1999 Giro d'Italia

Template:Short description The 1999 Giro d'Italia was the 82nd edition of the Giro. It began on May 15 with a mass-start stage that stretched from Agrigento to Modica. The race came to a close on June 6 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Ivan Gotti (sub judice )of the Template:Cycling data POL team. Second and third were the Italians riders Paolo Savoldelli and Gilberto Simoni. Marco Pantani is credited with four high mountain stage victories.

Late in the race Marco Pantani was accused of using EPO and was expelled either as the result of a failed doping control, or due to a conspiracy involving drug tests being manipulated.

In the race's other classifications, Template:Cycling data KEL rider Chepe González won the mountains classification, Laurent Jalabert of the Template:Cycling data ONC team won the points classification, and Team Polti rider Fabrizio Guidi won the intergiro classification. Template:Cycling data VIT finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams' riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Team Polti.

Teams

A total of 18 teams were invited to participate in the 1999 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 162 cyclists. Out of the 162 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 116 riders made it to the finish in Milan.

The 18 teams that took part in the race were:

Amica Chips–Costa de Almería Template:Cycling data ALB Template:Cycling data GCE Template:Cycling data ACQ Template:Cycling data KEL Template:Cycling data LAM

Liquigas–Pata Template:Cycling data MAP Template:Cycling data UNO Template:Cycling data MDN Template:Cycling data PAN Template:Cycling data ONC

Riso Scotti–Vinavil Template:Cycling data SAE Template:Cycling data POL Template:Cycling data TVM Template:Cycling data VIN Template:Cycling data VIT

Route and stages

A mountain lodge.

Madonna di Campiglio hosted the finish of the twentieth stage.

The route for the 1999 Giro d'Italia was unveiled by race director Carmine Castellano on 14 November 1998 in Milan. It contained four time trial events, there of which were individual and one a team event. There were eleven stages containing high mountains, of which five had summit finishes: stage 5, to Massiccio del Sirino; stage 8, to Gran Sasso d'Italia; stage 15, to Santuario di Oropa; stage 19, to Alpe di Pampeago; and stage 20, to Madonna di Campiglio. The organizers chose to include one rest day. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was shorter, contained the one more rest day, as well as one more time trial event.

Stage characteristics and winners

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type		Winner
1	15 May	Agrigento to Modica		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
2	16 May	Noto to Catania		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
3	17 May	Catania to Messina		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
4	18 May	Vibo Valentia to Terme Luigiane		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
5	19 May	Terme Luigiane to Massiccio del Sirino		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
6	20 May	Lauria to Foggia		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
7	21 May	Foggia to Lanciano		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
8	22 May	Pescara to Gran Sasso d'Italia		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
9	23 May	Ancona to Ancona		File:Time Trial.svg	Individual time trial	Template:Flagathlete
10	24 May	Ancona to Sansepolcro		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
11	25 May	Sansepolcro to Cesenatico		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
12	26 May	Cesenatico to Sassuolo		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
13	27 May	Sassuolo to Rapallo		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
	28 May	Rest day
14	29 May	Bra to Borgo San Dalmazzo		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
15	30 May	Racconigi to Santuario di Oropa		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
16	31 May	Biella to Lumezzane		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
17	1 June	Lumezzane to Castelfranco Veneto		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
18	2 June	Treviso to Treviso		File:Time Trial.svg	Individual time trial	Template:Flagathlete
19	3 June	Castelfranco Veneto to Alpe di Pampeago		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
20	4 June	Predazzo to Madonna di Campiglio		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
21	5 June	Madonna di Campiglio to Aprica		File:Mountainstage.svg	Stage with mountain(s)	Template:Flagathlete
22	6 June	Darfo Boario Terme to Milan		File:Plainstage.svg	Plain stage	Template:Flagathlete
	Total

Race overview

Defending champion Marco Pantani, leading the general classification in Madonna di Campiglio (20th stage), was disqualified for an excessive hematocrit level before stage 21. The entire Mercatone Uno–Bianchi (Pantani's team) withdrew from the Giro. This left the race open for Gotti to capture his second overall title and wear the final pink jersey as Giro Champion for the 2nd time in three years.

Classification leadership

A mountain in the distance.

The Passo di Gavia was the Cima Coppi for the 1999 edition of the Giro.

Four different jerseys were worn during the 1999 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 intergiro classification was marked by a blue jersey. The calculation for the intergiro is similar to that of the general classification, in each stage there is a midway point that the riders pass through a point and where their time is stopped. As the race goes on, their times compiled and the person with the lowest time is the leader of the intergiro classification and wears the blue jersey. 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.

Stage	Winner	General classification File:Jersey pink.svg	Points classification File:Jersey violet.svg	Mountains classification File:Jersey green.svg	Intergiro classification File:Jersey blue.svg	Trofeo Fast Team
1	Ivan Quaranta	Ivan Quaranta	Ivan Quaranta	Paolo Bettini	?	Template:Cycling data UNO
2	Mario Cipollini	Mario Cipollini				Template:Cycling data SAE
3	Jeroen Blijlevens	Jeroen Blijlevens				Template:Cycling data PAN
4	Laurent Jalabert					Template:Cycling data SAE
5	José Jaime González	Laurent Jalabert
6	Romāns Vainšteins					Template:Cycling data POL
7	Jeroen Blijlevens
8	Marco Pantani	Marco Pantani				Template:Cycling data GCE
9	Laurent Jalabert	Laurent Jalabert
10	Mario Cipollini
11	Ivan Quaranta
12	Mario Cipollini
13	Richard Virenque			Chepe González
14	Paolo Savoldelli	Marco Pantani
15	Marco Pantani			Marco Pantani		Template:Cycling data VIT
16	Laurent Jalabert
17	Mario Cipollini
18	Serhiy Honchar
19	Marco Pantani		Marco Pantani
20	Marco Pantani
21	Roberto Heras	Ivan Gotti	Laurent Jalabert
22	Fabrizio Guidi			Chepe González
Final		Ivan Gotti	Laurent Jalabert	Chepe González	Fabrizio Guidi	Template:Cycling data VIT

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	Blue jersey	Denotes the winner of the Intergiro classification

General classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Template:Cycling data POL	99h 55' 56"
2	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data SAE	+ 3' 35"
3	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ALB	+ 3' 36"
4	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ONC	+ 5' 16"
5	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data KEL	+ 7' 47"
6	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data COG	+ 9' 38"
7	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data VIN	+ 12' 07"
8	Template:Flagathlete	Amica Chips–Costa de Almería	+ 14' 20"
9	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data VIT	+ 15' 53"
10	Template:Flagathlete	Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio Italia	+ 17' 31"

Points classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Template:Flagathlete Purple jersey	Template:Cycling data ONC	175
2	Template:Flagathlete Blue jersey	Template:Cycling data POL	170
3	Template:Flagathlete	Mobilvetta Design–Northwave	126
4	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data SAE	117
5	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Template:Cycling data POL	110
6	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data SAE	96
7	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ALB	94
8	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ALB	88
9	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data VIN	87
10	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data LAM	82

Mountains classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Template:Flagathlete Green jersey	Template:Cycling data KEL	61
2	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data LAM	45
3	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data MAP	44
4	Template:Flagathlete Pink jersey	Template:Cycling data POL	33
5	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ALB
6	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data KEL	26
7	Template:Flagathlete Purple jersey	Template:Cycling data ONC	25
8	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data VIT	18
9	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data LAM	14
10	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data POL	13

Intergiro classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Template:Flagathlete Blue jersey	Template:Cycling data KEL	58h 47' 30"
2	Template:Flagathlete	Mobilvetta Design–Northwave	+ 2"
3	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data SAE	+ 24"
4	Template:Flagathlete	Liquigas	2' 02"
5	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Cycling data ALB	+ 2' 13"

Trofeo Fast Team classification

	Team	Time
1	Template:Cycling data VIT	300h 39' 35"
2	Template:Cycling data KEL	+ 22' 11"
3	Template:Cycling data POL	+ 22' 45"
4	Template:Cycling data LAM	+ 29' 16"
5	Template:Cycling data ONC	+ 58' 57"
6	Amica Chips–Costa de Almería	+ 1h 15' 16"
7	Liquigas–Pata	+ 1h 15' 18"
8	Template:Cycling data PAN	+ 1h 47' 23"
9	Cantina Tollo-Alexia Alluminio Italia	+ 1h 56' 17"
10	Template:Cycling data SAE	+ 1h 59' 41"

Trofeo Super Team classification

	Team	Points
1	Template:Cycling data POL	1243
2	Template:Cycling data SAE	1136
3	Template:Cycling data ONC	1034
4	Template:Cycling data ALB	676
5	Template:Cycling data KEL	663

External links

• Cyclingnews.com: 1999 Giro d'Italia