Classica Sarda was a road bicycle race that took place on the Italian island Sardinia. It was held after the Giro di Sardegna from 1948 until 1983.

Classica Sarda
Race details
DateLate February
RegionSardinia, Italy
Local name(s)Classica Sarda (in Italian)
DisciplineRoad
CompetitionUCI Europe Tour
TypeSingle-day
OrganiserRCS Sport
History
First edition1948 (1948)
Editions33
Final edition2011
First winner Adolfo Leoni (ITA)
Most wins Edgard Sorgeloos (BEL)

 Giancarlo Polidori (ITA)

 Roger De Vlaeminck (BEL)
(2 wins)
Final winner Pavel Brutt (RUS)

During this period, it was organized under different names, like GP Alghero from 1965 to 1967, Monte Urpino in 1975 and Cagliari-Sassari in 1951, 1980 and 1982.

The race reappeared again on the cycling calendar in 2010 as Classica Sarda Olbia-Pantogia (from Olbia to Pantogia) as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.

In 2011, its final edition was organized as the Classica Sarda Sassari-Cagliari.

Winners

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Anno Winner Second Third
1948   Adolfo Leoni   Luciano Maggini   Giovanni Corrieri
1949   Italo De Zan   Vincenzo Rossello   Marcello Paolieri
1950 no edition
1951   Renzo Soldani   Gino Bartali   Giancarlo Astrua
1952   Giovanni Corrieri   Mario Baroni   Ivo Baronti
1953   Fiorenzo Magni   Giuseppe Minardi   Giovanni Corrieri
1954   Hugo Koblet   Stefano Gaggero   Remo Bartalini
1955   Donato Piazza   Vincenzo Zucconelli   Bruno Monti
1956   Nello Fabbri   Giuseppe Pintarelli   Bruno Monti
1957   Alfred De Bruyne   Rik Van Looy   Guido Boni
1958 no edition
1959   Edgard Sorgeloos   Vito Favero   Guido Carlesi
1960   Miguel Poblet   Rik Van Looy   Rino Benedetti
1961 no edition
1962   Guido Carlesi   Livio Trapè   Franco Magnani
1963   Battista Babini   Antonio Suárez   Luigi Mele
1964   Edgard Sorgeloos   Antonio Suárez   Guido Carlesi
1965   Rik Van Looy   Edward Sels   Jean Graczyk
1966   Pasquale Fabbri   Giampiero Macchi   Adriano Durante
1967   Robert Lelangue   Henri De Wolf   Evert Dolman
1968   Franco Bitossi   Jos van der Vleuten[a]   Eddy Merckx
1969   Vittorio Adorni   Giuseppe Milioli   Luigi Sgarbozza
1970   Rudi Altig   Attilio Rota   Giacinto Santambrogio
1971   Albert Van Vlierberghe   Guido Reybrouck   Patrick Sercu
1972   Giancarlo Polidori   Romano Tumellero   Patrick Sercu
1973   Patrick Sercu   Marino Basso   Franco Ongarato
1974   Giancarlo Polidori   Wilmo Francioni   Joseph Bruyère
1975   Eddy Merckx   Gianbattista Baronchelli   Roland Salm
1976   Roger De Vlaeminck   Franco Bitossi   Gary Clively
1977   Ercole Gualazzini   Pierino Gavazzi   Felice Gimondi
1978   Roger De Vlaeminck   Giuseppe Martinelli   Franco Bitossi
1979 no edition
1980   Serge Parsani   Claudio Torelli   Carmelo Barone
1981 no edition
1982   Alfons De Wolf   Pierangelo Bincoletto   Giovanni Mantovani
1983   Giuseppe Saronni   Giovanni Mantovani   Frits Pirard
1984-2009 no editions
2010   Giovanni Visconti   Fabio Sabatini   Geoffroy Lequatre
2011   Pavel Brutt   Emanuele Sella   Peter Sagan

Notes

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  1. ^ van der Vleuten was disqualified and second place remained unassigned

References

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  1. ^ "Sassari-Cagliari (Ita) - Ex". memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Classica Sarda - Olbia-Pantogia (Ita) - Cat.1.1". memoire-du-cyclisme.eu (in French). Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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