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2025 Giro d'Italia

The 2025 Giro d'Italia will be the 108th edition of the race, the race is expected to take place in its normal month of May.

Who will win Giro d'Italia 2025?

For Giro d'Italia predictions and betting tips be sure to head over to our dedicated cycling predictions page to see who the OLBG tipsters are backing to win the race and also the daily head-to-head markets and stage markets too.

Alternatively, you can try our Best Cycling Tipsters page which displays only tipsters who have open tips and over the past twelve months have shown a profit.

Is the Giro d'Italia on tv?

Yes, you can watch the action unfold live on Eurosport over the three weeks.

How many kilometres is the Giro d'Italia?

Once the final route of the 2025 Giro d'Italia is announced then we will know the total distance of the tour.

2025 Giro d'Italia Blog Content

• 2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 1 Recap
• 2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 2 Recap
• 2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 3 Recap
• Past Giro d'Italia General Classification Winners
• Past Giro d'Italia Mountains Classification Winners

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2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 1 Recap

The race started on the 4th of May and began with back-to-back hilly stages. This first phase consisted of five hilly stages, two flat stages, one mountain stage and one individual time trial before the first rest day on Monday the 13th of May, this phase covered a total of 1,387 km.

2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 2 Recap

After the rider's first rest day, they moved on to six more stages which consisted of two flat stages and then one mountain, one hilly, one Intermediate and one Individual time trial before the second rest day on Monday 20th of May. This second phase of stages covered a total of 957 km with the riders going from Pompei to Livigno.

2024 Giro d'Italia Route - Phase 3 Recap

The riders headed into the home stretch in the final phase as they all head to Rome. The final phase consisted of six stages and things didn't get easier with three mountain stages, two flat stages and one Intermediate stage with the final stage in Rome on Sunday the 26th of May. The final phase covered 977 km with the entire tour covering a total of 3,321 km (2,068 miles).

Past Giro d'Italia General Classification Winners

Here are the last ten winners of the Giro d'Italia general classification, Italian riders do have a great record in the race with forty-one Italian riders winning a total of seventy-one of the previous general classifications, however, the tide is turning, since 2008, only four of the seventeen events have been won by Italian riders which include none of the last eight, Vincenzo Nibali success in 2016 was the last. Jai Hindley's (Australia) success in 2022 and Primož Roglič (Slovenia) in 2023 were first-time winners for the countries.

There has not been a back-to-back winner since Miguel Indurain achieved this feat in 1992-93, before him you have to go all of the way back to the 1960s to find the previous rider to win it back-to-back and that was Franco Balmamion in 1962-63.

Past Giro d'Italia Mountains Classification Winners

This goes to the rider who performs best over the mountains, the King of the Mountains! Each climb is given classification and points are awarded based on difficulty and bonus points also go on offer. Italy and Spain have been the two most dominant forces in this market winning a total of fifty-five between them with thirty-nine for Italy and sixteen for Spain and since 2007 the winner has come from either of those two countries in ten of those eighteen years, however, the tide is turning as neither of them has won it since 2019.