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Cyclamen jersey

Award details
Sport	Road Cycling
Competition	Giro d'Italia
Given for	Most consistent finisher
Local name(s)	Maglia ciclamino (Italian)
History
First award	1966
Editions	43
First winner	Gianni Motta (ITA)
Most wins	Francesco Moser (ITA)  Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 3 times
Most recent	Danilo Di Luca (ITA)

The points classification in the Giro d'Italia is one of the secondary classifications in the Giro d'Italia. It is determined by the placements in the daily stages, independent from time distances. From 1967 to 1969 the leader wore a red jersey but in 1970 it was changed to mauve, named Maglia Ciclamino (from Italian: mauve jersey), named for its color of the alpine flower cyclamen.

Contents 1 History 2 Current rules 3 Winners 3.1 Notes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The ranking points system was introduced in 1966, when there was associated with a mesh, while for the two editions was awarded a red jersey to the leader of the classification. In 1969, the color of the jersey was changed to cyclamen.

Points are given to riders who finish among the first in a stage, independent of the time difference. There are also points given to the first cyclists to reach the intermediate sprints. There is an intermediate sprints competition, with names changing from year to year, (Intergiro, Expo Milano 2015, Traguardo Volante), which used to give a blue jersey to its leader.

Among the winners of the points classification are Mario Cipollini (three times), Alessandro Petacchi and in 2006 the future world champion Paolo Bettini.

At the other grand tours, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, there are also points classifications; the points classification in the Tour de France rewards a green jersey to its leader and the points classification in the Vuelta a España rewards a blue jersey.

[edit] Current rules

As of 2009, the winner of each stage receives 25 points, independent of the type of stage (unlike the better known points classification in the Tour de France, where winning a mountain stage gives less points than winning flat stage). The next cyclist receives 20 points, the next ones 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, until the fifteenth cyclist who receives one point. Every stage (excluding time trials) also has an intermediate sprint. The first to cross that sprint receives 8 points, the next one 6 points, the next ones 4, 3, 2, until the sixth cyclist who receives one point.

If two or more cyclists have the same number of points, the ranking is determined by the most number of stage victories, followed by the most number of intermediate sprint victories, followed by the lowest time in the general classification.^[1]

[edit] Winners

• bold-face type denotes rider won the general classification as well.
• italic-face type denotes rider won the mountains classification as well.
• italic and bold-face type denotes rider won the overall, points and mountains classifications.

Year	Winner	Nationality
1966	Gianni Motta	Italy
1967	Dino Zandegù	Italy
1968	Eddy Merckx	Belgium
1969	Franco Bitossi	Italy
1970	Franco Bitossi (2nd)	Italy
1971	Marino Basso	Italy
1972	Roger De Vlaeminck	Belgium
1973	Eddy Merckx (2nd)	Belgium
1974	Roger De Vlaeminck (2nd)	Belgium
1975	Roger De Vlaeminck (3rd)	Belgium
1976	Francesco Moser	Italy
1977	Francesco Moser (2nd)	Italy
1978	Francesco Moser (3rd)	Italy
1979	Giuseppe Saronni	Italy
1980	Giuseppe Saronni (2nd)	Italy
1981	Giuseppe Saronni (3rd)	Italy
1982	Francesco Moser (4th)	Italy
1983	Giuseppe Saronni (4th)	Italy
1984	Urs Freuler	Switzerland
1985	Johan Van der Velde	Netherlands
1986	Guido Bontempi	Italy
1987	Johan Van der Velde (2nd)	Netherlands
1988	Johan Van der Velde (3rd)	Netherlands
1989	Giovanni Fidanza	Italy
1990	Gianni Bugno	Italy
1991	Claudio Chiappucci	Italy
1992	Mario Cipollini (1st)	Italy
1993	Adriano Baffi	Italy
1994	Djamolidine Abdoujaparov	Uzbekistan
1995	Tony Rominger	Switzerland
1996	Fabrizio Guidi	Italy
1997	Mario Cipollini (2nd)	Italy
1998	Mariano Piccoli	Italy
1999	Laurent Jalabert	France
2000	Dimitri Konyshev	Russia
2001	Massimo Strazzer	Italy
2002	Mario Cipollini (3rd)	Italy
2003	Gilberto Simoni	Italy
2004	Alessandro Petacchi	Italy
2005	Paolo Bettini	Italy
2006	Paolo Bettini (2nd)	Italy
2007	None1
2008	Daniele Bennati	Italy
2009	Danilo Di Luca (2nd)	Italy

[edit] Notes

1. The original winner was Alessandro Petacchi, who was stripped of his results from the 2007 Giro after a positive test for elevated levels of salbutamol.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website

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