Tour of the Alps

Multi-day road cycling race

For the women's cycle race, see Giro del Trentino Alto Adige-Südtirol.

Giro del Trentino

Race details
Date| Mid-to-Late April
Region| Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino, Austria and Italy
English name| Tour of Trentino
Local name(s)| Giro del Trentino (in Italian)
Discipline| Road
Competition| UCI ProSeries
Type| Stage race
Web site| tourofthealps.eu
History
First edition| 1962 (1962)
Editions| 47 (as of 2024)
First winner|  Enzo Moser (ITA)
Most wins|  Damiano Cunego (ITA) (3 wins)
Most recent|  Juan Pedro López (ESP)

The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino (English: Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Italy. In 2015, the race merged with the nearby one-day race Trofeo Melinda, and the 2015 edition was called the Giro del Trentino Melinda.[1]

In 2017, the event was renamed Tour of the Alps,[2] as it addresses the entire Euroregion of Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino, formed by three different regional authorities in two countries: the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino. It should not be confused with the similarly named Giro al Sas di Trento, an annual road running competition in the city of Trento.[3]

Since its rebranding, the race is run mid-to-late April over five stages, as a 2.HC event of the UCI Europe Tour, the level beneath the UCI World Tour. The race became part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020.

The Tour of the Alps, typically featuring short and mountainous stages, is considered a last preparation race for the key contenders of the Giro d'Italia, which starts two weeks after the Tour of the Alps finishes. Eleven winners of the Giro del Trentino have also won the Giro d'Italia, ten of them Italians: Francesco Moser, Giuseppe Saronni, Franco Chioccioli, Gianni Bugno, Gilberto Simoni, Paolo Savoldelli, Damiano Cunego, Vincenzo Nibali, Ivan Basso and Michele Scarponi. The remaining winner of both the Tour of the Alps and the Giro d'Italia is Briton Tao Geoghegan Hart who uniquely won the Giro (2020) before winning the Tour of the Alps (2023).

Damiano Cunego holds the race record with three overall wins.[4]

## History

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The first edition of the race was held in 1962. It consisted of a single stage that started and finished in Trento. It was won by Enzo Moser. After a second edition in 1963, the third edition was not held until 1979. There were two unofficial races, in 1977 and 1978 but they remain disputed and usually not treated as official Giro del Trentino races.[5] The 1986 edition of the race was unusual in that there was no individual prize awarded. It was instead a team competition called the Coppa Italia and the first place went to Carrera–Inoxpran. One of the stages of the 1995 Giro del Trentino went to Innsbruck in neighbouring Austria, and stages to and from Lienz in Austria have remained a regular feature of the race since that time. In 2012, the race included a team time trial for the first time, which constituted the first stage of the race.[6] The team time-trial was retained for the 2013 edition.

## List of winners

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Year  | Country  | Rider  | Team

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1962 |  Italy | Enzo Moser | San Pellegrino
1963 |  Italy | Guido De Rosso | Molteni
1964–
1978  | No race
1979 |  Norway | Knut Knudsen | Bianchi–Faema
1980 |  Italy | Francesco Moser | Sanson
1981 |  Italy | Roberto Visentini | Sammontana
1982 |  Italy | Giuseppe Saronni | Del Tongo
1983 |  Italy | Francesco Moser | Gis Gelati
1984 |  Italy | Franco Chioccioli | Murella–Rossin
1985 |  Austria | Harald Maier | Gis Gelati
1986 |  Italy | Team edition | Carrera–Inoxpran
1987 |  Italy | Claudio Corti | Supermercati Brianzoli
1988 |   Switzerland | Urs Zimmermann | Carrera Jeans–Vagabond
1989 |  Italy | Mauro Santaromita | Pepsi Cola–Alba Cucine
1990 |  Italy | Gianni Bugno | Chateau d'Ax–Salotti
1991 |  Venezuela | Leonardo Sierra | Selle Italia–Magniarredo
1992 |  Italy | Claudio Chiappucci | Carrera Jeans–Vagabond
1993 |  Italy | Maurizio Fondriest | Lampre–Polti
1994 |  Italy | Moreno Argentin | Gewiss–Ballan
1995 |   Switzerland | Heinz Imboden | Refin
1996 |  Italy | Wladimir Belli | Panaria–Vinavil
1997 |  France | Luc Leblanc | Polti
1998 |  Italy | Paolo Savoldelli | Saeco–Cannondale
1999 |  Italy | Paolo Savoldelli | Saeco–Cannondale
2000 |  Italy | Simone Borgheresi | Mercatone Uno–Albacom
2001 |  Italy | Francesco Casagrande | Fassa Bortolo
2002 |  Italy | Francesco Casagrande | Fassa Bortolo
2003 |  Italy | Gilberto Simoni | Saeco
2004 |  Italy | Damiano Cunego | Saeco
2005 |  Mexico | Julio Alberto Pérez | Ceramica Panaria–Navigare
2006 |  Italy | Damiano Cunego | Lampre–Fondital
2007 |  Italy | Damiano Cunego | Lampre–Fondital
2008 |  Italy | Vincenzo Nibali | Liquigas
2009 |  Italy | Ivan Basso | Liquigas
2010 |  Kazakhstan | Alexander Vinokourov | Astana
2011 |  Italy | Michele Scarponi | Lampre–ISD
2012 |  Italy | Domenico Pozzovivo | Colnago–CSF Bardiani
2013 |  Italy | Vincenzo Nibali | Astana
2014 |  Australia | Cadel Evans | BMC Racing Team
2015 |  Australia | Richie Porte | Team Sky
2016 |  Spain | Mikel Landa | Team Sky
2017 |  Great Britain | Geraint Thomas | Team Sky
2018 |  France | Thibaut Pinot | Groupama–FDJ
2019 |  Russia | Pavel Sivakov | Team Sky
2020  | No race
2021 |  Great Britain | Simon Yates | Team BikeExchange
2022 |  France | Romain Bardet | Team DSM
2023 |  Great Britain | Tao Geoghegan Hart | Ineos Grenadiers
2024 |  Spain | Juan Pedro López | Lidl–Trek

### Repeat winners

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Wins  | Rider  | Editions

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3 |  Damiano Cunego (ITA) | 2004, 2006, 2007
2 |  Francesco Moser (ITA) | 1980, 1983
Paolo Savoldelli (ITA) | 1998, 1999
Francesco Casagrande (ITA) | 2001, 2002
Vincenzo Nibali (ITA) | 2008, 2013

### Wins per nation

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Wins  | Country

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|  Italy

|  France
Great Britain

|  Australia
Spain
Switzerland

|  Austria
Kazakhstan
Mexico
Norway
Russia
Venezuela

## References

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1. ^ "CyclingQuotes.com Trofeo Melinda and Giro del Trentino to merge". cyclingquotes.com.
2. ^ "Il Giro del Trentino diventa Tour of the Alps". trentinocorrierealpi.gelocal.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
3. ^ Un balzo nel passato Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Giro al Sas. Retrieved on 2010-11-03.
4. ^ "31st Giro del Trentino – 2.1". autobus.cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
5. ^ "Storia del Giro del Trentino" (in Italian).
6. ^ Atkins, Ben (April 14, 2012). "Danilo Di Luca motivated for the Giro del Trentino". velonation.com.

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