Giro d'Italia 2023: Curious facts, stats and all previous winners of road cycling's first men's Grand Tour of the season
Who holds the record for the most overall victories? Who has won the race consecutively or as the current world champion? Find out all that and more about men's road cycling's first Grand Tour of the season.
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The 106th Giro d'Italia is the first Grand Tour of the 2023 men's road cycling season, with Belgian Remco Evenepoel and Slovenian Primoz Roglic leading the list of favourites for the overall win.
Find out below who holds the record for the most wins, which nation has been the most successful, and other interesting facts about the Corsa Rosa.
Giro d'Italia winners: Stats and records
Three riders hold the joint record for most overall wins at the Giro d'Italia with five titles each: Italy's Alfredo Binda, Fausto Coppi, and Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.
Binda, Coppi, and Carlo Galetti, share the record for topping the general standings for most consecutive times: three.
The most recent rider to win the Giro more than once was Vincenzo Nibali, who won in 2013 and 2016. The last rider to successfully defend their title was Miguel Indurain in 1993.
Italy has the most Giro d'Italia wins with 69, achieved by 42 different riders and the Atala team in the 1912 edition.
Belgium has topped the podium seven times (three riders), while France has six victories (three riders). Overall, 16 nations are represented in the list of overall winners: Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Republic of Ireland, USA, Russia, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Netherlands, Great Britain, and Australia.
Giro d'Italia: Overall winners with at least three victories
Giro d'Italia: Road world champions who became overall winner
Remco Evenepoel has the chance to become the first reigning road world champion to win the Giro since Giuseppe Saronni in 1983.
Saronni was the last cylist to achieve this feat, with only Alfredo Binda and Eddy Merckx accomplishing it before him, each achieving the double twice.
Giro d'Italia: All previous winners - Full list
Here's the list of the winners of the first 105 editions of the Giro d'Italia:
- 1909: Luigi Ganna (ITA)
- 1910: Carlo Galetti (ITA)
- 1911: Carlo Galetti (ITA)
- 1912: Atala (ITA)*
- 1913: Carlo Oriani (ITA)
- 1914: Alfonso Calzolari (ITA)
- 1915 - 1918: not contested
- 1919: Costante Girardengo (ITA)
- 1920: Gaetano Belloni (ITA)
- 1921: Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
- 1922: Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
- 1923: Costante Girardengo (ITA)
- 1924: Giuseppe Enrici (ITA)
- 1925: Alfredo Binda (ITA)
- 1926: Giovanni Brunero (ITA)
- 1927: Alfredo Binda (ITA)
- 1928: Alfredo Binda (ITA)
- 1929: Alfredo Binda (ITA)
- 1930: Luigi Marchisio (ITA)
- 1931: Francesco Camusso (ITA)
- 1932: Antonio Pesenti (ITA)
- 1933: Alfredo Binda (ITA)
- 1934: Learco Guerra (ITA)
- 1935: Vasco Bergamaschi (ITA)
- 1936: Gino Bartali (ITA)
- 1937: Gino Bartali (ITA)
- 1938: Giovanni Valetti (ITA)
- 1939: Giovanni Valetti (ITA)
- 1940: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1941 - 1945: not contested
- 1946: Gino Bartali (ITA)
- 1947: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1948: Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
- 1949: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1950: Hugo Koblet (SUI)
- 1951: Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
- 1952: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1953: Fausto Coppi (ITA)
- 1954: Carlo Clerici (SUI)
- 1955: Fiorenzo Magni (ITA)
- 1956: Charly Gaul (LUX)
- 1957: Gastone Nencini (ITA)
- 1958: Ercole Baldini (ITA)
- 1959: Charly Gaul (LUX)
- 1960: Jacques Anquetil (FRA)
- 1961: Arnaldo Pambianco (ITA)
- 1962: Franco Balamion (ITA)
- 1963: Franco Balamion (ITA)
- 1964: Jacques Anquetil (FRA)
- 1965: Vittorio Adorni (ITA)
- 1966: Gianni Motta (ITA)
- 1967: Felice Gimondi (ITA)
- 1968: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1969: Felice Gimondi (ITA)
- 1970: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1971: Gosta Pettersson (SWE)
- 1972: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1973: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1974: Eddy Merckx (BEL)
- 1975: Fausto Bertoglio (ITA)
- 1976: Felice Gimondi (ITA)
- 1977: Michel Pollentier (BEL)
- 1978: Johan De Muynck (BEL)
- 1979: Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
- 1980: Bernard Hinault (FRA)
- 1981: Giovanni Battaglin (ITA)
- 1982: Bernard Hinault (FRA)
- 1983: Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
- 1984: Francesco Moser (ITA)
- 1985: Bernard Hinault (FRA)
- 1986: Roberto Visentini (ITA)
- 1987: Stephen Roche (IRE)
- 1988: Andrew Hampsten (USA)
- 1989: Laurent Fignon (FRA)
- 1990: Gianni Bugno (ITA)
- 1991: Franco Chioccioli (ITA)
- 1992: Miguel Indurain (ESP)
- 1993: Miguel Indurain (ESP)
- 1994: Eugeni Berzin (RUS)
- 1995: Tony Rominger (SUI)
- 1996: Pavel Tonkov (RUS)
- 1997: Ivan Gotti (ITA)
- 1998: Marco Pantani (ITA)
- 1999: Ivan Gotti (ITA)
- 2000: Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
- 2001: Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
- 2002: Paolo Savoldelli (ITA)
- 2003: Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
- 2004: Damiano Cunego (ITA)
- 2005: Paolo Savoldelli (ITA)
- 2006: Ivan Basso (ITA)
- 2007: Danilo Di Luca (ITA)
- 2008: Alberto Contador (ESP)
- 2009: Denis Menchov (RUS)
- 2010: Ivan Basso (ITA)
- 2011: Michele Scarponi (ITA)
- 2012: Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
- 2013: Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
- 2014: Nairo Quintana (COL)
- 2015: Alberto Contador (ESP)
- 2016: Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
- 2017: Tom Dumoulin (NED)
- 2018: Chris Froome (GBR)
- 2019: Richard Carapaz (ECU)
- 2020: Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR)
- 2021: Egan Bernal (COL)
- 2022: Jai Hindley (AUS)
*team competition