1995 Giro d'Italia
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| Dates | 13 May — 4 June | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,736 km (2,321 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 97h 39' 50" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Tony Rominger (SUI)
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(Mapei–GB–Latexco) |
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| Second |
 Evgeni Berzin (RUS)
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(Gewiss–Ballan) | |
| Third |
 Piotr Ugrumov (LAT)
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(Gewiss–Ballan) | |
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Points |
Tony Rominger (SUI)
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(Mapei–GB–Latexco) |
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Mountains |
 Mariano Piccoli (ITA)
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(Brescialat) |
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Intergiro |
Tony Rominger (SUI)
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(Mapei–GB–Latexco) |
| Team | Gewiss–Ballan | ||
| Team Points | Gewiss–Ballan | ||
The 1995 Giro d'Italia was a Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in May and June 1995. It was the 78th edition of the event. The Giro began on 13 May with a stage that began in Perugia and ended Terni. The race came to a close on 4 June with a stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. The race was won by the Swiss Tony Rominger of the Mapei–GB–Latexco team. Second and third were the Russian rider Evgeni Berzin and Latvian rider Piotr Ugrumov.
Mario Cipollini was the event's first leg in a bunch sprint, allowing him to be the first rider to don the race leader's maglia rosa (English: pink jersey). The following stage was an individual time trial that was won by Rominger, who also gained enough time on Cipollini to take the race lead. Rominger built upon his lead by winning the remaining two time trial stages, along with the hilly stage 4, and retained the lead for the duration of the race. By winning the Giro he became the third Swiss rider to win the event.
In addition to the general classification, Tony Rominger also won the points and intergiro classifications. Brescialat rider Mariano Piccoli won the mountains classification. Gewiss–Ballan finished as the winners of the team classification. The team points classification, a system in which 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 also won by Gewiss-Ballan.
A total of 22 teams were invited to participate in the 1995 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 198 cyclists. Out of the 198 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 122 riders made it to the finish in Milan.
The teams entering the race were:
The starting peloton included Evgeni Berzin, the 1994 winner. Berzin's team, Gewiss–Ballan, also brought Latvian Piotr Ugrumov, a two-time Grand Tour runner-up. The two riders had developed a mutual distaste for each other.El País writers Paolo Viberti and Carlos Arribas believed that Swiss rider Tony Rominger and Latvian Piotr Ugrumov were the favorites to win the race, while Adrian Huber of Avui named Rominger as the sole favorite. Author Bill McGann believed that Rominger and Berzin were in great form coming into the race. Rominger entered the event after having recently won the Tour de Romandie. Aside from Rominger and Berzin, El Punt's Luis Simon named 1988 winner Andrew Hampsten, Russian Pavel Tonkov, and Claudio Chiappucci amongst several other riders that could challenge for the overall title.
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