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1909 Giro d'Italia

The 1909 Giro d'Italia was the inaugural running of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The event began in Milan on 13 May with a 397 km (247 mi) first stage to Bologna, finishing back in Milan on 30 May after a final stage of 206 km (128 mi) and a total distance covered of 2,447.9 km (1,521 mi). The race was won by the Italian rider Luigi Ganna of the Atala team, with fellow Italians Carlo Galetti and Giovanni Rossignoli coming in second and third respectively.

1909 Giro d'Italia
Overview of the stages:
route clockwise from Milan, down to Naples, then up to Milan
Race details
Dates13–30 May 1909
Stages8
Distance2,447.9 km (1,521 mi)
Winning time89h 48' 14"
Results
  Winner  Luigi Ganna (ITA) (Atala)
  Second  Carlo Galetti (ITA) (Rudge Whitworth)
  Third  Giovanni Rossignoli (ITA) (Bianchi)

  Team Atala
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Conceived by La Gazzetta to boost its circulation at the expense of its rival Corriere della Sera, the 1909 Giro was the first stage road race. Its eight stages, although relatively few compared to modern Grand Tours, were each much longer than those raced today. The event began with a long primarily flat stage that was won by Dario Beni. He lost the lead after the next stage to the eventual winner Luigi Ganna, who in turn lost it to Carlo Galetti after the mountainous third stage. Ganna regained the lead after the fourth stage and successfully defended it all the way to the finish in Milan, winning three stages en route. Atala won the team classification.

Origin

The idea of holding a bicycle race around Italy was first suggested in a telegram sent by Tullo Margagni, editor of La Gazzetta dello Sport, to the paper's owner Emilio Costamagna and cycling editor Armando Cougnet.[1][2][3] La Gazzetta's rival, Corriere della Sera was planning to hold a bicycle race of its own, flushed with the success of its automobile race.[2][3][4] Morgagni decided to try and hold the race before Corriere della Sera could hold theirs, and following La Gazzetta's success in creating the Giro di Lombardia and Milan–San Remo, Costamagna decided to back the idea.[3][5] The inaugural Giro d'Italia bicycle race was announced on 7 August 1908 in the first page of that day's edition of La Gazzetta,[4] to be held in May 1909.[4] The idea of the race was influenced by the success of the French magazine L'Auto's organization of the Tour de France.[5]

Since the newspaper lacked the necessary 25,000 lire to sponsor the race,[2] the organizers consulted Primo Bongrani, a sympathetic accountant at the bank Cassa di Risparmio. He proceeded to solicit donations from all over Italy,[3] and succeeded in raising sufficient money to cover the operating costs.[3] The prize money came from a casino in San Remo after Francesco Sghirla, a former Gazzetta employee, encouraged them to contribute to the race.[2][3] Even Corriere, La Gazzetta's rival, donated 3,000 lire.[2]

Rules and course

Both teams and individual riders were allowed to enter the race,[3] which was run in eight stages with two to three rest days between each stage. Compared to modern races the stages were extraordinarily long, with an average distance of more than 300 km (190 mi), compared to the 165 km (103 mi) average stage length in the 2012 Giro d'Italia.[3]

 
The Colle di Nava was one of the few major climbs in the first Giro d'Italia.

The route was primarily flat, although it did contain a few major ascents.[3] The third stage contained ascents to Macerone, Rionero Sannitico, and Roccaraso.[3][6] The Giro's sixth stage contained only one pass, the Passo Bracco.[3] The seventh stage was the last to contain any major ascents: the climbs of the Colle di Nava and the ascent to San Bartolomeo.[3]

Riders were required to sign in at checkpoints during each stage to minimize the opportunities for cheating;[3] they were also photographed at the beginning and end of each stage, and the images compared by the judges.[3] Riders could receive assistance when repairing their bicycles,[3] but were not allowed to replace their machines if they became damaged during the course of the stage.[3]

The inaugural Giro used a points system to determine the race winner.[3] The organizers chose to have a points system over a system based around elapsed time after the scandal that engulfed the 1904 Tour de France.[3] Another factor in the organizer's decision was that it would be cheaper to count the placings of the riders rather than clocking their times during each stage.[3] The race leader was determined by adding up each rider's placing in each stage. Thus if a rider placed second in the first stage and third in the second stage he would have a total of five points, and whoever had the lowest points total was the leader. Under this system Luigi Ganna was declared the winner, but had the Giro been a time-based event he would have lost to the third-place finisher Giovanni Rossignoli by 37 minutes.[7][8]

The winner of the general classification received a grand prize of 5,325 lire.[4][8] Every rider who finished the race with more than 100 points without winning any prizes in any of the stages was given 100 lire.[9]

Participants

A total of 166 riders signed up to participate in the event.[3][10] Twenty of the riders who entered were non-Italians: fifteen were French, two were German, one was Argentinian, one was Belgian, and one was from Trieste, which at the time was not a part of Italy.[3] Only 127 riders started the first stage of the race,[4][8] all but five of Italian descent,[8] of whom only 49 reached the finish in Milan on 30 May.[4][8] Riders were allowed to enter the race as independents or as a member of a team.[3]

The two best-known Italians taking part in the race were Luigi Ganna and Giovanni Gerbi.[3] Gerbi was the more successful of the two, having won the Giro di Lombardia, the Milano–Torino, and several other one-day races.[3] Ganna had won Milan–San Remo earlier the same year – notably the first Italian winner of the race.[3] The peloton also featured two Tour de France winners, Louis Trousselier and Lucien Petit-Breton,[3][11][12] as well as two future Giro d'Italia winners: Carlo Galetti and Carlo Oriani.[13]

Race overview

 
Luigi Ganna after the eighth stage, which finished in Milan.

The inaugural Giro d'Italia's first stage, 397 km (247 mi) from Milan to Bologna, began on 13 May 1909 at 2:53 am in front of a large crowd.[4][8] 127 riders set off from the starting line outside La Gazzetta's headquarters in the Piazzale Loreto.[4][8][14] The stage was marred by mechanical issues and crashes owing to bad weather,[10] the first mass crash occurring before dawn less than 2 km (1 mi) from the start.[3] Luigi Ganna, leading after the first real climb near Lake Garda,[3] was delayed by a puncture with about 70 km (43 mi) to go and the other racers attacked, but he caught them again after they were stopped by a train crossing.[3] The leading riders then made their way into Bologna, where Dario Beni won the stage.[10] The second stage, 378.5 km (235 mi) long, saw the first uphill finish, into Chieti,[3] where Giovanni Cuniolo edged out Ganna for the stage win.[10] Ganna's second place was nevertheless high enough to make him the new race leader.[3][10]

The third stage, to Naples, was 242.8 km (151 mi). Before the start, three riders were disqualified and subsequently removed from the race for taking a train during the second stage.[3][8] They were caught after failing to pass through an unexpected checkpoint set up by the organizers.[3] The start of the third stage was moved downhill after the opening descent was found to be too dangerous for the participants' brakes.[3] The stage featured three major climbs.[3] After the mountains Giovanni Rossignoli pursued the leader, Carlo Galetti,[3] eventually catching him and going on to win the stage, while Galetti took the race lead away from Ganna.[6] On the fourth stage, 228.1 km (142 mi) from Naples to the Italian capital Rome,[6] French rider Louis Trousselier was doing well until he ran over tacks strewn on the road by spectators, and the other riders left him behind.[3] Galetti and Ganna formed a group at the front[3] and Ganna went on to win the stage in front of thousands of spectators, retaking the race lead by a single point.[3][6]

The fifth stage was 346.5 km (215 mi) to Florence. Like the fourth, it was plagued by punctures.[6] Luigi Ganna led until he had a flat tyre with about 10 km (6 mi) to go.[3] A few riders passed him as he repaired it[3] but he chased them down and won the stage.[3][6] On the sixth stage, 294.4 km (183 mi) from Florence to Genoa,[9] Carlo Galetti and Giovanni Rossignoli broke away from the leading group of seven as they neared the downhill finish, with Rossignoli winning the stage in front of a large crowd.[3][9] Race leader Ganna had suffered more punctures but managed to fight his way back to finish third.[9]

The seventh stage, 357 km (222 mi), was scheduled to run from Genoa to Turin. Massive crowds at the start led Armando Cougnet to introduce a rule forbidding riders to attack over the first few kilometers until the peloton was outside the city and the race proper could begin.[3][9] There was also rumored to be close to 50,000 spectators and a bakers' strike in Turin, so Cougnet switched the finish to the city of Beinasco, about 6 km (4 mi) short of Turin.[3] Ganna and Rossignoli led for most of the stage until about 6 km (4 mi) before the finish, when Ganna attacked and Rossignoli could not counter.[3][9] Ganna's win extended his race lead over Carlo Galetti.[3][9]

The eighth and final stage started in Turin, covered 206 km (128 mi), and finished in Milan in front of a crowd of more than 30,000.[3][9] Ganna was amongst the leading group until he suffered a flat tyre.[3][9] He managed to fight his way back until, with the leaders in sight, he had another puncture.[3][9] The leading group pulled away until the race directors stopped them to let Ganna catch up.[3] Escorted by mounted police, the riders then made their way into Milan's Arena Civica stadium for the finish.[2] As the racers geared up for the sprint finish a police horse fell, causing a few riders to crash.[3] Dario Beni avoided the incident and edged out Galetti for the stage win, with Ganna coming in third.[3][9] Thus Ganna became the first winner of the Giro d'Italia.[9][15] He and his team, Atala, also won the team classification.[3][9]

Results

Stage results

Stage characteristics and winners[16][17]
Stage Date Course Distance Type[Notes 1] Winner Race Leader
1 13 May Milan to Bologna 397 km (247 mi)   Plain stage   Dario Beni (ITA)   Dario Beni (ITA)
2 16 May Bologna to Chieti 375.8 km (233.5 mi)   Plain stage   Giovanni Cuniolo (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
3 18 May Chieti to Naples 242.8 km (150.9 mi)   Stage with mountain(s)   Giovanni Rossignoli (ITA)   Carlo Galetti (ITA)
4 20 May Naples to Rome 228.1 km (141.7 mi)   Plain stage   Luigi Ganna (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
5 23 May Rome to Florence 346.5 km (215.3 mi)   Plain stage   Luigi Ganna (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
6 25 May Florence to Genoa 294.1 km (182.7 mi)   Stage with mountain(s)   Giovanni Rossignoli (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
7 27 May Genoa to Turin 354.9 km (220.5 mi)   Stage with mountain(s)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
8 30 May Turin to Milan 206 km (128 mi)   Plain stage   Dario Beni (ITA)   Luigi Ganna (ITA)
Total 2,447.9 km (1,521 mi)

General classification

 
Giovanni Cuniolo won the second stage of the Giro d'Italia.

Forty-nine cyclists completed all eight stages. The points each received from their stage placings were added up for the general classification, and the winner was the rider with the fewest accumulated points. Ernesto Azzini won the prize for best ranked isolati rider in the general classification.[18]

Final general classification (1–10)[3][9][19]
Rank Rider Team Points
1   Luigi Ganna (ITA) Atala 25
2   Carlo Galetti (ITA) Rudge Whitworth 27
3   Giovanni Rossignoli (ITA) Bianchi 40
4   Clemente Canepari (ITA) Legnano 59
5   Carlo Oriani (ITA) Stucchi 72
6   Ernesto Azzini (ITA) Rudge Whitworth 77
7   Dario Beni (ITA) Bianchi 91
8   Enrico Sala (ITA) Bianchi 98
9   Ottorino Celli (ITA) Bianchi 117
10   Giovanni Marchese (ITA) Legnano 139

Aftermath

The first Giro d'Italia was a great success, prompting organizers to arrange a second one for 1910.[20] The race substantially increased La Gazzetta's circulation,[3] and the starts and finishes were attended by large audiences.[9][4] Ganna's prize money helped him start his own bike factory in 1912.[3] The newspaper ran the event through 1988, when the RCS Organizzazzioni Sportivi company was created to run it.[21]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ In 1909, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the third, sixth, and seventh stages included mountains.

Citations

  1. ^ McHugh, Michael (21 February 2013). . The Independent. Independent Print Ltd. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Fotheringham (2003), pp. 103–104.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol. . Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 4 March 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i . La Gazzetta dello Sport. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
  5. ^ a b Reissner, Leslie (23 June 2011). . PezCycling News. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b c d e f [The Giro d'Italia] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 27 May 1909. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  7. ^ "9th stage: Milan – Milan". La Gazzetta dello Sport. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Foot (2011), pp. 9–15.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p [The Giro d'Italia] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 10 June 1909. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  10. ^ a b c d e [The Giro d'Italia] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 20 May 1909. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  11. ^ Capodacqua, Eugenio Capodacqua (10 May 2007). "La storia del Giro d'Italia (1909–1950)" [The history of the Tour of Italy (1909–1950)]. La Repubblica (in Italian). Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso. from the original on 24 December 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
  12. ^ Reichef, Frantz (14 May 1909). . Le Petit journal (in French). Gallica Bibliothèque Numérique. p. 7. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2010.
  13. ^ . La Gazzetta dello Sport. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  14. ^ Brown, Gregor. . Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
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  16. ^ Boyce, Barry (2004). . Cycling revealed. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  17. ^ "Il giro ciclistico d'Italia" [The Cycling Tour of Italy] (PDF). La Stampa (in Italian). Editrice La Stampa. 12 May 1909. p. 4. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  18. ^ "I vincitori delle categorie speciali" [The winners of the special categories]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 14 June 1950. p. 6. from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  19. ^ a b "Giro d'Italia 1909". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  20. ^ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol. . Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
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Bibliography

  • Foot, John (2011). "The Heroic Age". Pedalare! Pedalare!. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4088-1755-1.
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1909, giro, italia, inaugural, running, giro, italia, organized, sponsored, newspaper, gazzetta, dello, sport, event, began, milan, with, first, stage, bologna, finishing, back, milan, after, final, stage, total, distance, covered, race, italian, rider, luigi,. The 1909 Giro d Italia was the inaugural running of the Giro d Italia organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport The event began in Milan on 13 May with a 397 km 247 mi first stage to Bologna finishing back in Milan on 30 May after a final stage of 206 km 128 mi and a total distance covered of 2 447 9 km 1 521 mi The race was won by the Italian rider Luigi Ganna of the Atala team with fellow Italians Carlo Galetti and Giovanni Rossignoli coming in second and third respectively 1909 Giro d ItaliaOverview of the stages route clockwise from Milan down to Naples then up to MilanRace detailsDates13 30 May 1909Stages8Distance2 447 9 km 1 521 mi Winning time89h 48 14 Results Winner Luigi Ganna ITA Atala Second Carlo Galetti ITA Rudge Whitworth Third Giovanni Rossignoli ITA Bianchi TeamAtala1910 Conceived by La Gazzetta to boost its circulation at the expense of its rival Corriere della Sera the 1909 Giro was the first stage road race Its eight stages although relatively few compared to modern Grand Tours were each much longer than those raced today The event began with a long primarily flat stage that was won by Dario Beni He lost the lead after the next stage to the eventual winner Luigi Ganna who in turn lost it to Carlo Galetti after the mountainous third stage Ganna regained the lead after the fourth stage and successfully defended it all the way to the finish in Milan winning three stages en route Atala won the team classification Contents 1 Origin 2 Rules and course 3 Participants 4 Race overview 5 Results 5 1 Stage results 5 2 General classification 6 Aftermath 7 References 7 1 Footnotes 7 2 Citations 7 3 BibliographyOrigin EditThe idea of holding a bicycle race around Italy was first suggested in a telegram sent by Tullo Margagni editor of La Gazzetta dello Sport to the paper s owner Emilio Costamagna and cycling editor Armando Cougnet 1 2 3 La Gazzetta s rival Corriere della Sera was planning to hold a bicycle race of its own flushed with the success of its automobile race 2 3 4 Morgagni decided to try and hold the race before Corriere della Sera could hold theirs and following La Gazzetta s success in creating the Giro di Lombardia and Milan San Remo Costamagna decided to back the idea 3 5 The inaugural Giro d Italia bicycle race was announced on 7 August 1908 in the first page of that day s edition of La Gazzetta 4 to be held in May 1909 4 The idea of the race was influenced by the success of the French magazine L Auto s organization of the Tour de France 5 Since the newspaper lacked the necessary 25 000 lire to sponsor the race 2 the organizers consulted Primo Bongrani a sympathetic accountant at the bank Cassa di Risparmio He proceeded to solicit donations from all over Italy 3 and succeeded in raising sufficient money to cover the operating costs 3 The prize money came from a casino in San Remo after Francesco Sghirla a former Gazzetta employee encouraged them to contribute to the race 2 3 Even Corriere La Gazzetta s rival donated 3 000 lire 2 Rules and course EditBoth teams and individual riders were allowed to enter the race 3 which was run in eight stages with two to three rest days between each stage Compared to modern races the stages were extraordinarily long with an average distance of more than 300 km 190 mi compared to the 165 km 103 mi average stage length in the 2012 Giro d Italia 3 The Colle di Nava was one of the few major climbs in the first Giro d Italia The route was primarily flat although it did contain a few major ascents 3 The third stage contained ascents to Macerone Rionero Sannitico and Roccaraso 3 6 The Giro s sixth stage contained only one pass the Passo Bracco 3 The seventh stage was the last to contain any major ascents the climbs of the Colle di Nava and the ascent to San Bartolomeo 3 Riders were required to sign in at checkpoints during each stage to minimize the opportunities for cheating 3 they were also photographed at the beginning and end of each stage and the images compared by the judges 3 Riders could receive assistance when repairing their bicycles 3 but were not allowed to replace their machines if they became damaged during the course of the stage 3 The inaugural Giro used a points system to determine the race winner 3 The organizers chose to have a points system over a system based around elapsed time after the scandal that engulfed the 1904 Tour de France 3 Another factor in the organizer s decision was that it would be cheaper to count the placings of the riders rather than clocking their times during each stage 3 The race leader was determined by adding up each rider s placing in each stage Thus if a rider placed second in the first stage and third in the second stage he would have a total of five points and whoever had the lowest points total was the leader Under this system Luigi Ganna was declared the winner but had the Giro been a time based event he would have lost to the third place finisher Giovanni Rossignoli by 37 minutes 7 8 The winner of the general classification received a grand prize of 5 325 lire 4 8 Every rider who finished the race with more than 100 points without winning any prizes in any of the stages was given 100 lire 9 Participants EditMain article List of teams and cyclists in the 1909 Giro d Italia A total of 166 riders signed up to participate in the event 3 10 Twenty of the riders who entered were non Italians fifteen were French two were German one was Argentinian one was Belgian and one was from Trieste which at the time was not a part of Italy 3 Only 127 riders started the first stage of the race 4 8 all but five of Italian descent 8 of whom only 49 reached the finish in Milan on 30 May 4 8 Riders were allowed to enter the race as independents or as a member of a team 3 The two best known Italians taking part in the race were Luigi Ganna and Giovanni Gerbi 3 Gerbi was the more successful of the two having won the Giro di Lombardia the Milano Torino and several other one day races 3 Ganna had won Milan San Remo earlier the same year notably the first Italian winner of the race 3 The peloton also featured two Tour de France winners Louis Trousselier and Lucien Petit Breton 3 11 12 as well as two future Giro d Italia winners Carlo Galetti and Carlo Oriani 13 Race overview Edit Luigi Ganna after the eighth stage which finished in Milan The inaugural Giro d Italia s first stage 397 km 247 mi from Milan to Bologna began on 13 May 1909 at 2 53 am in front of a large crowd 4 8 127 riders set off from the starting line outside La Gazzetta s headquarters in the Piazzale Loreto 4 8 14 The stage was marred by mechanical issues and crashes owing to bad weather 10 the first mass crash occurring before dawn less than 2 km 1 mi from the start 3 Luigi Ganna leading after the first real climb near Lake Garda 3 was delayed by a puncture with about 70 km 43 mi to go and the other racers attacked but he caught them again after they were stopped by a train crossing 3 The leading riders then made their way into Bologna where Dario Beni won the stage 10 The second stage 378 5 km 235 mi long saw the first uphill finish into Chieti 3 where Giovanni Cuniolo edged out Ganna for the stage win 10 Ganna s second place was nevertheless high enough to make him the new race leader 3 10 The third stage to Naples was 242 8 km 151 mi Before the start three riders were disqualified and subsequently removed from the race for taking a train during the second stage 3 8 They were caught after failing to pass through an unexpected checkpoint set up by the organizers 3 The start of the third stage was moved downhill after the opening descent was found to be too dangerous for the participants brakes 3 The stage featured three major climbs 3 After the mountains Giovanni Rossignoli pursued the leader Carlo Galetti 3 eventually catching him and going on to win the stage while Galetti took the race lead away from Ganna 6 On the fourth stage 228 1 km 142 mi from Naples to the Italian capital Rome 6 French rider Louis Trousselier was doing well until he ran over tacks strewn on the road by spectators and the other riders left him behind 3 Galetti and Ganna formed a group at the front 3 and Ganna went on to win the stage in front of thousands of spectators retaking the race lead by a single point 3 6 The fifth stage was 346 5 km 215 mi to Florence Like the fourth it was plagued by punctures 6 Luigi Ganna led until he had a flat tyre with about 10 km 6 mi to go 3 A few riders passed him as he repaired it 3 but he chased them down and won the stage 3 6 On the sixth stage 294 4 km 183 mi from Florence to Genoa 9 Carlo Galetti and Giovanni Rossignoli broke away from the leading group of seven as they neared the downhill finish with Rossignoli winning the stage in front of a large crowd 3 9 Race leader Ganna had suffered more punctures but managed to fight his way back to finish third 9 The seventh stage 357 km 222 mi was scheduled to run from Genoa to Turin Massive crowds at the start led Armando Cougnet to introduce a rule forbidding riders to attack over the first few kilometers until the peloton was outside the city and the race proper could begin 3 9 There was also rumored to be close to 50 000 spectators and a bakers strike in Turin so Cougnet switched the finish to the city of Beinasco about 6 km 4 mi short of Turin 3 Ganna and Rossignoli led for most of the stage until about 6 km 4 mi before the finish when Ganna attacked and Rossignoli could not counter 3 9 Ganna s win extended his race lead over Carlo Galetti 3 9 The eighth and final stage started in Turin covered 206 km 128 mi and finished in Milan in front of a crowd of more than 30 000 3 9 Ganna was amongst the leading group until he suffered a flat tyre 3 9 He managed to fight his way back until with the leaders in sight he had another puncture 3 9 The leading group pulled away until the race directors stopped them to let Ganna catch up 3 Escorted by mounted police the riders then made their way into Milan s Arena Civica stadium for the finish 2 As the racers geared up for the sprint finish a police horse fell causing a few riders to crash 3 Dario Beni avoided the incident and edged out Galetti for the stage win with Ganna coming in third 3 9 Thus Ganna became the first winner of the Giro d Italia 9 15 He and his team Atala also won the team classification 3 9 Results EditStage results Edit Stage characteristics and winners 16 17 Stage Date Course Distance Type Notes 1 Winner Race Leader1 13 May Milan to Bologna 397 km 247 mi Plain stage Dario Beni ITA Dario Beni ITA 2 16 May Bologna to Chieti 375 8 km 233 5 mi Plain stage Giovanni Cuniolo ITA Luigi Ganna ITA 3 18 May Chieti to Naples 242 8 km 150 9 mi Stage with mountain s Giovanni Rossignoli ITA Carlo Galetti ITA 4 20 May Naples to Rome 228 1 km 141 7 mi Plain stage Luigi Ganna ITA Luigi Ganna ITA 5 23 May Rome to Florence 346 5 km 215 3 mi Plain stage Luigi Ganna ITA Luigi Ganna ITA 6 25 May Florence to Genoa 294 1 km 182 7 mi Stage with mountain s Giovanni Rossignoli ITA Luigi Ganna ITA 7 27 May Genoa to Turin 354 9 km 220 5 mi Stage with mountain s Luigi Ganna ITA Luigi Ganna ITA 8 30 May Turin to Milan 206 km 128 mi Plain stage Dario Beni ITA Luigi Ganna ITA Total 2 447 9 km 1 521 mi General classification Edit Giovanni Cuniolo won the second stage of the Giro d Italia Forty nine cyclists completed all eight stages The points each received from their stage placings were added up for the general classification and the winner was the rider with the fewest accumulated points Ernesto Azzini won the prize for best ranked isolati rider in the general classification 18 Final general classification 1 10 3 9 19 Rank Rider Team Points1 Luigi Ganna ITA Atala 252 Carlo Galetti ITA Rudge Whitworth 273 Giovanni Rossignoli ITA Bianchi 404 Clemente Canepari ITA Legnano 595 Carlo Oriani ITA Stucchi 726 Ernesto Azzini ITA Rudge Whitworth 777 Dario Beni ITA Bianchi 918 Enrico Sala ITA Bianchi 989 Ottorino Celli ITA Bianchi 11710 Giovanni Marchese ITA Legnano 139Final general classification 11 49 3 9 19 Rank Rider Team Points11 Luigi Chiodi ITA Atala 14112 Alberto Petrino ITA Peugeot 14113 Piero Lampaggi ITA Bianchi 15714 Attilio Zavatti ITA Legnano 15715 Giuseppe Cellerino ITA Piomagno 16416 Antonio Rotondi ITA 16617 Arnolfo Galoppini ITA 16618 Giuseppe Jacchino ITA 17719 Ezio Corlaita ITA Felsina 18520 Domenico Milano ITA 20621 Angelo Magagnoli ITA 20822 Alessandro Pazienti ITA 22123 Giovanni Cocchi ITA 22124 Ildebrando Gamberini ITA 22225 Ottorino Sabbaini ITA 22426 Giulio Modesti ITA 22927 Luigi Gatti ITA 24528 Cesare Osnaghi ITA 24529 Romeo Zuliani ITA 24630 Luigi Azzini ITA 24831 Mario Fortuna ITA 25532 Eugenio Caratti ITA 26533 Amleto Belloni ITA 26534 Guido Di Marco ITA 27435 Giuseppe Anzani ITA 27536 Guido Magnini ITA 28137 Giovanni Carena ITA 28238 Mario Secchi ITA 28439 Augusto Rho ITA 28440 Mario Lonati ITA 28441 Pasquale Lissoni ITA 28442 Azeglio Tomarelli ITA 28543 Angelo Moretti ITA 28644 Giuseppe Galbai ITA 29045 Senofonte Castellini ITA 29146 Giovanni Colombo ITA 29247 Emilio Roscio ITA 29248 Luigi Martano ITA 29249 Giuseppe Perna ITA 297Aftermath EditThe first Giro d Italia was a great success prompting organizers to arrange a second one for 1910 20 The race substantially increased La Gazzetta s circulation 3 and the starts and finishes were attended by large audiences 9 4 Ganna s prize money helped him start his own bike factory in 1912 3 The newspaper ran the event through 1988 when the RCS Organizzazzioni Sportivi company was created to run it 21 References EditFootnotes Edit In 1909 there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages the icons shown here indicate that the third sixth and seventh stages included mountains Citations Edit McHugh Michael 21 February 2013 Cycling Giro d Italia to begin in Ireland in 2014 The Independent Independent Print Ltd Archived from the original on 19 June 2014 Retrieved 1 March 2013 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