Santini SMS is a cycling clothes brand of the Italian clothing production company Santini Maglificio Sportivo. This company was founded by Pietro Santini in 1965 and is based in Lallio, Italy.

Provider of cycling jerseys

Santini SMS provided the pink jersey in the Giro d'Italia from 1993 to 2017. Since 2017 they also provide the red leader's jersey in the Vuelta a Espana. Since 1994 the brand is the clothes sponsor of the

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(UCI) and the

UCI World Championships The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ...

. Santini SMS provides the

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s, the official UCI World Champion jerseys across all disciplines. Santini SMS delivers as well the European Champion jersey for all cycling disciplines and the World Cup leader jerseys for women's road,

track cycling Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

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and cyclo-cross."UCI renews partnership contract with Santini" Press release UCI, 13 September 2013
/ref> The brand also delivers the jerseys for the

UCI ProTour The UCI ProTour was a series of road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada organised by the UCI (International Cycling Union). Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, e ...

and the leading jerseys in stage races like

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI World ...

and the

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during the first half of June. It is part ...

. The contract with the UCI started in 1994 and was prolonged with two years in 2012 until 2014. As Santini provides the jerseys of the Slovakian national cycling team,

Peter Sagan Peter Sagan (; born 26 January 1990) is a Slovakia, Slovak professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the junior cross-c ...

won his historic three back-to-back UCI road race world champion titles 2015, 2016 and 2017 in a Santini jersey. Starting in 2022 they will also provide the official

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ...

jerseys.

Teams

Santini SMS is and was also the cycling clothes sponsor of a number of cycling teams including: * Trek-Segafredo * Nippo-Vini Fantini * Boels-Dolmans * Belkin Pro Cycling Team * La Vie Claire * Mapei * Mercatone Uno *

Acqua & Sapone Acqua & Sapone () was a professional continental cycling team based in Italy and participated in UCI Europe Tour and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events. They were managed by Palmiro Masciarelli, assisted by directeur sportifs Lo ...

* Selle Italia * Lampre-Fondital / Lampre-NGC * Team Katusha * Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli * Vacansoleil-DCM * Slovakian national team * Australian national team * Irish national team * CatfordCC Equipe/Banks * AMKO Sport (1982)

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Provider of cycling jerseys

Teams

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