Giro d'Italia Internazionale Under-23

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

Giro Ciclistico d'Italia

Race details
Date	June
Region	Italy
Nickname(s)	Baby Giro
Discipline	Road
Type	Stage race
Web site	www.gironextgen.it
History
First edition	1970 (1970)
Editions	46 (as of 2023)
First winner	Giancarlo Bellini (ITA)
Most recent	Johannes Staune-Mittet (NOR)

Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23 is 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

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	Norway	Johannes Staune-Mittet	Jumbo–Visma Development Team

References

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. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
6. "RISULTATI" (PDF). Dropbox (in Italian). 18 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.