Giancarlo Bellini

{{short description|Italian cyclist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}}

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Giancarlo Bellini

| image = Giancarlo Bellini - Tour 1976 (cropped).jpg

| caption = Bellini at the 1976 Tour de France

| fullname = Giancarlo Bellini

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|9|15|df=y}}

| birth_place = Crosa, Italy

| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = Rider

| ridertype =

| proyears1 = 1971–1973

| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|Molteni|1971}}

| proyears2 = 1974–1977{{cite web |last1=Bloor |first1=Steven |title=Memory Lane: the Giro d'Italia through the years – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2015/may/14/memory-lane-the-giro-ditalia-through-the-years-in-pictures |website=the Guardian |access-date=20 June 2024 |date=14 May 2015}}

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Brooklyn|1974}}

| proyears3 = 1978–1979

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|Zonca|1978}}

| majorwins = Grand Tours

:Tour de France

::Mountains classification (1976)

:Giro d'Italia

::1 individual stage (1978)

}}

Giancarlo Bellini (born 15 September 1945 in Crosa) is an Italian former road bicycle racer who won the mountains classification in the 1976 Tour de France.{{cite web |title=Giancarlo Bellini e la maglia a pois |url=https://www.ciclonews.biz/giancarlo-bellini-la-maglia-pois/ |website=Ciclonews.biz |access-date=21 June 2024 |language=it-IT |date=14 January 2021}} He also won a stage in the 1978 Giro d'Italia.{{cite web |title=Giancarlo Bellini |url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/giancarlo-bellini |website=www.procyclingstats.com |access-date=20 June 2024}}

Bellini won the first edition of the Amateur Giro d'Italia in 1970 before spending three years at {{UCI team code|Molteni|1971}} in the service of Eddy Merckx.{{cite web |last1=Pastonesi |first1=Marco |title="Le storie dei vincitori": Giancarlo Bellini |url=https://strada.federciclismo.it/it/article/2017/03/27/le-storie-dei-vincitori-giancarlo-bellini/7127badf-2c61-4754-882e-1dd5deb55503/ |website=Federazione Ciclistica Italiana |access-date=21 June 2024 |language=it |date=27 March 2017}}

If doping controls to the standard that the sport has in 2024 existed then Bellini would've finished eighth in the 1978 1978 Giro d'Italia.{{cite web |title=cyclisme-dopage.com - Giro d'Italia 1978 : the real numbers of doping |url=https://www.cyclisme-dopage.com/chiffres/giro1978-en.htm |website=www.cyclisme-dopage.com |access-date=21 June 2024 |language=en}}