Ariostea (cycling team)
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Ariostea was an Italian professional cycling team from 1984 to 1993. Its first team manager was Giorgio Vannucci; he was replaced in 1986 by Giancarlo Ferretti, who remained manager until the team was disbanded in 1993.
The team at the 1993 Paris–Nice
1986 Giro d'Italia
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The 1986 Giro d'Italia was the 69th running of the Giro d'Italia. The race started in Palermo, on 12 May, with a 1 km (0.6 mi) prologue and concluded in Merano, on 2 June, with a 108.6 km (67.5 mi) mass-start stage. A total of 171 riders from nineteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Roberto Visentini of the Carrera Jeans–Vagabond team. The second and third places were taken by Italian riders Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser, respectively.
The team presentation ceremony took place on 11 May at the Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo.
Foppolo hosted the end of the 143 km (89 mi) sixteenth stage and the start of the 186 km (116 mi) seventeenth stage.
Dutch rider Jean-Paul van Poppel (pictured here at the 2010 Tour de France) won two stages at the 1986 Giro d'Italia.
Johan van der Velde (pictured here in August 1982) won one stage at the 1986 Giro d'Italia and came in second in the points classification.