Giuseppe Saronni
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Full name | Giuseppe Saronni | |||||||||||||
Born |
Novara, Italy | 22 September 1957|||||||||||||
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Current team | UAE Team Emirates | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
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Rider (retired) Team manager | |||||||||||||
Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||
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1977–1979 | Scic | |||||||||||||
1980–1981 | Gis Gelati | |||||||||||||
1982–1988 | Del Tongo | |||||||||||||
1989 | Malvor–Sidi | |||||||||||||
1990 | Diana–Colnago–Animex | |||||||||||||
Managerial team(s) | ||||||||||||||
1992–1996 | Lampre–Colnago | |||||||||||||
1997–1998 | Mapei–GB | |||||||||||||
1999– | Lampre–Daikin | |||||||||||||
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Giuseppe Saronni (born 22 September 1957), also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist.
Career
Born in Novara, Piedmont, Saronni turned professional in 1977. During his career, that lasted until 1989, he won 193 races. In Italy he gave birth to a famous rivalry with Francesco Moser, like those of Alfredo Binda with Learco Guerra, and Fausto Coppi with Gino Bartali. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1978 Saronni won three stages in the Giro d'Italia. In total he would win 24 stages in this race, winning the overall twice (1979 and 1983).
In 1982 he won the World Cycling Championship at Goodwood, England, beating American Greg LeMond and Irishman Sean Kelly. His final sprint was so impressive that it gained him the nickname of La fucilata di Goodwood - "the gunshot of Goodwood".[2] The previous year he had won a silver medal, as he had been overcome in the final by Freddy Maertens of Belgium. In 1982 Saronni also won the Giro di Lombardia.
At the beginning of 1983 another a striking attack on the Pogggio climb gave him the Milan–San Remo classic, after three consecutive second places in that race. This was Saronni's last great classics victory.
Saronni serves as the general manager of the UAE Team Emirates.
Career achievements
Major results
- 1977
- 1st Giro del Veneto
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1978
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 2, 7 & 8
- 1st
Overall Tirreno–Adriatico - 1st Prologue
- 1st Coppa Agostoni
- 1st Giro di Puglia
- 1979
- 1st
Overall Giro d'Italia - 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 5, 8 & 19
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie - 1st
Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre - 1st Züri–Metzgete
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Francesco Moser)
- 1980
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st La Flèche Wallonne
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st
Points classification - 1st 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 19 & 21
- 1st
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Coppa Bernocchi
- 1st Trittico Lombardo
- 1st Giro di Puglia
- 1981
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 3, 5 & 6
- 1st
- 1st Giro di Romagna
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st Coppa Bernocchi
- 1982
- 1st
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 1st
Overall Tour de Suisse - 1st
Overall Tirreno–Adriatico - 1st
Overall Giro del Trentino - Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 2, 10 & 22
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Milano–Torino
- 1st Coppa Agostoni
- 1983
- 1st
Overall Giro d'Italia - 1st
Points classification - 1st 4, 13 & 16 Stages
- 1st
- Vuelta a España
- 1st 9 & 10 Stages
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1984
- Tour of Norway
- 1st Stages 3 & 5
- 1985
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 3 & 16
- 1986
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Lech Piasecki)
- 1988
- 1st Tre Valli Varesine
- 1st Giro di Puglia
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 |
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5 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 2 | DNF | 27 | 75 | 45 | |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | |
— | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ "Giuseppe Saronni Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ↑ Ryan, Barry (12 October 2017). "Extract: The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the rise of Irish Cycling's Golden Generation". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
External links
- Giuseppe Saronni at Cycling Archives