Gianni Bugno
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| Full name | Gianni Bugno | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 February 1964 Brugg, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| UCI Road World Cup (1990) World Cycling Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gianni Bugno (born 14 February 1964 in Brugg, Switzerland) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist.
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 classic 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 (Association 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.[1]
Essential palmarès
- 1986
- Giro dell'Appennino
- Giro del Friuli
- Giro del Piemonte
- 1987
- Giro dell'Appennino
- Coppa Sabatini
- Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 1 stage of Giro del Trentino
- 1988
- Giro di Calabria
- Giro dell'Appennino
- Coppa Agostoni
- 1 stage of Tour de France
- 1 stage of Tour de Romandie
- 1989
- Tre Valli Varesine
- GP di Marostica
- 1 stage of Giro d'Italia
- 1990
- UCI Road World Cup
- Giro d'Italia:
Winner general classification
Winner points classification- Winner three stages
- Milan – San Remo
- Wincanton Classic
- Giro del Trentino (with 1 stage)
- 2 stages of Tour de France
- 1991
- Template:FlagiconUCI World Cycling Championships
Italian National Road Race Championship- Clásica de San Sebastián
- 2nd in Tour de France, winning 1 stage
- 3 stages of Giro d'Italia
- Memorial Nencini
- 1992
- Template:FlagiconUCI World Cycling Championships
- Milano–Torino
- Giro del Lazio
- Giro dell'Emilia
- 1 stage of Tour de Suisse
- 3rd in Tour de France
- 1993
- Grand Prix Gippingen
- 1 stage of Bicicleta Vasca
- 1994
- Tour of Flanders
- 1 stage of Giro d'Italia
- 1 stage of Bicicleta Vasca
- 1995
- Italian National Road Race Championship
- Tour Méditerranéen (with 2 stages)
- Coppa Agostoni
- 1996
- 1 stage of Giro d'Italia
- 1 stage of Vuelta a España
- 3rd in Tour de Suisse (with 1 stage)
- 1 stage of Giro del Trentino
- 1998
- 1 stage of Vuelta a España
Grand Tours overall classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
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 Giro
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41 | WD | WD | 23 | 1 | 4 | - | 18 | 19 | - | 29 | 75 | 50 |
 Tour
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- | - | 62 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 20 | WD | 53 | - | - | - |
 Vuelta
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- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 56 | 95 | 84 |
WD = Withdrew
References
- ^ "Riders' Association calls for establishment of independent anti-doping commission". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
External links
- Palmarès by world-of-cycling.com
- Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net Template:Fr icon
- Palmarès by museociclismo.it Template:It icon
- Cyclistes Professionnels Associés Template:Fr icon
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