Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The 1988 Giro d'Italia was the 71st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Urbino on 23 May with a 9 km (5.6 mi) individual time trial and concluded in Vittorio Veneto with a 43 km (26.7 mi) individual time trial on 12 June. Twenty teams entered the race, which was won by American Andrew Hampsten of the 7-Eleven-Hoonved team. Second and third respectively were Dutchman Erik Breukink and Swiss rider, Urs Zimmermann. It was the third time – and the second year in succession – in the history of the Giro, that the podium was occupied solely by non-Italian riders. Breukink had been part of the non-Italian podium in 1987, behind Ireland's Stephen Roche and Great Britain's Robert Millar.Hampsten first gained the race lead after the famed fourteenth stage, which crossed the Gavia Pass towards Bormio, and where the riders battled against a snowstorm, strong winds, and muddy roads. Beforehand, the overall classification had been headed for several days by Massimo Podenzana. He had participated in a breakaway during stage 4a, which won him sufficient time to hold the race leader's maglia rosa (English: pink jersey) for more than a week. Franco Chioccioli also wore the pink jersey for a two-stage period, before Hampsten took the lead. After stage 14, Hampsten began to build up a solid two-minute barrier against the second-placed rider, Breukink. This gap was sufficient to win Hampsten the race, despite losing around twenty seconds in the final two stages.Hampsten became the first American, and non-European, to win the Giro. He also won the secondary mountains and combination classifications, as well as the special sprints classification In the other classifications, Fanini-Seven Up rider Stefano Tomasini of Italy placed ninth overall to finish as the best neo-professional in the general classification; Johan van der Velde of the GIS-Ecoflam-Jolly team was the winner of the points classification, and Carrera Jeans-Vagabond finished as the winners of the team classification.. }
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- 1988_Giro_d'Italia abstract "The 1988 Giro d'Italia was the 71st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Urbino on 23 May with a 9 km (5.6 mi) individual time trial and concluded in Vittorio Veneto with a 43 km (26.7 mi) individual time trial on 12 June. Twenty teams entered the race, which was won by American Andrew Hampsten of the 7-Eleven-Hoonved team. Second and third respectively were Dutchman Erik Breukink and Swiss rider, Urs Zimmermann. It was the third time – and the second year in succession – in the history of the Giro, that the podium was occupied solely by non-Italian riders. Breukink had been part of the non-Italian podium in 1987, behind Ireland's Stephen Roche and Great Britain's Robert Millar.Hampsten first gained the race lead after the famed fourteenth stage, which crossed the Gavia Pass towards Bormio, and where the riders battled against a snowstorm, strong winds, and muddy roads. Beforehand, the overall classification had been headed for several days by Massimo Podenzana. He had participated in a breakaway during stage 4a, which won him sufficient time to hold the race leader's maglia rosa (English: pink jersey) for more than a week. Franco Chioccioli also wore the pink jersey for a two-stage period, before Hampsten took the lead. After stage 14, Hampsten began to build up a solid two-minute barrier against the second-placed rider, Breukink. This gap was sufficient to win Hampsten the race, despite losing around twenty seconds in the final two stages.Hampsten became the first American, and non-European, to win the Giro. He also won the secondary mountains and combination classifications, as well as the special sprints classification In the other classifications, Fanini-Seven Up rider Stefano Tomasini of Italy placed ninth overall to finish as the best neo-professional in the general classification; Johan van der Velde of the GIS-Ecoflam-Jolly team was the winner of the points classification, and Carrera Jeans-Vagabond finished as the winners of the team classification.".