The Giro d’Italia begins on Friday in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands and finishes on May 29 in Turin. The three-week race will take place over 21 stages and 3,383 kilometres, with 198 riders due to set off from Apeldoorn.
With just two days to go until the circus rolls into town, Cyclingnews has put together some vital numbers and statistics from the Giro d’Italia through the years.
99 – This year will mark the 99th edition of the Giro d’Italia. After creating the Giro di Lombardia and Milan-San Remo, Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport decided they wanted to host a race around the whole of Italy. Influenced by the success of the Tour de France and keen to get one over on their newspaper rivals Corriere della Sera, the paper announced the race on August 7, 1908. The race has been suspended twice during the two World Wars.
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5 – The most overall victories by any rider. Three riders are part of this exclusive circle: Alfredo Binda, Fausto Coppi and Eddy Merckx. A total of 49 years separate the first of Binda’s titles in 1925 and the last of Merckx’s in 1974.
144 – The amount of hours it took Alfredo Binda to win the second of his Giro d’Italia titles. Second placed Giovanni Brunero finished almost half an hour behind Binda while last placed Riccardo Gagliardi had to suffer an extra four hours and 53 minutes of racing.
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