Final Overall

1	Ivan Gotti	99 hr 55 min 56 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 3 min 35 sec
3	Gilberto Simoni	@ 3-36
4	Laurent Jalabert	@ 5-16
5	Roberto Heras Hernandez	@ 7-47
6	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 9-38
7	Sergei Gontchar	@ 12-07
8	Daniele De Paoli	@ 14-20
9	Daniel Clavero	@ 15-53
10	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 17-31

Stage 2 Noto-Catania 133 km May 16 3 hr 18 min 12 sec.

1	Mario Cipollini
2	Jeroen Blijlevens	same time
3	Dario Pieri	s.t.
4	Gabriele Missaglia	s.t.
5	Ivan Quaranta	s.t.
6	Massimiliano Gentile	s.t.
7	Fabrizio Guidi	s.t.
8	Gian Matteo Fagnini	s.t.
9	Gabriele Balducci	s.t.
10	Andrea Noe	s.t.

Stage 3 Catania-Messina 176 km 4:53.49 May 17 At the end of the stage, Blijlevens is leader

1	Jeroen Blijlevens	All same time
2	Jan Svorada
3	Massimo Strazzer
4	Nicola Minali
5	Endrio Leoni
6	Miguel Angel Martin
7	Gabrielle Balducci
8	Fabrizio Guidi
9	Alexander Gontchenkov
10	Alain Turicchia

Stage 4 Vibo Valentia-Terme Luigiane 186 km 4:23.49 At the end of the stage, Blijlevens is leader with Jalabert at 8 sec.

1	Laurent Jalabert	All same time
2	Matteo Fagnini
3	Davide Rebillin
4	Oskar Caminzind
5	Alexander Gontchenkov
6	Romans Vainsteins
7	Paolo Savoldelli
8	Viatcheslav Ekimov
9	Alain Turicchia
10	Enrico Zaina

Stage 5 Terme Lugiane-Monte Sirino. May 19. 147 km 4:11.47. At the end of this stage Jalabert leads with Di Luca at 7 sec.

1	José Gonzalez Pico
2	Danilo Di Luca	5 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	6 sec
4	Marco Pantani	s.t.
5	Ivan Gotti	s.t.
6	Paolo Savoldelli	s.t.
7	Dario Frigo	s.t.
8	Davide Rebillin	s.t.
9	Gilberto Simoni	s.t.
10	Oskar Camenzind	s.t.

Stage 6 Lauria -Foggia May 20 245 km 5:55.43. No real changes in overall standings at the end of this stage

1	Romans Vainsteins	All same time
2	Fabrizio Guidi
3	Gabriele Missaglia
4	Matteo Tosatto
5	Paolo Bettini
6	Guido Trenti
7	Marco Magnani
8	Allesando Petacchi
9	Jeroen Blijlevens
10	Giuliano Figueras

Stage 7 Foggia -Lanciano May 21 153 km 4:12.06. Jalabert still holds a 7 second lead over Di Luca in overall

1	Jeroen Blijlevens	All same time
2	Romans Vainsteins
3	Fabrizio Guidi
4	Paolo Bettini
5	Mariano Piccoli
6	Alessandro Petacchi
7	Gabriele Balducci
8	Gabriele Missaglia
9	Angel Edo
10	Gianmatteo Fagnini

Stage 8 Pescara-Gransasso May 22. 253 km 7:09.00. After this stage, Pantani is in pink, Jiménez at 38 sec, Gotti at 45, Frigo at 54, and Jalabert at 55 sec.

1	Marco Pantani
2	José Maria Jiménez	@ 23 sec
3	Alex Zülle	@ 26
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 33
5	Andrea Noè	@ 42
6
7	Dario Frigo
8	Sergei Gontchar	@ 58
9	Massimo Codol	@ 1 min
10	Oskar Camenzind	s.t.

Stage 9 Ancona Individual time Trial 32 km

1	Laurent Jalabert	40 min 36 sec
2	Sergei Gontchar	41-01
3	Marco Pantani	41-31
4	Oskar Camenzind	41-33
5	Dario Frigo	41-35
6	Daniel Clavero	41-44
7	Alex Zülle	41-51
8	Ivan Gotti	41-59
9	Niklas Axelsson	42-14
10	Andrei Zintchenko	42-35

Overall after 9 stages

1	Jalabert	39 hrs 24 min 48 sec
2	Pantani	s.t.
3	Frigo	@ 58 sec
4	Gontchar	@ 1 min 9 sec
5	Gotti	@ 1-13
6	Clavero	@ 1-18
7	Camenzind	@ 1-24
8	Zülle	@ 2-04
9	Axelsson	@ 2-05
10	Noè	@ 2-19

Stage 10, May 24. Ancona-Sansepolcro, 189 km. 4:28.24. At the end of this stage, Laurent Jalbert remains the overall leader with Pantani in second place with the same time.

1	Mario Cipollini	All same time
2	Ivan Quaranta
3	Massimo Strazzer
4	Francesco Arazzi
5	Endrio Leoni
6	Sergei Smetanine
7	Gabriele Balducci
8	Jeroen Blijlevens
9	Fabrizio Guidi
10	Alassandro Petacchi

Stage 11, May 25 Sansepolcro - Cesenatico. 125 km. 2:53.41

1	Ivan Quaranta	All listed same time
2	Mario Cipollini
3	Jan Svorada
4	Jeroen Blijlevens
5	Endrio Leoni
6	Matteo Tosatto
7	Dario Pieri
8	Massimo Strazzer
9	Luca Cei
10	Marco Gili

Overall at the end of stage 11

1	Laurent Jalabert	46 hr 46 min 49 sec
2	Marco Pantani	@ 4 sec
3	Dario Frigo	@ 1min 2 sec
4	Sergei Gontchar	@ 1-13
5	Ivan Gotti	@ 1-17

Stage 12, May 26 Cesniatico - Sassuolo 168 km. 4:07.07. No overall leader change

1	Mario Cipollini (28th career Giro vitory)	All listed riders same time
2	Ivan Quaranta
3	Dario Frigo
4	Luca Cei
5	Matteo Tosatto
6	Nicola Minali
7	Sergei Smetanine
8	Jan Svorada
9	Endrio Leoni
10	Vladimir Duma

Stage 13, May 27. Sassuolo Rapallo 243 km. 6:55.34. Despite Virenque's win, he remains 10:07 down overall. The severity of the terrain caused sprint specialists Svorada, Vainsteins and Quaranta to drop out of the race.

1	Richard Virenque
2	Santiago Blanco	same time
3	Davide Rebellin	@ 21 sec
4	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 22
5	Andrei Teteriuk	@ 34
6	Andrei Zintchenko	same time
7	Gerrit Glomser	s.t.
8	Giuliano Figueras	s.t.
9	Enrico Zaina	s.t.
10	Oskar Camenzind	s.t.

Overall

1	Laurent Jalabert	57 hrs 50 min 04 sec
2	Marco Pantani	@ 4 sec
3	Sergei Gontchar	@ 1 min 13 sec
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 1-17
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 1-22
6	Oscar Camenzind	@ 1-28
7	Alex Zülle	@ 2-08
8	Niklas Axelsson	@ 2-09
9	Andrea Noè	@ 2-23
10	José Maria Jiménez	@ 2-43

May 28: Rest Day

Stage 14, May 29. Bra-Borgo San Dalmazzo 187 km 5:22.13

1	Paolo Savoldelli
2	Marco Pantani	@ 1 min 47 sec
3	Daniel Clavero	same time
4	Ivan Gotti	s.t
5	Richard Virenque	@ 3 min 28 sec
6	Andrei Zintchenko	s.t.
7	Pietro Caucchioli	s.t.
8	Herman Buenahora	s.t.
9	Cristiano Frattini	s.t.
10	Roberto Hera Hernandez	s.t.

Overall Competition after stage 14

1	Marco Pantani	63 hr 14 min 00 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 53 sec
3	Ivan Gotti	@ 1 min 21 sec
4	Damiel Clavero	@ 1-22
5	Laurent Jalabert	@ 1-45
6	Sergei Gontchar	@ 3-47
7	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 3-54
8	Gilberto Simoni	@ 5-01
9	Oskar Camenzind	@ 5-18
10	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 6-13

Stage 15, Sunday May 30. Racconisi-Oropa 143 km. 3 hrs 47 min 31 sec.

1	Marco Pantani
2	Laurent Jalabert	@ 21 sec
3	Gilberto Simoni	@ 35
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 38
5	Daniel Clavero	same time
6	Nicola Miceli	@ 44 sec
7	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 49
8	Andrei Zintchenko	@ 54
9	Daniele De Paoli	@ 56
10	Davide Rebillin	@ 57

Overall competiton after stage 15

1	Marco Pantani	67 hr 01 min 19sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 1 min 54 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	@ 2 min 10 sec
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 2-11
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 2-12
6	Sergei Gontchar	@ 5 min 40 sec
7	Gilberto Simoni	@ 5-44
8	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 6 min 08 sec
9	Oskar Camenzind	@ 6-27
10	Daniele De Paoli	@ 7 min 58 sec

Stage 16, Monday, May 31. Biella-Lumezzane, 232 km. 5 hr, 51 min, 36 sec.

1	Laurent Jalabert
2	Marco Pantani	same time
3	Gilberto Simoni	s.t.
4	Roberto Hera Henandez	@ 3 sec
5	Marco Velo	same time
6	Davide Rebellin	s.t.
7	Oskar Camenzind	s.t.
8	Paolo Savoldelli	s.t.
9	Giuseppe Di Grande	@ 6 sec
10	Nicola Miceli	s.t.

Overall after stage 15

1	Marco Pantani	72 hr 52 min 47 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 2 min 05 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	@ 2-06
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 2-33
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 2-43
6	Gilberto Simoni	@ 5-48
7	Sergei Gontchar	@ 5-57
8	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 6-25
9	Oskar Camenzind	@ 6-38
10	Daniele De Paoli	@ 8-18

Stage 17, June 1 Lummezzane-Castelfranco Veneto, 212 km, 5 hr 42 min 49 sec.

1	Mario Cipollini
2	Matteo Tosatto	same time
3	Dario Pieri	s.t.
4	Sergei Smetanine	s.t.
5	Massimo Strazzer	s.t.
6	Jeroen Blijlevens	s.t.
7	Alessandro Petacchi	s.t.
8	Gabriele Missaglia	s.t.
9	Biagio Conte	s.t.
10	Miguel A. Martin Pedreguero	s.t.

Overall after Stage 17

1	Marco Pantani	78 hr 35 min 36 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 2 min 05 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	@ 2-06
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 2-33
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 2-43
6	Gilberto Simoni	@ 5-48
7	Sergei Gontchar	@ 5-57
8	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 6-25
9	Oskar Camenzind	@ 6-38
10	Daniele De Paoli	@ 8-18

Stage 18, June 2, Wednesday. Treviso Individual Time Trial, 45 km

1	Sergei Gontchar	52 min 55 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 17 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	@ 41
4	Martin Hvastija	@ 42
5	Marco Velo	@ 57
6	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 1 min 29 sec
7	Marco Pantani	@ 1-38
8	Victor Pena	@ 1-41
9	Andrei Zintchenko	@ 1-50
10	Ivan Gotti	@ 2-17

Overall after stage 18

1	Marco Pantani	79 hr 30 min 09 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 44 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	@1 min 9 sec
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 3-12
5	Sergei Gontchar	@ 4-19
6	Enrico Cassani	@ 4-47
7	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 6-16
8	Gilberto Simoni	@ 7-22
9	Andrei Zintchenko	@ 8-33
10	Marco Velo	@ 9-10

Stage 19, June 3, Thursday. Castelfranco Veneto-Alpe di Paampeago 166 km

1	Marco Pantani	5 hr 13 min 15 sec
2	Gilberto Simoni	@ 1 min 07 sec
3	Roberto Heras Hernandez	@ 1-27
4	Ivan Gotti	@ 1-29
5	Daniele De Paoli	@ 1-54
6	Oskar Camenzind	@ 2-32
7	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 2-32
8	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 2-46
9	Nicklas Axelsson	@2-52
10	Oscar Sevilla Ribera	@ 2-54

Overall after stage 19

1	Marco Pantani	84 hr 43 min 12 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 3 min 42 sec
3	Ivan Gotti	@ 4-53
4	Laurent Jalabert	@ 5-24
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 7-58
6	Gilberto Simoni	@ 8-33
7	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 9-20
8	Sergei Gontchar	@ 11-49
9	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 12-05
10	Andrei Zintchenko	@ 12-46

Stage 20, June 4 Friday. Predazzo-Madonna di Campiglio 175 km. 4 hr 39 min 58 sec.

1	Marco Pantani
2	Massimo Codol	@ 1 min 07 sec
3	Laurent Jalabert	Same Time
4	Gilberto Simoni	s.t.
5	Ivan Gotti	s.t.
6	Herman Buenahora	s.t.
7	Roberto Heras Hernandez	s.t.
8	Oskar Camenzind	@ 1 min 29 sec

Overall after stage 20

1	Marco Pantani	89 hr 23 min 10 sec
2	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 5 min 38 sec
3	Ivan Gotti	@ 6-12
4	Laurent Jalabert	@ 6-39
5	Daniel Clavero	@ 9-51
6	Gilberto Simoni	@ 9-52
7	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 11-01
8	Sergei Gontchar	@ 13-30

Stage 21, June 5 Saturday Madonna di Campiglio - Aprica 190 km

1	Roberto Heras Hernandez	5 hr 57 min 07 sec
2	Gilberto Simoni	same time
3	Ivan Gotti	@ 4 min 05 sec
4	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 4-45
5	Laurent Jalabert	same time
6	Sergei Gontchar	s.t.
7	Daniele De Paoli	s.t.
8	Nicklas Axelsson	s.t.
9	Richard Virenque	6 min 19 sec
10	Oscar Mason	8-05

Overall after stage 21. Pantani disqualified for high hematocrit level.

1	Ivan Gotti	95 hr 26 min 13 sec
2	Gilberto Simoni	@ 3 min 35 sec
3	Paolo Savoldelli	@ 3-36
4	Laurent Jalabert	@ 5-15
5	Roberto Heras Hernandez	@ 7-47
6	Nicklas Axelsson	@ 9-38
7	Sergei Gontchar	@ 12-07
8	Daniele De Paoli	@ 14-20
9	Daniel Clavero	@ 15-53
10	Roberto Sgambelluri	@ 17-31

Stage 22, June 6, Sunday. Boario Terme-Milano 170 km 4 hr 29 min 43 sec.

1	Fabrizio Guidi
2	Dario Pieri	same time
3	Massimo Strazzer	s.t.
4	Sergei Smetanine	s.t.
5	Samuele Schiavina	s.t.
6	Mariano Piccoli	s.t.
7	Andreas Klier	s.t.
8	Gian Matteo Fagnini	s.t.
9	Angel Edo	s.t.
10	Chann McRae	s.t.

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