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The 2019 Giro d'Italia was a three-week
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cycling stage race organised by RCS Sport that took place mainly in Italy, between 11 May and 2 June 2019. The race was the 102nd edition of the Giro d'Italia and was the first Grand Tour of the 2019 cycling season. The race started with an
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in
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, and finished with another time-trial in
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. The race was won by
Richard Carapaz Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...
(), who became the first Ecuadorian rider to win the Giro d'Italia. Italian
Vincenzo Nibali ), The Nibbler , birth_date = , birth_place = Messina, Sicily, Italy , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ridertype = Climber , proyears1 = 2005 , proteam1 = , proyears2 = 2006–2012 , protea ...
() finished 2nd, with Slovenian rider
Primož Roglič Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica. At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič be ...
() in 3rd place. Carapaz also became the second South American rider to win the Giro, after
Nairo Quintana Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, Order of Boyacá, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . Nicknamed "Nairoman" and "El Cóndor de los Andes", Quintana is a specialist climber, known ...
in
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.
Pascal Ackermann Pascal Ackermann (born 17 January 1994) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Kandel, Ackermann joined the team in 2013, and spent four seasons with the team. In August 2016 announced that Ackermann would ...
() narrowly won the
points classification The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points cl ...
before Arnaud Démare (), with
Damiano Cima Damiano Cima (born 13 September 1993 in Brescia) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . His younger brother Imerio Cima is also a cyclist, and is also part of the squad. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2 ...
() in third place. Giulio Ciccone () won mountains classification after leading it through 20 of the race's 21 stages, and Miguel Ángel López () won the
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. The
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was won by .


Teams

All 18
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s were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. Four wildcard
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teams were also selected. Because of an agreement between RCS Sport and the organisers of the Coppa Italia di ciclismo (the Italian Road Cycling Cup) one of the four wildcards is traditionally reserved for the overall cup winner. One of the wildcards was therefore awarded to . On 25 January 2019, the race organisers announced that the other three wildcards were awarded to , and . All of the wildcard teams had previously participated in the Giro, and three out of the four teams participated in the previous year. The one exception was Nippo-Vini Fantini, whose last participation in the Giro was in
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. Each team started with eight riders. The on-stage presentation of the teams took place in
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on 9 May, two days before the opening stage. The teams entering the race were:


Pre-race favourites

Two previous Giro d'Italia champions,
Vincenzo Nibali ), The Nibbler , birth_date = , birth_place = Messina, Sicily, Italy , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ridertype = Climber , proyears1 = 2005 , proteam1 = , proyears2 = 2006–2012 , protea ...
() and
Tom Dumoulin Tom Dumoulin (; born 11 November 1990) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He has won nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Championships and two Olympic s ...
(), are considered to be among the favorites for the
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, together with Miguel Ángel López (),
Mikel Landa Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall. Career Early career Lan ...
(),
Primož Roglič Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica. At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič be ...
() and Simon Yates (). Other riders believed to be competitive in the general classification were
Richard Carapaz Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...
(), Esteban Chaves (),
Davide Formolo Davide Formolo (born 25 October 1992) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Formolo turned professional in 2014. Biography Born on 25 October 1992, in Negrar, Italy, Formolo resides in Marano di ...
(), Ion Izagirre (), Bob Jungels (),
Rafał Majka Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: ; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finis ...
(), Bauke Mollema (), Ben O'Connor () and Ilnur Zakarin (). Riders believed to be the main contenders for victories on the sprint stages are the current German national champion
Pascal Ackermann Pascal Ackermann (born 17 January 1994) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Kandel, Ackermann joined the team in 2013, and spent four seasons with the team. In August 2016 announced that Ackermann would ...
(), Frenchman Arnaud Démare (), Australian rider Caleb Ewan (), Colombia's
Fernando Gaviria Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is well known as a sprinter. Riding for the Colombian national cycling team, Gaviria came to int ...
(), and the defending winner of the points classification, Italian Elia Viviani ().


Route and stages

The race started on 11 May with an 8 km ''cronoscalata'', a mountain time trial, in
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, which concluded with a climb to the Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. The steep (average gradient 9.7%) climb, which is regularly used as a finish in the Italian autumn
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, made its debut in the Giro in
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in a time trial stage won by Charly Gaul, and had now made its fourth appearance in the Giro. The race then headed south, with the second stage crossing the Apennines into
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, honouring Tuscan cyclist
Gino Bartali Gino Bartali (; 18 July 1914 – 5 May 2000), nicknamed Gino the Pious and (in Italy) Ginettaccio, was a champion road cyclist. He was the most renowned Italian cyclist before the Second World War, having won the Giro d'Italia twice, in 19 ...
with a stage finish in Fucecchio. The following stage started in Vinci, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death of
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, and finished in
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, which also acted as the start location for the following stage, in which the race left Tuscany for the
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region with a stage finish in
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. Continuing south, the peloton then left Frascati for a stage finish in
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, and, following a short transfer to Cassino, crossed the country on a hilly stage to the Apulian region on eastern coast, finishing in the town of
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. The race then headed north, with stage finishes in L'Aquila and Pesaro. Stage nine's individual time trial in
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was the last stage before the rest day, and the only occasion where the Giro left Italy. Following the first rest day, the riders tackled two flat stages with finishes in Modena and
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. The twelfth stage, relatively short at , started from
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and included the climb of , 1248 meters above sea level. It finished with a very short, but steep climb in the town of
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, with the gradient reaching 20%. The thirteenth stage has been considered to become the first big test for the riders aiming for the
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and included the race's first summit finish, at Lago Serrù, close to Ceresole Reale. Two other categorized climbs were included in the stage, namely the Colle del Lys and the Pian del Lupo. Following the second, and last, rest day on 27 May, the riders faced what has been dubbed as the queen stage of the race, which started in Lovere, included several categorized climbs, including the Passo del Mortirolo, before finishing in
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. Initially, the stage was meant to also feature the Passo di Gavia, previously featured in
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, in a stage won by
Nairo Quintana Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, Order of Boyacá, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . Nicknamed "Nairoman" and "El Cóndor de los Andes", Quintana is a specialist climber, known ...
(), who later won the overall classification, however the climb was ultimately removed from the route two days before the stage was run due to snow and poor weather conditions. The Mortirolo was first included in the race in
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, and has since then made many appearances in the race, most recently on the 16th stage at the
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won by
Vincenzo Nibali ), The Nibbler , birth_date = , birth_place = Messina, Sicily, Italy , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ridertype = Climber , proyears1 = 2005 , proteam1 = , proyears2 = 2006–2012 , protea ...
. The race finished with a time trial in
Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...
.


Race overview

The first stage, an 8 km mountain time trial in
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, was won by
Primož Roglič Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica. At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič be ...
() who therefore became the first wearer of the ''maglia rosa'', the pink jersey identifying the leader of the
general classification The general classification (or the GC) in road bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for riders in multi-stage races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest cumulat ...
. Roglič also took the lead in the
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. Giulio Ciccone () took the lead in the mountains classification and became the first wearer of the blue jersey, while Miguel Ángel López () finished as the fastest young rider and became the leader of the
young rider classification Young rider classification (french: classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for rid ...
. Stage 2, the first bunch sprint stage, was taken by
Pascal Ackermann Pascal Ackermann (born 17 January 1994) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Kandel, Ackermann joined the team in 2013, and spent four seasons with the team. In August 2016 announced that Ackermann would ...
(), who benefited from a mistake by Elia Viviani () in the setup for the sprint. Roglič held the maglia rosa for another day, while Ackermann took the points classification. Ciccone also went into the breakaway and maintained his lead in the mountains classification. The third stage was once again a group sprint, but this one had much more controversy. In the leadup to the sprint, Viviani pulled out of line and bumped Matteo Moschetti () out of the way. Viviani won the stage on the road, but judges later relegated him for an illegal sprint, which handed the win and
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to
Fernando Gaviria Fernando Gaviria Rendón (born 19 August 1994) is a Colombian professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is well known as a sprinter. Riding for the Colombian national cycling team, Gaviria came to int ...
(). No other changes in the jerseys occurred.
Richard Carapaz Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...
() won the fourth stage after a late attack. Multiple crashes with only a few kilometers left of the stage saw several riders go down. One of those affected was favorite
Tom Dumoulin Tom Dumoulin (; born 11 November 1990) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He has won nine stages across the three Grand Tours, five medals in three different World Championships and two Olympic s ...
(), who eventually finished the stage four minutes after many other favorites had crossed the line. Roglič extended his
general classification The general classification (or the GC) in road bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for riders in multi-stage races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest cumulat ...
lead out to 35 seconds, and Ackermann took back the
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. Stage five was a drenched one, with a neutralized bunch sprint at the end. Ackermann took the win after nearly colliding with a rider. Gaviria took a close second. Dumoulin officially withdrew after only a few kilometers of the stage, stating that the pain was too much to continue. The first shakeup of the race occurred on stage six, where the breakaway took the stage. Fausto Masnada () beat
Valerio Conti Valerio Conti (born 30 March 1993) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He has competed in every edition of the Giro d'Italia between 2016 and 2022. Major results ;2010 : 3rd Trofeo Città di Ivrea : 4th Overall Tre Cic ...
() to the line, beating the peloton by a full seven minutes. Conti was handed over the ''maglia rosa'' with the rest of the breakaway riders between him and Roglič because of this. Giovanni Carboni () gained the
young rider classification Young rider classification (french: classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for rid ...
also. Stage seven was another day for the breakaway, this time
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() fending off Tony Gallopin () for the victory. Stage eight saw Caleb Ewan () take the sprint over Elia Viviani and Pascal Ackermann, the holder of the ''maglia ciclamino'' at the time. Stage nine, the San Marino time trial that would round out the first week, saw Primož Roglič victorious again, this time only 11 seconds over
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() and a full minute over Bauke Mollema () and the rest of the GC favorites. Conti still held the ''maglia rosa.'' A slight controversy opened up the second week, with stage ten ending in a reduced sprint caused by the fall of the ''maglia ciclamino'' holder Ackermann. Arnaud Démare () found victory over Viviani and
Rüdiger Selig Rüdiger Selig (born 19 February 1989) is a German professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Born in Zwenkau, Selig competed as an amateur until the middle of 2011, when he joined as a ''stagiaire''. In October, ...
(), who sprinted after Ackermann's crash. Ackermann would finish, although losing the ciclamino to Demare, and Matteo Moschetti would withdraw from injuries sustained in the incident. Ewan found victory once again in stage eleven, where he once again beat Demare and Ackermann. Ewan and Viviani both announced their withdrawals afterwards, in preparation for the
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. Stage twelve followed the common roads of the
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, where Cesare Benedetti () of the breakaway took his first pro win over Damiano Caruso () and Eddie Dunbar (). It also saw Jan Polanc () taking over the
general classification The general classification (or the GC) in road bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for riders in multi-stage races. Each stage will have a stage winner, but the overall winner in the GC is the rider who has the fastest cumulat ...
from his teammate Conti. The thirteenth stage was the first true mountain stage of the Giro, and was potentially the turning point. Ilnur Zakarin () took victory after an attack, in which he caught up and surpassed second placed
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(), with
Mikel Landa Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish professional road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall. Career Early career Lan ...
() coming in third. The surprise of the day was Richard Carapaz, who essentially was let go by
Vincenzo Nibali ), The Nibbler , birth_date = , birth_place = Messina, Sicily, Italy , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ridertype = Climber , proyears1 = 2005 , proteam1 = , proyears2 = 2006–2012 , protea ...
() and Roglič. This placed him right with the other favorites, two down on Roglič and a further two on Polanc. However, on the other end of the spectrum, big names like Miguel Ángel López () and Simon Yates () lose multiple minutes on the day. Stage fourteen was arguably the ''maglia rosa''-deciding stage, as Carapaz was once again on the attack for minutes. The rest of the favorites once again let him go, and let his gap grow to nearly two minutes for a decisive victory. Yates placed in second, gaining about 20 seconds on the rest of the favorites. The fifteenth day of racing was one for the break again, as Dario Cataldo () edged out Mattia Cattaneo () for the win, with Yates once again placing on the podium. This stage saw Roglic lose a bit of time on his rivals after a nightmare day filled with crashes and such, obtaining a needed break from the final rest day. The third week began with the now-shortened "queen stage" of the race. Missing out on the
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, the challenging day saw the ''maglia azzurra'' (mountain classification) leader Giulio Ciccone () not only secure the classification, but win the stage from a tough breakaway with Jan Hirt () in a close second. Fausto Masnada () grabbed his second podium of the race in third, and saw Lopez lose some 20 seconds on Nibali, as well as Roglič over a minute. The seventeenth day was another one for the break, this time Nans Peters () breaking through for the win, with Esteban Chaves () around a minute and a half back, and
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() rounded out in third. Nibali, Roglič, and others once again lost seconds on Carapaz. Stage eighteen, however, was more or less a break in the action for many.
Damiano Cima Damiano Cima (born 13 September 1993 in Brescia) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . His younger brother Imerio Cima is also a cyclist, and is also part of the squad. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2 ...
() outlasted the sprint trains to take a surprise win over Ackermann and
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(). Demare held the
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up to this point, but bad positioning meant he brought it home in eighth, putting Ackermann in the ''maglia ciclamino'' to the end of the race. Stage nineteen was yet another for the break, this time Chaves finally nabbing a stage win for himself and Mitchelton-Scott.
Andrea Vendrame Andrea Vendrame (born 20 July 1994 in Conegliano) is an Italian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;2014 : 10th Gran Premio della Liberazione : 10th ...
() and Amaro Antunes () made up the top three, with Lopez gaining around 45 seconds on his rivals. The penultimate stage of the Giro was maybe one of the more exciting ones, with
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() taking another one for himself over Landa, with Ciccone not far behind in third. Roglič and Yates both lost 50 seconds to the favorites, and Lopez once again lost 2 minutes on them. That left everything on the table for the final time trial to round out this year's edition. The American Chad Haga () surprisingly gave Sunweb their one and only win in the Giro, with Campernaerts once again only four seconds down, and with Thomas De Gendt () taking the final place on the podium, rounding out an excellent Giro. Carapaz became the first Ecuadorian rider to win a Grand Tour and the second South American rider to win the Giro, after Colombian
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. Vincenzo Nibali placed second, one minute down, and Roglič managed to take third back from Landa on the final day by eight seconds. Pascal Ackermann took the points classification by 13 points over Arnaud Démare, and Giulio Ciccone outright dominated the mountain classification. Miguel Ángel López unsurprisingly took the youth classification over Pavel Sivakov, and Movistar unsurprisingly took the team classification.


Incidents

About from the finish of stage 18, a spectator walked onto the road shortly before the escape group reached the spot and dropped a bicycle in the path of the riders. The man then walked away from the scene. Another spectator stepped in and removed the obstacle. On 4 June 2019, it was reported that the identified perpetrator, a man from Tunisia, faced expulsion back to his home country due to his actions. During the final ascent to Croce d'Aune on stage 20, Miguel Ángel López was knocked off his bike in an incident with a spectator. Before he got back on his bike, López hit the fan several times in anger. He would go on to lose almost two minutes on the group of other favourites at the end of the stage. Even though UCI regulations stipulate that a rider who engages in physical violence is to be disqualified from the event, López was given no punishment for his action. The UCI announced on 2 June 2019 that they had launched an investigation into the jury's decision not to apply a penalty.


Doping

On 15 May 2019, the UCI announced that they had provisionally suspended Kristijan Koren (), part of his squad for the 2019 Giro, for his alleged involvement in the '' Operation Aderlass'' doping case. The team subsequently pulled Koren out of the race.


Classification leadership

In the Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys are awarded. The first and most important is the
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, calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Riders receive time bonuses (10, 6 and 4 seconds respectively) for finishing in the first three places on each stage. Smaller time bonuses are also given to the top three riders at the last intermediate sprint on each stage (3, 2 and 1 seconds respectively). The rider with the lowest cumulative time is awarded the pink jersey ( it, maglia rosa), and is considered the winner of the Giro d'Italia. Additionally, there is a
points classification The points classification is a secondary award category in road bicycle racing. Points are given for high finishes and, in some cases, for winning sprints at certain places along the route, most often called ''intermediate sprints''. The points cl ...
. Riders win points for finishing in the top placings on each stage or by being within the first cyclists to reach intermediate sprint locations along each mass-start stage. Flat stages award more points than mountainous stages, meaning that this classification tends to favour sprinters. The leader of the points classification wore the cyclamen jersey. There is also a mountains classification, for which points were awarded for reaching the top of a climb before other riders. Each climb was categorised as either first, second, third or fourth-category, with more points available for the more difficult, higher-categorised climbs. For first-category climbs, the top eight riders earned points; on second-category climbs, six riders won points; on third-category climbs, only the top four riders earned points with three on fourth-category climbs. The leadership of the mountains classification was marked by a blue jersey. The '' Cima Coppi'', the race's highest point of elevation, awards more points than the other first-category climbs, with nine riders scoring points. Initially, the Cima Coppi was scheduled to be the Passo di Gavia on the sixteenth stage, but due to weather the climb was removed from the itinerary. The next highest climb was that to Serrù Lake, however the climb had already been ascended prior to the cancellation. As a result, organisers chose to assign the Cima Coppi to the highest climb out of those which had not been ascended – the Passo Manghen on stage 20. The fourth jersey represents the
young rider classification Young rider classification (french: classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for rid ...
. This is decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1994 are eligible. The winner of the classification is awarded a white jersey. There are also two classifications for teams. In the Trofeo Fast Team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage are added up; the leading team is one with the lowest total time. The Trofeo Super Team is a team points classification, with the top 20 riders of each stage earning points for their team. The first additional award is the intermediate sprint classification. Each road stage has two sprints – the ''Traguardi Volanti''. The first 5 riders across the intermediate sprint lines are awarded points (10, 6, 3, 2 and 1 points respectively); the rider with the most points at the end of the race wins the classification. Another classification – the combativity prize ( it, Premio Combattività) – involves points awarded to the first riders at the stage finishes, at intermediate sprints, and at the summits of categorised climbs. There is also a breakaway award ( it, Premio della Fuga). For this, points are awarded to each rider in any breakaway smaller than 10 riders that escapes for at least . Each rider is awarded a point for each kilometre that the rider was away from the peloton. The rider with the most points at the end of the Giro wins the award. The final classification is a "fair play" ranking for each team. Teams are given penalty points for infringing various rules. These range from half-point penalties, for offences that merit warnings from race officials, to a 2000-point penalty, for a positive doping test. The team that has the lowest points total at the end of the Giro wins the classification. When several teams are tied on points, the team with the highest classified rider in the general classification will be the higher ranked team in the fair play classification.


Final standings


General classification


Points classification


Mountains classification


Young rider classification


General Super Team


Intermediate sprint classification


Combativity classification


Breakaway classification


References


Bibliography

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External links


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