Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio

Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio
Race details
Date	March
Region	Province of Varese, Italy
English name	Trophy of Alfredo Binda-Municipality of Cittiglio
Nickname(s)	Trofeo Alfredo Binda
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI Women's World Tour (since 2016)
Type	One-day race
Organiser	Cycling Sport Promotion
History
First edition	1974
Editions	48 (as of 2024)
First winner	Giuseppina Micheloni (ITA)
Most wins	Maria Canins (ITA); Marianne Vos (NED) (4 wins)
Most recent	Elisa Balsamo (ITA)

Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio is a women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the comune (municipality) of Cittiglio and nearby comunes located within the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

First held in 1974, Trofeo Alfredo Binda is one of the oldest and most established races in the women's calendar, and has been part of the UCI Women's World Tour since its inception in 2016.

History

The race is named after Italian cyclist Alfredo Binda, who was from Cittiglio. In the 1920s and 1930s, Binda won five editions of the Giro d'Italia, four editions of the Giro di Lombardia and two editions of Milan–San Remo - as well as being world champion three times.^[1]

The race was first held as a regional event in 1974.^[2] The race became a national event in 1999, before becoming an international event from 2007.^[3]^[4] In 2008, the race joined the UCI Women's Road World Cup.^[5] In 2016, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda became part of the new UCI Women's World Tour.^[6] It is one of the biggest races on the women's calendar that does not have a male equivalent.^[1]^[4]

A junior race (Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda) has been held alongside the race since 1979, with it becoming being part of the UCI Nations Cup from 2015.^[7]^[8]

The race is well suited for puncheurs and climbers, with two riders winning the race four times - Italian rider Maria Canins (1984, 1985, 1990, 1992), and Dutch rider Marianne Vos (2009, 2010, 2012, 2019). Italian riders have won the event on twenty seven occasions.^[1]

Course

Trofeo Alfredo Binda is held in the Province of Varese in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. The start location varies year to year, but the course culminates with multiple laps of a hilly circuit outside Cittiglio around 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) in length.^[9]

The circuit has two significant climbs - the Casale Alto or Casalzuigno (0.8km at 7%) in the early part of the circuit and the climb of Orino (2.6km at 5%), which typically separates the field as it is located just before the conclusion of the circuit.^[10] The circuit passes through Brenta, Casalzuigno, Casale Alto, Cuveglio, Cuvio, Azzio, Gemonio before returning to Cittiglio.

Other climbs that have featured on the route include the Masciago Primo (5.1km at 4.6%), Caldana (2.2km at 4.5%) and Cunardo (4km at 4.8%).^[9]^[11]

Past winners

Year	First	Second	Third
1974	Giuseppina Micheloni
1975	Nicolle Van Den Broeck
1976	Morena Tartagni
1977	Nicoletta Castelli
1978	Emanuela Menuzzo
1979	Anna Morlacchi
1980	Francesca Galli
1981	Emanuela Menuzzo
1982	Lucia Pizzolotto
1983	Michela Tomasi
1984	Maria Canins
1985	Maria Canins	Maria Mosole	Cristina Menuzzo
1986	Stefania Carmine
1987	Rossella Galbiati
1988	Elisabetta Fanton
1989	Elisabetta Fanton
1990	Maria Canins
1991	Maria Paola Turcutto
1992	Maria Canins
1993	Roberta Ferrero	Mara Calliope	Lucia Pizzolotto
1994	Fabiana Luperini	Lucia Pizzolotto	Katia Longhin
1995	Valeria Cappellotto	Alessandra Cappellotto	Imelda Chiappa
1996	Valeria Cappellotto	Imelda Chiappa	Diana Žiliūtė
1997–98	No race
1999	Fany Lecourtois	Mari Holden-Paulsen	Pia Sundstedt
2000	Fabiana Luperini	Pia Sundstedt	Fany Lecourtois
2001	Nicole Brändli	Noemi Cantele	Diana Žiliūtė
2002	Svetlana Boebnenkova	Regina Schleicher	Zinaida Stahurskaya
2003	Diana Žiliūtė	Valentina Karpenko	Alison Wright
2004	Oenone Wood	Olivia Gollan	Noemi Cantele
2005	Nicole Cooke	Katia Longhin	Miho Oki
2006	Regina Schleicher	Diana Žiliūtė	Katia Longhin
2007	Nicole Cooke	Giorgia Bronzini	Martina Corazza
2008	Emma Pooley	Suzanne de Goede	Diana Žiliūtė
2009	Marianne Vos	Emma Johansson	Kristin Armstrong
2010	Marianne Vos	Martine Bras	Emma Johansson
2011	Emma Pooley	Emma Johansson	Annemiek van Vleuten
2012	Marianne Vos	Tatiana Guderzo	Trixi Worrack
2013	Elisa Longo Borghini	Emma Johansson	Ellen van Dijk
2014	Emma Johansson	Lizzie Armitstead	Alena Amialiusik
2015	Lizzie Armitstead	Pauline Ferrand-Prévot	Anna van der Breggen
2016	Lizzie Armitstead	Megan Guarnier	Jolanda Neff
2017	Coryn Rivera	Arlenis Sierra	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
2018	Katarzyna Niewiadoma	Chantal Blaak	Marianne Vos
2019	Marianne Vos	Amanda Spratt	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
2020	Race cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Elisa Longo Borghini	Marianne Vos	Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
2022	Elisa Balsamo	Sofia Bertizzolo	Soraya Paladin
2023	Shirin van Anrooij	Elisa Balsamo	Vittoria Guazzini
2024	Elisa Balsamo	Lotte Kopecky	Puck Pieterse

Source:^[12]^[13]

Multiple winners

Wins	Rider	Editions
4	Maria Canins (ITA)	1984, 1985, 1990, 1992
4	Marianne Vos (NED)	2009, 2010, 2012, 2019
2	Emanuela Menuzzo (ITA)	1978, 1981
	Elisabetta Fanton (ITA)	1988, 1989
	Fabiana Luperini (ITA)	1994, 2000
	Valeria Cappellotto (ITA)	1995, 1996
	Nicole Cooke (UK)	2005, 2007
	Emma Pooley (UK)	2008, 2011
	Lizzie Deignan (UK)	2015, 2016
	Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA)	2013, 2021
	Elisa Balsamo (ITA)	2022, 2024

Wins per country

Wins	Country
27	Italy
6	United Kingdom
5	Netherlands
1	Australia Belgium France Germany Lithuania Poland Russia Sweden Switzerland United States

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Strickson, Will (2023-03-14). "Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2023: Route, TV, start list and all you need to know". Cyclist. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
^ "Storia". www.cyclingsportpromotion.com. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
^ "Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Comune di Cittiglio – Gran Premio Almar – U.C.I. Women's World Tour". www.cyclingsportpromotion.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-30. La storia del Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Comune di Cittiglio, – U.C.I. Women's Road World Tour. Cittiglio, il paese natale di Alfredo Binda, primo campione del mondo su strada. ricca di aneddoti e di grandi nomi nel proprio albo d'oro, lo rende una manifestazione unica nel panorama italiano e internazionale. La gara femminile a lui intitolata si è disputata per la prima volta nel 1974 come gara regionale, in seguito gara di livello nazionale dal 1999 e, infine, promossa a livello internazionale dal 2007, e unica prova italiana di Coppa del Mondo dal 2008 al 2015. Dal 2016 riconfermata nel calendario internazionale dell'U.C.I. Women World Tour che ha riformulato la Coppa del Mondo con l'inclusione di alcune gare a tappe.
^ ^a ^b "Preview: 2023 Trofeo Alfredo Binda". GCN. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
^ "Official website". trofeobinda.com. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
^ O'Shea, Sadhbh (2016-03-17). "Trofeo Alfredo Binda - Comune di Cittiglio 2016: Preview". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
^ "Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Comune di Cittiglio Brochure Ufficiale" (PDF). Cycling Sport Promotion. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
^ "Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Valli del Verbano – U.C.I. Nations' Cup Junior Women". www.cyclingsportpromotion.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-04-30. Il "Piccolo Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Valli del Verbano – U.C.I. Nations' Cup Junior", disputato dal 2013 come gara nazionale, è diventato gara Internazionale dal 2015 e si disputa nella mattinata prima della prova di U.C.I. WWT.
^ ^a ^b Madgwick, Katy (17 March 2023). "Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2023 preview - route, predictions, and contenders". Rouleur. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
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^ "Trofeo Alfredo Binda 2022: Route, Predictions and Contenders". Rouleur. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
^ "Trofeo Alfredo Binda – Comune di Cittiglio (F)". cyclingarchives.com. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
^ "Albo d'Oro". www.cyclingsportpromotion.com. Retrieved 2023-04-29.