The Giro d'Italia English: Tour of Italy also known as the

Giro) is an annual multiple-stage bicycle race primarily

held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through,
other countries. The first race was organized in 1909 to
increase sales of the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport,
and the race is still run by a subsidiary of that paper's
owner. The race has been held annually since its first
edition in 1909, except during the two world wars. As the
Giro gained prominence and popularity, the race was
lengthened, and the peloton expanded from primarily
Italian participation to riders from all over the world. The
Giro is a UCI World Tour event, which means that the
teams that compete in the race are mostly UCI
WorldTeams, with some additional teams invited as 'wild
card.

The Giro is one of professional cycling's three-week-long

Grand Tours, and after the Tour de France is the second
most important stage race in the world (the Triple Crown
of Cycling denotes the achievement of winning the Giro,
The Tour de France is the second most important stage
race in the world (the Triple Crown of Cycling denotes
the achievement of winning the Giro, the Tour and the
UCI Road World Championships in the same season). The
Giro is usually held during May, sometimes continuing
into early June. While the route changes each year, the
format of the race stays the same, with at least two time
trials, and a passage through the mountains of the Alps,
including the Dolomites. Like the other Grand Tours, the
modern editions of the Giro d'Italia normally consist of
21 stages over a 23- or 24-day period that includes two or
three rest days, The rider with the lowest aggregate time
is the leader of the general classification and wears the
pink jersey. While the general classification gathers the
most attention, stage wins are prestigious of themselves,
and there are other contests held within the Giro: the
points classification, the mountains classification for the
climbers, young rider classification for the riders under
the age of 25, and the team classification.
 Origins and first race (1909) History
The idea of the holding a bicycle race that navigated around
Italy was inspired by the Tour de France and the success that
L'Auto had gained from it. It was first suggested when La
Gazzetta dello Sport editor Tullo Morgagni sent a telegram to
the paper's owner, Emilio Costamagna, and cycling editor,
Armando Cougnet, stating the need for an Italian tour. At the
time La Gazzetta's rival, Corriere della Sera was planning on
holding a bicycle race of its own, after the success they had
gained from holding an automobile race. Morgagni then
decided to try and hold their race before Corriere della Sera
could hold theirs, but La Gazzetta lacked the money.
However, after the success La Gazzetta had with creating the
Giro di Lombardia and Milan–San Remo, the owner
Costamagna decided to go through with the idea. Their bike
race was announced on 7 August 1908 in the first page of
that day's edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race was to
be held in May 1909
Origins and first race (1909) History

Luigi Ganna (1 December 1883 – 2 October 1957) was an

Italian professional road racing cyclist. He was the overall
winner of the first Giro d'Italia, held in 1909, as well as the
first Italian winner of the classic Milan–San Remo earlier
that year. Further highlights in his career were his fifth
place in the 1908 Tour de France and several podium
places in Italian classic races. In 1908, he set a new
Italian hour record, which he held for six years. He was
born in Induno Olona, near Varese, in Lombardy. Before
becoming a professional cyclist, he worked as a bricklayer,
commuting up to 100 km to work by bike. In 1912, he
started a bike brand named Ganna which was still around
in 2012. In 1913, he started the Ganna Cycling team where
he rode for the final three years of his career. His company
sponsored the team until 1953 when they could no longer
meet obligations and Nivea–Fuchs took over
 Major results

1905 1909 1913

3rd Giro di Lombardia
1906
3rd Giro di Lombardia
3rd Giro del Piemonte
1907
2nd Overall Giro di Sicilia
1st 2 Stages
3rd Giro di Lombardia
4th Milan–San Remo
1908
2nd Milan–San Remo
1st Overall Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 4, 5 & 7
1st Milan-San Remo
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
6th Giro di Lombardia
1910
1st Giro dell'Emilia
2nd Giro di Lombardia
2nd Italian National Road Race
Championships
2nd Roma–Napoli–Roma
3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
3rd Roma–Napoli–Roma
1st Stage 1
5th Giro d'Italia
1914
6th Milan–San Remo
Giovanni Gerbi (20
May 1885 – 6 May
1955) was an Italian

2nd Giro di Lombardia 1st Stages 5, 7 & 10 road racing cyclist

1911
3rd Roma–Napoli–Roma
3rd Milan–San Remo
5th Tour de France
 Carlo Galetti

Carlo Galetti (26 August 1882 – 2 Roma–Napoli–Roma (English:

April 1949) was an Italian Rome–Naples–Rome) was a road
professional road racing cyclist. cycle race held from 1902 until
1961. The race had different names
during its history: Corsa del XX
He was born at Corsico. The Settembre (Race of 20 September)
highlight of his career was his from 1919 to 1927, as it was raced
three consecutive overall wins in in September, and Gran Premio
the 1910, 1911 and 1912 Giros Ciclomotoristico during its final
d'Italia, the last of which was won twelve editions from 1950 to 1961.
as part of Team Atala along with The post-World War II editions of
Giovanni Micheletto and Eberardo the event were held in late April or
Pavesi. early May.

Italian Fernandino Grammel was

He died in Milan in 1949. the winn
 Giro d´Italia
Since the organizers lacked the 25,000 lire needed to hold the race,
they consulted Primo Bongrani, an accountant at the bank Cassa di
Risparmio and friend of the three organizers. Bongrani proceeded to
go around Italy asking for donations to help hold the race. Bongrani's
efforts were largely successful, he had procured enough money to
cover the operating costs. Prize money was supplied by a casino in
San Remo who Francesco Sghirla, a former Gazzetta employee,
encouraged to contribute to the race. Even Corriere, La Gazzetta's
rival, gave 3,000 lire to the race's fund. On 13 May 1909 at 02:53, 127
riders started the first Giro d'Italia at Loreto Place in Milan. The race
was split into eight stages covering 2,448 km (1,521 mi). A total of 49
riders finished, with Italian Luigi Ganna winning. Ganna won three
individual stages and the General Classification. Ganna received 5,325
lire as a winner's prize, with the last rider in the general classification
receiving 300 lire. The Giro's director received only 150 lire a month,
150 lire fewer than the last-placed rider. The first Giro was won by
Alfredo Binda
Luigi Ganna, who had the fewest total points at the end of the race.
 1910 – 1952

The same format was used for the next two years and resulted in Carlo Galetti winning.

In 1912, there was no individual classification, instead there was only a team classification,
which was won by Team Atala. The 1912 Giro is the only time the competition has not had an
individual classification. From 1914 onwards the scoring format was changed from a points-
based system to a time-based system, in which the cyclist who had the lowest aggregate
time at the end of the race would win.
The Giro was suspended for four years from 1915 to 1918, due to the First World War.
Costante Girardengo was the winner of the first Giro after the war in 1919.
The dominant figure in the 1920s was Alfredo Binda, who won his first Giro in 1925 and
followed this up with another victory in 1927, in which he won 12 of the 15 stages. Victory in
1929 came courtesy of eight successive stage wins. At the height of his dominance Binda
was called to the head office of La Gazzetta dello Sport in 1930; the newspaper accused him
of ruining the race and offered him 22,000 lire to be less dominant, which he refused. Binda
won five Giros before he was usurped as the dominant cyclist by Gino Bartali.
 Nicknamed the "Iron Man of Tuscany" for his
endurance, Bartali won two Giros during the
1930s, in 1936 and 1937. Bartali's dominance
was challenged in 1940, the last Giro before
the Second World War, when he was defeated
by his 20-year-old teammate Fausto Coppi.
Bartali and Coppi's rivalry divided Italy.
Bartali, a conservative, was venerated in the
rural, agrarian south, while Coppi, more
worldly, secular, innovative in diet and
training, was a hero of the industrial north.

They became teammates in 1940 when Eberrardo Pavesi, head of the Legnano team, took
on Coppi to ride for Bartali. Bartali thought Coppi was "as thin as a mutton bone", but
accepted. Their rivalry started when Coppi, the helper, won the Giro aged 20 and Bartali,
the star, marshalled the two men's team to chase him.
The rivalry between Bartali
and Coppi intensified after the
war. Bartali won his last Giro
in 1946, narrowly beating
Coppi, now riding for the
Bianchi team. Coppi then won
his second Giro the following
year. Coppi abandoned the
1948 Giro d'Italia in protest
against the small penalty given
to Fiorenzo Magni. Coppi won a
further three Giros and twice,
in 1949 and 1952, Coppi won
the Giro d'Italia and the Tour
de France in the same year,
the first rider to do so.
Team Bianchi Deutschland
tour 2002, Angel Casero,
Tobias Steinhauser, Jan
Ullrich, Raphael Schweda,
Giovanni Valetti (22 September 1913 – 28 May 1998) was an
Italian professional road racing cyclist. The highlights of his
career were his two overall wins in the 1938 and 1939 Giro
d'Italia. He also won the 1938 Tour de Suisse.

The Giro del Lazio is a semi classic European bicycle race held
in the region of Lazio, Italy. From 2005 to 2008, the race has
been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour.

The Giro del Lazio returned to the race calendar in 2013 and
2014 following a hiatus since 2008 as the Roma Maxima.[1] The
race hasn't been held since 2015.
 1953 – 1967

Swiss Hugo Koblet became the first non-Italian to win the race in
1950. No one dominated the tour during the 1950s, Coppi, Charly
Gaul and Fiorenzo Magni each won two Giros during the decade.
The 1960s were similar. At the 1960 Giro d'Italia, Jacques Anquetil
took advantage of a breakaway he was part of on stage 3 to take
the overall lead. Anquetil then led the lead move to Jos Hoevenaers,
who had been part of a breakaway on stage 6. In the long time trial
of the race on stage 14, Anquetil retook the lead, finishing 1:27
minutes ahead of Baldini and more than 6 minutes on Gaul. His
speed had been so fast that had the organizers applied the usual
rules, 70 riders would have missed the time cut. In the event, the
rules were loosened and only two riders eliminated. Ahead of the
final mountain stages, Anquetil now led Nencini by 3:40 minutes,
with Gaul in fifth, 7:32 minutes behind. Stage 20 included the Gavia
Pass for the first time in the race's history.
On the ascent, Nencini was able to establish a gap to Anquetil,
after the latter had a flat tire. More punctures and three bike
changes followed on the dangerous descent, putting Anquetil's
race lead in danger. He teamed up with Agostino Coletto, whom
he offered money to help him in the chase effort, to limit his
losses. At the finish in Bormio, Gaul won ahead of Nencini, with
Anquetil losing only 2:34 minutes and retaining the pink jersey
by 28 seconds. Following a ceremonial final stage, Anquetil
arrived in Milan the winner of the Giro for the first time.
Anquetil went on to become the first rider to win all three
Grand Tours and won the Giro again in 1964, while Franco
Balmamion won two successive Giros in 1962 and 1963.

Felice Gimondi won the 1967 Giro d'Italia and went on to

become the second rider, after Anquetil, to win all three Grand
Tours.
Felice Gimondi

Felice Gimondi 29 September 1942 – 16 August 2019) was an

Italian professional racing cyclist. With his 1968 victory at the
Vuelta a España, only three years after becoming a professional
cyclist, Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix", was the second
cyclist (after Jacques Anquetil) to win all three Grand Tours of
road cycling: Tour de France (1965, his first year as a pro), Giro
d'Italia (1967, 1969 and 1976), and Vuelta a España (1968). He
is one of only seven cyclists to have done so.
Gimondi also won three of the five Cycling monuments, winning
the Giro di Lombardia twice, and finished on the podium of a
grand tour twelve times.

He accomplished all of these major victories despite his career

coinciding with that of Eddy Merckx.
Eddy Merckx

Édouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945),

known as Eddy Merckx , is a Belgian former professional road
and track cyclist racer who is the most successful rider in the
history of competitive cycling. His victories include an
unequalled eleven Grand Tours (five Tours de France, five Giros
d'Italia, and a Vuelta a España), all five Monuments, setting the
hour record, three World Championships, every major one-day
race other than Paris–Tours, and extensive victories on the
track.
up in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre where his parents ran a grocery
store. He played several sports, but found his true passion in
cycling. Merckx got his first bicycle at the age of three or four
and competed in his first race in 1961. His first victory came at
Petit-Enghien in October 1961.
 1968 – 1996

Belgian Eddy Merckx was the dominant figure during the

1970s. His first victory came in 1968, a race which saw two
important firsts: the first tests for drug use and the first
prologue. A total of eight riders tested positive during the
Giro. Belgian Eddy Merckx won his first Giro d'Italia after
winning the twelfth stage's finish atop the Tre Cime di
Lavaredo and also regaining the race lead. En route to the
overall victory, Merckx won four stages. Merckx returned in
1969 and was leading the race after the sixteenth stage that
ended in Savona. Merckx tested positive for a banned
substance after the stage and was subsequently disqualified
from the race; to this day Merckx still proclaims his
innocence. The UCI would lift his suspension almost
immediately but Merckx was not allowed to start stage 17.
Felice Gimondi took the lead after Merckx's dismissal and
held it all the way to the race's conclusion
Merckx came back the following year to liking of
his sponsor. Merckx took the lead after stage five
and never relinquished it; he dominated the lengthy
stage nine time trial. Merckx went on to win the
Tour de France and in doing so became the third
rider to win two Grand Tours in a single calendar
year. In 1971, reigning champion Merckx decided
to ride the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré instead.
Felice Gimondi lost substantial time early on in the
race to put him out of contention, while fellow
Italian and teammate Gianni Motta tested positive
for banned substances and was dismissed from the
Giro. Swedish cyclist Gösta Pettersson gained the
lead after the race's eighteenth stage and held it
all the way to the finish. Pettersson became the
first Swedish cyclist to win a Grand Tour.
The Mountains classification in the
Giro d'Italia is a secondary
classification that is a part of the Giro
d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour
races. In this classification, points are
awarded to the leading riders over
designated climbs. The climbs are put
into different classifications based on
difficulty and their position on that
day's stage. Bonus points are given to
mountain top finishes and to the first
riders over the Cima Coppi,
traditionally adjudged as the highest
point of the entire Giro.
Gösta Pettersson

Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a

retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the
individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968
Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964
and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events:
individual and team 4000 m pursuit.

Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also

Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum
brothers. They won the World Amateur Cycling
Championships in 1967–1969 and a team silver medal at the
1968 Summer Olympics; three of the brothers were also part
of the bronze-winning road team at the 1964 Games. In 1967
they were awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
After the 1969 World Championships the Fåglum brothers turned professional. In 1970 Gösta
won the Tour de Romandie, Coppa Sabatini and Trofeo Baracchi (with brother Tomas), and
finished third at the Tour de France and sixth at the Giro d'Italia. Next year he won the Giro
d'Italia, Giro dell'Appennino and Giro delle Marche. During the 1971 Giro he only managed to
finish on the stage podium twice and did not win any stages, but was able to win the Maglia
Rosa by finishing higher than the GC riders in the time trials and staying with or ahead of
them in the mountains.
He finished sixth at the 1972 Giro d'Italia and seventh at the 1973 Tour de Suisse. During the
Giro he defeated Merckx in a sprint finish on stage 7 to claim a stage win and come within
only +0:10 of Merckx for the overall lead, the only competitor even close to Merckx in the
standings. He stayed with the two time Giro champ for the next several stages but ended up
losing time in the split time trial of stage 11 and fell back in the standings.
His last major success was second place at the 1974 Tour de Suisse.

Of the Grand Tours he preferred to ride the Giro, competing from 1970 to 1974 finishing in
the top ten four times, never finishing worse than 13th. He rode the Tour De France in 1970
finishing on the podium behind Eddy Merckx and Joop Zoetemelk.
Bergamo
Merckx returned to the Giro in 1972 and resumed his domination. He grabbed the lead after
a long solo attack during the race's seventh stage and never let go of the lead. Merckx led
the 1973 Giro d'Italia from start to finish; a feat that had not been done since Alfredo Binda
did in 1927.

Unfortunately in 1976 a rider died in an accident early in the race which stunned the riders,
fans and race officials equally. By the third week it seemed as though Belgian rider Johan De
Muynck was going to claim victory, but much to the delight of the Tifosi Gimondi rode a very
strong final Individual Time Trial and won his third Giro by a very small margin in rather
stunning fashion as he was getting older and not even considered a pre-race favorite.
Belgians Michel Pollentier and Johan De Muynck won the two subsequent Giros in 1977 and
1978.

In 1980, Frenchman Bernard Hinault became France's first winner since Anquetil in 1964. He
would win another two Giros in 1982 and 1985.
The 1987 edition was highlighted by the
controversy between Carrera Jeans–
Vagabond's two general classification
riders Roberto Visentini and Stephen
Roche. Roche led the race early on but lost
the lead to Visentini after crashing during
the thirteenth stage. Roche attacked on
the race's mountainous fifteenth stage
despite orders from Carrera team
management not to. Roche took the lead
and wound up winning the Giro.[38]
Roche's success would not stop there
during the 1987 season, he would go on to Roche riding in the
win the Tour de France and the men's road final time trial at the
race at the World Championships to 1987 Tour de France
complete the Triple Crown of Cycling.
Unfortunately in 1976 a rider died in an accident early in the race which stunned the riders,
fans and race officials equally. By the third week it seemed as though Belgian rider Johan De
Muynck was going to claim victory, but much to the delight of the Tifosi Gimondi rode a very
strong final Individual Time Trial and won his third Giro by a very small margin in rather
stunning fashion as he was getting older and not even considered a pre-race favorite.
Belgians Michel Pollentier and Johan De Muynck won the two subsequent Giros in 1977 and
1978.
In 1980, Frenchman Bernard Hinault became France's first winner since Anquetil in 1964. He
would win another two Giros in 1982 and 1985.
The 1987 edition was highlighted by the controversy between Carrera Jeans–Vagabond's
two general classification riders Roberto Visentini and Stephen Roche. Roche led the race
early on but lost the lead to Visentini after crashing during the thirteenth stage.[39] Roche
attacked on the race's mountainous fifteenth stage despite orders from Carrera team
management not to. Roche took the lead and wound up winning the Giro. Roche's success
would not stop there during the 1987 season, he would go on to win the Tour de France and
the men's road race at the World Championships to complete the Triple Crown of Cycling
The 1988 Giro d'Italia is remembered for the fourteenth
stage that contained very poor weather throughout the
stage and most notably on the slopes of the Passo di
Gavia. Franco Chioccioli led the race at the start of the
fabled fourteenth stage. On the slopes of the Gavia,
Andrew Hampsten and Erik Breukink rode away from their
fellow riders; Breukink would go on to win the stage, but
Hampsten would take the overall lead. Hampsten went on
to win the race and became the first non-European to win
the Giro d'Italia.

Spaniard Miguel Indurain, winner of five Tours, won

successive Giros in 1991 and 1992.
Miguel Induráin

Miguel Induráin Larraya born 16 July 1964) is a retired Spanish road

racing cyclist. Induráin won five Tours de France from 1991 to 1995, the
fourth, and last, to win five times, and the only five-time winner to
achieve those victories consecutively.
He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of seven people to achieve
the Giro-Tour double in the same season. He wore the race leader's
yellow jersey in the Tour de France for 60 days. He holds the record for
the most consecutive Tour de France wins and shares the record for
most wins with Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Eddy Merckx. He
is the most recent cyclist, and one of the very few cyclists, to have
come close to cycling's 'Triple Crown' when in 1993, after having
already won the Giro and the Tour, he finished just 0:19 behind in the
World Championship.
He was the youngest rider ever to win the Spanish amateur national
road championship, when he was 18, at 20 the youngest rider to lead
the Vuelta a España, and at 20 he won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir.
 1997 – present

Ivan Gotti's wins in 1997 and 1999 were either side of the first win by Marco Pantani's win
in 1998. Pantani was considered a favorite to win the Giro d'Italia Other contenders
included Gotti, Alex Zülle and 1996 winner Pavel Tonkov. Pantani lost time in the initial
prologue in Nice and further time to his main rivals during the fifteenth stage, an individual
time trial in Trieste. By that point, Pantani faced a disadvantage of almost four minutes to
Zülle before the Dolomites mountain stages and an individual time trial on the penultimate
stage, a discipline that favored Zülle and Tonkov. In the seventeenth stage to Selva di Val
Gardena, Pantani took the maglia rosa, the leader's jersey, for the first time in his career
after attacking Zülle on the Marmolada climb. Although Pantani crossed the finish line
behind Giuseppe Guerini, he finished over four minutes ahead of Zülle, maintaining an
advantage of thirty seconds on the general classification over Tonkov, thirty-one seconds
on Guerini and over a minute on Zülle. In the following stage to Alpe di Pampeago, he
finished second behind Tonkov but maintained the general classification lead over him and
gained further time on Zülle and Guerini. In the eighteenth stage to Plan di Montecampione,
Pantani repeatedly attacked Tonkov, dropping him in the last three kilometers and winning
the stage to face the individual time trial on the penultimate stage with a lead of almost a
minute and a half.
Marco Pantani (Italian: [ˈmarko panˈtaːni];
13 January 1970 – 14 February 2004) was
an Italian road racing cyclist, widely
regarded as one of the greatest climbing
specialists in the history of the sport by
measures of his legacy, credits from other
riders, and records. He recorded the
fastest ever climbs up the Tour's iconic
venues of Mont Ventoux (46:00) and Alpe
d'Huez (36:50), and other cyclists
including Lance Armstrong and Charly
Gaul have hailed Pantani's climbing skills.
He is the last rider and one of only seven
to ever win the Tour de France – Giro
d'Italia double, doing so in 1998.
Zülle lost contact with the favorites in the first climb and ended up losing over thirty
minutes.[49] Having won over two minutes on Pantani in the previous time trial, Tonkov was
considered superior to Pantani on the time trial discipline, but the Italian finished third in the
penultimate stage, gaining an additional five seconds on Tonkov. Pantani was thus able to
maintain his lead to win the Giro d'Italia with a minute and a half over Tonkov and more than
six minutes over Guerini. He also won the Mountains classification and finished second in
the Points classification.

Pantani subsequently went on to win the 1998 Tour de France, thus completing the rare feat
of winning the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same calendar year.

Pantani returned to the Giro in 1999 while in peak physical form. Pantani gained the lead
after the race's fourteenth stage and as the race hit the high mountains, he extended his
lead with three stage wins. On the morning of the twentieth stage, Pantani was dismissed
from the Giro after having hematocrit levels above 50%. 1997 victor Ivan Gotti, who was
second place at the time, subsequently took the lead and wound up winning the Giro for the
second time in his career.
The Dolomites also known as the
Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or
Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range in
northeastern Italy. They form part of the
Southern Limestone Alps and extend
from the River Adige in the west to the
Piave Valley (Pieve di Cadore) in the east.
The northern and southern borders are
defined by the Puster Valley and the
Sugana Valley (Italian: Valsugana). The
Dolomites are in the regions of Veneto,
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Friuli-
Venezia Giulia, covering an area shared
between the provinces of Belluno,
Vicenza, Verona, Trentino, South Tyrol,
Udine and Pordenone.
Gilberto Simoni was the winner in 2001 and 2003, with Paolo Savoldelli victorious in 2002
and 2005. Other repeat winners this century have been Ivan Basso (2006 and 2010),
Spaniard Alberto Contador in 2008 and 2015 and Vincenzo Nibali in 2013 and 2016.
Contador also looked to have won the 2011 edition,[54] a race during which Wouter
Weylandt suffered a fatal crash on the third stage, but he was later stripped of the title
after he was found guilty of doping in the 2010 Tour de France, and runner-up Michele
Scarponi was awarded the victory. The first South American winner was Nairo Quintana of
Colombia in 2014.
The 2017 Giro d'Italia was the 100th edition of the race. Tom Dumoulin won stage 10, a
39.8-kilometre (24.7-mile) individual time trial (ITT) from Foligno to Montefalco, to take the
overall race lead by 2 minutes and 23 seconds over Quintana. Dumoulin won Stage 14,
which featured a mountain top finish at Santuario di Oropa to extend his lead over Quintana
by a further 14 seconds. On Stage 16, Dumoulin experienced stomach problems and had to
take a comfort break at the foot of the Umbrail Pass; none of the other contenders waited
for Dumoulin and he finished more than two minutes down on stage winner Vincenzo Nibali,
keeping his race lead by just 31 seconds over Quintana.
Giro d´Italia
Dumoulin defended his lead until the stage 19 mountain finish in Piancavallo, where he
crossed the line over a minute behind Quintana, the new race leader. However, Dumoulin's
performance on stage 21, a 29-kilometre (18-mile) individual time trial from Monza Circuit to
Milan in which he finished second, took him from fourth to first place in the general
classification. He was also the first Dutchman to win the overall in a Grand Tour since Joop
Zoetemelk won the 1980 Tour de France.

In 2018 Simon Yates seemed to be in very good position to become the first British rider to
win, winning 3 individual stages and holding the Maglia Rosa from Stage 6 onwards, with
Dumoulin lying second overall for much of the race. However, on Stage 19, Yates cracked
and Chris Froome then launched an audacious 80 km solo breakaway, attacking the small
group of leaders including Dumoulin on the Cima Coppi of the 2018 Giro, the graveled climb
of the Colle delle Finestre, he continued to extend his lead over the Sestriere and to the
summit finish of Bardonecchia and overturned a more than three minute deficit to take both
the pink jersey, the Cima Coppi prize and the mountains classification.
 Giro d´Italia 2021

Leading group, Giro

d'Italia 2021, Stage 15
The solo win, and the simultaneous implosion of Yates, who lost more than 30 minutes on
the day having lost contact on the first climb of the day, was described as "one of the most
extraordinary days in Giro d'Italia history". Froome became the first British rider to ever win
the Giro, as well as the first rider since 1983 to hold all three Grand Tour titles
simultaneously, as well as becoming the seventh man to have completed the career Grand
Tour grand slam.

In 2019 Richard Carapaz, from Ecuador, became the first rider from his country to win the
race.

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of the Giro to October, marking
the only time in history that the Giro was not raced in May or June. This race was won by
Tao Geoghegan Hart, making him the second British rider to win the race; then in the 2021
edition Egan Bernal became the second Colombian to ever win and in 2022 Jai Hindley
became the first ever Australian to win
Giro d´Italia
The 2023 Giro d'Italia was won by Slovenian Primož
Roglič, who took the lead from Geraint Thomas on the
penultimate stage, a mountain time trial to Monte
Lussari, near the Italian border with Slovenia. Even
though he suffered a dropped chain on the climb, Roglič
was able to gain 40 seconds on Thomas to move into the
overall lead. He held onto it on the final, largely
ceremonial stage into Rome to win the Giro d'Italia for
the first time in his career.

In 2024, Tadej Pogačar, from Slovenia, won the race on

his debut. He narrowly lost out on the lead after the first
stage to Jhonatan Narváez, but took the pink jersey on Primož Roglič receiving the
the second stage and held it until the end. Pogačar winner's trophy
executed a dominant victory, with a winning margin of
almost 10 minutes and 6 stage wins overall
 Road racing 1868

Road racing in its modern form originated in the late

19th century. It began as an organized sport in 1868.
The sport was popular in the western European
countries of France, Spain, Belgium, and Italy, and
some of those earliest road bicycle races remain
among the sport's biggest events. These early races
include Liège–Bastogne–Liège (established 1892),
Paris–Roubaix (1896), the Tour de France (1903), the
Milan–San Remo and Giro di Lombardia (1905), the Giro
d'Italia (1909), the Volta a Catalunya (1911), and the
Tour of Flanders (1913). They provided a template for
other races around the world.

Cycling has been part of the Summer Olympic Games

since the modern sequence started in Athens in 1896.
UCI WORLD TOUR

The UCI WorldTour is the premier

men's elite road cycling tour, sitting
above the UCI ProSeries and
various regional UCI Continental
Circuits. It refers to both the tour of
38 events and, until 2019, an annual
ranking system based upon
performances in these. The World
Ranking was launched in 2009,
(known from 2009–2010 as the UCI
World Ranking) and merged fully
with its predecessor the UCI
ProTour in 2011. UCI WorldTeams
must compete at all events that
were part of the tour prior to the
2017 expansion.