Maglia Nera

Award details
Sport	Road Cycling
Competition	Giro d'Italia
English name	Black jersey
History
First award	1946
Editions	6
Final award	1951
First winner	Luigi Malabrocca
Most wins	Luigi Malabrocca 2 wins
Most recent	Giovanni Pinarello

The black jersey was the symbol of the prize in cycling competition at the Giro d'Italia and much of the cyclists who had no other opportunities to get in shows and win the big prize money which ensured the final goal. Was allocated between 1946 and 1951.

There was a real race to win this particular jersey, there are often about the struggles to the delay between Carollo and Luigi Sante Malabrocca. The two were trying to lose more time than the other hiding in bars, barns, forando their own wheels. In 1948 this honor was awarded to the Tuscan Aldo Bini, which according to some journalists and fans of the time stubbornly continued the race until the end despite a broken right hand in a collective collapse, despite the suffering that especially in the mountain stages in a forced get off the bike and push it up to a foot scollinamento. The ability of the black shirt was in fact that was, in addition to not being "discovered" dall'avversario directly reach the target within the maximum time.

The term black mesh is then passed to extensions in many other contexts to indicate the bottom club, often giving it a negative connotation and sometimes goliardic.

In 2008 was introduced a similar "black number", won by Markus Eichler of Team Milram.

[edit] Hall of Fame

1946 Luigi Malabrocca ( Italy) 1947 Luigi Malabrocca ( Italy)

1948 Aldo Bini ( Italy) 1949 Sante Carollo ( Italy)

1950 Mario Gestri ( Italy) 1951 Giovanni Pinarello ( Italy)