List of Giro d'Italia starts

The Giro d'Italia is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in May and June. Established in 1909 by newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Giro is the second-most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.[1] The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through Italy and neighboring countries such as France and Switzerland. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual finishing times for each stage are totaled to determine the overall winner at the end of the race.

Host cities

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Giro d'Italia Grande Partenza hosts
Year Country Region Grande Partenza host Winning rider
1909   Italy   Lombardy Milan
(Piazzale Loreto)
  Luigi Ganna (ITA)
1910   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Carlo Galetti (ITA)
1911   Italy   Lazio Rome   Carlo Galetti (ITA)
1912   Italy   Lombardy Milan Atala–Dunlop[N 1]
1913   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Carlo Oriani (ITA)
1914   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Alfonso Calzolari (ITA)
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Costante Girardengo (ITA)
1920   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Gaetano Belloni (ITA)
1921   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
1922   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
1923   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Costante Girardengo (ITA)
1924   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giuseppe Enrici (ITA)
1925   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Alfredo Binda (ITA)
1926   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
1927   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Alfredo Binda (ITA)
1928   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Alfredo Binda (ITA)
1929   Italy   Lazio Rome   Alfredo Binda (ITA)
1930   Italy   Sicily Messina   Luigi Marchisio (ITA)
1931   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Francesco Camusso (ITA)
1932   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Antonio Pesenti (ITA)
1933   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Alfredo Binda (ITA)
1934   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Learco Guerra (ITA)
1935   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)
1936   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Gino Bartali (ITA)
1937   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Gino Bartali (ITA)
1938   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giovanni Valetti (ITA)
1939   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Giovanni Valetti (ITA)
1940   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Gino Bartali (ITA)
1947   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1948   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
1949   Italy   Sicily Palermo   Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1950   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Hugo Koblet (SUI)
1951   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
1952   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1953   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fausto Coppi (ITA)
1954   Italy   Sicily Palermo   Carlo Clerici (SUI)
1955   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
1956   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Charly Gaul (LUX)
1957   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Gastone Nencini (FRA)
1958   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Ercole Baldini (ITA)
1959   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Charly Gaul (LUX)
1960   Italy   Lazio Rome   Jacques Anquetil (FRA)
1961   Italy   Piedmont Turin   Arnaldo Pambianco (ITA)
1962   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Franco Balmamion (ITA)
1963   Italy   Campania Naples   Franco Balmamion (ITA)
1964   Italy   Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Bolzano   Jacques Anquetil (FRA)
1965   San Marino   San Marino City of San Marino   Vittorio Adorni (ITA)
1966   Monaco   Monaco Monte Carlo   Gianni Motta (ITA)
1967   Italy   Lombardy Treviglio   Felice Gimondi (ITA)
1968   Italy   Lombardy Campione d'Italia   Eddy Merckx (BEL)
1969   Italy   Veneto Garda   Felice Gimondi (ITA)
1970   Italy   Lombardy San Pellegrino Terme   Eddy Merckx (BEL)
1971   Italy   Apulia Lecce   Gösta Pettersson (SWE)
1972   Italy   Veneto Venice   Eddy Merckx (BEL)
1973   Belgium   Wallonia Verviers   Eddy Merckx (BEL)
1974   Vatican City   Vatican City Vatican City   Eddy Merckx (BEL)
1975   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Fausto Bertoglio (ITA)
1976   Italy   Sicily Catania   Felice Gimondi (ITA)
1977   Italy   Campania Bacoli   Michel Pollentier (BEL)
1978   Italy   Aosta Valley Saint-Vincent   Johan De Muynck (BEL)
1979   Italy   Tuscany Florence   Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
1980   Italy   Liguria Genoa   Bernard Hinault (FRA)
1981   Italy   Friuli-Venezia Giulia Trieste   Giovanni Battaglin (ITA)
1982   Italy   Lombardy Milan   Bernard Hinault (FRA)
1983   Italy   Lombardy Brescia   Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
1984   Italy   Tuscany Lucca   Francesco Moser (ITA)
1985   Italy   Veneto Verona   Bernard Hinault (FRA)
1986   Italy   Sicily Palermo   Roberto Visentini (ITA)
1987   Italy   Liguria San Remo   Stephen Roche (IRL)
1988   Italy   Marche Urbino   Andrew Hampsten (USA)
1989   Italy   Sicily Taormina   Laurent Fignon (FRA)
1990   Italy   Apulia Bari   Gianni Bugno (ITA)
1991   Italy   Sardinia Olbia   Franco Chioccioli (ITA)
1992   Italy   Liguria Genoa   Miguel Indurain (ESP)
1993   Italy   Tuscany Porto Azzurro   Miguel Indurain (ESP)
1994   Italy   Emilia-Romagna Bologna   Evgeni Berzin (RUS)
1995   Italy   Umbria Perugia   Tony Rominger (SUI)
1996   Greece Attica Athens   Pavel Tonkov (RUS)
1997   Italy   Veneto Venice   Ivan Gotti (ITA)
1998   France   Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Nice   Marco Pantani (ITA)
1999   Italy   Sicily Agrigento   Ivan Gotti (ITA)
2000   Italy   Lazio Rome   Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
2001   Italy   Abruzzo Montesilvano   Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
2002   Netherlands   Groningen Groningen   Paolo Savoldelli (ITA)
2003   Italy   Apulia Lecce   Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
2004   Italy   Liguria Genoa   Damiano Cunego (ITA)
2005   Italy   Calabria Reggio Calabria   Paolo Savoldelli (ITA)
2006   Belgium   Wallonia Seraing   Ivan Basso (ITA)
2007   Italy   Sardinia Caprera   Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
2008   Italy   Sicily Palermo   Alberto Contador (ESP)
2009   Italy   Veneto Lido di Venezia   Denis Menchov (RUS)
2010   Netherlands   North Holland Amsterdam   Ivan Basso (ITA)
2011   Italy   Piedmont Venaria Reale   Michele Scarponi (ITA)[N 2]
2012   Denmark   Mid Jutland (Midtjylland) Herning   Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
2013   Italy   Campania Naples   Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
2014   United Kingdom   Northern Ireland Belfast   Nairo Quintana (COL)
2015   Italy   Liguria San Lorenzo al Mare   Alberto Contador (ESP)
2016   Netherlands   Gelderland Apeldoorn   Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
2017   Italy   Sardinia Alghero   Tom Dumoulin (NED)
2018   Israel Jerusalem District Jerusalem   Chris Froome (GBR)
2019   Italy   Emilia-Romagna Bologna   Richard Carapaz (ECU)
2020   Italy   Sicily Monreale[N 3]   Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR)
2021   Italy   Piedmont Turin   Egan Bernal (COL)
2022   Hungary Central Hungary Budapest   Jai Hindley (AUS)
2023   Italy   Abruzzo Fossacesia   Primož Roglič (SLO)
2024   Italy   Piedmont Venaria Reale   Tadej Pogacar (SLO)

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The 1912 Giro d'Italia changed from an individual race to a team–based general classification for one year.
  2. ^ Alberto Contador was the winner at the podium ceremony in Milan on the last day of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, but was subsequently found to have tested positive for performing-enhancing drugs on a rest day in the 2010 Tour de France. He was originally suspended on 25 January 2011 for a year, but appealed the decision. The Court of Arbitration for Sport found him guilty of using clenbuterol during the race; thus his results since the 2010 Tour de France were taken away from him and he was stripped of the win on 6 February 2012.[2]
  3. ^ Budapest, Hungary was scheduled to host the Grande Partenza for the 2020 Giro d'Italia.[3] It was the first time a Grand Tour was going to enter the country.[3] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2019 and spanned into 2020, the Giro cancelled the start in Hungary and the race itself and race organizer RCS Sport stated they would later announce new plans for the 2020 Giro.[4] On 5 May, RCS announced that Hungary would not host any stages and the new start would take place somewhere in southern Italy.[5]

Citations

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  1. ^ FAQ. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 23 July 2009. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
  2. ^ "CAS sanctions Contador with two year ban in clenbutorol case". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. 6 February 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  3. ^ a b Gregor Brown (15 April 2019). "Giro d'Italia to start in Budapest in 2020". Cycling Weekly. Archived from the original on 20 May 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  4. ^ Stephen Farrabnd (13 March 2020). "Giro d'Italia stages in Hungary cancelled due to coronavirus fears". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 20 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  5. ^ Cyclingnews (5 May 2020). "Rescheduled 2020 Giro d'Italia to start in southern Italy". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 7 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

See also

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