Jersey awarded to the last placer at the Giro d'Italia
Maglia Nera
Sport
Road Cycling
Competition
Giro d'Italia
Awarded for
Last overall
English name
Black jersey
Local name
Maglia Nera (in Italian)
History
First award
1946
Editions
6
Final award
1951
First winner
Luigi Malabrocca (ITA)
Most wins
Luigi Malabrocca (ITA) (2 times)
Most recent
Giovanni Pinarello (ITA)
The Maglia Nera was a black jersey awarded as a symbolic prize in cycling competition at the Giro d'Italia, given to the last man to finish the race. It was allocated between 1946 and 1951.[1][2] The competition for the jersey came from the time Italian soccer star Giuseppe Ticozzelli who competed in the 1926 Giro d'Italia as an independent while wearing his black jersey of the football team he played for (Casale).[2][3] He completed three stages and would often take rest breaks for food, he had to drop out of the race after being run over by a car.[2][3]
There was real competition to win this particular jersey. Especially noted are the struggles between Sante Carollo and Luigi Malabrocca, to see who could waste the most time. Each tried to lose more time than the other by hiding in bars, barns, and behind hedges, or even by puncturing their own wheels. In 1948 the honor was awarded to the Tuscan Aldo Bini, who according to some journalists and fans of the time, stubbornly continued the race until the end, despite a broken right hand suffered in a mass crash, and the suffering that especially in the mountain stages forced him to get off the bike and push it uphill. The special ability of the black jersey was, in addition to not being "discovered", to reach the finish directly within the maximum time.[1][4][5][6]
The term "maglia nera" was later used in other contexts to indicate the bottom club in a league, often giving it a negative connotation.
In 2008 a similar "black number" was introduced, won by Markus Eichler of Team Milram.
^ ab"Giro, la Maglia nera diventa Numero nero - Gazzetta dello Sport". Gazzetta.it. Retrieved 2012-08-04.
^ abcGino De Blasio (3 May 2013). "Giro d'Italia and The Black Jersey: When Losing Makes You a Legend!". ItalyMagazine. InterRail, LLC. Archived from the original on 29 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
^ abBill and Carol McGann. "1949 Giro d'Italia". Bike Race Info. Dog Ear Publishing. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
^"Addio a Malabrocca, grande mito della... maglia nera" [Goodbye to Malabrocca, great myth of ... black jersey] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. 4 October 1978. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
^"Addio a Sante Carolo, vinse arrivando ultimo" [Farewell to Sante Carolo, he won by coming last] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. 12 January 1978. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
^"Quelli che vestivano la maglia nera" [Quelli che vestivano la maglia nera] (PDF). l'Unità (in Italian). PCI. 10 June 1994. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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Global Information
Luigi Malabrocca (ITA)