1980 Giro d'Italia

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description The 1980 Giro d'Italia was the 63rd running of the Giro. It started in Genoa, on 15 May, with a prologue and concluded in Milan, on 8 June, with a mass-start stage. A total of 130 riders from thirteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman Bernard Hinault of the Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo team. The second and third places were taken by Italians Wladimiro Panizza and Giovanni Battaglin, respectively.

Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Gis Gelati's Giuseppe Saronni won the points classification, Claudio Bortolotto of Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto won the mountains classification, and Bianchi–Piaggio's Tommy Prim completed the Giro as the best rider aged 24 or under in the general classification, finishing fourth overall. Bianchi–Piaggio finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.

Teams

A total of thirteen teams were invited to participate in the 1980 Giro d'Italia. 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). Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 130 cyclists.

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

The teams entering the race were:

Gis Gelati Bianchi–Piaggio Cilo–Aufina Famcucine–Campagnolo Hoonved–Bottecchia

Inoxpran Kondor Magniflex–Olmo Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo

Sanson–Campagnolo Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo Studio Casa–Fin–Italcasa–Colnago

Route and stages

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. Covering a total of , it included three individual time trials, and ten stages with categorized climbs that awarded mountains classification points. 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. 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. The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was longer and contained two less time trials. In addition, this race contained three more stages.

Stage results

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
P	15 May	Genoa		File:Time Trial.svg	Individual time trial	Template:Flagicon Francesco Moser
1	16 May	Genova to Imperia		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
2	17 May	Imperia to Turin		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
3	18 May	Turin to Parma		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
4	19 May	Parma to Marina di Pisa		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
5	20 May	Pontedera to Pisa		File:Time Trial.svg	Individual time trial	Template:Flagathlete
	21 May	Rest day
6	22 May	Rio Marina to Portoferraio		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
7	23 May	Castiglione della Pescaia to Orvieto		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
8	24 May	Orvieto to Fiuggi		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
9	25 May	Fiuggi to Sorrento		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
10	26 May	Sorrento to Palinuro		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
11	27 May	Palinuro to Campotenese		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
12	28 May	Villapiana Lido to Campi Salentina		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
13	29 May	Campi Salentina to Barletta		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
14	30 May	Foggia to Roccaraso		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
15	31 May	Roccaraso to Teramo		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
16	1 June	Giulianova to Gatteo a Mare		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
17	2 June	Gatteo a Mare to Sirmione		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
18	3 June	Sirmione to Zoldo Alto		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
19	4 June	Longarone to Cles		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
20	5 June	Cles to Sondrio		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
21	6 June	Saronno to Turbigo		File:Time Trial.svg	Individual time trial	Template:Flagathlete
22	7 June	Milan to Milan		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
	Total

Classification leadership

A winding road on the slopes of a mountain.

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 1980 Giro.

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.

For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. 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. 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.

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.

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

Classification leadership by stage

Stage	Winner	General classification File:Jersey pink.svg	Points classification File:Jersey violet.svg	Mountains classification File:Jersey green.svg	Young rider classification	Team classification
P	Francesco Moser	Francesco Moser	Francesco Moser	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				Bianchi–Piaggio
6	Carmelo Barone
7	Silvano Contini	Roberto Visentini			Faustino Rupérez	?
8	Juan Fernández Martín
9	Giovanni Mantovani
10	Giovanni Mantovani		Giovanni Mantovani			Bianchi–Piaggio
11	Gianbattista Baronchelli
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
Final		Bernard Hinault	Giuseppe Saronni	Claudio Bortolotto	Tommy Prim	Bianchi–Piaggio

Final standings

Legend
Pink jersey	Denotes the winner of the General classification	Green jersey	Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification
Purple jersey	Denotes the winner of the Points classification

General classification

Final general classification (1–10)

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	112h 08' 20"
2	Template:Flagathlete	Gis Gelati	+ 5' 43"
3	Template:Flagathlete	Inoxpran	+ 6' 30"
4	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	+ 7' 53"
5	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	+ 11' 49"
6	Template:Flagathlete	Hoonved–Bottecchia	+ 12' 47"
7	Template:Flagathlete Purple jersey	Gis Gelati	+ 12' 53"
8	Template:Flagathlete	Gis Gelati	+ 20' 26"
9	Template:Flagathlete	Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto	+ 20' 37"
10	Template:Flagathlete	Magniflex–Olmo	+ 21' 30"

Points classification

Final points classification (1–5)

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Template:Flagathlete Purple jersey	Gis Gelati	301
2	Template:Flagathlete	Hoonved–Bottecchia	215
3	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	179
4	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	160
5	Template:Flagathlete	Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto	151

Mountains classification

Final mountains classification (1–8)

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Template:Flagathlete Green jersey	Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto	670
2	Template:Flagathlete	Gis Gelati	400
3	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	350
4	Template:Flagathlete	Inoxpran	280
5	Template:Flagathlete	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	265
6	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	255
7	Template:Flagathlete	Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo	170
8	Template:Flagathlete	Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo	155

Young rider classification

Final young rider classification (1–5)

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	112h 16' 13"
2	Template:Flagathlete	Mobilifico San Giacomo–Benotto	+ 12' 44"
3	Template:Flagathlete	Magniflex–Olmo	+ 13' 37"
4	Template:Flagathlete	Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo	+ 13' 40"
5	Template:Flagathlete	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	+ 20' 25"

Combination classification

Final combination classification (1–3)

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	8
2	Template:Flagathlete	Gis Gelati	11
3	Template:Flagathlete	Bianchi–Piaggio	12

Team classification

Final team classification (1–5)

	Team	Time
1	Bianchi–Piaggio	336h 28' 31"
2	Gis Gelati	+ 5' 21"
3	Inoxpran	+ 46' 59"
4	Renault–Gitane–Campagnolo	+ 52' 18"
5	Selle Italia–Zor–Vereco–Campagnolo	+ 1h 17' 40"