Gotti, Martinello, Fondriest are just a few of the big names who won the “Easter Monday Classic” on the road to a prominent career. On April 2nd, 2018, will the 80th edition add another one to this list?
The run to reigning champion Aleksandr Riabushenko’s throne has started. On Monday April 2nd in Villa di Cordignano (Treviso, Northern Italy) the best prospects in World cycling will take in the 80th edition of the Giro del Belvedere, a standout fixture of the International Under 23 calendar, as well as a traditional springboard to professional cycling.
UAE Team Emirates, and he was not alone. Seven out of the top-10 placed in 2018 have found a professional contract too.
A number of significant names in the history of cycling show up in the golden book of the Giro del Belvedere. Examples to that are Mario Zanin (gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics) and Silvio Martinello, five-time World Champion and gold medal in the men’s points race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. After the Giro del Belvedere, Maurizio Fondriest won the UCI Road World Championship in 1988 in Renaix and the Milan-San Remo in 1993, while Ivan Gotti conquered the 1997 and 1999 Giro d’Italia.
Giro del Belvedere also remembers the late Vito Favero – second placed in 1958 Tour de France – and Ezio “Stecca” Piccoli, once a home rider from Villa di Cordignano, GS Caneva Sports Director and a significant support to the Giro del Belvedere organization, who passed away recently.
Villa di Cordignano also applauded to the wins of Gianni Giacomini, Biagio Conte, Pietro Caucchioli, Giampaolo Caruso, Yaroslav Popovych, Davide Malacarne, Sacha Modolo and many others, until Aleksandr Riabushenko. The next chapter of this story will be written on Monday: who’ll be the next one to take off towards a golden future?
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