Giro d'Italia winners: Find out all the past winners year by year

Giro d'Italia winners have displayed outstanding ability and physical strength in winning one of the most esteemed cycling events. Each champion has a unique story with challenges and moments of great determination.

Giro d'Italia is one of the three Grand Tours in cycling. It is a multi-stage race, usually lasting for three weeks. This article has been sourced from credible publications to ensure factual reporting.

A list of all Giro d'Italia winners since 2000

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The Giro d'Italia was established in 1909 to promote the sales of La Gazzetta dello Sport. Italian cyclists dominated the early years, but that changed in the 1960s. Today, we want to see who has won the Giro d'Italia since 2000.

2000: Stefano Garzelli

• Date of birth: 16 July 1973
• Place of birth: Varese, Italy
• Nationality: Italian

The event began in Rome, covering 4.6 kilometres during an initial prologue stage. It went on until 4 June, when it concluded in Milan. Stefano Garzelli of the Mercatone Uno-Albacom won the race. Francesco Casagrande and Gilberto Simoni were second and third, respectively.

2001: Gilberto Simoni

• Date of birth: 25 August 1971
• Place of birth: Palù di Giovo, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.70 m

The Giro began in Groningen, the Netherlands, with a 6.5 km (4 mi) long prologue and ended in Milan, Italy. Paolo Savoldelli, riding for Team Index Alexia, won among twenty-two teams. American Tyler Hamilton and Italian Pietro Caucchioli finished second and third, respectively.

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2002: Paolo Savoldelli

• Date of birth: 7 May 1973
• Place of birth: Clusone, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.80 m

The Giro began in Groningen, a city in the Netherlands with a 6.5 km (4 mi) long prologue. The race ended in Milan, Italy. Paolo Savoldelli of Team Index Alexia won, defeating 19 competitors. American Tyler Hamilton and Italian Pietro Caucchioli finished second and third, respectively.

2003: Gilberto Simoni

• Date of birth: 25 August 1971
• Place of birth: Palù di Giovo, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.70 m

The race started at Lecce, covering 201km and concluded in Milan, Italy, with an ITT (individual time trial) over 33 km (21 miles) both starting and finishing there. Team Saeco's Gilberto Simoni won against eighteen other teams; Stefano Garzelli from Italy came second, while the Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovych secured third place.

2004: Damiano Cunego

• Date of birth: 19 September 1981
• Place of birth: Cerro Veronese, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.69 m

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The race started with a 6.9 km prologue in Genoa and concluded with a 133 km (82.6 mi) mass-start road stage from Clusone to Milan. Italian Damiano Cunego of Team Saeco won the competition, beating 18 competitors. Ukrainian Serhiy Honchar came second, while Gilberto Simoni of Italy took third place.

2005: Paolo Savoldelli

• Date of birth: 7 May 1973
• Place of birth: Clusone, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.80 m

The competition began in Reggio Calabria with a 1.15 km prologue and ended at Albese con Cassano when the riders completed 119 km or 73.9 miles.

Twenty-two teams participated in this event, and Paolo Savoldelli from Italy's Team Discovery Channel finished first. Italian Gilberto Simoni came second, followed by Venezuela's José Rujano.

2006: Ivan Basso - later disqualified for doping

• Date of birth: 26 November 1977
• Place of birth: Gallarate, Province of Varese, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.82 m

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The race began in the Belgian Seraing with a 6.2 km (3.9 mi) individual time trial. It concluded with a 140 km (87.0 mi) mass-start road stage from Museo del Ghisallo to Milan.

Twenty-two teams participated, and the Italian Ivan Basso from Team CSC emerged victorious. Spain's José Enrique Gutiérrez and Italy's Gilberto Simoni secured second and third places, respectively.

Later, the winner received a two-year doping penalty from the Italian cycling federation for two offences. The Guardian said:

"I have never asked for indulgence or pity. I have made an error and deserve to pay for it, but I want to be judged according to the rules and not because of my name. I want a just punishment. I will pay for my mistakes but I want to repeat that I have told everything I know, which is not easy for an athlete at my level."

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2007: Danilo Di Luca

• Date of birth: 2 January 1976
• Place of birth: Spoltore, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.68 m

The event commenced in Sardinia and culminated in Milan. The participants had to undergo five separate mountain finishes, one of which was an individual time trial. It cut across France and Austria, covering three stages.

Danilo Di Luca of Liquigas won the race, while Andy Schleck (Team CSC) and Eddy Mazzoleni (Astana) took second and third place, respectively.

2008: Alberto Contador

• Date of birth: 6 December 1982
• Place of birth: Pinto, Madrid, Spain
• Nationality: Spanish
• Height: 1.76 m

The race began on 10 May in Palermo and ended in Milan on 1 June. Twenty-two teams participated, with the victor being Spaniard Alberto Contador, who rode for the Astana cycling team. Riccardo Riccò finished second, while Marzio Bruseghin came third.

2009: Denis Menchov

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• Date of birth: 25 January 1978
• Place of birth: Oryol, Soviet Union
• Nationality: Russian
• Height: 1.80 m

Beginning in Venice and ending in Rome, 22 teams contested over 21 stages for victory in this competition. Denis Menchov won the race, while Di Luca finished behind him 41 seconds later.

Franco Pellizotti, who came in third place, was later mentioned in doping-related controversies. Officials nullified the results of four of the ten top finishers.

2010: Ivan Basso

• Date of birth: 26 November 1977
• Place of birth: Gallarate, Province of Varese, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.82 m

The race began in Amsterdam on 8 May and stayed in the Netherlands for three stages before leaving the country. The course included mountain rides such as Monte Zoncolan, Plan de Corones, Passo del Mortirolo, and Passo di Gavia, finishing up with an individual time trial at Verona.

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Basso achieved his second 'Giro d'Italia' victory after winning it back in 2006. David Arroyo from Caisse d'Epargne and Basso’s teammate Vincenzo Nibali made up the rest of the podium finishers.

2011: Michele Scarponi

• Date of birth: 25 September 1979
• Place of birth: Jesi, Marche, Italy
• Death: 22 April 2017
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.74 m

On 7 May, the race began with a team time trial in Turin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification. According to the BBC, Alberto Contador won the race pending doping charges, marking his second victory in the Giro championships.

Contador completed it six minutes before the second-placed Michele Scarponi, thus having a victory of more than six minutes. However, Scarponi received the award after Contador's disqualification for doping.

2012: Ryder Hesjedal

• Date of birth: 9 December, 1980
• Place of birth: Victoria, British Columbia
• Nationality: Canadian
• Height: 1.87 m

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The race commenced in the Danish city of Herning and concluded in Milan. Ryder Hesjedal of Garmin–Barracuda claimed victory, becoming the first Canadian rider to win a Grand Tour event and the second non-European rider to win the Giro, following Andrew Hampsten in 1988.

2013: Vincenzo Nibali

• Date of birth: 14 November 1984
• Place of birth: Messina, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.81 m

The race began in Naples and concluded in Brescia. Vincenzo Nibali secured the overall victory after claiming the general classification. Rigoberto Urán and Cadel Evans came in second and third, respectively.

The race paid tribute to the victims of the 1963 Vajont Dam disaster. It also honoured composer Giuseppe Verdi in stage 13 and famous cyclist and triple Giro winner Gino Bartali in stage 9.

2014: Nairo Quintana

• Date of birth: 4 February 1990
• Place of birth: Cómbita, Boyacá, Colombia
• Nationality: Colombian
• Height: 1.67 m

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The race began in Belfast on 9 May with a 21.7km team time trial and ended in Trieste on 1 June with a 172km flat stage. About 198 riders from 22 teams participated in the 21-stage race that saw Colombian Nairo Quintana of Movistar Team emerge as the winner. Rigoberto Uraacuten from Colombia and Italian Fabio Aru finished second and third, respectively.

2015: Alberto Contador

• Date of birth: 6 December 1982
• Place of birth: Pinto, Madrid, Spain
• Nationality: Spanish
• Height: 1.76 m

The Giro d'Italia took place mainly in Italy, but some of the stages went into Switzerland and France. This 3,481.8-kilometer (2,163.5 thousand miles) race had 21 stages.

It began on 9 May at San Lorenzo al Mare and ended in Milan on 31 May. Tinkoff-Saxo's Alberto Contador won, followed by Astana's Fabio Aru, who came second, and Mikel Landa, also from Astana, who finished third.

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2016: Vincenzo Nibali

• Date of birth: 14 November 1984
• Place of birth: Messina, Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Height: 1.81 m

The Giro began in Apeldoorn on 6 May with a 9.8 km (6 mi) individual time trial, followed by two stages in the Netherlands, between Nijmegen and Arnhem. Italian rider Vincenzo Nibali won the race, with Esteban Chaves and Alejandro Valverde finishing second and third, respectively.

2017: Tom Dumoulin

• Date of birth: 11 November 1990
• Place of birth: Maastricht, Netherlands
• Nationality: Dutch
• Height: 1.85 m

The race commenced on 5 May in Alghero on the island of Sardinia and concluded on 28 May in Milan. According to Road, Tom Dumoulin emerged victorious, becoming the first Dutch male winner of the Giro. Nairo Quintana finished second, followed by Vincenzo Nibali.

2018: Chris Froome

• Date of birth: 20 May 1985
• Place of birth: Nairobi, Kenya
• Nationality: Kenyan-British
• Height: 1.86 m

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On 4 May, the race kicked off in Jerusalem with a 9.7km (6mi) time trial stage for individuals and two other stages in Israel. After a day's rest, 18 more stages took place in Italy before culminating in Rome on 27 May.

Chris Froome of Team Sky made history by becoming the first-ever Englishman to win the event. Tom Dumoulin came second, while Miguel Ángel López took third place.

2019: Richard Carapaz

• Date of birth: 29 May 1993
• Place of birth: Tulcán Canton, Ecuador
• Nationality: Ecuadorian
• Height: 1.70 m

Bologna saw the race start with a time trial involving each rider before concluding at Verona with another one. Richard Carapaz became the first Ecuadorian to win a Giro d'Italia after he rode home first for Movistar Team. Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Team Bahrain Victorious) came second, while Slovenian Primo Roglic (Team Jumbo-Visma) took third place.

2020: Tao Geoghegan Hart

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• Date of birth: 30 March 1995
• Place of birth: Holloway, London
• Nationality: English
• Height: 1.83 m

The race was held between October 3 and 25 after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tao Geoghegan Hart of Great Britain and Ineos Grenadiers claimed victory, finishing 39 seconds ahead of Australia's Jai Hindley. Wilco Kelderman finished third.

2021: Egan Bernal

• Date of birth: 13 January 1997
• Place of birth: Bogotá, Colombia
• Nationality: Colombian
• Height: 1.75 m

Egan Bernal from Ineos Grenadiers became the champion of the Giro d'Italia for the first time and won his second Grand Tours race.

Bernal won 1 minute and 29 seconds ahead of Damiano Caruso of Team Bahrain Victorious. Simon Yates of Team BikeExchange secured third place, 4 minutes and 15 seconds behind Bernal.

2022: Jai Hindley

• Date of birth: 5 May 1996
• Place of birth: Perth, Western Australia
• Nationality: Australia
• Height: 1.75 m

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The race started in Budapest, Hungary, on 6 May and ended on 29 May in Verona, Italy. Jai Hindley, from Hansgrohe, won, securing his first Grand Tour and becoming the first Australian to win the Giro d'Italia. Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) took second place, and Mikel Landa (Team Bahrain Victorious) took third.

2023: Primož Roglič

• Date of birth: 29 October 1989
• Place of birth: Trbovlje, SR Slovenia
• Nationality: Slovenian
• Height: 1.77 m

The race began on 6 May in Fossacesia and concluded on 28 May in Rome. Primož Roglič emerged victorious, securing his fourth Grand Tour win and becoming the first Slovenian to win the Giro. Geraint Thomas finished second, with João Almeida taking third place.

Trivia

Just as the Tour de France has, The Giro race has been nothing short of controversial in its history, with routine amendments to the history books and laws. While past editions of the Giro d'Italia have been marred by incidents involving cyclists like Ricco, Basson, Sella, and Di Luca, recent races have seen a positive shift.

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Who has the most stage wins in a single Giro d'Italia?

Alfredo Binda holds the record for the most Giro d'Italia stage wins at 12. He set this mark in 1927, when the entire race had only fifteen stages.

Who is the oldest cyclist to have won a stage in the Giro d'Italia?

The Giro's oldest champion title was held by Fiorenzo Magni, who clinched it at 34 years 180 days, winning the 1955 Giro d'Italia.

How many days do cyclists run in the Giro d'Italia?

Unlike other Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, in its current form, typically comprises 21 stages spaced out over 23 or 24 days, incorporating two or three rest days.

Final word

The Giro d'Italia winners since 2000 have written their names in cycling history. Their achievements will continue to inspire future generations of cyclists to push beyond their limits and reach for greatness.

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