victory in the Giro. This made him the first rider from Canada to win a grand tour and the second North American, after Andy Hampsten in 1988, to win the Giro. In 2013 Vincenzo Nibali took the lead after the race's eighth stage. Nibali would go on to win the race after he expanded his lead through performing well in the early mountain stages and winning both the stage 18 individual time trial and the penultimate stage of the race. 2014 saw the first ever Colombian grand tour winner, and Giro d'Italia winner from South America in Nairo Quintana. Tom Dumoulin won the 100th Giro in 2017, the first time ever that a Dutch cyclist won the Giro. He was also the first Dutchman to win the overall in a Grand Tour since Joop Zoetemelk won the 1980 Tour de France. A year later, Chris Froome won the 2018 Giro, becoming the first British rider to win the overall race. The 2019 Giro d'Italia champion was Richard Carapaz, who became the first Ecuadorian to win the Giro. 2020–2022: Recent years The 2020 Giro d'Italia was due to start in Hungary for the first three stages, the first Grand Tour stages to take place in that country, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, 2020 marked the first time in the race's history that it was held in October instead of May or June. This edition ended up as a slugfest, because in the last four days of the race four different riders wore the Maglia Rosa in João Almeida, Wilco Kelderman and Jai Hindley before Tao Geoghegan Hart won the race on the final time trial. The 2021 edition was won by Egan Bernal who dominated the race for the most part with only underdog and career long Domestique Damiano Caruso finishing inside +2:00 of him. The 2022 Giro d'Italia saw a battle between Richard Carapaz and Jai Hindley in which Hindley took over the lead on the final mountain stage and defended it in the final time trial becoming the second Australian to win a grand tour and the first to win the Giro. References Bibliography Giro d'Italia Giro