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2023 Giro d'Italia The 2023 Giro d'Italia was the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race. The race started on 6 May in Fossacesia and finished on 28 May in Rome. There were 3 individual time trial stages and 6 stages longer ...

was the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in

Fossacesia Fossacesia is a city in the province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy. The town is located on a small hill on the left of the Sangro River's mouth, about from the Adriatic Sea The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the Ita ...

on 6 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 17 May with a stage to

Tortona Tortona (; pms, Torton-a , ; lat, Dhertona) is a ''comune'' of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines. History ...

. The race finished in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

on 28 May.

Classification standings

Stage 1

;6 May 2023 —

Ortona Ortona (Neapolitan language, Abruzzese: '; grc, Ὄρτων, Órtōn) is a coastal town and municipality of the Province of Chieti in the Italy, Italian region of Abruzzo, with some 23,000 inhabitants. In 1943 Ortona was the site of a Battle o ...

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Stage 2

;7 May 2023 —

Teramo Teramo (; nap, label= Abruzzese, Tèreme ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines (Gran Sasso d'Italia) ...

San Salvo San Salvo ( Abruzzese: ') is a ''comune'' and town in the Province of Chieti in the Abruzzo region of Italy. It is the last Abruzzo town on the Adriatic coast before entering the Molise Region. San Salvo is divided into two major urban areas: ...

Stage 3

;8 May 2023 — Vasto to

Melfi Melfi (Neapolitan language, Lucano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Vulture area of the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Geographically, it is midway between Naples and Bari. In 2015 it had a population of 17,7 ...

Stage 4

;9 May 2023 — Venosa to

Lago Laceno Laceno is an Italian hamlet (''frazione'') and ski resort situated in the municipality of Bagnoli Irpino, Province of Avellino, Campania. It includes a Ski Resort (with 18 km of ski Slopes) with artificial snow if required, a lake with food ar ...

Stage 5

;10 May 2023 — Atripalda to

Salerno Salerno (, , ; nap, label= Salernitano, Saliernë, ) is an ancient city and ''comune'' in Campania (southwestern Italy) and is the capital of the namesake province, being the second largest city in the region by number of inhabitants, after ...

Stage 6

;11 May 2023 —

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

to Naples,

Stage 7

;12 May 2023 — Capua to

Gran Sasso Gran Sasso d'Italia (; ) is a massif in the Apennine Mountains of Italy. Its highest peak, Corno Grande (2,912 metres), is the highest mountain in the Apennines, and the second-highest mountain in Italy outside the Alps. The mountain lies wit ...

Stage 8

;13 May 2023 —

Terni Terni ( , ; lat, Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is near the border with Lazio. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is ...

to Fossombrone,

Stage 9

;14 May 2023 —

Savignano sul Rubicone Savignano sul Rubicone ( rgn, Savgnèn) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southeast of Bologna and about southeast of Forlì. The comune takes its name from the Ru ...

Cesena Cesena (; rgn, Cisêna) is a city and ''comune'' in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, served by Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine Mountains, about from the Adriatic Sea. The total population is 97,137. History Cesena was o ...

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Rest day 1

;15 May 2023 — Cesena Shortly after the Stage 9 time trial, stage winner and overall general classification leader Remco Evenepoel tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to withdraw from the race. While by tradition, when a leader pulls out through injury after the completion of the stage, the new 'leader' does not take on the jersey until the end of the following stage, the rest day in grand tours is treated as a stage for those purposes. As such, at the completion of the rest day,

Geraint Thomas Geraint Howell Thomas, (; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam , Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a tra ...

would become the new maglia rosa, and will wear pink when the race resumes at the beginning of Tuesday morning. The new general classifications standings would become as follows:

Stage 10

;16 May 2023 — Scandiano to Viareggio, Nine riders, including Evenepoel,

Domenico Pozzovivo Domenico Pozzovivo (born 30 November 1982) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His very small stature confer him with the qualities of a pure climbing specialist. He is most known for a victor ...

, Stefan Kung and

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did not start the race after the rest day, Evenepoel announcing such on Sunday evening, releasing the maglia rosa for

to wear. Top-10 rider and GC contender Aleksandr Vlasov abandoned the race midway through the stage, while fellow top-10 rider Jay Vine crashed and lost over ten minutes to the maglia rosa group.

Stage 11

;17 May 2023 — Camaiore to

, The stage was marked by further abandonments. Four members of the Soudal Quickstep team tested positive for Covid-19, three days after team leader

Remco Evenepoel Remco Evenepoel (born 25 January 2000) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is the son of Patrick Evenepoel, a former racing cyclist who won the 1993 Grand Prix de Wallonie. Remco Evenepoel started his sport career i ...

left the race after a positive test. A crash on a wet descent late in the stage took out many of the leaders, with Thomas, Roglic, Sivikov and Geoghegen Hart all brought down. while maglia rosa Thomas and his closest rival Roglic remounted and rejoined the peloton, third place Geoghegen Hart was forced to abandon and go to hospital where he was diagnosed with a broken hip, while top ten teammate

Pavel Sivakov Pavel Alekseyevich Sivakov (; born 11 July 1997) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is also a citizen of Russia and rode as a Russian until 2 March 2022. Personal life Sivakov is the son of Russian former cyclists Ale ...

managed to remount, but lost 13 minutes, effectively ending any perceived challenge.

References

External links

Official site: https://www.giroditalia.it/en/ {{Cycling stage recaps, 2023 Giro d'Italia, 1, 11, 12, 21 2023 Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia stages