Italian National Road Race Championships
Year Gold Silver Bronze
1996 Roberto Fortunato
1997 Oscar Mason
1998 Danilo Di Luca Denis Lunghi Rinaldo Nocentini
1999 Simone Fadini
2000 Nicola Gavazzi
2001 Marco Corsini
2002 Paolo Bailetti
2003 Giovanni Visconti Aristide Ratti Stefano Bonini
2004 Riccardo Riccò Carlo Scognamiglio Nicola Peccolo
2005 Adriano Angeloni Alessio Ricciardi Marco Panchetti
2006 Francesco Gavazzi Maurizio Girardini Marco Stefani
2007 Simone Ponzi Michele Gaia Mauro Finetto
2008 Damiano Caruso Alberto Contoli Stefano Pirazzi
2009 Matteo Rabottini Alfredo Balloni Gianluca Brambilla
2010 Stefano Agostini Stefano Locatelli Tommaso Salvetti
2011 Matteo Trentin Fabio Aru Andrea Fedi
2012 Francesco Manuel Bongiorno Davide Formolo Kristian Sbaragli
2013 Andrea Zordan Davide Villella Alberto Bettiol
2014 Simone Sterbini Simone Andreetta Luca Chirico
2015 Gianni Moscon Davide Gabburo Edward Ravasi
Men -- U23
The Italian National Road Race Championships are held annually. They are a cycling race which decides the Italian cycling champion in the road racing discipline, across several categories of rider. The event was first held in 1906 and was won by Giovanni Cuniolo. At the beginning there were often back-to-back wins from many riders. Costante Girardengo made the remarkable achievement of 9 wins between 1913 and 1925. Perhaps if it were not for the First World War, which blocked the running of the championship for four years, from 1915 until 1918, Girardengo would have gained additional victories. Despite this, he also holds the record for most consecutive wins, with 7. After his winning streak ended, another Italian cycling legend, Alfredo Binda, won 4 races in a row. Learco Guerra succeeded him with 5 consecutive wins. Since then the event has not been dominated to the same extent, although Fausto Coppi claimed 4 victories. Recent multiple victors have included Vincenzo Nibali, Giovanni Visconti, Paolo Bettini, Salvatore Commesso, Massimo Podenzana and Gianni Bugno. None of the road champions have also won the time trial race.