Giro Next Gen, also known as Baby Giro, Girobio, Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 or Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, is an Italian road bicycle racing amateur stage race created in 1970.

Giro Next Gen
Race details
DateJune
RegionItalien
Nickname(s)Baby Giro
DisciplineRoad
TypStage race
OrganiserRCS Sport
Web sitewww.gironextgen.it Edit this at Wikidata
History
First edition1970 (1970)
Editions47 (as of 2024)
First winner Giancarlo Bellini (ITA)
Most recent Jarno Widar (BEL)

The race is considered to be the most important race on Italy's U23 calendar, the analogue of the Giro d'Italia. The list of winners includes renowned riders like Francesco Moser, Marco Pantani, Gilberto Simoni, Leonardo Piepoli and Danilo Di Luca.[1]

After the 2012 edition, the race was not held for a few years, but it was announced that in 2017 it would return as a U23 race.[2]

Winners

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Year Land Rider Team
1970   Italien Giancarlo Bellini
1971   Italien Francesco Moser
1972   Italien Giovanni Battaglin
1973   Italien Gianbattista Baronchelli
1974   Italien Leone Pizzini
1975   Italien Ruggero Gialdini
1976   Italien Francesco Conti
1977   Italien Claudio Corti
1978   Italien Fausto Stiz
1979   Schweden Alf Segersäll
1980   Italien Giovanni Fedrigo
1981   Soviet Union Sergey Voronin
1982   Italien Francesco Cesarini
1983   Soviet Union Vladimir Volochin
1984   Soviet Union Piotr Ugrumov
1985   Soviet Union Sergei Uslamin
1986   Soviet Union Alexandre Krasnov
1987 No race
1988   Soviet Union Dmitri Konychev
1989   Soviet Union Andrei Teteriouk
1990   Italien Wladimir Belli
1991   Italien Francesco Casagrande
1992   Italien Marco Pantani
1993   Italien Gilberto Simoni
1994   Italien Leonardo Piepoli
1995   Italien Giuseppe Di Grande
1996   Italien Roberto Sgambelluri
1997   Italien Oscar Mason
1998   Italien Danilo Di Luca
1999   Slowenien Tadej Valjavec
2000   Italien Raffaele Ferrara
2001   Italien Davide Frattini
2002   Italien Giuseppe Muraglia
2003   Litauen Dainius Kairelis Modal Faresin
2004   Italien Marco Marzano VC Ceramiche Pagnoncelli
2005 No race
2006   Italien Dario Cataldo Bedogni Natalini Praga
2007–
2008
No race
2009   Kolumbien Cayetano Sarmiento Kolumbien
2010[3]   Kolumbien Carlos Betancur Kolumbien
2011   Italien Mattia Cattaneo U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli
2012   Vereinigte Staaten Joe Dombrowski Vereinigte Staaten
2013–
2016
No race
2017[4]   Russland Pavel Sivakov BMC Development Team
2018   Russland Aleksandr Vlasov Gazprom–RusVelo
2019   Kolumbien Andrés Ardila EPM
2020   Great Britain Tom Pidcock Trinity Racing
2021[5]   Spanien Juan Ayuso Team Colpack–Ballan
2022[6]   Great Britain Leo Hayter Hagens Berman Axeon
2023[7]   Norwegen Johannes Staune-Mittet Jumbo–Visma Development Team
2024[8][9]   Belgien Jarno Widar Lotto–Dstny Development Team

References

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  1. ^ Baby Giro: Where future stars are recruited
  2. ^ "Under-23 Giro d'Italia to return in 2017". Cyclingngews. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Standings Baby Giro - Cycling". Eurosport. 2010. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Pavel Sivakov seals overall Baby Giro victory". cyclingnews.com. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  5. ^ "VN news ticker: Juan Ayuso wins 'Baby Giro' ahead of joining UAE Emirates - Swiss Cycles". swisscycles.com. 13 June 2021. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  6. ^ "RISULTATI" (PDF). Dropbox (in Italian). 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Johannes Staune-Mittet wins the Giro Next Gen 2023". RCS Sports and Events. 18 June 2023. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Giro Next Gen: Widar and Brennan, a team triumph". Giro d'Italia 2024. 16 June 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  9. ^ Ozols, Kārlis (14 June 2024). "New Belgian Climbing Supertalent | Giro Next Gen Stage 6 2024". Lanterne Rouge. Retrieved 17 June 2024.