The 1936 Giro d'Italia was the 24th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaperLa Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 16 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 161 km (100 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 7 June after a 248 km (154 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,766 km (2,340 mi). The race was won by Gino Bartali of the Legnano team, with fellow Italians Giuseppe Olmo and Severino Canavesi coming in second and third respectively.[1]
Participants
Of the 89 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 16 May,[2] 45 of them made it to the finish in Rome on 7 June.[3] Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team; 46 riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 44 competed independently.[2] The seven teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Dei, Fréjus, Ganna, Gloria, Legnano, and Maino.[3]
The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[4]
The highest ranked isolati cyclist in the general classification were tracked.
In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.[4]
The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.[3][5] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[5]
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
^In 1936, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that stages 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17a, 17b, 18, and 19 included major mountains. The stage 11 individual time trial also featured a summit finish atop Monte Terminillo.
^Aldo Bini and Giuseppe Olmo had the same amount of time raced and number of points following the stage. The finish of the stage between the two of them was so close, the race organizers let them both wear the pink jersey as leader of the general classification during the seventh stage.[6]
^ abcd"Gli iscritti" [Subscribers]. Il Littoriale (in Italian). 16 May 1935. p. 2. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
^ abcdefghijBill and Carol McGann. "1936 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Archived from the original on 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
