Italy, Rome: Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic is the first Slovenian to win Giro d’Italia. Roglic won the general classification in 85:29:02 secs as he finished the 126-km flat run stage 21 of Giro d’Italia 2023 in Rome. He finished the race 14 seconds ahead of Ineos-Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas and 1 minute, 15 seconds ahead of UAE Team Emirates’s Joao Almeida who came third.
Primož Roglič rode the 135-kilometer long final stage in a pink bike and wore a pink helmet and pink socks. He becomes the fifth oldest rider to win the Giro d’Italia wining the race at 33 and a half years. He received the Trofeo Senza Fine from the hands of Sergio Mattarella, the President of the Italian Republic.
The 24-year-old Almeida won the white jersey as the race’s top under-25 rider and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) won the best climber classification along with Jonathan Milan, who won the points competition for Bahrain-Victorious.
Astana’s Mark Cavendish won the final stage of Giro d’Italia 2023 in 02:48:26 secs. Cavendish last week announced his retirement at the end of this season. In 2008, he won his first stage in Catanzaro and finished his career with his seventeenth stage win in Rome this year. Interestingly Cavendish at the age of 38 years and 7 days, becomes the oldest rider ever to win a stage at the Giro.
Top 5 Ranking at Giro d’Italia 2023
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo – Vishma) Time: 85:29:02 Secs
Geraint Thomas, (Ineos Grenadiers) Time: +0:14 Secs
Joao Pedro Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) Time: +01:15 Secs
Damiano Caruso (Bahrain Victorious) Time: +04:40 Secs
Thibaut Pinot (Groupama – FDJ) Time: + 05:43 Secs
The 109th Tour de France starts on July 1, 2023 in the Basque Country, with a first stage in Bilbao and will finish in Paris on 23rd July, 2023 after completing a route length of 3,404-km.
About The Giro d’Italia The Giro d’Italia is cycling’s, one of the prestigious three-week-long Grand Tours that is held mainly in Italy with some stages that have departure or conclusion locations in, or pass through, the neighboring countries of San Marino, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and Vatican City State. The first race was organized in 1909 and continues till date. The UCI World Tour event is held over a 23- or 24-day period in the month of May. The format of the race generally stays the same, with at least two time trials, and a passage through the Alps, including the Dolomites.
