1980 Giro d'Italia

A total of thirteen teams were invited to participate in the 1980 Giro d'Italia.^[7][8] The starting riders came from a total of 12 different countries; 73 riders were from Italy, while the remaining 57 riders came from: Switzerland (13), Spain (10), France (9), Belgium (8), Germany (6), the Netherlands (5), Sweden (2), Denmark (1), Great Britain (1), Luxembourg (1), and Norway (1).^[9] Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists.^[7][8][10]

Of those starting, 46 were riding the Giro d'Italia for the first time.^[11] The average age of riders was 26.4 years,^[12] ranging from 21–year–old Guillermo de Le (Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo) to 35–year–old Attilio Rota (Sanson–Campagnolo).^[13] The team with the youngest average rider age was Hoonved–Bottecchia (24), while the oldest was Sanson–Campagnolo (28).^[14] From the riders that began this edition, 89 made it to the finish in Milan.^[10][15][16]

The teams entering the race were:^[7][8]

The route for the 1980 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 31 January 1980.^[17][18][19] Covering a total of 4,025 km (2,501 mi), it included three individual time trials, and ten stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points.^[20] Four of these ten stages had summit finishes: stage 8, to Fiuggi; stage 11, to Campotenese; stage 14, to Roccaraso; and stage 18, to Zoldo Alto.^[21] In the case the Stelvio was not passable by bike, the nineteenth and twentieth stages had a back-up plan where that took an alternate route through the Pordoi Pass in stage nineteen and would be the new Cima Coppi.^[17] The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 724 km (450 mi) longer and contained two less time trials. In addition, this race contained three more stages.

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Stage results^[10][21]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	15 May	Genoa	7 km (4 mi)		Individual time trial	Francesco Moser
1	16 May	Genova to Imperia	123 km (76 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
2	17 May	Imperia to Turin	179 km (111 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
3	18 May	Turin to Parma	243 km (151 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
4	19 May	Parma to Marina di Pisa	193 km (120 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Dante Morandi (ITA)
5	20 May	Pontedera to Pisa	36 km (22 mi)		Individual time trial	Jørgen Marcussen (DEN)
	21 May	Rest day
6	22 May	Rio Marina to Portoferraio	126 km (78 mi)		Plain stage	Carmelo Barone (ITA)
7	23 May	Castiglione della Pescaia to Orvieto	200 km (124 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Silvano Contini (ITA)
8	24 May	Orvieto to Fiuggi	216 km (134 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Juan Fernández Martín (ESP)
9	25 May	Fiuggi to Sorrento	247 km (153 mi)		Plain stage	Giovanni Mantovani (ITA)
10	26 May	Sorrento to Palinuro	177 km (110 mi)		Plain stage	Giovanni Mantovani (ITA)
11	27 May	Palinuro to Campotenese	145 km (90 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Gianbattista Baronchelli (ITA)
12	28 May	Villapiana Lido to Campi Salentina	203 km (126 mi)		Plain stage	Yvon Bertin (FRA)
13	29 May	Campi Salentina to Barletta	220 km (137 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
14	30 May	Foggia to Roccaraso	186 km (116 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Bernard Hinault (FRA)
15	31 May	Roccaraso to Teramo	194 km (121 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Tommy Prim (SWE)
16	1 June	Giulianova to Gatteo a Mare	229 km (142 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Martinelli (ITA)
17	2 June	Gatteo a Mare to Sirmione	237 km (147 mi)		Plain stage	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
18	3 June	Sirmione to Zoldo Alto	239 km (149 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giovanni Battaglin (ITA)
19	4 June	Longarone to Cles	241 km (150 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
20	5 June	Cles to Sondrio	221 km (137 mi)		Stage with mountain(s)	Jean-René Bernaudeau (FRA)
21	6 June	Saronno to Turbigo	50 km (31 mi)		Individual time trial	Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
22	7 June	Milan to Milan	114 km (71 mi)		Plain stage	Pierino Gavazzi (ITA)
	Total		4,025 km (2,501 mi)

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Three different jerseys were worn during the 1980 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.^[22] There were no time bonuses in 1980.^[23]

The second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the top positions in a stage finish, with first place getting the most points, and lower placings getting successively fewer points.^[22] The rider leading this classification wore a purple (or cyclamen) jersey.^[22]

The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.^[22] The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Stelvio Pass. The first rider to cross the Stelvio was French rider Jean-René Bernaudeau.

The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only riders aged 24 and younger.^[24]

Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.^[22][25]

There were other minor classifications within the race, including the Campionato delle Regioni classification. The leader wore a blue jersey with colored vertical stripes ("maglia azzurra con banda tricolore verticale").^[26] This classification was the most important intermediate sprint classification in the Giro; the first three riders that crossed the intermediate sprint scored points.^[27]

The FIAT classification, created in the 1976 edition,^[28] was used again, but this year the winner received a Fiat Panda.^[29] For this classification, there was one intermediate sprint per stage, and the first three riders scored points.^[29]

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

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Classification leadership by stage^[30]

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Young rider classification	Campionato delle Regioni	FIAT	Team classification
P	Francesco Moser	Francesco Moser	Francesco Moser	not awarded	Tommy Prim	not awarded	not awarded	not awarded
1	Giuseppe Saronni					?	?	Hoonved–Bottecchia
2	Giuseppe Saronni		Giuseppe Saronni	Claudio Bortolotto
3	Giuseppe Saronni
4	Dante Morandi
5	Jørgen Marcussen	Bernard Hinault			Faustino Rupérez			Bianchi–Piaggio
6	Carmelo Barone
7	Silvano Contini	Roberto Visentini				Fiorenzo Favero		?
8	Juan Fernández Martín					?
9	Giovanni Mantovani
10	Giovanni Mantovani		Giovanni Mantovani					Bianchi–Piaggio
11	Gianbattista Baronchelli					Fiorenzo Favero
12	Yvon Bertin
13	Giuseppe Saronni
14	Bernard Hinault	Wladimiro Panizza	Giuseppe Saronni
15	Tommy Prim
16	Giuseppe Martinelli
17	Giuseppe Saronni
18	Giovanni Battaglin				Tommy Prim			Gis Gelati
19	Giuseppe Saronni
20	Jean-René Bernaudeau	Bernard Hinault						Bianchi–Piaggio
21	Giuseppe Saronni
22	Pierino Gavazzi						Pierre-Raymond Villemiane
Final		Bernard Hinault	Giuseppe Saronni	Claudio Bortolotto	Tommy Prim	Fiorenzo Favero	Pierre-Raymond Villemiane	Bianchi–Piaggio

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There were no positive doping tests in the Giro of 1980. There was almost one: Hinault arrived too late at the doping test after stage 21, because he was held up by reporters. According to the rules, the jury could penalize this as if he had tested positive, but decided not to do so.^[32]