1983 Giro d'Italia
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| Dates | 12 May - 5 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 + Prologue, including one split stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,922 km (2,437 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 100h 45' 30" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
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(Del Tongo-Colnago) |
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| Second |
Roberto Visentini (ITA)
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(Inoxpran) | |
| Third |
 Alberto Fernández (ESP)
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(Zor) | |
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Points |
Giuseppe Saronni (ITA)
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(Del Tongo-Colnago) |
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Mountains |
 Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
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(Metauro Mobili-Pinarello) |
| Youth |
Franco Chioccioli (ITA)
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(Vivi-Benotto) | |
| Team | Zor-Gemeaz Cusin | ||
The 1983 Giro d'Italia was the 66th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Brescia, on 12 May, with a 8 km (5.0 mi) prologue and concluded in Udine, on 5 June, with a 40 km (24.9 mi) individual time trial. A total of 162 riders from eighteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Giuseppe Saronni of the Del Tongo-Colnago team. The second and third places were taken by Italian Roberto Visentini and Spaniard Alberto Fernández, respectively.
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Saronni won the points classification, Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won the mountains classification, and Vivi-Benotto's Franco Chioccioli completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing sixteenth overall. Renault-Elf finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The team points classification was won by Zor-Gemeaz Cusin.
A total of eighteen teams were invited to participate in the 1983 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 162 cyclists. The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster and manager are introduced in front the media and local dignitaries – took place at the Piazza della Loggia in Brescia on 10 May and was televised in Italy on Network 1. From the riders that began this edition, 140 made it to the finish in Udine.
The teams entering the race were:
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