| 1947 Giro d'Italia | |
| Date: | 24 May - 15 June 1947 |
| Stages: | 20 |
| Distance: | 3843 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 115h 55' 07" |
| Speed: | 33.153 |
| First: | Fausto Coppi |
| First Nat: | ITA |
| First Team: | Bianchi |
| First Color: | pink |
| Second: | Gino Bartali |
| Second Nat: | ITA |
| Second Team: | Legnano |
| Third: | Giulio Bresci |
| Third Nat: | ITA |
| Third Team: | Welter |
| Mountains: | Gino Bartali |
| Mountains Nat: | ITA |
| Mountains Team: | Legnano |
| Team: | Welter |
| Previous: | 1946 |
| Next: | 1948 |
The 1947 Giro d'Italia was the 30th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 24 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 190km (120miles) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 15 June after a 278km (173miles) stage and a total distance covered of 3843km (2,388miles).
The Giro was won by Fausto Coppi of the Bianchi team, with fellow Italians Gino Bartali and Giulio Bresci coming in second and third respectively.
See main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 1947 Giro d'Italia. A total of twelve teams entered the 1947 Giro d'Italia.[1] Each team sent a squad of seven riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 84 cyclists.[1] Out of the 84 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 50 riders made it to the finish in Milan.[1] [2]
The teams entering the race were:[1]
| Stage | Date | Course | Distance | Type | Winner | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 May | Milan to Turin | 190km (120miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 2 | 25 May | Turin to Genoa | 206km (128miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 3 | 26 May | Genoa to Reggio Emilia | 220km (140miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 4 | 27 May | Reggio Emilia to Prato | 190km (120miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 28 May | Rest day | |||||||
| 5a | 29 May | Prato to Bagni di Casciana Terme | 84km (52miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 5b | Bagni di Casciana Terme to Florence | 141km (88miles) | Plain stage | |||||
| 6 | 30 May | Florence to Perugia | 161km (100miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 7 | 31 May | Perugia to Rome | 240km (150miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 8 | 1 June | Rome to Naples | 231km (144miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 2 June | Rest day | |||||||
| 9 | 3 June | Naples to Bari | 288km (179miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 10 | 4 June | Bari to Foggia | 129km (80miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 11 | 5 June | Foggia to Pescara | 223km (139miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 6 June | Rest day | |||||||
| 12 | 7 June | Pescara to Cesenatico | 267km (166miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 13 | 8 June | Cesenatico to Padua | 175km (109miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 14 | 9 June | Padua to Vittorio Veneto | 132km (82miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 15 | 10 June | Vittorio Veneto to Pieve di Cadore | 200km (100miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 11 June | Rest day | |||||||
| 16 | 12 June | Pieve di Cadore to Trento | 194km (121miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| 17 | 13 June | Trento to Brescia Sant'Eufemia | 114km (71miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 18 | 14 June | Brescia Sant'Eufemia to Lugano (Switzerland) | 180km (110miles) | Plain stage | ||||
| 19 | 15 June | Lugano (Switzerland) to Milan | 278km (173miles) | Stage with mountain(s) | ||||
| Total | 3843km (2,388miles) | |||||||
In the fifteenth stage, Bartali dismounted his bike to punch a spectator who shouted an anti-Catholic slur at him. He then continued to win the stage.
The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[3]
In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.[3]
There was a black jersey (maglia nera) awarded to the rider placed last in the general classification. The classification was calculated in the same manner as the general classification.
The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.[2] [4] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[2] [4]
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
| Stage | Winner | General classification | Mountains classification | Last in General classification | Team classification | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Renzo Zanazzi | Renzo Zanazzi | not awarded | Ernesto Ciardossino | ? | |
| 2 | Gino Bartali | Armando Peverelli | ||||
| 3 | Luciano Maggini | Giovanni Corrieri | ? | |||
| 4 | Fausto Coppi | Gino Bartali | Gino Bartali | Antonio Ausenda | Benotto | |
| 5a | Luciano Maggini | ? | ||||
| 5b | Renzo Zanazzi | |||||
| 6 | Giordano Cottur | Antonio Ausenda | ||||
| 7 | Oreste Conte | |||||
| 8 | Fausto Coppi | |||||
| 9 | Elio Bertocchi | Luigi Malabrocca | Welter | |||
| 10 | Mario Ricci | |||||
| 11 | Oreste Conte | |||||
| 12 | Giovanni Corrieri | |||||
| 13 | Antonio Bevilacqua | Riccardo Sarti | ||||
| 14 | Adolfo Leoni | Luigi Malabrocca | ||||
| 15 | Gino Bartali | Riccardo Sarti | Welter | |||
| 16 | Fausto Coppi | Fausto Coppi | ? | |||
| 17 | Adolfo Leoni | |||||
| 18 | Giulio Bresci | |||||
| 19 | Adolfo Leoni | Luigi Malabrocca | ||||
| Final | Fausto Coppi | Gino Bartali | Luigi Malabrocca | Welter | ||
| Rank | Name | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bianchi | ||
| 2 | Legnano | + 1' 43" | |
| 3 | Welter | + 5' 54" | |
| 4 | Welter | + 15' 01" | |
| 5 | Olmo | + 15' 06" | |
| 6 | Welter | + 19' 00" | |
| 7 | Bianchi | + 30' 46" | |
| 8 | Lygie | + 31' 05" | |
| 9 | Viscontea | + 34' 07" | |
| 10 | Lygie | + 35' 49" | |
| Name | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legnano | 24 | |
| 2 | Bianchi | 21 | |
| 3 | Welter | 13 | |
| 4 | Viscontea | 7 | |
| Olmo | |||
| 6 | Benotto | 5 | |
| Welter | |||
| Welter | |||
| Bianchi | |||
| 10 | Cozzi-Silger | 4 | |
| Bianchi | |||
| Lygie |
| Team | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welter | ||
| 2 | Bianchi | + 1h 10' 35" | |
| 3 | Legnano | + 1h 15' 14" | |
| 4 | Viscontea | + 1h 28' 23" | |
| 5 | Lygie | + 2h 15' 17" | |
| 6 | Wally | + 3h 38' 13" | |
| 7 | Benotto | + 3h 44' 28" | |
| 8 | Arbos-Talbot | + 4h 00' 41" | |
| 9 | Wilier-Triestina | + 5h 14' 43" |
Coppi won the blue bracelet for winning the stage with the greatest time between the second placed rider.[5] He managed to achieve a gap of 4' 24" during the stage from Pieve di Cadore to Trento, where he won by a margin of 4' 24".[5] Coppi and Adolfo Leoni split the "premato veloce" classification which was given to the rider with the most stage wins.[5] Leoni and Coppi both won three stages, while four riders won two stages.[5]