| 2020 UCI World Tour, race 16 of 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dates | 3–25 October 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,361.4[N 1] km (2,089 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 85h 40' 21" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the 103rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour. The start of the 2020 Giro (known as the Grande Partenza) had been planned to take place in Budapest, Hungary, which would have been the 14th time the Giro has started outside Italy,[2] and the first time a Grand Tour has visited Hungary.[3]
The event was jeopardised by the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy,[4] and in March 2020 it was postponed, as other early season races in Italy had been.[5] When the government of Hungary announced they would not allow the Grande Partenza to take place, RCS Sport decided they would postpone the race to a later to-be-determined date.[6] On 15 April, UCI announced that both Giro and Vuelta would take place in autumn after the 2020 UCI Road World Championships.[7] On 5 May, UCI announced that the Giro would take place between 3 and 25 October, overlapping with the 2020 Vuelta a España .[1]
The race was won by Tao Geoghegan Hart of Great Britain and Ineos Grenadiers, who finished 39 seconds ahead of Australia's Jai Hindley, having taken over leadership of his team after pre-race favourite and teammate Geraint Thomas had crashed out at an early stage. Geoghehan Hart also won the young riders' jersey, and became the first rider in Giro history to win the pink jersey outright on the final stage, having never worn it during the race – he entered the decisive final day time-trial level on time, but second on countback, to Hindley. The mountains jersey as won by Ruben Guerreiro and the sprinters' prize went to Simon Pellaud.[8]
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- ^ a b Farrand, Stephen (5 May 2020). "UCI reveal new men's and women's post-COVID-19 race calendar". Cycling News. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Giro d'Italia to start in Budapest in 2020". Cycling News. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Giro d'Italia to start in Budapest in 2020". Cycling Weekly. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
- ^ "Milan-San Remo, Tirreno-Adriatico and Giro d'Italia all under threat after Italian coronavirus outbreak". Cycling Weekly. 24 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ "Milan San Remo and Tirreno-Adriatico have been postponed". Cycling Weekly. 6 March 2020.
- ^ "CYCLING NEWS: FIRST THREE STAGES OF GIRO D'ITALIA IN HUNGARY CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC". Eurosport. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Tour de France saved by 29 August shift as Grand Tours jostle for space". The Guardian. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ "Giro d'Italia: Tao Geoghegan Hart wins first Grand Tour". BBC Sport. Retrieved 25 October 2020.