Zonca (cycling team)
 Ambrogio Portalupi wearing the team's jersey in 1971 | |
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| Registered | Italy |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Disbanded | 1979 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
| Key personnel | |
| Team manager(s) | Ettore Milano |
| Team name history | |
1970–1974 1975–1979 | Zonca Zonca–Santini |
Zonca was an Italian professional cycling team that existed from 1970 to 1979.[1] It was founded by brothers Maffeo, Luigi and Giorgio Zonca.[2]
The team was selected to race in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia, where they achieved four stage wins.
Major victories
[edit]- Trofeo Matteotti : Davide Boifava (1972)
- Tour de Berne : Roland Salm (1974, 1975)
- Giro del Friuli : Franco Bitossi (1976)
- Coppa Sabatini : Piero Spinelli (1976), Leonardo Mazzantini (1979)
- Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : Constantino Conti (1977)
- Milano–Torino : Pierino Gavazzi (1978)
- Giro di Campania : Pierino Gavazzi (1979)
Giro d'Italia results
[edit]- 8 participations (1972–1979)
- 4 stage wins:
- 1, 1973 : Gianni Motta
- 2, 1978 : Giancarlo Bellini, Pierino Gavazzi
- 1, 1979 : Bruno Wolfer
- 1 classification:
Mountains classification : Ueli Sutter (1978)
References
[edit]- ^ "Zonca" (in French). Mémoire du cyclisme. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ "Continuare coi Rilanci: Il ciclismo ha bisogno di Maffeo, Luigi e Giorgio" [Keep on Relaunching: Cycling Needs Maffeo, Luigi and Giorgio] (PDF). L'Unita (in Italian). 16 November 1973. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
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