Giro del Mendrisiotto
Appearance
Race details | |
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Date | Mid-March |
Region | Ticino, Switzerland |
English name | Tour of Mendrisiotto |
Discipline | Road |
Competition | UCI Europe Tour |
Type | Single day race |
History | |
First edition | 1933 |
Editions | 72 (as of 2012) |
First winner | Enrico Gerosa (SUI) |
Most wins | Gilbert Glaus (SUI) (3 wins) |
Most recent | Marcel Aregger (SUI) |
Giro del Mendrisiotto is a road bicycle race held annually around Mendrisio, in the canton of Ticino of Switzerland. The race was an amateur competition until 1996. Since 2005, it is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2010 the race was excluded from the UCI calendar, once again becoming a national event.