Held in the middle of March, the one-week stage race from the western to the eastern seacost of Italy generally attracts a superb field.

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Average Speed
1966	Dino Zandegu	Vito Taccone	Rolf Maurer
1967	Franco Bitossi	Carmine Preziosi	Vito Taccone
1968	Claudio Michelotto	Italo Zilioli	Rudi Altig
1969	Carlo Chiappano	Albert Van Vlierberghe	Giuseppe Fezzardiq
1970	Antoon Houbrechts	Italo Zilioli	Felice Gimondi
1971	Italo Zilioli	Georges Pintens	Marcello Bergamo
1972	Roger De Vlaeminck	Josef Fuchs	Tomas Pettersson
1973	Roger De Vlaeminck	Frans Verbeeck	Gosta Pettersson
1974	Roger De Vlaeminck	Knut Knudsen	Simone Frazzaro
1975	Roger De Vlaeminck	Knut Knudsen	Wldimiro Panizza
1976	Roger De Vlaeminck	Eddy Merckx	Gianbattista Baronchelli
1977	Roger De Vlaeminck	Francesco Moser	Giuseppe Saronni
1978	Giuseppe Saronni	Knut Knudsen	Francesco Moser
1979	Knut Knudsen	Giuseppe Saronni	Giovanni Battaglin
1980	Francesco Moser	Fons de Wolf	Dante Morandi
1981	Francesco Moser	Raniero Gradi	Marino Amadori
1982	Giuseppe Saronni	Gerrie Knetemann	Greg Lemond
1983	Roberto Visentini	Gerrie Knetemann	Francesco Moser
1984	Tommy Prim	Erich Maechler	Roberto Visentini
1985	Joop Zoetemelk	Acacio Da Silva	Stephan Mutter
1986	Luciano Rabottini	Francesco Moser	Giuseppe Petito
1987	Rolf Sorensen	Giuseppe Calcaterra	Tony Rominger
1988	Erich Maechler	Tony Rominger	Rolf Sorensen
1989	Tony Rominger	Rolf Golz	Charly Mottet
1990	Tony Rominger	Zenon Jaskula	Gilles Delion
1991	Herminio Diaz-Zabala	Federico Ghiotto	Raul Alcala
1992	Rolf Sorensen	Raul Alcala	Fabian Jeker
1993	Maurizio Fondriest	Andrei Tchmil	Stefano Della santa
1994	Giogio Furlan	Evgeni Berzin	Stefano Colage
1995	Stefano Colage	Maurizio Fondriest	Dimitri Konyshev
1996	Francesco Casagrande	Alexandre Gonchenkov	Gianluca Pianegonda
1997	Roberto Petito	Gianluca Pianegonda	Beat Zberg
1998	Rolf Jaermann	Franco Ballerini	Jens Heppner
1999	Michele Bartoli	Davide Rebellin	Stefano Garzelli
2000	Abraham Olano	Jan Hruska	Juan Carlos Dominguez
2001	Davide Rebellin	Gabriele Colombo	Michael Boogerd
2002	Erik Dekker	Danilo Di Luca	Oscar Freire
2003	Filippo Pozzato	Danilo Di Luca	Ruggero Marzoli
2004	Paolo Bettini	Oscar Freire	Erik Zabel
2005	Oscar Freire	Alessandro Petacchi	Fabrizio Guidi
2006	Thomas Dekker 27hr 32min 14sec	Jorg Jaksche @ 14sec	Alessandro Ballan @ 20sec	1,108.45 km 40.252 km/hr
2007	Andreas Kloden 28hr 31min 26sec	Kim Kirchen @ 4sec	Alexandre Vinokourov @ 13sec	1,111.80 km 38.975 km/hr
2008	Fabian Cancellara 28hr 8min 21sec	Enrico Gasparotto @16sec	Thomas Lovkvist @40sec	1,119.0 km 39.766 km/hr