Il Tour of Lombardy it’s one online racing men’s professional road cycling event, which takes place at regular intervals annual in the month of October in Italiaparticularly in the region of Lombardy. This race is part of the 5 Classical monumentit is the quinta in chronological order of the cycling season. The history of Tour of Lombardy reads: “Italia at the top of the roll of honor with in 74 victories in 119 editions disputed by 1905 al 2025detached the Belgium con 12 successes.”
History of the Giro di Lombardia
The history of Tour of Lombardy it begins In the 1905: everything was born from an idea of the journalist and editor-in-chief of Gazzetta dello Sport, Tullo Morgagniwho wanted to give the cyclist the opportunity Pierino Albini to challenge his rival, Giovanni Cuniolo after the defeat suffered in a previous race, that of King’s Cup. However, the winner of the prima edition of the Tour of Lombardy was Giovanni Gerbi and this event was attended by a total of 55 cyclists, but only 12 among these they completed the route of approximately 230 kilometres. The Tour of Lombardy he is nicknamed la Classic of dead leavesby virtue of the fact that since 1905 this race always took place inultima week Of September or in the prima Of Octobertherefore right at the gates of autumn. During the First World Warthe race did not stop, on the contrary it continued to take place, thus becoming a symbol of patriotism e resistence. However, this did not happen during the Second World Warbecause the race was stopped in 1943 due to the Nazi-fascist occupation of Northern Italywhile during the Covid took place exceptionally Augustinstead of ad October.
Format e record
Il Tour of Lombardy takes place over the course of just one day and the victory goes to whoever completes the entire route first, there is no general ranking, given that it’s not one stage race. Furthermore, the Tour of Lombardy also awards points for the world ranking ofUCI (International Cycling Union) and for the circuit ranking UCI World Tour. The winner of the edition 2025 was Tadej Pogačarwhich received a cash prize of 20.000 euros and a trophy, that is, a wheel with a modern design that symbolizes the continuous movement of the bicycle, the fatigue and the determination of cyclists. This edition took place on11 Octobercovered a distance of approx 240 kilometers, the departure took place at As and the arrival at Bergamo and they participated 175 cyclists, distributed in 24 teams, where each of them was composed of 7 runners. The Tour of Lombardy was won overall by 110 different runners, furthermore the record of greatest number of victories is held by Fausto Coppi e Tadej Pogačar (5), the latter also holds the record greater number of victories consecutive (5dal 2021 al 2025), while the last Italian to win the Tour of Lombardy was Vincenzo Nibali In the 2017 and finally, from 1921 al 1950 only cyclists won Italians.
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