The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) is generally regarded as the second most important race in cycling. It was launched as a wild gamble in 1909 by La Gazzetta dello Sport, then a struggling sports newspaper that had trouble even meeting its payroll. Today the Giro is owned and organized by RCS Sport, part of the giant media conglomerate that owns the now very successful La Gazzetta dello Sport, successful in no small part because of the popularity of the Giro.
Until 1950 all winners of the Giro were Italian. Swiss racer Hugo Koblet was the first foreign Giro victor.
In the early years, both the Giro and the Tour de France experimented with various formats and ways of calculating the standings. Through 1913 the Giro was run as a points race. In 1914 the winner was determined for the first time on elapsed time. The 1912 edition was run as a team race with no individual winner. That experiment was widely disliked and never tried again.
For links to pages with more details about various years of the Giro, click on any highlighted year. For some photos or other links, look in the third column.
Year
|
Winner
|
2nd Place
|
3rd Place
|
Total distance,
Average speed,
Links
|
| 1909 |
Ganna, Luigi (Italy)
25 points
89hr 48min 14sec |
Carlo Galetti
27 points |
Giovanni Rossignoli
40 points |
2,448 km
27.26 km/hr |
| 1910 |
Galetti, Carlo (Italy)
28 points
114hr 24min |
Eberado Pavesi
46 points |
Luigi Ganna
51 points |
Photo of Galetti
2,980 km
26,11 km/hr |
| 1911 |
Galetti, Carlo (Italy)
50 points
132hr 24min |
Giovanni Rossignoli
58 points |
Giovanni Gerbi
84 points |
3,530 km
26.22 km/hr |
| 1912 |
Team Atala
(Ganna, Galettti, Micheletto, Pavesi)
33 points
101hr 32min 57sec |
Team Peugeot
(Durando, Gremo, Agostini, Allasia)
23 points |
Team Gerbi
(Gerbi, Rossignoli, Albini, Bordin)
8 points |
2,443.7 km
27.323 km/hr |
| 1913 |
Oriani, Carlo (Italy)
37 points
135hr 15min 56sec |
Eberardo Pavesi
43 points |
Giuseppe Azzini
48 points |
2,932 km
26.38 km/hr |
| 1914 |
Calzolari, Alfonso (Italy)
135hr 17min 56sec |
Pierino Albini
@ 1hr 57min 26sec |
Luigi Lucotti
@ 2hr 4min 23sec |
3,162 km
23.37 km/hr |
| 1919 |
Girardengo, Costante (Italy)
112hr 51min 29sec |
Gaetano Belloni
@ 51min 56sec |
Marcel Buysse
@ 1hr 5min 31sec |
Photo of Girardengo
2,964 km
26.44 km/hr |
| 1920 |
Belloni, Gaetano (Italy)
102hr 44min 33sec |
Angelo Gremo
@ 32min 24sec |
Jean Alavoine
@ 1hr 1min 14sec |
2,632 km
25.64 km/hr |
| 1921 |
Brunero, Giovanno (Italy)
120hr 24min 39sec |
Gaetano Belloni
@ 41sec |
Bartolomeo Aymo
@ 19min 47sec |
3,107 km
25.59 km/hr |
| 1922 |
Brunero, Giovanni (Italy)
119hr 43min |
Bartolomeo Aymo
@ 12min 29sec |
Giuseppe Enrici
@ 1hr 35min 33sec |
3,095 km
25.86 km/hr |
| 1923 |
Girardengo, Costante (Italy)
122hr 58min 17sec |
Giovanni Brunero
@ 37sec |
Bartolomeo Aymo
@ 10min 25sec |
3,202 km
25.895 km/hr |
| 1924 |
Enrici, Giuseppe (Italy)
143hr 43min 37sec |
Federico Gay
@ 58min 21sec |
Angiolo Gabrielli
1hr 56min 53sec |
3,613 km
25.138 km/hr |
| 1925 |
Binda, Alfredo (Italy)
137hr 31min 13sec |
Costante Girardengo
@ 4min 58sec |
Giovanni Brunero
@ 7min 22sec |
Photo of Binda
3520 km
25.6 km/hr |
| 1926 |
Brunero, Giovanni (Italy)
137hr 55min 59sec |
Alfredo Binda
@ 15min 28sec |
Arturo Bresciani
@ 54min 41sec |
3,429 km
25.113 km/hr |
| 1927 |
Binda, Alfredo (Italy)
144hr 15min 35sec |
Giovanni Brunero
@ 27min 24sec |
Antonio Negrini
@ 36min 6sec |
3,758 km
25.847 km/hr |
| 1928 |
Binda, Alfredo (Italy)
114hr 15min 19sec |
Giuseppe Pancera
@ 18min 13sec |
Bartolomeo Aymo
@ 27min 25sec |
3,044 km
26.748 km/hr |
| 1929 |
Binda, Alfredo (Italy)
107hr 18min 24sec |
Domenico Piemontesi
@ 3min 44sec |
Leonida Frascarelli
@ 5min 4sec |
2,920 km
27.29 km/hr |
| 1930 |
Marchisio, Luigi (Italy)
115hr 11min 15sec |
Luigi Guicobbe
@ 52sec |
Allegro Grandi
@ 1min 49sec |
3,907 km
26.878 km/hr |
| 1931 |
Camusso, Francesco (Italy)
102hr 40min 46sec |
Luigi Giacobbe
@ 2min 47sec |
Luigi Marchisio
@ 6min 15sec |
3,012km
29.332 km/hr |
| 1932 |
Pesenti, Antonio (Italy)
105hr 53min 50sec |
Jef Demuysere
@ 11min 9sec |
Remo Bertoni
12min 27sec |
3,235 km
30.594 km/hr |
| 1933 |
Binda, Alfredo (Italy)
111hr 1min 52sec |
Jef Dumuysere
@ 12min 34sec |
Domenico Piemontesi
@ 16min 31sec |
3.148 km
30.043 km/hr |
| 1934 |
Guerra, Learco (Italy)
121hr 17min 17sec |
Francesco Camusso
@ 51sec |
Giovanni Cazzulani
@ 4min 59sec |
3,706 km
30.548 km/hr |
| 1935 |
Bergamaschi, Vasco (Italy)
113hr 22min 46sec |
Giuseppe Martano
@ 3min 7sec |
Giuseppe Olmo
@ 6min 12sec |
3,577 km
31.363 km/hr |
| 1936 |
Bartali, Gino (Italy)
120hr 12min 30sec |
Giuseppe Olmo
@ 2min 36sec |
Severino Canavesi
@ 7min 49sec |
3,766 km
31.279 km/hr |
| 1937 |
Bartali, Gino (Italy)
112hr 25min 40sec |
Giovanni Valetti
@ 8min 18sec |
Enrico Mollo
17min 38sec |
3,849 km
31.365 km/hr |
| 1938 |
Valetti, Giovanni (Italy)
112hr 49min 28sec |
Ezio Cecchi
@ 8min 52sec |
Severino Canavesi
@ 9min 6sec |
3,645 km
33.272 km/hr |
| 1939 |
Valetti, Giovanni (Italy)
88hr 2min |
Gino Bartali
@ 2min 59sec |
Mario Vicini
@ 5min 7sec |
3,011 km
34.150 km/hr |
| 1940 |
Coppi, Fausto (Italy)
107hr 31min 10sec |
Enrico Mollo
@ 2min 40sec |
Giordano Cottur
@ 11min 45sec |
Photo of Coppi
3,574 km
33.240 km/hr |
| 1946 |
Bartali, Gino (Italy)
|
Fausto Coppi
@ 47sec |
Vito Ortelli
@ 15min 28sec |
3,039 km
|
| 1947 |
Coppi, Fausto (Italy)
115hr 55min 7sec |
Gino Bartali
@ 1min 43sec |
Giulio Bresci
@ 5min 54sec |
3,843 km
33.153 km/hr |
| 1948 |
Magni, Fiorenzo (Italy)
124hr 51min 52sec |
Ezio Cecchi
@ 11sec |
Giordano Cottur
@ 2min 37sec |
4,164 km
33.166 km/hr |
| 1949 |
Coppi, Fausto (Italy)
125hr 25min 50sec |
Gino Bartali
@ 23min 47sec |
Giordano Cottur
@ 38min 27sec |
4,088 km
32.566 km/hr |
| 1950 |
Koblet, Hugo (Switzerland)
117hr 28min 3sec |
Gino Bartali
@ 5min 12sec |
Alfredo Martini
@ 8min 41sec |
3,981 km
33.816 km/hr |
| 1951 |
Magni, Fiorenzo (Italy)
121hr 11min 37sec |
Rik Van Steenbergen
@ 1min 46sec |
Ferdi Kübler
@ 2min 36sec |
4,153 km
34.217 km/hr |
| 1952 |
Coppi, Fausto (Italy)
114 hr 36min 43sec |
Fiorenzo Magni
@ 9min 18sec |
Ferdi Kübler
@ 9min 24sec |
3,964 km
34.56 km/hr |
| 1953 |
Coppi, Fausto (Italy)
118hr 37min 26sec |
Hugo Koblet
@ 1min 29sec |
Pasquale Fornara
@ 6min 55sec |
4,035 km
34.02 km/hr |
| 1954 |
Clerici, Carlo (Switzerland)
129hr 13min 7sec |
Hugo Koblet
@ 24min 16sec |
Nino Assirelli
@ 26min 28sec |
4,337 km
33.563 km/hr |
| 1955 |
Magni, Fiorenzo (Italy)
108hr 56min 13sec |
Fausto Coppi
@ 13sec |
Gastone Nencini
@ 4min 8sec |
3,873 km
35.55 km/hr |
| 1956 |
Gaul, Charly (Luxembourg)
101hr 39min 49sec |
Fiorenzo Magni
@ 3min 27sec |
Agostino Coletto
@ 6min 53sec |
3,523 km
34.677 km/hr |
| 1957 |
Nencini, Gastone (Italy)
104hr 45min 6sec |
Louison Bobet
@ 19sec |
Ercole Baldini
@ 5min 59sec |
3,926 km
37.488 km/hr |
| 1958 |
Baldini, Ercole (Italy)
92hr 9min 30sec |
Jean Bankart
@ 4min 17sec |
Charly Gaul
@ 6min 7sec |
3,341 km
36.274 km/hr |
| 1959 |
Gaul, Charly (Luxembourg)
101hr 50min 26sec |
Jacques Anquetil
@ 6min 12sec |
Diego Ronchini
@ 6min 16sec |
3,657 km
35.909 km/hr |
| 1960 |
Anquetil, Jacques (France)
94hr 3min 54sec |
Gastone Nencini
@ 28sec |
Charly Gaul
@ 3min 51sec |
3,481 km
37.006 km/hr |
| 1961 |
Pambianco, Arnaldo (Italy)
111hr 25min 28sec |
Jacques Anquetil
@ 3min 45sec |
Antonio Suarez
@ 4min 17sec |
4,004 km
35.934 km/hr |
| 1962 |
Balmanion, Franco (Italy)
123hr 7min 3sec |
Imerio Massignan
@ 3min 57sec |
Nino Defelippis
@ 5min 2sec |
4,180 km
33.955 km/hr |
| 1963 |
Balmanion, Franco (Italy)
116hr 50min 16sec |
Vittorio Adorni
@ 2min 24sec |
Giorgio Zancanaro
@ 3min 15sec |
4,063 km
34.774 km/hr |
| 1964 |
Anquetil, Jacques (France)
115hr 10min 27sec |
Italo Zilioli
@ 1min 22sec |
Guido De Rosso
@ 1min 31sec |
4,119 km
35.740 km/hr |
| 1965 |
Adorni, Vittorio (Italy)
121hr 8min 16sec |
Italo Zilioli
@ 11min 26sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 12min 49sec |
4,151 km
34.270 km/hr |
| 1966 |
Motta, Gianni (Italy)
111hr 10min 48sec |
Italo Zilioli
@ 3min 57sec |
Jacques Anquetil
@ 4min 40sec |
3,976 km
35.744 km/hr |
| 1967 |
Gimondi, Felice (Italy)
101hr 5min 34sec |
Franco Balmamion
@ 3min 36sec |
Jasques Anquetil
@ 3min 45sec |
3,572 km
35.339 km/hr |
| 1968 |
Merckx, Eddy (Belgium)
108hr 42min 27sec |
Vittorio Adorni
@ 5min 1sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 9min 5sec |
3,917 km
36.031 km/hr |
| 1969 |
Gimondi, Felice (Italy)
106hr 47min 3sec |
Claudio Michelotto
@ 3min 35sec |
Italo Zilioli
@ 4min 48sec |
3,731 km
34.942 km/hr |
| 1970 |
Merckx, Eddy (Belgium)
90hr 8min 47sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 3min 14sec |
Martin Vandenbossche
@ 4min 59sec |
3,292 km
36.518 km/hr |
| 1971 |
Petterson, Gosta (Sweden)
97hr 24min 3sec |
Herman Van Springel
@ 2min 4sec |
Ugo Colombo
@ 2min 35sec |
3,567 km
36.597 km/hr |
| 1972 |
Merckx, Eddy (Belgium)
103hr 4min 4sec |
Jose Manel Fuentes
@ 5min 30sec |
Francisco Galdos
@ 10min 39sec |
3,725 km
36.12 km/hr |
| 1973 |
Merckx, Eddy (Belgium)
106hr 54min 41sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 7min 42sec |
Giovanni Battaglin
@ 10min 20sec |
3,796 km
35.506 km/hr |
| 1974 |
Merckx, Eddy (Belgium)
113hr 8min 13sec |
Gibi Baronchelli
@ 12sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 33sec |
4,001 km
35.372 km/hr |
| 1975 |
Bertoglio, Fausto (Italy)
111hr 31min 34sec |
Francisco Galdos
@ 41sec |
Felice Gimondi
@ 6min 18sec |
3,963 km
35.535 km/hr |
| 1976 |
Gimondi, Felice (Italy)
119hr 58min 15sec |
Johan De Muynck
@ 19sec |
Fausto Bertoglio
@ 49sec |
4,161 km
34.683 km/hr |
| 1977 |
Pollentier, Michael (Belgium)
107hr 27min 16sec |
Francesco Moser
@ 2min 32sec |
Gibi Baronchelli
@ 4min 2sec |
3,968 km
36.925 km/hr |
| 1978 |
De Muynck (Belgium)
101hr 31min 22sec |
Gibi Baronchelli
@ 59sec |
Francesco Moser
@ 2min 19sec |
3,610.5 km
35.563 km/hr |
| 1979 |
Saronni, Giuseppe (Italy)
89hr 29min 18sec |
Francesco Moser
@ 2min 9sec |
Bernt Johansson
@ 3min 13sec |
3,301 km
36.887 km/hr |
| 1980 |
Hinault, Bernard (France)
112hr 8min 20sec |
Wladimiro Panizza
@ 5min 43sec |
Giovanni Battaglin
@ 6min 3sec |
4,025 km
35.897 km/hr |
| 1981 |
Battaglin, Giovanni (Italy)
104hr 50min 36sec |
Tommy Prim
@ 38sec |
Giuseppe Saronni
@ 50sec |
3,895 km
37.150 km/hr |
| 1982 |
Hinault, Bernard (France)
110 hr 7min 55sec |
Tommy Prim
@ 2min 35sec |
Silvano Contini
@ 2min 47sec |
4,010 km
36.447 km/hr |
| 1983 |
Saronni, Giuseppe (Italy)
100hr 45min 30sec |
Roberto Visentini
@ 1min 7sec |
Alberto Fernandez
@ 3min 40sec |
3,922 km
38.937 km/hr |
| 1984 |
Moser, Francesco (Italy)
98hr 32min 20sec |
Laurent Fignon
@ 1min 3sec |
Moreno Argentin
@ 4min 26sec |
3,808 km
38.681 km/hr |
| 1985 |
Hinault, Bernard (France)
102hr 46min 51sec |
Francesco Moser
@ 1min 8sec |
Greg LeMond
@ 2min 55sec |
3,998 km
37.893 km/hr |
| 1986 |
Visentini, Roberto (Italy)
102hr 33min 56sec |
Giuseppe Saronni
@ 1min 2sec |
Francesco Moser
2min 14sec |
3,858 km
37.615 km/hr |
| 1987 |
Roche, Stephen (Ireland)
105hr 39min 40sec |
Robert Millar
@ 3min 40sec |
Erik Breukink
@ 4min 17sec |
3,915 km
37.045 km/hr |
| 1988 |
Hampsten, Andrew (USA)
97 hr 18min 56sec |
Erik Breukink
@ 1min 43sec |
Urs Zimmermann
@ 2min 45sec |
3,579 km
36.788 km/hr |
| 1989 |
Fignon, Laurent (France)
93hr 30min 16sec |
Flavio Giupponi
@ 1min 15sec |
Andrew Hampsten
@ 2min 46sec |
3,418 km
36.552 km/hr |
| 1990 |
Bugno, Gianni (Italy)
91hr 51min 8sec |
Charly Mottet
@ 6min 33sec |
Marco Giovannetti
@ 9min 1sec |
3,450 km
37.609 km/hr |
| 1991 |
Chioccioli, Franco (Italy)
99hr 35min 43sec |
Claudio Chiappucci
@ 3min 48sec |
Massimiliano Lelli
6min 56sec |
3,715 km
37.303 km/hr |
| 1992 |
Indurain, Miguel (Spain)
103hr 36min 8sec |
Claudio Chiappucci
@ 5min 12sec |
Franco Chioccioli
@ 7min 16sec |
3,843 km
37.092 km/hr |
| 1993 |
Indurain, Miguel (Spain)
98hr 9min 44sec |
Piotr Ugramov
@ 58sec |
Claudio Chiappucci
@ 5min 27sec |
3,702 km
37.712 km/hr |
| 1994 |
Berzin, Evgeni (Russia)
100hr 41min 21sec |
Marco Pantani
@ 2min 51sec |
Miguel Indurain
@ 3min 23sec |
3,721 km
37.15 km/hr |
| 1995 |
Rominger, Tony (Switzerland)
97hr 37min 50sec |
Evgeni Berzin
@ 4min 13sec |
Piotr Ugramov
@ 4min 55sec |
3,736 km
38.26 km/hr |
| 1996 |
Tonkov, Pavel (Russia)
105hr 20min 23sec |
Enrico Zaina
@ 2min 43sec |
Abraham Olano
@ 2min 57sec |
3,990 km
37.875 km/hr |
| 1997 |
Gotti, Ivan (Italy)
102hr 53min 58sec |
Pavel Tonkov
@ 1min 27sec |
Giuseppe Guerini
@ 7min 40sec |
3,889 km
38.074 km/hr |
| 1998 |
Pantani, Marco (Italy)
98hr 48min 32sec |
Pavel Tonkov
@ 1min 33sec |
Giuseppe Guerini
@ 6min 51sec |
Photos of Pantani
3,811 km
38.57 km/hr |
| 1999 |
Ivan Gotti (Italy)
99hr 55min 56sec |
Paolo Savoldelli
@ 3min 35sec |
Gilberto Simoni
3min 36sec |
3,757 km
37.595 km/hr |
| 2000 |
Stefano Garzelli (Italy)
98hr 30min 14sec |
Francesco Casagrande
@ 1min 27sec |
Gilberto Simoni
@ 1min 33sec |
3,674.6 km
37.54 km/hr |
| 2001 |
Gilberto Simoni (Italy)
89hr 2min 58sec |
Abraham Olano
@ 7min 31sec |
Unai Osa
@ 8min 37sec |
3,577.1 km
37.777 km/hr |
| 2002 |
Paolo Savoldelli (Italy)
89hr 22min 42sec |
Tyler Hamilton
@ 1min 41sec |
Pietro Caucchioli
2min 12sec |
3,348.7 km
37.538 km/hr |
| 2003 |
Gilberto Simoni (Italy)
88hr 40min 43sec |
Stefano Garzelli
@ 7min 6sec |
Yaroslav Popovych
@ 7min 11sec |
3,476.5 km
38.928 km/hr |
| 2004 |
Damiano Cunego (Italy)
88hr 40min 43sec |
Serhiy Gonchar
@ 2min 2sec |
Gilberto Simoni
@ 2min 5sec |
3,435 km
38.542 km/hr |
| 2005 |
Paolo Savoldelli (Italy)
91hr 25min 51sec |
Gilberto Simoni (Italy)
@ 28sec |
Jose Rujano (Venezuela)
@ 45sec |
3464.6 km
38.837 km/hr |
| 2006 |
Ivan Basso (Italy)
91hr 33min 36sec |
Jose Enrique Gutierrez
@ 9min 18sec |
Gilberto Simoni
@ 11min 59sec |
3,502 km
38.294 km/hr |
| 2007 |
Danilo Di Luca
92hr 59min 39sec |
Andy Schleck
@ 1min 55sec |
Eddy Mazzoleni
@ 2min 55sec |
3,442 km
37.01 km/hr |
| 2008 |
Alberto Contador
89hr 56min 49sec |
Riccardo Ricco
@ 1min 57sec |
Marzio Bruseghin
@ 2min 54sec |
3,403.4 km
37.837 km/hr |
| 2009 |
Denis Menchov
86hr 3min 11sec |
Danilo Di Luca
@ 41sec |
Franco Pellizotti
@ 1min 59sec |
3,288.5 km
38.214 km/hr |
| 2010 |
Ivan Basso
87hr 44min 1sec |
David Arroyo
@ 1min 51sec |
Vincenzo Nibali
@ 2min 37sec |
3,585.3 km
39.723 km/hr |
