Posted October 5, 2009 by admin in Giro d'Italia, Italian, professional cyclists | 1 comment
Gianni Bugno, born on the 14 February 1964, was one of the top Italian cyclists of the early 1990s at a time when the Italians were head and shoulders above everyone else.
He rode with a great talent and class and always demonstrated a pure and rare elegance. He was al considered ccasionally fragile, thereby capable of alternating prestigious wins with periods of obscurity. Considered one of the last older racers who could compete at the highest levels both in the classic one-day stage race and three weeks grand tours , and to win time trials, mountain stages and reach a final sprint, participating increasingly in all major Cycle races of the season. He even experimented with good results in six days track events during the winter cementing his place as an all rounder.
Bugno showed great promise as an amateur, with victory in the prestigious GP Liberation in 1985 and then becoming professional in the the same year, achieving 72 victories.
He now works for the Italian television station RAI piloting their helicopter to film the Giro d'Italia.
Major wins
* Victory in the Tour of Italy in 1990, wearing the pink jersey from first to last stage, putting his with the greats Constant Girardengo, Alfredo Binda and Eddy Merckx.
* Two world championships, won consecutively in 1991 and 1992, plus a third place in 1990.
* Four wins in World Cup races: the Milan-Sanremo and the Wincanton Classic in 1990, the Clasica San Sebastian in 1991 (with 30 km of solo attack), the Tour of Flanders in 1994 (beating Johan Museeuw in a photo finish) . In 1990 he also won the final standings of the World Cup. Also ranked second in the Amstel Gold Race in 1993 and in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and in the Championship of Zurich in 1995. But has never succeeded in obtaining an important result on home soil in the Giro di Lombardia, which in those years finished at Monza where Bugno has lived for many years.
* Tour de France hewon the second place in the overall standings in 1991 behind Miguel Indurain, and third in 1992, preceded by Indurain and Claudio Chiappucci. He also won two consecutive years (1990-1991), the stage of Alpe d'Huez, one of the most prestigious in the world.
* Two victories in the Italian National Road Race Championship (1991 and 1995 Giro del Friuli Trofeo Matteotti).
* In addition to three consecutive Tours Apennines (1986-1988), two Coppa Agostoni (1988 and 1995), a Giro del Piemonte (1986), a Three Valleys Varesine (1989), a Giro dell'Emilia (1992), a Milan -Turin (1992), a Giro del Lazio (1992), 9 stages in the Giro d'Italy, 4 stages of the Tour de France, 2 in the Vuelta.
Between 1990 and 1991 was number 1 in the UCI world rankings.
In August 1994 he was found positive to caffeine in a dope test and was suspended for three months.
On 12 April 2006 he was awarded the gold part of the U.S. Apennines Pontedecimo Section Cycling for winning three times in succession, the Tour of the Apennines (1986, 1987 and 1988), as well as finishing second in 1989 and 1991. Previously this award was given to Alfredo Martini, Giambattista Baronchelli, Francesco Moser, Fausto Coppi, Felice Gimondi, Michele Dancelli, Gianni Motta and Italo Zilioli.
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