Giovanni Battaglin

Giovanni Battaglin
Personal information

Born	(1951-07-22) 22 July 1951 Marostica, Italy
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1973–1977	Jollj Ceramica
1978	Fiorella
1979–1983	Inoxpran
1984	Carrera Jeans
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1976) Giro d'Italia General Classification (1981) 4 individual stages (1975, 1980, 1981) Vuelta a España General Classification (1981) 1 individual stage (1981) Stage Races Tour of the Basque Country (1979) One-Day Races and Classics Milano–Torino (1980)
Infobox last updated on 28 May 2011

Giovanni Battaglin (born 22 July 1951) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was his overall win in the 1981 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 1981 Vuelta a España.

Early years

Battaglin was born in Marostica, province of Vicenza. Battaglin won the 1972 Amateur Giro d'Italia and turned professional the following year with the Jollj Ceramica team.

Professional career

The 1973 Giro d'Italia that began in Verviers in Belgium and was Battaglin's debut in a grand tour. Battaglin immediately showed promise when he finished third on stage four ahead of Eddy Merckx and José Manuel Fuente. By halfway through the race, Battaglin was sitting in second place overall behind Merckx but lost that placing to Felice Gimondi. Still at the age of 21, the neo-pro astonished the cycling world by finishing third in the race.^[1] Battaglin would wear the maglia rosa for five days in the 1975 Giro d'Italia as well as several stage wins and wins in smaller stage races. He also won the King of the Mountains jersey in the 1979 Tour de France, even after he received a penalty for testing positive for doping.^[2] Battaglin finished third in the 1980 Giro d'Italia.

The following year on the tenth stage mountain time trial of the 1981 Vuelta a España which was on the long climb to Sierra Nevada, Battaglin won the stage and took over the leader's jersey. The only threat to Battaglin's lead was Pedro Muñoz.^[3] Battaglin and his Inoxpran team withstood the challenge from the Spanish and brought Battaglin to his first grand tour victory.^[4] Three days later after Battalin's triumph in Spain on 13 May 1981, he began the 1981 Giro d'Italia. On the 19th stage toward the end of the race, Battaglin won the stage to Mareo and took the maglia rosa from Silvano Contini. He withstood the final test – the final stage's individual time trial to win the race in Verona ahead of Tommy Prim. Battaglin was only the second rider after Eddy Merckx to win the Vuelta-Giro double. In the space of one and a half months, Battaglin won two of the grand tours.

Retirement

Battaglin retired after the 1984 season. In 1982 Battaglin started a bicycle manufacturing business with the same name, which he runs from Marostica, Italy. In 2002 the company sponsored the Ceramiche Panaria Fiordo squad.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Career achievements

Major results

1971: Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
1972: Giro d'Italia (amateurs)
1973: Giro del Lazio
1974: Giro dell'Appennino; Morrovalle
1975: 2 stages in the Giro d'Italia; 1 stage in the Volta a Catalunya; Giro di Puglia (con 1 vittoria di tappa); Coppa Sabatini
1976: 1 stage in the Tour de France
1977: Carpineti; Gran Premio di Montelupo
1978: Coppa Bernocchi; Acicatena; 3 stages in the Tour de Suisse
1979: Tour of the Basque Country (and 2 stage victories); Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria; 1 stage in the Tour de Suisse; Coppa Agostoni; Coppa Placci; Trofeo Matteotti; Trofeo Pantalica; Col San Martino
1980: 1 stage in the Giro d'Italia; Milano–Torino; Coppa Placci; Zambana di Trento; Milano–Vignola
1981: 1 stage and overall classification in the Giro d'Italia; 1 stage and overall classification in the Vuelta a España
1983: Lariano
1984: Col San Martino

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
Giro	3	6	18	WD	46	WD	-	3	1	-	WD	50
Tour	-	-	WD	WD	-	-	6	-	-	WD	-	WD
Vuelta	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-

WD = Withdrew

References

↑ "Interview: Giovanni Battaglin". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 19 January 2008.
↑ "Battaglin positivo". El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 16 July 1979. p. 32. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
↑ "1981 General Information". La Vuelta.com. Retrieved 19 January 2008.
↑ "Battaglin flies among the nest of eagles". Bellati sport.com. Retrieved 19 January 2008.
↑ Tim Maloney. "Interview: Giovanni Battaglin". CyclingNews. Retrieved 6 June 2012. Today, Battaglin runs his eponymous bike company in Marostica, Italy. (www.Battaglin.com), sponsoring the Ceramiche Panaria-Fiordo squad with Battaglin bikes
↑ Cycling Plus (26 August 2009). "Battaglin Stealth review". BikeRadar. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
↑ Warren Rossiter (20 September 2011). "Battaglin C12 Plus review". BikeRadar. Retrieved 6 June 2012.

External links

Tour de France mountains classification winners

Giro d'Italia general classification winners

1909: Luigi Ganna 1910–11: Carlo Galetti 1912^* Team Atala (Carlo Galetti, Giovanni Micheletto, Eberardo Pavesi) 1913: Carlo Oriani 1914: Alfonso Calzolari 1915–18 World War I 1919: Costante Girardengo 1920: Gaetano Belloni 1921–22: Giovanni Brunero 1923: Costante Girardengo 1924: Giuseppe Enrici 1925: Alfredo Binda 1926: Giovanni Brunero 1927–29: Alfredo Binda 1930: Luigi Marchisio 1931: Francesco Camusso 1932: Antonio Pesenti 1933: Alfredo Binda 1934: Learco Guerra 1935: Vasco Bergamaschi 1936–37: Gino Bartali 1938–39: Giovanni Valetti 1940: Fausto Coppi 1941–45 World War II 1946: Gino Bartali 1947: Fausto Coppi 1948: Fiorenzo Magni 1949: Fausto Coppi 1950: Hugo Koblet 1951: Fiorenzo Magni 1952–53: Fausto Coppi 1954: Carlo Clerici 1955: Fiorenzo Magni 1956: Charly Gaul 1957: Gastone Nencini 1958: Ercole Baldini 1959: Charly Gaul 1960: Jacques Anquetil 1961: Arnaldo Pambianco 1962–63: Franco Balmamion 1964: Jacques Anquetil 1965: Vittorio Adorni 1966: Gianni Motta 1967: Felice Gimondi 1968: Eddy Merckx 1969: Felice Gimondi 1970: Eddy Merckx 1971: Gösta Pettersson 1972–74: Eddy Merckx 1975: Fausto Bertoglio 1976: Felice Gimondi 1977: Michel Pollentier 1978: Johan de Muynck 1979: Giuseppe Saronni 1980: Bernard Hinault 1981: Giovanni Battaglin 1982: Bernard Hinault 1983: Giuseppe Saronni 1984: Francesco Moser 1985: Bernard Hinault 1986: Roberto Visentini 1987: Stephen Roche 1988: Andy Hampsten 1989: Laurent Fignon 1990: Gianni Bugno 1991: Franco Chioccioli 1992–93: Miguel Indurain 1994: Evgeni Berzin 1995: Tony Rominger 1996: Pavel Tonkov 1997: Ivan Gotti 1998: Marco Pantani 1999: Ivan Gotti 2000: Stefano Garzelli 2001: Gilberto Simoni 2002: Paolo Savoldelli 2003: Gilberto Simoni 2004: Damiano Cunego 2005: Paolo Savoldelli 2006: Ivan Basso 2007: Danilo Di Luca 2008: Alberto Contador 2009: Denis Menchov 2010: Ivan Basso 2011: Michele Scarponi 2012: Ryder Hesjedal 2013: Vincenzo Nibali 2014: Nairo Quintana 2015: Alberto Contador 2016: Vincenzo Nibali

^*In 1912, Giro was contested solely by teams, with no individual classification

Vuelta a España general classification winners

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