Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini

Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini
Race details
Date Late August / September
Region Italy
Discipline Road
Type Stage race
History
First edition 1995 (1995)
Editions 23 (as of 2017)
First winner  Imelda Chiappa (ITA)
Most wins  Susanne Ljungskog (SWE) (3 wins)
Most recent  Ashleigh Moolman (RSA)

The Giro Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini is annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race held in Italy since 1995.[1]

During the 2013 race, 63 of the 112 riders refused to compete in the fourth and final stage of the race due to safety concerns, including having to race in open car traffic without sufficient police protection. After briefly listening to the riders' complaints at a meeting before the fourth stage, the organizer, Brunello Fanani, told the protesting riders and team representatives to "go home." Among the protesting riders were Italy's two top women's riders, Elisa Longo Borghini and Giorgia Bronzini, and Marianne Vos, the overall leader after the third stage.[2] The race returned in 2014 but was reduced to two stages plus a prologue time trial, and its UCI race classification was downgraded from 2.1 to 2.2.

Past winners

Rider Team
1995 Italy Imelda Chiappa (ITA)
1995 Italy Greta Zocca (ITA)
1996 Switzerland Barbara Heeb (SUI)
1997 Italy Imelda Chiappa (ITA)
1998 Italy Valeria Cappellotto (ITA)
1999 Lithuania Edita Pučinskaitė (LTU)
2000 Belarus Sinaida Stahurskaja (BLR)
2001 Switzerland Nicole Brändli (SUI)
2002 Sweden Susanne Ljungskog (SWE) Vlaanden–T Interim
2003 Sweden Susanne Ljungskog (SWE) Bik–Powerplate
2004 Germany Trixi Worrack (GER) Equipe Nürnberger Versicherung
2005 Sweden Susanne Ljungskog (SWE) Team Flexpoint
2006 Russia Svetlana Bubnenkova (RUS) Fenixs–Colnago
2007 Italy Noemi Cantele (ITA) Bigla Cycling Team
2008 Germany Judith Arndt (GER) Team Columbia Women
2009 Lithuania Diana Žiliūtė (LTU) Safi-Pasta Zara Titanedi
2010 Germany Judith Arndt (GER) Team T-Mobile Women
2011 United States Megan Guarnier (USA) Team TIBCO–To The Top
2012 Poland Malgorzata Jasinska (POL) MCipollini–Giambenini–Gauss
2013 Germany Claudia Häusler (GER) Team TIBCO–To The Top
2014 United States Shelley Olds (USA) Alé–Cipollini
2015 Poland Malgorzata Jasinska (POL) Alé–Cipollini
2016 South Africa Ashleigh Moolman (RSA) Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling
2017 South Africa Ashleigh Moolman (RSA) Cervélo–Bigla Pro Cycling
2018 Italy Soraya Paladin (ITA) Alé–Cipollini

References

  1. ↑ "Giro della Toscana Femminile/Memorial Michela Fanini" (in French). memoire-du-cyclisme.net. Archived from the original on 11 January 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Women riders protest security at Giro della Toscana


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