Coppa Bernocchi
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Race details | |
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Date | Mid-August |
Region | Lombardy, Italy |
English name | Bernocchi Cup |
Local name(s) | Coppa Bernocchi (in Italian) |
Nickname(s) | La Bernocchi |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI ProSeries |
Type | Single-day |
Race director | Pino Cozzi |
Web site | www![]() |
History | |
First edition | 1919 (1919) |
Editions | 103 (as of 2022) *see below |
First winner | ![]() |
Most wins | ![]() (3 wins) |
Most recent | ![]() |
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The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before joining the UCI ProSeries in 2020.
In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup), with his brothers Andrea and Michele Bernocchi in Legnano, and give the executive organization of the race to the family friend Pino Cozzi, President of the "Unione Sportiva Legnanese", sports club which has since organized the cycling race, which used the prestige of the Bernocchi brand license, already known all over the world, to publicize the race that will become one of the most prestigious in Europe. At the Bernocchi Cup have participated, and sometimes won all the greatest champions in the history of cycling, including Fausto Coppi, Pierino Bestetti, Michele Gismondi, Gino Bartali.
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It is the last race of Trittico Lombardo, which includes three races held around the region of Lombardy in three consecutive days. These races are Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi.
Coppa Bernocchi is one of the most historic cycling races in Europe, with over a hundred years of history, and one of the most important in Italy.
Winners
Wins per country
Wins | Country |
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90 | ![]() |
4 | ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
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- 103 races registered / although 102 races held only / 101 wins, (102 names because one doubled)
- 1931 = Winner Alfredo Bovet (Italy), disqualified for not having signed in at one of the controls
- 1953 = Double-Win (Albani / Bevilacqua)
- 2020 = Winner Gorka Izagirre (Spain), Race: "Grande Trittico Lombardo", August 3, 2020
See also
References
- ^ "Nasce il Grande Trittico Lombardo, sogno e consapevolezza". Malpensa. Malpensa. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
External links
- Sitio oficial
- Coppa Bernocchi (sitiodeciclismo.net)
- (in French) La corsa su Cyclingbase.com Archived 2017-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
- La corsa su Cqranking.com
- La corsa su Cyclebase.nl
- La corsa su Sitodelciclismo.net
- La corsa su Museodelciclismo.it
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- Clásica de San Sebastián
- Hamburg Cyclassics
- Bretagne Classic
- Trittico Lombardo
- Tre Valli Varesine
- Coppa Ugo Agostoni
- Coppa Bernocchi
- Laurentian classics
- Paris–Brest–Paris
- Bordeaux–Paris
- Grand Prix des Amériques
- Wincanton Classic
- Porto–Lisboa
- Züri-Metzgete
- Giro del Lazio
- Giro della Romagna