1998 Giro d’Italia

The 1998 Giro d’Italia was the 81st edition of the Giro. It began on 16 May with a brief 8 km (5 mi) prologue that navigated through the streets of the French city Nice. The race came to a close on 7 June with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Eighteen teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Marco Pantani of the Mercatone Uno–Bianchi team. Second and third were the Russian rider Pavel Tonkov and Italian Giuseppe Guerini.

In the race’s other classifications, overall winner Marco Pantani also won the mountains classification, Mariano Piccoli of the Brescialat-Liquigas team won the points classification, and Saeco–Cannondale rider Gian Matteo Fagnini won the InterGiro classification. Mapei–Bricobi finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the eighteen teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The other team classification, the Trofeo Super Team classification, where the teams’ riders are awarded points for placing within the top twenty in each stage and the points are then totaled for each team was won by Team Polti.

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