2018 Giro d'Italia

2018 Giro d'Italia

2018 UCI World Tour, race 21 of 38
The peloton on Stage 2 in Tel Aviv
Race details
Dates	4–27 May 2018
Stages	21
Distance	3,572.4 km (2,220 mi)
Winning time	89hr 02' 39"
Results
Winner  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky)   Second  Tom Dumoulin (NED) (Team Sunweb)   Third  Miguel Ángel López (COL) (Astana) Points  Elia Viviani (ITA) (Quick-Step Floors) Mountains  Chris Froome (GBR) (Team Sky) Youth  Miguel Ángel López (COL) (Astana)   Team Team Sky
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The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started in Jerusalem on 4 May, with a 9.7 km (6 mi) individual time trial followed by two additional stages within Israel. After a rest day, there were 18 further stages in Italy before the tour reached the finish in Rome on 27 May.^[1]

The race was won by Team Sky's Chris Froome, the first British rider to win the race. In winning, Froome completed a hat-trick of consecutive Grand Tour victories, becoming the first rider since Bernard Hinault to hold all three Grand Tour titles simultaneously. His victory was highlighted by an audacious 80 km solo breakaway to win the mountainous stage 19; attacking the small group of leaders including reigning champion Tom Dumoulin on the Cima Coppi of the 2018 Giro, the graveled climb of the Colle delle Finestre, he continued to extend his lead over the Sestriere and to the summit finish of Bardonecchia and overturned a more than three minute deficit to take both the pink jersey, the Cima Coppi prize and the mountains classification. The solo win, and the simultaneous implosion of long-time race leader Simon Yates, who lost more than 30 minutes on the day having lost contact on the first climb of the day, was described as "one of the most extraordinary days in Giro d'Italia history".^[2]