1986 Giro d'Italia
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The 1986 Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...

of cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

, the 69th edition of the race, was held from 12 May to 2 June 1986. It covered a total of 3,858 km at an average speed of 37.615 km/h, in 22 stages. It was won by the Italian
Italy
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 Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist.Visentini was born in Gardone Riviera, in the province of Brescia, and had a brilliant junior career. In 1975, he was both Junior Italian champion and World Champion. As an amateur he won the 1977 time-trial World...

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General classification 

Cyclist Country Time
1 Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist.Visentini was born in Gardone Riviera, in the province of Brescia, and had a brilliant junior career. In 1975, he was both Junior Italian champion and World Champion. As an amateur he won the 1977 time-trial World...

102 h 33' 55s
2 Giuseppe Saronni
Giuseppe Saronni
Giuseppe Saronni , also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist.-Biography:Born in Novara, Piedmont, Saronni turned professional in 1977. During his career, that lasted until 1989, he won 193 races...

 
1' 02s
3 Francesco Moser
Francesco Moser
Francesco Moser , nicknamed "Lo sceriffo" , is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the dominant riders from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, and won the 1984 Giro d'Italia, the 1977 world road racing championship and six victories in three of the five Monuments...

 
+ 2' 14s
4 Greg LeMond
Greg LeMond
Gregory James LeMond is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States and a three-time winner of the Tour de France. He was born in Lakewood, California and raised in Reno, Nevada....

 
2' 26s
5 Claudio Corti  + 4' 49s
6 Franco Chioccioli
Franco Chioccioli
Franco Chioccioli is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1991 Giro d'Italia.- Palmarès :1983...

 
6' 58s
7 Acácio da Silva  + 7' 12s
8 Marco Giovannetti
Marco Giovannetti
Marco Giovannetti is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist who won the Vuelta a España in 1990. He has also won stages at the Tour de Suisse and the Giro d'Italia....

 
8' 03s
9 Niki Rüttimann
Niki Rüttimann
Niki Rüttimann is a Swiss former road bicycle racer.- Palmarès :19791982198419851986**...

 
9' 15s
10 Pedro Muñoz 
11' 52s

Maglia rosa holders

Cyclist Country Stages
Urs Freuler
Urs Freuler
Urs Freuler is a Swiss cyclist, who raced professionally between 1980 and 1997, during which he won 71 victories. He was named Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 1982 and 1983.He was born in Bilten...

 
prologue
Sergio Santimaria  1st
Jean-Paul van Poppel
Jean-Paul van Poppel
Jean-Paul van Poppel is a former Dutch racing cyclist, who was nicknamed Popeye.Van Poppel was one of the most successful Dutch road sprinters. He won stages in mass sprints in all three Grand Tours, sometimes from positions that appeared lost. In the Tour de France he won 9 stages altogether...

 
2nd
Giuseppe Saronni
Giuseppe Saronni
Giuseppe Saronni , also known as Beppe Saronni, is an Italian former racing cyclist.-Biography:Born in Novara, Piedmont, Saronni turned professional in 1977. During his career, that lasted until 1989, he won 193 races...

 
3rd, 6th-15th
Gianbattista Baronchelli
Gianbattista Baronchelli
Gianbattista Baronchelli is an Italian retired professional road racing cyclist . He obtained a total of 94 victories....

 
4th-5th
Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini
Roberto Visentini is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist.Visentini was born in Gardone Riviera, in the province of Brescia, and had a brilliant junior career. In 1975, he was both Junior Italian champion and World Champion. As an amateur he won the 1977 time-trial World...

 
16th-final

Other jerseys

  • Maglia ciclamino: Guido Bontempi
    Guido Bontempi
    Guido Bontempi is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Bontempi's career highlights include winning the spring's classic Gent–Wevelgem two times and a total of 16 stages in the Giro d'Italia throughout his career. He also won six stages in the Tour de France and four stages in the Vuelta a España...

     
  • Maglia verde
    Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia
    The mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia is a secondary classification. In this classification, points are awarded to the leading riders over designated climbs. Most climbs are sorted into one of three scales based on difficulty and its position on that day's stage...

    : Pedro Muñoz
    Pedro Muñoz
    Pedro Muñoz is a municipality in the autonomous community named Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It lies in the province of Ciudad Real, in the extreme northeast of the province on right basin of the Záncara river. It is in the La Mancha region, in the "Mancha Alta" sub-region...

     
  • Maglia bianca
    Young rider classification in the Giro d'Italia
    Since 1976, The Giro d'Italia has had a young rider classification. The leader in this classification wears the maglia bianca . The classification is determined by the best overall time, but only young cyclists were in the competition....

    : Marco Giovannetti
    Marco Giovannetti
    Marco Giovannetti is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer and Olympic gold medalist who won the Vuelta a España in 1990. He has also won stages at the Tour de Suisse and the Giro d'Italia....

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