Gianni Bugno

Gianni Bugno
	Bugno at the 1993 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Gianni Bugno
Born	14 February 1964 (age 60); Brugg, Switzerland
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
1985–1987	Atala
1988–1993	Chateau d'Ax
1994	Team Polti–Vaporetto
1995–1996	MG Maglificio–Technogym
1997–1998	Mapei–GB
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 4 individual stages (1988, 1990, 1991) Giro d'Italia General classification (1990) Points classification (1990) 9 individual stages (1989-1996) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1996, 1998) One-Day Races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1991, 1992) National Road Race Championships (1991, 1995) Tour of Flanders (1994) Milan–San Remo (1990) Clásica de San Sebastián (1991) Wincanton Classic (1990) Other UCI Road World Cup (1990)
Medal record
Representing Italy
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

Gianni Bugno (Italian: [ˈdʒanni ˈbuɲɲo]; born 14 February 1964) is a retired 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 former 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.^[2]

Career achievements

Major results

1986

1st Giro dell'Appennino

1st Giro del Friuli

1st Giro del Piemonte

1987

1st Giro dell'Appennino

1st Coppa Sabatini

1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino

1988

1st Giro di Calabria

1st Giro dell'Appennino

1st Coppa Agostoni

1st Stage 18 Tour de France

1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie

1989

1st Tre Valli Varesine

1st GP di Marostica

1st Stage 21 Giro d'Italia

1990

1st

UCI Road World Cup

1st

Overall Giro d'Italia

1st

Points classification

1st Stages 1 (ITT), 7 & 19 (ITT)

1st

Overall Giro del Trentino

1st Stage 3

1st Milan–San Remo

1st Wincanton Classic

Tour de France

1st Stages 11 & 18

1991

1st

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st Clásica de San Sebastián

1st Memorial Nencini

2nd Overall Tour de France

1st Stage 17 (Alpe d'Huez)

Giro d'Italia

1st Stages 2a, 10 (ITT) & 19

1992

1st

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st Milano–Torino

1st Giro del Lazio

1st Giro dell'Emilia

1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Suisse

3rd Overall Tour de France

1993

1st Grand Prix Gippingen

1st Stage 2 Euskal Bizikleta

1994

1st Tour of Flanders

1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 4 Euskal Bizikleta

1995

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st

Overall Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stages 6 (ITT) & 7

1st Coppa Agostoni

1996

1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España

1st Stage 1 Giro del Trentino

3rd Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 5

6th Giro di Lombardia

1997

1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi

1998

1st Stage 12 Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Giro d'Italia	41	DNF	DNF	23	1	4	—	18	8	—	29	75	50
Tour de France	—	—	62	11	7	2	3	20	DNF	53	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	56	95	84

Classics results timeline

Monuments results timeline
Monument	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Milan–San Remo	111	92	73	—	1	43	142	30	29	44	63	—	138
Tour of Flanders	—	—	—	34	12	—	—	43	1	37	—	—	—
Paris–Roubaix	Did not contest during career
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	—	—	19	96	7	17	—	48	57	2	40	—	82
Giro di Lombardia	15	25	2	27	13	—	20	—	—	20	6	30	—
Championships results timeline
Championship	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Italian Championships	—	—	—	2	—	1	—	2	—	1	—	—	—
World Championships	—	62	—	10	3	1	1	DNF	—	DNF	12	56	53

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ ^a ^b La Stampa
^ "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 (in French)
Palmarès by museociclismo.it (in Italian)
Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (in French)

[LaStampa-1] La Stampa

[2] "Riders' Association calls for establishment of independent anti-doping commission". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

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