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
RegionItaly
Nickname(s)Baby Giro
DisciplineRoad
TypeStage 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 Country Rider Team
1970   Italy Giancarlo Bellini
1971   Italy Francesco Moser
1972   Italy Giovanni Battaglin
1973   Italy Gianbattista Baronchelli
1974   Italy Leone Pizzini
1975   Italy Ruggero Gialdini
1976   Italy Francesco Conti
1977   Italy Claudio Corti
1978   Italy Fausto Stiz
1979   Sweden Alf Segersäll
1980   Italy Giovanni Fedrigo
1981   Soviet Union Sergey Voronin
1982   Italy 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   Italy Wladimir Belli
1991   Italy Francesco Casagrande
1992   Italy Marco Pantani
1993   Italy Gilberto Simoni
1994   Italy Leonardo Piepoli
1995   Italy Giuseppe Di Grande
1996   Italy Roberto Sgambelluri
1997   Italy Oscar Mason
1998   Italy Danilo Di Luca
1999   Slovenia Tadej Valjavec
2000   Italy Raffaele Ferrara
2001   Italy Davide Frattini
2002   Italy Giuseppe Muraglia
2003   Lithuania Dainius Kairelis Modal Faresin
2004   Italy Marco Marzano VC Ceramiche Pagnoncelli
2005 No race
2006   Italy Dario Cataldo Bedogni Natalini Praga
2007–
2008
No race
2009   Colombia Cayetano Sarmiento Colombia
2010[3]   Colombia Carlos Betancur Colombia
2011   Italy Mattia Cattaneo U.C. Trevigiani–Dynamon–Bottoli
2012   United States Joe Dombrowski United States
2013–
2016
No race
2017[4]   Russia Pavel Sivakov BMC Development Team
2018   Russia Aleksandr Vlasov Gazprom–RusVelo
2019   Colombia Andrés Ardila EPM
2020   Great Britain Tom Pidcock Trinity Racing
2021[5]   Spain Juan Ayuso Team Colpack–Ballan
2022[6]   Great Britain Leo Hayter Hagens Berman Axeon
2023[7]   Norway Johannes Staune-Mittet Jumbo–Visma Development Team
2024[8][9]   Belgium 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.