Mit Marastoni Gabelkopf und Lupo Banderole.
The 1971 Giro d'Italia: Vianelli's Feat on the Grossglockner
PIERFRANCO VIANELLI, a rider from Provaglio d'Iseo in Brescia, was the Olympic champion in the individual road race at the 1968 Mexico City games. A great champion as an amateur, he turned professional with many expectations but only managed a brilliant seventh-place finish in the general classification at the 1969 Tour de France and a fifth-place finish at the 1971 Giro d'Italia. It was in that Giro, on the Cima Coppi stage, that he claimed his only professional victory on the Grossglockner.
But certain victories are not forgotten, and his brilliant career in the amateur categories earned him the "Collar of Sporting Merit" awarded by CONI (the Italian National Olympic Committee) on December 15, 2015.
Giro d'Italia 1971. Stage 17, June 7. Tarvisio > Grossglockner. 106 km.
1. Pierfranco Vianelli (Italy) - Dreher in 6:08:45
2. Primo Mori (Italy) - Salvarani at 1:09
3. Giancarlo Polidori (Italy) - SCIC at 1:37
4. André Poppe (Netherlands) - Magniflex at 2:30
5. Gösta Pettersson (Sweden) - Ferretti at 4:31
6. Herman Van Springel (Belgium) - Molteni (s.t.)
7. Felice Gimondi (Italy) - Salvarani (s.t.)
8. Francisco Galdos (Spain) - KAS (s.t.)
9. Ugo Colombo (Italy) - Filotex (s.t.)
10. Silvano Schiavon (Italy) - Dreher (s.t.)