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The 1975 Giro d'Italia was the 58th running of the Giro, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in Milan, on 17 May, with a set of split stages and concluded with a summit finish to the Passo dello Stelvio, on 7 June, with another split stage, consisting of an individual time trial and a mass-start stage. A total of 90 riders from nine teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Fausto Bertoglio of the Jollj Ceramica team. The second and third places were taken by Spaniard Francisco Galdós and Italian Felice Gimondi, respectively.
A total of nine teams were invited to participate in the 1975 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 90 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 70 made it to the finish on the Passo dello Stelvio.
A sample of the 48 hairpin turns near the top of the eastern ramp of the Stelvio Pass, the Cima Coppi (highest elevation point) of the 1975 Giro.
There were three main individual classifications contested in the 1975 Giro d'Italia, as well as a team competition. Three of them awarded jerseys to their leaders. The general classification was the most important and was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Giro. The rider leading the classification wore a pink jersey to signify the classification's leadership.
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. The rider leading this classification wore a purple (or cyclamen) jersey. The mountains classification was the third classification and its leader was denoted by the green jersey. 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. Most stages of the race included one or more categorized climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs. The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Passo dello Stelvio. The first rider to cross the Stelvio was Spanish rider Francisco Galdós.
The final classification, the team classification, awarded no jersey to its leaders. This was calculated by adding together points earned by each rider on the team during each stage through the intermediate sprints, the categorized climbs, stage finishes, etc. The team with the most points led the classification.
There were other minor classifications within the race, including the Campionato delle Regioni classification. This was a replacement for the "traguardi tricolore" classification that was calculated in previous years. The leader wore a blue jersey with colored vertical stripes ("maglia azzurra con banda tricolore verticale").
Francisco Galdós & Andrés Oliva, both Spanish riders from the KAS team, finished the race with the same number of points in the mountains classification and were both winners.
Citations
"Bertoglio Se Adjudico El "Giro"" [Bertoglio was awarded the "Tour"] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 8 June 1975. p. 19. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
Maurizio Caravella (8 June 1975). "Bertoglio resiste, Il Giro è suo" [Bertoglio resists, The Giro is his] (PDF). La Stampa (in Italian). Editrice La Stampa. p. 19. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
^ Bill and Carol McGann. "1975 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 6 March 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
Gino Sala (11 April 1975). "Questo il <<Giro>> 1975" [This the Giro d'Italia 1975] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
"Merckx malade renonce au Giro" [Merckx sick renounces at the Giro] (PDF). Nouvelliste et Feuille d'Avis du Valais (in French). 17 May 1975. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2019 – via RERO.
^ "1975". Giro d'Italia. La Gazzetta dello Sport. 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
^ "Clasificaciones oficiales" [Official classifications] (PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 8 June 1975. p. 19. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
^ "La classifica finale" [The final classification] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. 8 June 1975. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
^ "Cosi nel '75 sul traguardo dello Stelvio" [So in 1975 on the Stelvio finish line] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. 18 May 1976. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
Knut Knudsen (NOR)
Patrick Sercu (BEL)
Giovanni Battaglin (ITA)
Domingo Perurena (ESP)
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