Coppa Placci

Coppa Placci
Date	Mid-October
Region	Emilia, Italy
English	Placci Cup
Local names	Coppa Placci
Nickname
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Europe Tour
Type	Single-day
Organiser	Unione Sportiva Imolese
Director
First	1923
Number	57 (as of 2007)
Last
First winner	Enea Dal Fiume
Most wins	Emilio Petiva Ugo Colombo Roger De Vlaeminck Giovanni Battaglin Francesco Casagrande (2 wins)
Most recent	Alessandro Bertolini

The Coppa Placci is a semi classic European bicycle race held between Imola, Italy and San Marino. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour.

The race is named after Antonio Placci, a cyclist born in Imola who died in 1921, two years before the race was created.

Winners

1923 Enea Dal Fiume 1924 Emilio Petiva 1925 Emilio Petiva 1926 Ermanno Vallazza 1927 Aleardo Simoni 1928 Pietro Fossati 1929-1945 - no race 1946 Nedo Logli 1947 - no race 1948 Luigi Casola 1949 Renzo Soldani 1950 Giacomo Zampieri 1951-1952 - no race 1953 Luciano Maggini 1954-1961 - no race 1962 Franco Cribori 1963 Ercole Baldini 1964 Guido De Rosso 1965 Michele Dancelli 1966 Felice Gimondi 1967 Luciano Armani 1968 - no race 1969 Roberto Ballini 1970 Ugo Colombo 1971 Ugo Colombo 1972 Roger De Vlaeminck 1973 Italo Zilioli 1974 Roger De Vlaeminck 1975 Francesco Moser 1976 Fausto Bertoglio 1977 Marino Basso

1978 Gianbattista Baronchelli 1979 Giovanni Battaglin 1980 Giovanni Battaglin 1981 Alfio Vandi 1982 Alfredo Chinetti 1983 Marino Amadori 1984 Acacio Da Silva 1985 Silvano Contini 1986 Guido Bontempi 1987 Massimo Ghirotto 1988 Piermattia Gavazzi 1989 Claudio Chiappucci 1990 Mauro Gianetti 1991 Laurent Dufaux 1992 Johan Bruyneel 1993 Maximillian Sciandri 1994 Angelo Lecchi 1995 Francesco Casagrande 1996 Andrea Tafi 1997 Beat Zberg 1998 Mauro Zanetti 1999 Mirko Celestino 2000 Francesco Casagrande 2001 Paolo Bettini 2002 Matteo Tosatto 2003 Danilo Di Luca 2004 Leonardo Bertagnolli 2005 Paolo Valoti 2006 Rinaldo Nocentini 2007 Alessandro Bertolini 2008 Luca Paolini

External links

• Official Website