Italian cyclist

Gianni Bugno (Italian::; born 14 February 1964) is a retired Italian professional road racing cyclist.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Career achievements
  • 2.1 Major results
  • 2.2 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
  • 2.3 Cl*ics results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Bugno was a versatile rider, able to do well in different types of races. He won numerous stages in the Tour de France, and the Milan–San Remo cl*ic in 1990. In 1991 he won the Clásica de San Sebastián, and in 1994 he won the Tour of Flanders.

Bugno's greatest success was the double victory in the World Championship. In 1991 he beat Steven Rooks of the Netherlands and Miguel Indurain of Spain, and in 1992 finished ahead of Laurent Jalabert of France and Dmitri Konyshev of Russia.

Bugno's performance in the Grand Tours, however, was over-shadowed by Miguel Indurain. Bugno's victory in the Giro d'Italia in 1990 is considered one of the most dominant performances in that race:— he led from start to finish. While he won the Giro in 1990, he finished second to Indurain in the Tour de France in 1991 and third behind Indurain and Claudio Chiappucci in 1992. In a battle in the 1992 Tour, Indurain kept his calm despite Chiappucci's attack in the Alps; Bugno had to chase and cracked in the final parts of the stage. Indurain was quoted as saying that Bugno was his biggest threat in the Tour.

Bugno retired following the 1998 road season and is now a helicopter rescue pilot. He piloted a camera helicopter for the Tour of Lombardy, on 20 October 2007, and for the whole of the 2008 Giro d'Italia. He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties, but he was not elected.

He has remained involved with the Giro d'Italia by being one of the TV helicopter pilots for the Italian national broadcaster, RAI.

He is the president of CPA (*ociation of Professional Cyclists). In November 2012, in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, he demanded that an independent anti-doping body be established. He stated that the UCI could not be trusted to enforce the rules.

Career achievements

Major results

19861st Giro dell'Appennino1st Giro del Friuli1st Giro del Piemonte19871st Giro dell'Appennino1st Coppa Sabatini1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino19881st Giro di Calabria1st Giro dell'Appennino1st Coppa Agostoni1st Stage 18 Tour de France1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie19891st Tre Valli Varesine1st GP di Marostica1st Stage 21 Giro d'Italia19901st UCI Road World Cup1st Overall Giro d'Italia1st Points cl*ification1st Stages 1 (ITT), 7 & 19 (ITT)1st Overall Giro del Trentino1st Stage 31st Milan–San Remo1st Wincanton Cl*icTour de France1st Stages 11 & 1819911st Road race, UCI Road World Championships1st Road race, National Road Championships1st Clásica de San Sebastián1st Memorial Nencini2nd Overall Tour de France1st Stage 17 (Alpe d'Huez)Giro d'Italia1st Stages 2a, 10 (ITT) & 1919921st Road race, UCI Road World Championships1st Milano–Torino1st Giro del Lazio1st Giro dell'Emilia1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Suisse3rd Overall Tour de France19931st Grand Prix Gippingen1st Stage 2 Euskal Bizikleta19941st Tour of Flanders1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia1st Stage 4 Euskal Bizikleta19951st Road race, National Road Championships1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen1st Stages 6 (ITT) & 71st Coppa Agostoni19961st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España1st Stage 1 Giro del Trentino3rd Overall Tour de Suisse1st Stage 56th Giro di Lombardia19971st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi19981st Stage 12 Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Cl*ics results timeline

References

External links

• Palmarès by world-of-cycling.com
• Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (in French)
• Palmarès by museociclismo.it (in Italian)
• Cyclistes Professionnels *ociés (in French)

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