The 1933 Giro d'Italia was the 21st edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaperLa Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 6 May in Milan with a stage that stretched 169 km (105 mi) to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 28 May after a 284 km (176 mi) stage and a total distance covered of 3,343 km (2,077 mi). The race was won by Alfredo Binda of the Legnano team (his fifth triumph in the Giro). Second and third respectively were the Belgian Jef Demuysere and Italian Domenico Piemontesi.[1][2][3]
This 20th edition covered 3,343 km at an average speed of 30.043 km/h, for a total of 17 stages.
Of the 97 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 6 May,[4] 51 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 28 May. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team; 51 riders competed as members of a team, while the remaining 46 were independent riders.[4] There were nine teams that competed in the race: Bestetti-d'Alessandro, Bianchi-Pirelli, Dei-Pirelli, Ganna-Hutchinson, Girardengo-Clément, Gloria-Hutchinson, Legnano-Hutchinson, Maino-Clément, and Olympia-Spiga.[4][5]
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.[6][7] Race organizers chose to remove time bonuses for the sprint stage winners, the "winner for detachment," the first riders who cross a mountain.[6] The winner of the individual time trial – where riders contest the course starting in three minute increments – awarded a time bonus of two minutes and one minute to the first and second-place finishers, respectively.[6]
The race organizers allowed isolated riders to compete in the race, which had a separate classification calculated the same way as the general classification.[6] For the leader of this classification, a white jersey was awarded.[6]
In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first. There were four mountains that were given points towards the mountains classification: the Passo del Tonale, the Osteria della Crocetta, the Castelnuovo della Daunia, and the Castelnuovo Val di Cecina.[5] Alfredo Binda was the first rider to cross each of the four mountains.[5]
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.[5][8] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[5][8]
Il Trofeo Magno (English: the Great Trophy) was a classification for independent Italian riders competing in the race.[6][9] The riders were divided into teams based on the region of Italy they were from.[6][9] The calculation of the standings was the same for the team classification.[9] At the end of the race, a trophy was awarded to the winning team and it was then stored at the Federal Secretary of the P.N.P. in their respective province.[9]
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
^In 1933, there was no distinction in the rules between plain stages and mountain stages; the icons shown here indicate that the fourth, fifth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth stages included major mountains.
^"La Vuelta a Italia" [The Tour of Italy] (PDF). El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 29 May 1933. p. 2. Archived(PDF) from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 2013-06-25.
^"Il <<Libro d'oro>> del G. P. della Montagna" [The << Golden Book >> of G. P. of the Mountain]. Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 14 June 1950. p. 6. Archived from the original on 22 December 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
Giuseppe Ambrosini (June 1933). "Giro d'Italia" [Tour of Italy]. Lo Sport Fascista (in Italian). Vol. 6, no. 6. pp. 57–61. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
