| 2017 Giro d'Italia | |
| Series: | 2017 UCI World Tour |
| Race No: | 21 |
| Season No: | 37 |
| Date: | 5–28 May 2017 |
| Stages: | 21 |
| Distance: | 3609.1 |
| Unit: | km |
| Time: | 90h 34' 54" |
| First: | Tom Dumoulin |
| First Nat: | NED |
| First Color: | pink |
| Second: | Nairo Quintana |
| Second Nat: | COL |
| Third: | Vincenzo Nibali |
| Third Nat: | ITA |
| Points: | Fernando Gaviria |
| Points Nat: | COL |
| Points Color: | violet |
| Mountains: | Mikel Landa |
| Mountains Nat: | ESP |
| Mountains Color: | blue |
| Youth: | Bob Jungels |
| Youth Nat: | LUX |
| Youth Color: | white |
| Previous: | 2016 |
| Next: | 2018 |
The 2017 Giro d'Italia was the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started on 5 May in Alghero on the island of Sardinia, and ended on 28 May in Milan. The race was won by Tom Dumoulin, who became the first Dutch male winner of the Giro.[1] [2]
See main article: List of teams and cyclists in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. Four wildcard UCI Professional Continental teams were also selected. Each team is expected to start with nine riders apart from, with eight riders, due to the death of 2011 winner Michele Scarponi, who died while training days before the start of the race.[3]
The teams entering the race were:
The main pre-race favorites were Nairo Quintana and Vincenzo Nibali . Other general classification contenders were Geraint Thomas and Mikel Landa, Steven Kruijswijk, Thibaut Pinot, Tom Dumoulin, Adam Yates, Bauke Mollema, Ilnur Zakarin, Tejay van Garderen, Bob Jungels and Domenico Pozzovivo .[4] [5] [6]
Sprinters at the Giro include Fernando Gaviria, Caleb Ewan, André Greipel, Jasper Stuyven, Sacha Modolo, Giacomo Nizzolo, Sam Bennett and Ryan Gibbons.[6]
See main article: 2017 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11 and 2017 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21.
Details about the first three stages of the race were unveiled at a press conference on 14 September 2016. The remainder of the route was unveiled by race director Mauro Vegni on 25 October 2016.[7] However, organizers RCS Sport leaked the route on their website the day before the official presentation.[8]
There were 21 stages in the race, covering a total distance of 3609.1km (2,242.6miles), 142km (88miles) longer than the 2016 Giro. The longest race stage was stage 12 at 229km (142miles), and stage 14 the shortest at 131km (81miles). The race featured a total of 69.1km (42.9miles) in individual time trials, and five summit finishes: stage 4, to Mount Etna; stage 9, to Blockhaus; stage 14, to Oropa; stage 18, to Ortisei/St. Ulrich; and stage 19, to Piancavallo. The Cima Coppi (the race's highest elevation) was the Stelvio Pass, summited during stage 16.[9] The stages were categorised in four ways by race organisers; time trials, low, medium and high difficulty.
| scope=col | Stage | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Course | scope=col | Distance | scope=col colspan="2" | Type | scope=col | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 1 | 5 May | Alghero to Olbia | 206km (128miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 2 | 6 May | Olbia to Tortolì | 221km (137miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 3 | 7 May | Tortolì to Cagliari | 148km (92miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| 8 May | Rest day | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 4 | 9 May | Cefalù to Etna (Rifugio Sapienza) | 181km (112miles) | High-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 5 | 10 May | Pedara to Messina | 159km (99miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 6 | 11 May | Reggio Calabria to Terme Luigiane | 217km (135miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 7 | 12 May | Castrovillari to Alberobello | 224km (139miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 8 | 13 May | Molfetta to Peschici | 189km (117miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 9 | 14 May | Montenero di Bisaccia to Blockhaus | 149km (93miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| 15 May | Rest day | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 10 | 16 May | Foligno to Montefalco | 39.8km (24.7miles) | Individual time trial | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 11 | 17 May | Florence (Ponte a Ema) to Bagno di Romagna | 161km (100miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 12 | 18 May | Forlì to Reggio Emilia | 229km (142miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 13 | 19 May | Reggio Emilia to Tortona | 167km (104miles) | Low-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 14 | 20 May | Castellania to Santuario di Oropa | 131km (81miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 15 | 21 May | Valdengo to Bergamo | 199km (124miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| 22 May | Rest day | ||||||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 16 | 23 May | Rovetta to Bormio | 222km (138miles) | High-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 17 | 24 May | Tirano to Canazei | 219km (136miles) | Medium-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 18 | 25 May | Moena to Ortisei/St. Ulrich | 137km (85miles) | High-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 19 | 26 May | Innichen/San Candido to Piancavallo | 191km (119miles) | High-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 20 | 27 May | Pordenone to Asiago | 190km (120miles) | High-difficulty stage | ||||||
| scope=row style="text-align:center" | 21 | 28 May | Monza (Autodromo) to Milan | 29.3km (18.2miles) | Individual time trial | ||||||
Lukas Pöstlberger won the first stage, André Greipel claimed the second and Fernando Gaviria the third. From there Bob Jungels would wear the Pink jersey as Gaviria went on to win three more stages and lock up the points classification. As the race entered the mountains the leader's jersey swapped between Nairo Quintana and Tom Dumoulin going into the penultimate time trial where Quintana was in 1st and Dumoulin in 4th. Domenico Pozzovivo, Ilnur Zakarin, Vincenzo Nibali and Thibaut Pinot, who had just won the final mountain stage, were all within 90 seconds of Quintana. During the final time trial Dumoulin finished 2nd to fellow Dutchman Jos van Emden, but beat all of the GC contenders handily claiming the Giro victory thirty seconds ahead of Quintana as Nibali finalized the podium. This was the first grand tour victory by a Dutch rider in nearly four decades.
On the eve of the Giro d'Italia, the UCI announced that two riders, Stefano Pirazzi and Nicola Ruffoni,[10] had tested positive for GH-Releasing Peptides (GHRPs) – defined as peptide hormones, growth factors, or mimetics – in samples collected during out-of-competition doping tests conducted on 25 and 26 April 2017.[11] With the team incurring first and second AAFs within a twelve-month period, the UCI aimed to enforce article 7.12.1 of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules, allowing for suspension of the team from 15 to 45 days – casting doubt on their Giro appearance.[12] [13]
In the Giro d'Italia, four different jerseys are awarded:
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stages 1–3, 5–7, 12–13 | 50 | 35 | 25 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Stages 8, 14–15, 17 | 25 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Other stages | 15 | 12 | 9 | 7 |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points for Cima Coppi | 45 | 30 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| Points for | 35 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Points for | 15 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Points for | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Points for | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Several other minor classifications are awarded:
| Denotes the leader of the general classification | Denotes the leader of the mountains classification | |||
| Denotes the leader of the points classification | Denotes the leader of the young rider classification |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ||||
| 2 | + 31" | |||
| 3 | + 40" | |||
| 4 | + 1' 17" | |||
| 5 | + 1' 56" | |||
| 6 | + 3' 11" | |||
| 7 | + 3' 41" | |||
| 8 | + 7' 04" | |||
| 9 | + 8' 10" | |||
| 10 | + 15' 57" |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 325 | |||
| 2 | 192 | |||
| 3 | 117 | |||
| 4 | 100 | |||
| 5 | 98 | |||
| 6 | 80 | |||
| 7 | 76 | |||
| 8 | 76 | |||
| 9 | 70 | |||
| 10 | 70 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 224 | |||
| 2 | 118 | |||
| 3 | 104 | |||
| 4 | 70 | |||
| 5 | 70 | |||
| 6 | 66 | |||
| 7 | 56 | |||
| 8 | 55 | |||
| 9 | 54 | |||
| 10 | 53 |
| Rank | Rider | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 90h 41' 58" | |||
| 2 | + 1' 06" | |||
| 3 | + 8' 13" | |||
| 4 | + 11' 02" | |||
| 5 | + 1h 12' 56" | |||
| 6 | + 1h 22' 30" | |||
| 7 | + 1h 37' 00" | |||
| 8 | + 2h 01' 59" | |||
| 9 | + 2h 02' 26" | |||
| 10 | + 2h 05' 30" |
| Rank | Team | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | ||
| 2 |  | + 59' 46" | |
| 3 | | + 1h 19' 56" | |
| 4 |  | + 1h 24' 52" | |
| 5 |  | + 1h 27' 19" | |
| 6 | + 1h 59' 31" | ||
| 7 |  | + 1h 59' 41" | |
| 8 |  | + 2h 09' 05" | |
| 9 | | + 2h 23' 12" | |
| 10 | + 2h 41' 45" |
| Rank | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 516 | |
| 2 | 355 | ||
| 3 | | 323 | |
| 4 | 308 | ||
| 5 | | 297 | |
| 6 | 289 | ||
| 7 | 286 | ||
| 8 | | 277 | |
| 9 | | 240 | |
| 10 | | 239 |