Gran Premio di Lugano (1.1), Switzerland

Winners, podium, distance, average speed

The Gran Premio di Lugano is a Swiss bicycle race that used to be held in late February or early March and was one of the first races of the European season. In 2017 it was moved to late Spring.

Generally, the race's terrain isn't terribly challenging, but because of the riders' varying early season fitness, it still generally ends up being somewhat selective.

The race was first run in 1981, but as an individual time trial. In 2000 it became a 1.4 UCI ranked road race. In 2005 it's rating was raised to 1.1.

The 2013 edition was cancelled because of snow, always a hazard for early season competitions.

The race currently (2015) starts and ends on the shore of Lake Lugano.

Recent podium history:

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Distance	Average Speed km/hr
1995	Stefano Colagè	Fabrizio Bontempi	Giuseppe Guerini
1996	Amilcare Tronca	Armin Meier	Andrea Stocco
1997	Michele Rezzani
1998	Luca Bianucci
1999 2000	No race held
2001	Luca Paolini 4hr 24min 21sec	Beat Zberg @ s.t.	Bobby Julich @ s.t.	169.9 km	38.494
2002	Ruslan Ivanov 4hr 23min 29sec	Davide Rebellin s.t.	Niki Aebersold S.t.	169.6 km	38.621
2003	David Moncoutie 4hr 25min 23sec	Alexandr Kolobnev @ 33sec	Ruslan Gryshenko @ 34sec	169.5 km	38.345
2004	Frédéric Bessy 4hr 22min 40sec	David Moncoutie @ s.t.	Vladimir Miholjevic @ s.t.	160 km	36.55
2005	Rik Verbrugghe 4hr 14min 19sec	Patrice Halgand @ s.t.	Emanuele Sella @ 14sec	156.6 km	39.946
2006	Paolo Bettini 4hr 21min 0sec	Kim Kirchen @ 52sec	Alexander Kuschinsky @ s.t.	174.3 km	40.069
2007	Luca Mazzanti 4hr 18min 45sec	Pedro Arreitunandia @ s.t.	Evgueni Petrov @ s.t.	172 km	39.884
2008	Rinaldo Nocentini 4hr 28min 43sec	Davide Rebellin @ 1sec	Enrico Gasparotto	178.5 km	39.856
2009	Remi Pauriol @ 4hr 34min 46sec	Davide Rebellin @ s.t.	Simon Gerrans @ 3sec	178.5 km	39.98
2010	Roberto Ferrari 3hr 40min 19sec	Jure Kocjan @ s.t.	Giampaolo Cheula @ s.t.
2011	Ivan Basso 4hr 23min 4sec	Fabio Andres Duarte @ s.t.	Giovanni Visconti @ 16sec	178.5 km	40.712
2012	Eros Capecchi 4hr 31min 2sec	Damiano Cunego @ 4sec	Enrico Battaglin @ s.t.	178.5 km	39.514
2013	Race cancelled because of snow
2014	Mauro Finetto 4hr 12min 14sec	Sonny Colbrelli @ s.t.	Diego Ulissi @ s.t.	169.4 km	40.296
2015	Niccolo Bonifazio 4hr 38min 8sec	Francesco Gavazzi @ s.t.	Matteo Montaguti @ s.t.	194.9 km	39.887
2016	Sonny Colbrelli 5hr 2min 7sec	Diego Ulissi @ s.t.	Roberto Ferrari @ s.t.	184.9 km	36.721 km/hr
2017	Iuri Filosi 5hr 4min 13sec	Marco Frapporti @ s.t.	Davide Orrico @ 17sec	185.6 km	36.605 km/hr
2018	Hermann Pernsteiner 4hr 53min 5sec	Kristian Sbaragli @ 32sec	Enrico Gasparotto @ 1min 33sec	185.6 km	37.996 km/hr
2019	Diego Ulissi 4hr 43min 36sec	Alexandr Riabushenko @ s.t.	Matej Mohoric @ s.t.	179.2 km	37.913 km/hr
2020	Race cancelled because of Covid-19 pandemic
2021	Gianni Moscon 4hr 53min 0sec	Valerio Conti @ 20sec	Ben Hermans @ s.t.	184 km	37.679 km/hr