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The race:
The Coppa Agostoni is a single-day professional bicycle race held in Lissone, Italy. It is part of the Trittico Lombardo (Lombardy Triptych), three races held in late summer in the northern Italian region of Lombardy: Tre Valle Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and the Coppa Bernocchi. The Coppa Agostioni is also sometimes called the Giro della Brianze.
The race is named after Ugo Agostoni, one of Italy's great cyclists of the early 20th century. Agostoni is most famous for having won the 1914 Milano–San Remo, but he also won the Giro dell'Emilia and a couple of stages in the Giro d'Italia. Agostoni was a pro from 1911 to 1924.
It is a race of long-standing, the first edition being held in 1946, won by Luigi Casola.
From that 1946 first edition through 1958, the Coppa Agostoni was reserved for amateur racers.
The Coppa Agostoni's most successful racer is Franco Bitossi, the only rider to win it three times.
Since 2005 the UCI has ranked it 1.1 made made it part of the Europe Tour.
Complete Coppa Agostoni podium history:
Year |
1st Place |
2nd Place |
3rd Place |
Distance |
Average Speed |
1946 | Luigi Casola 5hr 5min |
Antonio Covolo @ s.t. |
Salvatore Crippa @ s.t. |
175 km | 34.426 km/hr |
1947 | Franco Fanti | Donato Zampini | Turchemeis Zanettini | ||
1948 | Luigi Malabrocci | Aldo Tosi | Alberto Roggi | ||
1949 | Antonio Ausenda | Nello Sforacchi | Giorgio Albani | ||
1950 | Giorgio Albani 5hr 29min |
Umberto Drei @ s.t. |
Fiorenzo Crippa @ s.t. |
209 km | 38.115 km/hr |
1951 | Renzo Accordi 5hr 55min |
Spirito Godio @ 15sec |
Ampelio Rossi @ 1min 55sec |
212 km | 35.830 km/hr |
1952 | Ezio Biococca | Agostino Coletto | Pietro Giudici | ||
1953 | Andrea Barro | Pierino Baffi | Tranquillo Scudellaro | ||
1954 | Aldo Moser | Giuseppi Calvi | Annibale Brasola | ||
1955 | Lino Pizzoferrato | Pierino Baffi | Giuliano Michelon | ||
1956 | Silviano Tessari | Luciano Mai | Ezio Pizzoglio | ||
1957 | Carlo Zorzoli 4hr 52min 24sec |
Gabriale Scappini @ s.t. |
Aurelio Cestari @ s.t. |
195 km | 40.013 km/hr |
1958 | Giacobbe Boggian | Dino Liviero | Vittorio Poiano | ||
1959 | Michele Gismondi | Rino Benedetti | Giuliano Natucci | ||
1960 | Pietro Chiodini 5hr 10min |
Amino Ippoliti @ s.t. |
Cleto Maule @ s.t |
210 km | 40.645 km/hr |
1961 | Giovanni Bettinelli | Giuseppe Fallarini | Ercole Baldini | ||
1962 | No race held | ||||
1963 | Jaime Alomar | Vito Taccone | Graziano Battistini | ||
1964 | Italo Zilioli | Bruno mealli | Adrianot Passuello | ||
1965 | Tommaso De Pra 5hr 54min 56sec |
Roger Pingeon @ 10sec |
Giseppe Fessardi @ s.t. |
230 km | 38.880 km/hr |
1966 | Felice Gimondi | Eddy Merckx | Franco Bitossi | ||
1967 | Franco Bitossi 6hr 1min 20sec |
Bernard Guyot @ s.t. |
Michele Dancelli @ s.t |
230 km | 38.191 |
1968 | Claudio Michelotto | Martin Van den Bossche | Bruno Mealli | ||
1969 | Franco Bitossi | Jena-pierre Monsere | Gerben Karstens | ||
1970 | Eddy Merckx | Constantino Conti | Marino Basso |
1971 | Franco Bitossi 5hr 46min |
Willy De Geest @ s.t. |
Roger Pingeon @ s.t. |
233 km | 40.405 km/hr |
1972 | Mauro Simonetti | Claudio Michelotto | Tomas Pettersson | ||
1973 | Arnaldo Caverzasi | Giacinto Santambrogio | Franco Bitossi | ||
1974 | Felice Gimondi | Franco Bitossi | Roger de Vlaeminck | ||
1975 | Roger de Vlaeminck | Freddy Maertens | Frans van Looy | ||
1976 | Roger de Vlaeminck | Frans Verbeeck | Francesco Moser | ||
1977 | Francesco Moser | Gianbattista Baronchelli | Enrico Paolini | ||
1978 | Giuseppe Saronni | Pierino Gavazzi | Gianbattista Baronchelli | ||
1979 | Giovanni Battaglin | Francesco Moser | Alfredo Chinetti | ||
1980 | Tommy Prim | Wlidimiro Panizza | Bruno Wolfer | ||
1981 | Francesco Moser | Gianbattista Baronchelli | Juan Fernandez | ||
1982 | Giuseppe Saronni | Francesco Moser | Pierino Gavazzi | ||
1983 | Fons De Wolf | Roberto Ceruti | Claudio Savini | ||
1984 | Franco Chioccioli | Serge Demierre | Claudio Corti | ||
1985 | Acacio Da Silva | Claudio Corti | Urs Zimmermann | ||
1986 | Marino Amadori | Heinz Imboden | Claudio Corti | ||
1987 | Bruno Leali | Alberto Elli | Emanuele Bombini | ||
1988 | Gianni Bugno | Massimo Ghirotto | Francesco Cesarini | ||
1989 | Dmitri Konyshev | Rolf Sorensen | Emanuele Bombini | ||
1990 | Maurizio Fondriest 5ht 12min 49sec |
Francesco Cesarini @ 40sec |
Maurizio Vandelli @ 43sec |
206 km | 39.512 km/hr |
1991 | Davide Cassani | Charly Mottet | Robert Gusmeroli | ||
1992 | Stefano Colage | Giorgio Furlan | Massimo Ghirotto | ||
1993 | Davide Cassani | Marco Giovanetti | Massimo Ghirotto | ||
1994 | Oscar Pellicioli 4hr 52min 30sec |
Giorgio Furlan @ 4sec |
Massimo Ghirotto @ s.t. |
204.5 km | 41.948 km/hr |
1995 | Gianni Bugno | Stefano Della Santa | Francesco Casagrande | ||
1996 | Filippo Casagrande | Alberto Elli | Piotr Ugrumov | ||
1997 | Massimo Appollonio 4hr 44min 37sec |
Biagio Conte @ 2sec |
Giovanni Lombardi @ s.t. |
200 km | 42.162 km/hr |
1998 | Andrea Tafi 4hr 42min 51sec |
Mirko Celestino @ 59sec |
Emanuele Lupi @ s.t. |
200 km | 42.425 km/hr |
1999 | Massimo Donati 4hr 49min 34sec |
Alberto Elli @ 55sec |
Francesco Casagrande @ s.t. |
199 km | 41.234 km/hr |
2000 | Jan Ullrich 4hr 51min 50sec |
Denis Lunghi @ s.t. |
Filippo Simeoni @ s.t. |
197 km | 40.502 |
2001 | Francesco Casagrande 4hr 48min 38sec |
Jan Ullrich @ s.t. |
Gianluca Tonetti @ 45sec |
198 km | 41.159 km/hr |
2002 | Laurent Jalabert 4hr 56min 21sec |
Gianni Faresin @ s.t. |
Massimo Giunti 2 56sec |
198 km | 40.088 |
2003 | Francesco Casagrande 4hr 56min 22sec |
Cristian Moreni @ 1min 27sec |
Oscar Mason @ s.t. |
199.5 km | 40.389 |
2004 | Leonardo Bertagnoli 4hr 39min 24sec |
Dario Frigo @ 4sec |
Gonzalo Bayarri @ s.t. |
196.8 km | 42.261 |
2005 | Paolo Valoti 4hr 43min 2sec |
Leonardo Giordani @ s.t. |
Stefano Cavallari @ 7sec |
196 km | 41.550 |
2006 | Alessandro Bertolini 4hr 54min 45sec |
Andrea Tonti @ s.t. |
Franco Pellizotti @ s.t. |
200 km | 40.712 |
2007 | Alessandro Bertolini 5hr 26min 45sec |
Christian Pfanneberger @ 10sec |
Luca Mazzanti @ 11sec |
219 km | 40.214 |
2008 | Linus Gerdemann 4hr 27min 20sec |
Leonardo Bertagnolli @ s.t. |
Christian Pfanneberger @ s.t. |
189 km | 42.418 |
2009 | Giovanni Visconti 4hr 49mi 7sec |
Mauro Santambrogio @ s.t. |
Francisco Ventoso @ s.t. |
192.6 km | 39.969 |
2010 | Francesco Gavazzi 4hr 42min 15sec |
Mauro Santambrogio @ s.t. |
Luca Paolini @ s.t. |
186.6 km | 39.667 |
2011 | Sacha Modolo 5hr 1min 15sec |
Simone Ponzi @ s.t. |
Oscar Gatto @ s.t. |
205 km | 40.830 |
2012 | Emanuele Sella 4hr 25min 39sec |
Fortunato Baliani @ s.t. |
Danilo Di Luca @ 2min 50sec |
196.5 km | 44.382 |
2013 | Filippo Pozzato 4hr 0min 54sec |
Simone Ponzi @ s.t. |
Marco Zamparella @ s.t. |
166.6 km | 41.494 |
2014 | Nicolo Bonifazio 4hr 27min 21sec |
Grega Bole @ s.t. |
Simone Ponzi @ s.t. |
199.6 km | 44.795 |
2015 | Davide Rebellin 5hr 4min 28sec |
Vincenzo Nibali @ s.t. |
Niccolo Bonifazio @ s.t. |
198 km | 39.019 |
2016 | Sonny Colbrelli 5hr 5min 57sec |
Diego Ulissi @ s.t. |
Francesco Gavazzi @ s.t. |
199.9 km | 39.202 km/hr |
2017 | Michael Albasini 4hr 48min 37sec |
Marco Canola @ s.t. |
Francesco Gavazzi @ s.t. |
199.9 km | 41.557 km/hr |
2018 | Gianni Moscon 4hr 49min 33sec |
Rein Taaramae @ 1sec |
Enrico Gasparotto @ 23sec |
199.9 km | 41.423 km/hr |
2019 | Alexandr Riabushenko 4hr 46min 18sec |
Alexey Lutsenko @ s.t. |
Nikolay Cherkasov @ 31sec |
195.5 | 40.971 km/hr |
2020 | Because of the Covid-19 shortened season, this race was made part of the Grande Trittico Lombardo | ||||
2021 | Alexey Lutsenko 4hr 19min 44sec |
Matteo Trentin @ s.t. |
Alessandro Covi @ 12sec |
180.0 km | 41.581 km/hr |
2022 | Sjoerd Bax 4hr 57min 26sec |
Alejandro Valverde @ s.t. |
Andrea Piccolo @ s.t. |
193 km | 38.933 km/hr |
2023 | Davide Formolo 4hr 44min 23sec |
Marc Hirschi @ 32sec |
Victor Lafay @ 51sec |
195.7 km | 41.289 km/hr |