest time in the general classification.^[4]

Winners

Key

	Winner won general classification in the same year
*	Winner won King of the Mountains classification in the same year
	Winner won general and King of the Mountains classification in the same year

• The "Year" column refers to the year the competition was held, and wikilinks to the article about that season.
• The "Stages" column refers to the number of stages in the race, counting half stages as two and prologues as one.
• The "Stage wins" column refers to the number of stage wins the winner had during the race.
• The "Margin" column refers to the margin of time or points by which the winner defeated the runner-up.

Giro d'Italia points classification winners^[5]

Year	Country	Cyclist	Sponsor/team	Stages	Stage wins	Points	Margin
1966	Italy	Motta, GianniGianni Motta	Molteni	22	2	490	170
1967	Italy	Zandegù, DinoDino Zandegù	Salvarani	23	2	200	22
1968	Belgium	Merckx, EddyEddy Merckx	Faema	23	4	198	60
1969	Italy	Bitossi, FrancoFranco Bitossi	Filotex	24	1	182	16
1970	Italy	Bitossi, FrancoFranco Bitossi	Filotex	20	3	252	11
1971	Italy	Basso, MarinoMarino Basso	Ferretti	22	3	181	33
1972	Belgium	De Vlaeminck, RogerRoger De Vlaeminck	Dreher	23	4	264	120
1973	Belgium	Merckx, EddyEddy Merckx	Molteni	21	6	237	21
1974	Belgium	De Vlaeminck, RogerRoger De Vlaeminck	Brooklyn	24	0	265	56
1975	Belgium	De Vlaeminck, RogerRoger De Vlaeminck	Brooklyn	23	6	346	187
1976	Italy	Moser, FrancescoFrancesco Moser	Sanson	24	3	272	123
1977	Italy	Moser, FrancescoFrancesco Moser	Sanson	27	0	225	40
1978	Italy	Moser, FrancescoFrancesco Moser	Sanson	22	4	231	30
1979	Italy	Saronni, GiuseppeGiuseppe Saronni	Scic–Bottecchia	20	3	275	1
1980	Italy	Saronni, GiuseppeGiuseppe Saronni	Gis Gelati	23	7	301	86
1981	Italy	Saronni, GiuseppeGiuseppe Saronni	Gis Gelati	24	3	215	82
1982	Italy	Moser, FrancescoFrancesco Moser	Famcucine	23	2	247	40
1983	Italy	Saronni, GiuseppeGiuseppe Saronni	Del Tongo–Colnago	24	3	223	74
1984	Switzerland	Freuler, UrsUrs Freuler	Atala	23	4	178	6
1985	Netherlands	van der Velde, JohanJohan van der Velde	Vini Ricordi	24	0	195	25
1986	Italy	Bontempi, GuidoGuido Bontempi	Carrera–Inoxpran	23	5	167	19
1987	Netherlands	van der Velde, JohanJohan van der Velde	Gis Gelati	24	2	175	4
1988	Netherlands	van der Velde, JohanJohan van der Velde	Gis Gelati	23	0	154	23
1989	Italy	Fidanza, GiovanniGiovanni Fidanza	Château d'Ax	23	0	172	33
1990	Italy	Bugno, GianniGianni Bugno	Château d'Ax	21	3	195	19
1991	Italy	Chiappucci, ClaudioClaudio Chiappucci	Carrera Jeans–Tassoni	22	0	283	44
1992	Italy	Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini	GB–MG Maglificio	22	4	236	28
1993	Italy	Baffi, AdrianoAdriano Baffi	Mercatone Uno–Zucchini–Medeghini	21	3	228	41
1994	Uzbekistan	Abdoujaparov, DjamolidineDjamolidine Abdoujaparov	Team Polti–Vaporetto	23	1	202	20
1995	Switzerland	Rominger, TonyTony Rominger	Mapei–GB–Latexco	22	4	205	52
1996	Italy	Guidi, FabrizioFabrizio Guidi	Scrigno–Blue Storm	22	0	235	85
1997	Italy	Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini	Scrigno–Gaerne	22	5	202	56
1998	Italy	Piccoli, MarianoMariano Piccoli	Brescialat-Liquigas	23	0	194	36
1999	France	Jalabert, LaurentLaurent Jalabert	ONCE	22	3	175	5
2000	Russia	Konyshev, DimitriDimitri Konyshev	Fassa Bortolo	22	1	159	40
2001	Italy	Strazzer, MassimoMassimo Strazzer	Mobilvetta Design	22	0	177	19
2002	Italy	Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini	Acqua & Sapone	21	6	184	18
2003	Italy	Simoni, GilbertoGilberto Simoni	Saeco Macchine per Caffè	21	3	154	17
2004	Italy	Petacchi, AlessandroAlessandro Petacchi	Fassa Bortolo	21	8	250	97
2005	Italy	Bettini, PaoloPaolo Bettini	Quick-Step–Innergetic	21	1	162	8
2006	Italy	Bettini, PaoloPaolo Bettini	Quick-Step–Innergetic	21	1	169	9
2007	—	—^1	—	21	—	—	—
2008	Italy	Bennati, DanieleDaniele Bennati	Liquigas	21	3	189	51
2009	Russia	Menchov, DenisDenis Menchov^2	Rabobank	21	2	144	11
2010	Australia	Evans, CadelCadel Evans	BMC Racing Team	21	1	150	22
2011	Italy	Scarponi, MicheleMichele Scarponi3	Lampre–ISD	21	0	122	6
2012	Spain	Rodríguez, JoaquimJoaquim Rodríguez	Team Katusha	21	2	139	1
2013	United Kingdom	Cavendish, MarkMark Cavendish	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step	21	5	158	30
2014	France	Bouhanni, NacerNacer Bouhanni	FDJ.fr	21	3	291	26
2015	Italy	Nizzolo, GiacomoGiacomo Nizzolo	Trek Factory Racing	21	0	181	33
2016	Italy	Nizzolo, GiacomoGiacomo Nizzolo	Trek–Segafredo	21	0	185	33

Multiple winners

As of 2014, 8 cyclists have won the Points classification in the Giro d'Italia more than once.

Multiple winners of the Giro d'Italia points classification

Cyclist	Total	Years
Moser, FrancescoFrancesco Moser (ITA)	4	1976, 1977, 1978, 1982
Saronni, GiuseppeGiuseppe Saronni (ITA)	4	1979, 1980, 1981, 1983
Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini (ITA)	3	1992, 1997, 2002
De Vlaeminck, RogerRoger De Vlaeminck (BEL)	3	1972, 1974, 1975
van der Velde, JohanJohan van der Velde (NED)	3	1985, 1987, 1988
Bettini, PaoloPaolo Bettini (ITA)	2	2005, 2006
Bitossi, FrancoFranco Bitossi (ITA)	2	1969, 1970
Merckx, EddyEddy Merckx (BEL)	2	1968, 1973
Nizzolo, GiacomoGiacomo Nizzolo (ITA)	2	2015, 2016

By nationality

Riders from ten different countries have won the Points classification in the Giro d'Italia.

Giro d'Italia points classification winners by nationality

Country	No. of winning cyclists	No. of wins
Italy	22	32
Belgium	2	5
Netherlands	1	3
France	2	2
Russia	2	2
Switzerland	2	2
Australia	1	1
Spain	1	1
United Kingdom	1	1
Uzbekistan	1	1

Notes

1. The original winner was Alessandro Petacchi, who was stripped of his results from the 2007 Giro after a positive test for elevated levels of salbutamol.
2. Awarded after the disqualification (due to doping) of apparent winner Danilo Di Luca
3. Awarded after the disqualification of apparent winner Alberto Contador

Azzurri d'Italia classification

The Azzurri d'Italia classification (English: ''Azure or Sky Blue Italy) is an award in the Giro d'Italia in which points are awarded to the top three stage finishers (4, 2 and 1 point). It is similar to the standard points classification for which the leader and final winner are awarded the red jersey but no jersey is awarded for this classification, only a cash prize to the overall winner. For the 2007 Giro d'Italia, the Azzurri d'Italia winner won € 5,000.^[6]

Past winners

		Rider	Team
2001		Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini (ITA)	Saeco Macchine per Caffè
2002		Cipollini, MarioMario Cipollini (ITA)	Acqua e Sapone–Cantina Tollo
2003		Simoni, GilbertoGilberto Simoni (ITA)	Saeco Macchine per Caffè
2004		Petacchi, AlessandroAlessandro Petacchi (ITA)	Fassa Bortolo
2005		Petacchi, AlessandroAlessandro Petacchi (ITA)	Fassa Bortolo
2006		Basso, IvanIvan Basso (ITA)	Team CSC
2007		None^1 ([[|{{{nat}}}]])
2008		Bennati, DanieleDaniele Bennati (ITA)	Liquigas
2009		Garzelli, StefanoStefano Garzelli (ITA)	Acqua & Sapone–Caffè Mokambo
2010		Nibali, VincenzoVincenzo Nibali (ITA)	Liquigas–Doimo
2011		Rujano, JoséJosé Rujano^2 (VEN)	Androni Giocattoli
2012		Cavendish, MarkMark Cavendish (GBR)	Team Sky
2013		Cavendish, MarkMark Cavendish (GBR)	Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2014		Bouhanni, NacerNacer Bouhanni (FRA)	FDJ.fr
2015		Landa, MikelMikel Landa (ESP)	Astana

Note

1. The original winner was Alessandro Petacchi, who was stripped of his results from the 2007 Giro after a positive test for elevated levels of salbutamol.
2. Awarded after the disqualification of apparent winner Alberto Contador.

References

1. "2010 Giro Jersey Presented In Florence". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
2. "Regolamento" [Regulation]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 19 May 1966. p. 9. Archived from the original on 23 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
3. Stephen Farrand (9 April 2014). "Giro d'Italia tweaks time bonuses and points". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
4. Laura Weislo (13 May 2008). "Giro d'Italia classifications demystified". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 7 October 2009.
5. "www.cyclingnews.com presents the 91st Giro d'Italia". Autobus.cyclingnews.com. 2008-06-01. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
6. Cyclingnews.com: Giro classifications 2007

External links

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