The 1982 Giro d'Italia was the 65th running of the Giro. It started in

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, on 13 May, with a team time trial and concluded in

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, on 6 June, with a

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. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Frenchman

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of the Renault-Elf team. The second and third places were taken by Swede

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and Italian

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, respectively. Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Famcucine's

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won the

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of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Metauro Mobili's

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completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing ninth overall. Bianchi finishing as the winners of the

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, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. In addition, Bianchi won the team points classification.

Teams

A total of eighteen teams were invited to participate in the 1982 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 162 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 110 made it to the finish in

. The teams entering the race were:

Route and stages

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; stage 12, to

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; stage 16, to

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Classification leadership

Four different jerseys were worn during the 1982 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the

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– calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro. For the

, which awarded a purple (or

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) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The ''

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'', the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs. The ''Cima Coppi'' for this Giro was the

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. The first rider to cross the Col d'Izoard was Belgian rider

. The white jersey was worn by the leader of

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, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing). Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time. There was another team classification that awarded points to each team based on their riding's finishing position in every stage. The team with the highest total of points was the leader of the classification. The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Final standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Young rider classification

Traguardi Fiat classification

Team classification

Team points classification

References

Footnotes

Citations

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