2000 Giro d'Italia
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| Dates | May 13—June 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stages | 21 + prologue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 3,676 km (2,284 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Winning time | 89h 30' 14" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner |
 Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
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(Mercatone Uno–Albacom) |
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| Second |
Francesco Casagrande (ITA)
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(Vini Caldirola–Sidermec) | |
| Third |
Gilberto Simoni (ITA)
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(Lampre–Daikin) | |
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Points |
 Dimitri Konyshev (RUS)
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(Fassa Bortolo) |
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Mountains |
Francesco Casagrande (ITA)
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(Vini Caldirola–Sidermec) |
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Intergiro |
Fabrizio Guidi (ITA)
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(Française des Jeux) |
| Team | Mapei–Quick-Step | ||
| Team Points | Fassa Bortolo | ||
The 2000 Giro d'Italia was the 83rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a 4.6 km (3 mi) prologue that navigated through the Italian capital Rome. The race came to a close on June 4 with a mass-start stage that ended in the Italian city of Milan. Twenty teams entered the race that was won by the Italian Stefano Garzelli of the Mercatone Uno–Albacom team. Second and third were the Italians riders Francesco Casagrande and Gilberto Simoni.
In the race's other classifications, Vini Caldirola–Sidermec rider Francesco Casagrande won the mountains classification, Dimitri Konyshev of the Fassa Bortolo team won the points classification, and Française des Jeux rider Fabrizio Guidi won the intergiro classification.Mapei–Quick-Step finished as the winners of the Trofeo Fast Team classification, ranking each of the twenty 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 also won by Fassa Bortolo.
A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2000 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 180 cyclists. Out of the 180 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 127 riders made it to the finish in Milan.
The 20 teams that took part in the race were:
This edition of the Giro contained three individual time trial events, one of which was the prologue the race began with. There were a total of ten stages that contained categorized climbs; five of which contained climbs of higher categories, while the other five stages held only categorized climbs of lesser degree. The remaining nine stages were primarily flat stages.
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