1937 Giro d'Italia

Of the 98 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 8 May,[1] 41 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 30 May.[2] Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team or group; 65riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 33 competed independently.[1] The four teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Fréjus, Ganna, and Legnano.[1][2] Each team was composed of seven riders.[1] There were also seven groups, made up of five riders each, that participated in the race.[1] Those groups were: Italiani All'Estero, Bertoldo, Il Littoriale, S S. Parioli, Belgi, Svizzeri, and Tedeschi.[1]

The peloton was composed primarily of Italian riders.[2] The field featured four former Giro d'Italia winners with the 1931 race winner Francesco Camusso, 1934 winner Learco Guerra, Vasco Bergamaschi who won the race in 1935, and returning champion Gino Bartali.[1][2] Other notable Italian riders included Olimpio Bizzi, Giovanni Valetti, and Giuseppe Olmo.[1][2] Notable foreign entrants were the Belgian riders Alfons Deloor, Alfons Schepers, and Antoine Dignef, and also the Swiss rider Leo Amberg who placed high at the 1936 Tour de France.[1][2]

The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[3]

The liberi classification, one similar to the general classification was calculated, using only independent riders and riders that came as members of groups.[4]

In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.[3]

The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner.[2][4] If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification.[4] The group classification was decided in the same manner, but the classification was exclusive to the competing groups.[4]

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Stage	Winner	General classification	Liberi classification	Mountains classification	Team classification	Group classification
1	Nello Troggi	Nello Troggi	Nello Troggi	not awarded	Fréjus	?
2	Quirico Bernacchi	Quirico Bernacchi	Quirico Bernacchi & Giovanni Gotti
3	Giovanni Valetti	Giovanni Valetti	Quirico Bernacchi
4	Olimpio Bizzi		Bernardo Rogora	Enrico Mollo
5a	Legnano	Gino Bartali	Alfons Deloor
5b	Olimpio Bizzi	Giovanni Valetti	Luigi Barral
6	Giuseppe Olmo					Bertoldo
7	Marco Cimatti
8a	Gino Bartali	Gino Bartali		Enrico Mollo & Gino Bartali
8b	Raffaele Di Paco			Enrico Mollo
9	Learco Guerra
10	Gino Bartali			Gino Bartali
11a	Walter Generati
11b	Cesare Del Cancia		Edoardo Molinar
12	Marco Cimatti			Enrico Mollo & Luigi Barral
13	Aldo Bini		Luigi Barral
14	Aldo Bini					Il Littoriale
15	Glauco Servadei		Edoardo Molinar
16	Gino Bartali			Enrico Mollo & Gino Bartali
17	Gino Bartali			Gino Bartali
18	Glauco Servadei
19a	Marco Cimatti
19b	Aldo Bini
Final		Gino Bartali	Edoardo Molinar	Gino Bartali	Fréjus	Il Littoriale

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