Gran Premio della Liberazione

Gran Premio della Liberazione
Race details
Date	25 April
Region	Italy
Discipline	Road race
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
Web site	www.gpliberazione.it/en/home
History
First edition	1946
Editions	74 (as of 2021)
First winner	(ITA)
Most wins	(ITA) (2 wins)
Most recent	Michele Gazzoli (ITA)
Women's history
First edition	2016
Editions	3
Final edition	2018
First winner	Marta Bastianelli (ITA)
Most wins	Marta Bastianelli (ITA) (2 wins)
Final winner	Letizia Paternoster (ITA)

Gran Premio della Liberazione is an Italian road bicycle race that has been held annually on 25 April since 1946. It marks the anniversary of the 1945 fall of Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. It is a Single-day race that is rated 1.2 on the UCI Europe Tour.

Winners[]

Men's race[]

Year	Country	Rider	Team
1946	Italy
1947	Italy
1948	Italy
1949	Italy	Arnaldo Benfenati
1950	Italy	Donato Piazza
1951	Italy	Vincenzo Zucconelli
1952	Italy
1953	Italy
1954	Italy	Cleto Maule
1955	Italy
1956	Italy	Aurelio Cestari
1957	Italy
1958	Italy
1959	Italy	Romeo Venturelli
1960	France	René Bianchi
1961	Italy
1962	Italy
1963	Italy
1964	Italy
1965	Italy	Ferruccio Manza
1966	Czechoslovakia	Jaroslav Kvapil
1967	Italy
1968	Italy	Attilio Rota
1969	Italy
1970	Czechoslovakia
1971	Italy
1972	Soviet Union
1973	Soviet Union	Ivan Trifonov
1974	Yugoslavia	Cvitko Bilić
1975	Italy	Palmiro Masciarelli
1976	Great Britain	William Nickson
1977	Great Britain	Bob Downs
1978	Denmark	Henning Jørgensen
1979	Italy
1980	Italy	Marco Cattaneo
1981	Soviet Union
1982	Poland
1983	Italy	Claudio Golinelli
1984	Spain	Manuel Domínguez
1985	Italy	Gianni Bugno
1986	Netherlands
1987	Soviet Union	Dimitri Konyshev
1988	West Germany	Bernd Gröne
1989	Poland	Joachim Halupczok
1990	West Germany
1991	Italy
1992	United States	Vassili Davidenko
1993	Italy	Alessandro Bertolini
1994	Denmark	Alex Petersen
1995	Italy	Paolo Valoti
1996	Italy	Davide Casarotto
1997	Italy	Cristiano Citton
1998	Italy
1999	Italy	Marco Zanotti
2000	Italy	Lorenzo Bernucci
2001	Italy	Alberto Loddo
2002	Italy
2003	Italy
2004	Italy	Daniele Colli	Zalf–Désirée–Fior
2005	Australia	Christopher Sutton	Australia (national team)
2006	Australia	Matthew Goss	Southaustralia.com–AIS
2007	Italy	Manuele Boaro	Zalf–Désirée–Fior
2008	Italy	Andrea Grendene	Filmop Sorelle Ramonda Bottoli
2009	Italy	Sacha Modolo	Zalf–Désirée–Fior
2010	Slovenia	Jan Tratnik	Slovenia (national team)
2011	Italy	Matteo Trentin
2012	Italy	Enrico Barbin	U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli
2013	Belarus	Ilia Koshevoy
2014	Russia	Evgeny Shalunov	Lokosphinx
2015	Argentina	Lucas Gaday	Unieuro–Wilier
2016	Italy	Vincenzo Albanese	Hopplà–Petroli Firenze
2017	Italy	Seid Lizde	Team Colpack
2018	Italy	Alessandro Fedeli	Trevigiani Phonix–Hemus 1896
2019	No race due to financial reasons^[1]
2020	No race due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
2021	Italy	Michele Gazzoli	Team Colpack–Ballan

Women's race[]

In 2016, the Gran Premio della Liberazione Pink was held for the first time,^[2] after a previous GP Liberazione race was held between 1989 and 2012.

Year	Country	Rider	Team
2016	Italy	Marta Bastianelli	Alé–Cipollini
2017	Italy	Marta Bastianelli	Alé–Cipollini
2018	Italy	Letizia Paternoster	Astana

References[]

^ Farina, Alessandro (24 April 2019). "GP Liberazione 2019: una corsa storica quest'anno non si disputerà. Le cause della cancellazione" [GP Liberazione 2019: a historic race will not be held this year. The causes of the cancellation]. OA Sport (in Italian). CLESS soc. coop. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
^ "Gran Premio Liberazione Pink 2016 La spunta Marta Bastianelli" [Marta Bastianelli wins Gran Premio Liberazione Pink 2016]. Cyclinside (in Italian). Guido Rubino. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2021. La prima edizione del Gran Premio Liberazione femminile ha visto la vittoria di Marta Bastianelli, in volata, con un ottimo terzo posto di Arianna Fidanza. [The first edition of the Women's Gran Premio Liberazione saw the victory of Marta Bastianelli, in the sprint, with an excellent third place by Arianna Fidanza.]

External links[]

Official website
Gran Premio della Liberazione palmares at Cycling Archives

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[1] Farina, Alessandro (24 April 2019). "GP Liberazione 2019: una corsa storica quest'anno non si disputerà. Le cause della cancellazione" [GP Liberazione 2019: a historic race will not be held this year. The causes of the cancellation]. OA Sport (in Italian). CLESS soc. coop. Retrieved 25 September 2021.

[2] "Gran Premio Liberazione Pink 2016 La spunta Marta Bastianelli" [Marta Bastianelli wins Gran Premio Liberazione Pink 2016]. Cyclinside (in Italian). Guido Rubino. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2021. La prima edizione del Gran Premio Liberazione femminile ha visto la vittoria di Marta Bastianelli, in volata, con un ottimo terzo posto di Arianna Fidanza. [The first edition of the Women's Gran Premio Liberazione saw the victory of Marta Bastianelli, in the sprint, with an excellent third place by Arianna Fidanza.]

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