Gianni Motta (born 13 March 1943) is an Italian former bicycle racer who won the 1966 Giro d'Italia. Gianni Motta was born at Cassano d'Adda ( Lombardy). His main victories include the Giro d'Italia (1966), a Giro di Lombardia (1964), a Tour de Suisse (1967) and two Tour de Romandie (1966, 1971). Like many before him, he turned to manufacture and sales of bicycles after his racing career. While at in 1968 Motta tested positive for a banned substance and his results in the

1968 Giro d'Italia The 1968 Giro d'Italia was the 51st running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The Giro started in Campione d'Italia, on 20 May, with a stage and concluded in Naples, on 11 June, with a mass-start stage. A total of 13 ...

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Major results

Sources: ;1964 : 1st Giro di Lombardia : 1st Coppa Bernocchi : 1st Trofeo Baracchi : 1st Stage 3b Tour de Romandie : 5th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 21 : 2nd

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: 2nd Giro delle Tre Provincie : 3rd Giro del Veneto : 8th Coppa Placci ;1965 : 1st Tre Valli Varesine : 1st Stage 2 Grand Prix du Midi Libre : 2nd GP Lugano : 3rd Overall

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: 3rd Giro di Campania : 3rd Milano-Vignola : 4th Coppa Bernocchi : 5th Giro di Lombardia : 8th Overall Paris–Nice : 9th Milan–San Remo ;1966 : 1st Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey violet

Points classification ::1st Stages 17 & 19 : 1st Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Overall ( TTT) Cronostaffetta ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Giro di Romagna : 1st Tre Valli Varesine : 3rd Gran Piemonte ;1967 : 1st Overall Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Overall ( TTT) Cronostaffetta ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Milano–Torino : 1st Tre Valli Varesine : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie : 2nd Milan–San Remo : 4th

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: 6th Overall Giro di Sardegna : 6th Overall Giro d'Italia : 9th GP Alghero ;1968 : 1st Overall ( TTT) Cronostaffetta : 1st

: 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie : 4th Giro di Toscana : ~~6th Overall Giro d'Italia~~ ::~~1st Stage 8~~ : 7th Zuri Metzgete ;1969 : 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc ::1st Stage 1b : 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 2nd Giro di Romagna : 5th Zuri Metzgete ;1970 : 1st Overall ( TTT) Cronostaffetta ::1st Stage 1c : 1st

: 1st Tre Valli Varesine : 1st Giro dell'Umbria : 1st Stage 1a

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: 2nd Col San Martino : 3rd Overall A Travers Lausanne : 3rd Giro di Lombardia : 10th Giro dell'Emilia ;1971 : 1st Overall Tour de Romandie ::1st Stages 4 & 5a : 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 1st Col San Martino : 2nd Gran Piemonte : 4th Overall Giro di Sardegna : 6th Trofeo Laigueglia : 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ::1st Stage 1 : 7th Milan–San Remo : 10th La Flèche Wallonne ;1972 : 1st Stage 2 Giro d'Italia : 2nd Milan–San Remo : 3rd Milano-Torino : 4th Giro di Puglia : 8th Overall Tour de Romandie ;1973 : 1st Stage 1 Monte Campione : 2nd

: 3rd Milano-Vignola : 6th Giro dell'Emilia : 7th Coppa Placci : 10th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 6 ;1974 : 1st Stage 5 Giro di Puglia ;1976 : 9th Milano-Vignola

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* * 1943 births Living people People from Cassano d'Adda Italian male cyclists Giro d'Italia winners Italian Giro d'Italia stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Cyclists from the Metropolitan City of Milan {{Italy-cycling-bio-1940s-stub