1993 Giro D'Italia

The 1993 Giro d'Italia was the 76th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Porto Azzurro on 23 May with a 85 km (52.8 mi) mass-start stage. The race ended on June 13 with a stage that stretched 166 km (103.1 mi) from Biella to Milan. Twenty teams entered the race, which was won by Spaniard Miguel Indurain. Second and third respectively were the Latvian Piotr Ugrumov and the Italian rider, Claudio Chiappucci. Indurain's victory in the 1993 Giro was his first step in completing the Giro - Tour double – winning the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in one calendar year - becoming the first rider to repeat this feat in consecutive years.

Miguel Indurain first captured the lead after the stage 10 individual time trial; he lost the lead the next day. Moreno Argentin was the first rider to wear the race leader's pink jersey after winning the opening stage of the race. Argentin held that lead for ten more days before losing it to Miguel Indurain after the conclusion stage 10. Bruno Leali stole the lead away from Indurain after the race's eleventh stage and held it up until the end of the fourteenth stage. Indurain gained the lead after mountainous stage 14 and then held it all the way to the Giro's finish in Milan.

Indurain became the first Spanish rider to win the Giro d'Italia in consecutive years. Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Italian Adriano Baffi of Mercatone Uno-Zucchini-Medeghini won the points classification, Carrera Jeans-Tassoni's Claudio Chiappucci won the mountains classification, Lampre-Polti's Pavel Tonkov completed the Giro as the best rider aged 25 or younger in the general classification, finishing fifth overall, and Ján Svorada of Lampre-Polti won the intergiro classification. Lampre-Polti finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. Ariostea finished as winners of the Trofeo Super Team classification.

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