Milan-San Remo

The Milan-Sanremo (officially Milano-Sanremo; also known as La Classicissima or La Primavera) is a one-day professional road cycling race held in northwestern Italy. It covers a journey from the capital of the Lombardy region, Milan, to San Remo, a city located in the west of the Liguria region, hence its name. It is held on the third Saturday in March, days after the end of the Tirreno-Adriatico, and belongs to the UCI WorldTour calendar, the highest category of professional racing.

The first edition was in 1907.

It is the first of the so-called "cycling monuments", along with the Tour of Flanders, the Paris-Roubaix, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Giro de Lombardy.

He was part of the Cycling World Cup during all the years in which it was held (1989-2004) as well as the UCI ProTour (2005-2007) and the UCI World Ranking/UCI World Tour (from 2009).

The Classicissima is characterized by its almost 300 kilometers of route, being by far the longest (one-day) race currently held, and its few orographic difficulties and generally undemanding, which makes it the most favorable monument for sprinters.

With seven wins (1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976), Eddy Merckx is the race's most decorated driver.

It is organized by RCS Sport and between 1999 and 2005 the race had a female version called Primavera Rosa.

History

Tour

Traced from Milan-San Remo in recent years.

Profile of Milan-San Remo 2006, similar to that of recent years.

Profile of Milan-San Remo from 2008 to 2013.

The course of the race changes very little each year. The last kilometers before reaching Sanremo are very spectacular, in which the cyclists pass very close to the sea, however in recent years the finish line has not always been located in the same place.

For many years the only notable climb was the Paso del Turchino, located very far from the finish line, almost 150 km. But as the race became less and less selective, the organization was forced to toughen up the route, adding different heights. Thus, in 1960 the Poggio di San Remo was included, a level without much difficulty, whose proximity at the finish and the fact that it is faced with many kilometers in the legs make it decisive. In 1982 it was the turn of the Cipressa, the penultimate level of the race, more demanding, located 20 km from the end. Since that edition the route remained practically unchanged for more than 25 years, except in 2001 and 2002 when the Pass del Turchino was supplanted by the promotion to Bric Berton, with similar characteristics. It was in the 2008 edition when the organizers, forced by the excess of massive arrivals, made the last big change to the route, adding the level of Le Manie, much more demanding than Cipressa and Poggio although located almost 100 km from the finish line. although it was eliminated in 2014. That same year, 2008, they also changed the street where the race ended, going from Via Roma to Lungomare Italo Calvino, which caused a slight increase in the distance from the top of the Poggio to the finish line: from 5.7 km to 6.2 km. But the fact that these hills are not hard enough to break the peloton means that a large group usually reaches the finish line, deciding on victory in a sprint massive.

Honours of Prizes

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1907	Lucien Petit-Breton	Gustave Garrigou	Giovanni Gerbi
1908	Cyrille van Hauwaert	Luigi Ganna	André Pottier
1909	Luigi Ganna	Emile Georget	Giovanni Cuniolo
1910	Eugène Christophe	Giovanni Cocchi	Giovanni Marchese
1911	Gustave Garrigou	Louis Trousselier	Luigi Ganna
1912	Henri Pélissier	Gustave Garrigou	Jules Masselis
1913	Odile Defraye	Louis Mottiat	Ezio Corlaita
1914	Ugo Augustni	Carlo Galetti	Charles Crupelandt
1915	Ezio Corlaita	Luigi Lucotti	Angelo Gremo
1916 edition suspended by the First World War
1917	Gaetano Belloni	Costante Girardengo	Angelo Gremo
1918	Costante Girardengo	Gaetano Belloni	Ugo Augustni
1919	Angelo Gremo	Costante Girardengo	Giuseppe Olivieri
1920	Gaetano Belloni	Henri Pélissier	Costante Girardengo
1921	Costante Girardengo	Giovanni Brunero	Giuseppe Azzini
1922	Giovanni Brunero	Costante Girardengo	Bartolomeo Aymo
1923	Costante Girardengo	Gaetano Belloni	Giuseppe Azzini
1924	Pietro Linari	Gaetano Belloni	Costante Girardengo
1925	Costante Girardengo	Giovanni Brunero	Pietro Linari
1926	Costante Girardengo	Nello Ciaccheri	Egidio Picchiottino
1927	Pietro Chesi	Alfredo Binda	Domenico Piemontesi
1928	Costante Girardengo	Alfredo Binda	Giovanni Brunero
1929	Alfredo Binda	Leonida Frascarelli	Pio Caimmi
1930	Michele Mara	Pio Caimmi	Domenico Piemontesi
1931	Alfredo Binda	Learco Guerra	Domenico Piemontesi
1932	Alfredo Bovet	Alfredo Binda	Michele Mara
1933	Learco Guerra	Alfredo Bovet	Pietro Rimoldi
1934	Jef Demuysere	Giovanni Cazzulani	Francesco Camusso
1935	Giuseppe Olmo	Learco Guerra	Mario Cipriani
1936	Angelo Varetto	Carlo Romanatti	Olimpio Bizzi
1937	Cesare del Cancia	Pierino Favalli	Marco Cimatti
1938	Giuseppe Olmo	Pierino Favalli	Alfredo Bovet
1939	Gino Bartali	Aldo Bini	Osvaldo Bailo
1940	Gino Bartali	Pietro Rimoldi	Aldo Bini
1941	Pierino Favalli	Mario Ricci	Pietro Chiappini
1942	Adolfo Leoni	Antonio Bevilacqua	Pierino Favalli
1943	Cino Cinelli	Glauco Servadei	Quirino Toccacelli
1944-1945 issues not contested by the Second World War
1946	Fausto Coppi	Lucien Teisseire	Mario Ricci
1947	Gino Bartali	Ezio Cecchi	Sergio Maggini
1948	Fausto Coppi	Vittorio Rossello	Fermo Camellini
1949	Fausto Coppi	Vito Ortelli	Fiorenzo Magni
1950	Gino Bartali	Nedo Logli	Oreste Conte
1951	Louison Bobet	Pierre Barbotin	Loretto Petrucci
1952	Loretto Petrucci	Giuseppe Minardi	Serge Blusson
1953	Loretto Petrucci	Giuseppe Minardi	Valère Ollivier
1954	Rik Van Steenbergen	Francis Anastasi	Giuseppe Favero
1955	Germain Derycke	Bernard Gauthier	Jean Bobet
1956	Fred de Bruyne	Fiorenzo Magni	Jef Planckaert
1957	Miguel Poblet	Fred de Bruyne	Brian Robinson
1958	Rik Van Looy	Miguel Poblet	André Darrigade
1959	Miguel Poblet	Rik Van Steenbergen	Leon Van Daele
1960	René Privat	Jean Graczyk	Yvo Molenaers
1961	Raymond Poulidor	Rik Van Looy	Rino Benedetti
1962	Emile Daems	Yvo Molenaers	Louis Proost
1963	Joseph Groussard	Rolf Wolfshohl	Willy Schroeders
1964	Tom Simpson	Raymond Poulidor	Willy Bocklandt
1965	Arie den Hartog	Vittorio Adorni	Franco Balmamion
1966	Eddy Merckx	Adriano During	Herman Van Springel
1967	Eddy Merckx	Gianni Motta	Franco Bitossi
1968	Rudi Altig	Charly Grosskost	Adriano During
1969	Eddy Merckx	Roger de Vlaeminck	Marino Basso
1970	Michele Dancelli	Gerben Karstens	Eric Leman
1971	Eddy Merckx	Felice Gimondi	Gösta Pettersson
1972	Eddy Merckx	Gianni Motta	Marino Basso
1973	Roger de Vlaeminck	Wilmo Francioni	Felice Gimondi
1974	Felice Gimondi	Eric Leman	Roger de Vlaeminck
1975	Eddy Merckx	Francesco Moser	Guy Sibille
1976	Eddy Merckx	Wladimiro Panizza	Michel Laurent
1977	Jan Raas	Roger de Vlaeminck	Wilfried Wesemael
1978	Roger de Vlaeminck	Giuseppe Saronni	Alessio Antonini
1979	Roger de Vlaeminck	Giuseppe Saronni	Knut Knudsen
1980	Pierino Gavazzi	Giuseppe Saronni	Jan Raas
1981	Alfons de Wolf	Roger de Vlaeminck	Jacques Bossis
1982	Marc Gomez	Alain Bondue	Moreno Argentin
1983	Giuseppe Saronni	Guido Bontempi	Jan Raas
1984	Francesco Moser	Sean Kelly.	Eric Vanderaerden
1985	Hennie Kuiper	Teun van Vliet	Silvano Riccò
1986	Sean Kelly.	Greg LeMond	Mario Beccia
1987	Erich Maechler	Eric Vanderaerden	Guido Bontempi
1988	Laurent Fignon	Maurizio Fondriest	Steven Rooks
1989	Laurent Fignon	Frans Maassen	Adriano Baffi
1990	Gianni Bugno	Rolf Gölz	Gilles Delion
1991	Claudio Chiappucci	Rolf Sørensen	Eric Vanderaerden
1992	Sean Kelly.	Moreno Argentin	Johan Museeuw
1993	Maurizio Fondriest	Luca Gelfi	Maximilian Sciandri
1994	Giorgio Furlan	Mario Cipollini	Adriano Baffi
1995	Laurent Jalabert	Maurizio Fondriest	Stefano Zanini
1996	Gabriele Colombo	Alexandr Gonchenkov	Michele Coppolillo
1997	Erik Zabel	Alberto Elli	Biagio Conte
1998	Erik Zabel	Emmanuel Magnien	Frédéric Moncassin
1999	Andréi Chmil	Erik Zabel	Zbigniew Spruch
2000	Erik Zabel	Fabio Baldato	Óscar Freire
2001	Erik Zabel	Mario Cipollini	Romāns Vainšteins
2002	Mario Cipollini	Fred Rodriguez	Markus Zberg
2003	Paolo Bettini	Mirko Celestino	Luca Paolini
2004	Óscar Freire	Erik Zabel	Stuart O'Grady
2005	Alessandro Petacchi	Danilo Hondo	Thor Hushovd
2006	Filippo Pozzato	Alessandro Petacchi	Luca Paolini
2007	Óscar Freire	Allan Davis	Tom Boonen
2008	Fabian Cancellara	Filippo Pozzato	Philippe Gilbert
2009	Mark Cavendish	Heinrich Haussler	Thor Hushovd
2010	Óscar Freire	Tom Boonen	Alessandro Petacchi
2011	Matthew Goss	Fabian Cancellara	Philippe Gilbert
2012	Simon Gerrans	Fabian Cancellara	Vincenzo Nibali
2013	Gerald Ciolek	Peter Sagan	Fabian Cancellara
2014	Alexander Kristoff	Fabian Cancellara	Benjamin Swift
2015	John Degenkolb	Alexander Kristoff	Michael Matthews
2016	Arnaud Démare	Benjamin Swift	Jürgen Roelandts
2017	Michał Kwiatkowski	Peter Sagan	Julian Alaphilippe
2018	Vincenzo Nibali	Caleb Ewan	Arnaud Démare
2019	Julian Alaphilippe	Oliver Naesen	Michał Kwiatkowski
2020	Wout van Aert	Julian Alaphilippe	Michael Matthews
2021	Jasper Stuyven	Caleb Ewan	Wout van Aert
2022	Matej Mohorič	Anthony Turgis	Mathieu van der Poel
2023	Mathieu van der Poel	Filippo Ganna	Wout van Aert

Notes:

• In Milan-San Remo 1910 the cyclist Luigi Ganna arrived in second place but was disqualified for being towed.
• In Milan-San Remo 1915 the cyclist Costante Girardengo was initially the winner, but was disqualified by mistakeing a part of the tour (appears 180 meters apart), despite leaving the second classified to 5 minutes difference.
• In Milan-San Remo 1976 the cyclist Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke arrived third, but then disqualified by doping.

Honours of honors by country

Country	Victorias	2.o place	3.o place	Total	Last winner
ItalyItaly	51	61	62	174	Vincenzo Nibali in 2018
BelgiumBelgium	22	12	21	55	Jasper Stuyven in 2021
France	14	16	12	40	Julian Alaphilippe in 2019
GermanyGermany	7	6	0	13	John Degenkolb in 2015
SpainSpain	5	1	1	7	Óscar Freire in 2010
NetherlandsNetherlands	4	3	4	11	Mathieu van der Poel in 2023
Australia	2	3	3	8	Simon Gerrans in 2012
SwitzerlandSwitzerland	2	3	2	7	Fabian Cancellara in 2008
United KingdomUnited Kingdom	2	1	2	5	Mark Cavendish in 2009
Ireland	2	1	0	3	Sean Kelly in 1992
Norway Norway	1	1	3	5	Alexander Kristoff in 2014
PolandPoland	1	0	2	3	Michał Kwiatkowski in 2017
SloveniaSlovenia	1	0	0	1	Matej Mohorič in 2022
United States	0	2	0	2	-
Slovakia Slovakia	0	2	0	2	-
DenmarkDenmark	0	1	0	1	-
Ukraine Ukraine	0	1	0	1	-
Sweden Sweden	0	0	1	1	-
LatviaLatvia	0	0	1	1	-
Total	114	114	114	342

Statistics

Most wins

Until the 2022 edition

Cycling	Victorias	Years
Eddy Merckx	7	1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976
Costante Girardengo	6	1918, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1928
Gino Bartali	4	1939, 1940, 1947, 1950
Erik Zabel	4	1997, 1998, 2001
Fausto Coppi	3	1946, 1948, 1949
Roger De Vlaeminck	3	1973, 1978, 1979
Óscar Freire	3	2004, 2007

Consecutive wins

• Two victories in a row:
  • Costante Girardengo (1925, 1926)
  • Gino Bartali (1939, 1940)
  • Fausto Coppi (1948, 1949)
  • Eddy Merckx (1966, 1967 and 1971, 1972 and 1975, 1976)
  • Roger De Vlaeminck (1978, 1979)
  • Erik Zabel (1997, 1998 and 2000, 2001)
  • Laurent Fignon (1988, 1989)

Female Version: "Pink Spring"

From 1999 to 2005 there was a women's Milan-Sanremo called Pink Spring.

She scored points for the Women's Cycling World Cup.

It had about 180 km less than the men's, because it started in Varazze, although with similar characteristics.

Women's podiums

Year	Winner	Second	Third
1999	Sara Felloni	Gabriella Pregnolato	Chantal Beltman
2000	Diana Žiliūtė	Ina Teutenberg	Giovanna Troldi
2001	Susanne Ljungskog	Mirjam Melchers	Sara Felloni
2002	Mirjam Melchers	Diana Žiliūtė	Chantal Beltman
2003	Zulfiya Zabirova	Regina Schleicher	Rochelle Gilmore
2004	Zulfiya Zabirova	Mirjam Melchers	Oenone Wood
2005	Trixi Worrack	Nicole Cooke	Oenone Wood

Humours by country for women

Country	Victorias
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	2
ItalyItaly	1
LithuaniaLithuania	1
NetherlandsNetherlands	1
GermanyGermany	1