Zonca (cycling team)
{{short description|Italian cycling team (1970-1979)}}
{{Infobox cycling team
| name = Zonca
| image = Ambrogio_Portalupi_1971.jpg
| caption = Ambrogio Portalupi wearing the team's jersey in 1971
| code =
| registered = Italy
| founded = {{start date|1970}}
| disbanded = 1979
| teammanager = Ettore Milano
| discipline = Road
| status =
| bicycles =
| season = 1970–1974
1975–1979
| oldname = Zonca
Zonca–Santini
| kitimage =
}}
Zonca was an Italian professional cycling team that existed from 1970 to 1979.{{cite web|title=Zonca|url=http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.eu/pelotons/lexsponsors.php?l=Zonca|language=fr|publisher=Mémoire du cyclisme|access-date=7 April 2020}} It was founded by brothers Maffeo, Luigi and Giorgio Zonca.{{cite news |title=Continuare coi Rilanci: Il ciclismo ha bisogno di Maffeo, Luigi e Giorgio |url=https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1973/11/16/page_010.pdf |access-date=6 October 2024 |work=L'Unita |date=16 November 1973 |language=Italian |trans-title=Keep on Relaunching: Cycling Needs Maffeo, Luigi and Giorgio}}
The team was selected to race in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia, where they achieved four stage wins.
Major victories
- Trofeo Matteotti : Davide Boifava (1972)
- Tour de Berne : Roland Salm (1974, 1975)
- Giro del Friuli : Franco Bitossi (1976)
- Coppa Sabatini : Piero Spinelli (1976), Leonardo Mazzantini (1979)
- Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria : Constantino Conti (1977)
- Milano–Torino : Pierino Gavazzi (1978)
- Giro di Campania : Pierino Gavazzi (1979)
=Giro d'Italia results =
- 8 participations (1972–1979)
- 4 stage wins:
- 1, 1973 : Gianni Motta
- 2, 1978 : Giancarlo Bellini, Pierino Gavazzi
- 1, 1979 : Bruno Wolfer
- 1 classification:
- {{cjersey|blue}} Mountains classification : Ueli Sutter (1978)
References
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Category:Defunct cycling teams based in Italy
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Category:Cycling teams established in 1970
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