Date: Saturday May 10, 2025 - Friday May 30, 2025
Start: TBC
Finish: Rome
Total distance: TBC
Stages: 21
Riders: 176
Teams: 22
Defending champion: Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)

GIRO D'ITALIA OVERVIEW

The Giro d’Italia, or just the Giro, is a gruelling multi-stage endurance race and is one of the three Grand Tours, along with the Tour de France and Vuelta a España. Staged over three weeks with 21 individual stage races and two rest days, the Giro features the world’s best cyclists battling it out to win the prestigious pink winner’s jersey.

Last year, the Giro remained on home soil for its Grande Partenza, with Venaria Reale in Turin hosting the opening 136km road stage. In 2023, the opening of the Giro was also held in Italy, but before that, the race featured a foreign start in Budapest, Hungary, and finished in the Italian city of Verona. This year, it is yet to be announced whether the Giro will move away from Italy and head overshores. 

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won the 2024 edition with a margin of 9:56 over the second-placed rider, Daniel Martínez (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe). The Slovenian won an astounding seven stages in the first Grand Tour of the season and wore the prestigious pink jersey from stage two until the final stage in Rome. It is yet to be announced whether Pogačar will be back in Italy to defend his title in 2025.

GIRO D'ITALIA ROUTE 2025 

The route for the 2025 edition of the three-week race will be unveiled in January. 

GIRO D’ITALIA TEAMS 2025

While the 2025 team list has not yet been announced, it is expected that 22 teams will compete in the Giro d'Italia, with 18 of those being WorldTour teams who automatically receive a place on the start line and the four remaining places will be for second-division pro teams who are top-ranking or chosen as a wildcard by the organisers.

GIRO D’ITALIA HISTORY

The Giro d’Italia will be in its 108th edition in 2024, having started in 1909. Founded by a local, pink coloured newspaper called La Gazzetta dello Sport, today it’s run by RCS Sport, whose parent company RCS Mediagroup also owns the newspaper. Since its inception, the race has become known for being one of the toughest races in the world, and its savage, varied, and beautiful routes have distinguished its prestige even amongst the other Grand Tours.

Such is the Giro’s accolade, overall wins and stage wins are often career defining moments for riders. Throughout the years the Giro has been running, only 22 riders have won the race more than once, and not many can pull off the back-back Giro wins. For many years no one has, with Spaniard Miguel Indurain the last to pull-off the feat in 1992 and 1993. Three riders – Alfredo Binda, Fausto Coppi, and Eddy Merckx – have won the race a record five times.

Mario Cipollini has won the most stages in the Giro with a grand total of 42 wins. 

No one has come close to challenging Cipollini’s record, with Eddy Merckx holding second place with 24 stage wins, Francesco Moser with 23, and Alessandro Petacchi and Roger De Vlaeminck both with 22. Throughout the history of the Giro, Merckx holds the title for the rider to have worn the pink jersey the most, donning it on 77 occasions.

Most Giro d’Italia wins:

Five wins - Alfredo Binda, Fausto Coppi, and Eddy Merckx 

Three wins - Gino Bartali, Bernard Hinault, Fiorenzo Magni, Felice Gimondi, and Giovanni Brunero

Recent Giro d’Italia winners:

2024 - Tadej Pogačar, UAE Team Emirates 
2023 - Primož Roglič, Jumbo-Visma
2022 - Jai Hindley, Bora-Hansgrohe 
2021 - Egan Bernal, Ineos Grenadiers 
2020 - Tao Geoghegan Hart, Ineos Grenadiers 
2019 - Richard Carapaz, Movistar Team 
2018 - Chris Froome, Team Sky 
2017 - Tom Dumoulin, Team Sunweb 
2016 - Vincenzo Nibali, Astana 
2015 - Alberto Contador, Tinkoff-Saxo 
2014 - Nairo Quintana, Movistar Team