Giro d'Italia 1998

The 81st Giro d'Italia was held in 22 stages from May 16 to June 7, 1998 and won by Marco Pantani from Cesen .

The tour was dominated up to the 16th stage by Alex Zülle , who lost his lead on the mountainous 17th stage and collapsed completely on the following day. Pantani took over the lead, which he was able to expand on the mountain finish of the 19th stage so that he could defend it in the individual time trial of the 21st stage against Pavel Tonkov .

Stages

stage	from	to	km	winner	nation
0	Nice ( France )	Nice (France)	7 ( EZF )	Alex Zülle	Switzerland
1	Nice (France)	Cuneo ( CN )	162	Mariano Piccoli	Italy
2	Alba (CN)	Imperia ( IM )	160	Angel Edo Alsina	Spain
3	Rapallo ( GE )	Forte dei Marmi ( LU )	196	Nicola Minali	Italy
4th	Viareggio (LU)	Monte Argentario ( GR )	239	Nicola Miceli	Italy
5	Orbetello (GR)	Image ID: Frascati ( RM )	206	Mario Cipollini	Italy
6th	Maddaloni ( CE )	Lake Laceno ( AV )	158	Alex Zülle	Switzerland
7th	Montella (AV)	Matera ( MT )	235	Mario Cipollini	Italy
8th	Matera (MT)	Lecce ( LE )	191	Mario Cipollini	Italy
9	Foggia ( FG )	Vasto ( CH )	169	Glenn Magnusson	Sweden
10	Vasto (CH)	Macerata ( MC )	212	Mario Cipollini	Italy
11	Macerata (MC)	San Marino ( San Marino )	214	Andrea Noè	Italy
12	San Marino (San Marino)	Carpi ( MO )	202	Laurent Roux	France
13	Carpi (MO)	Schio ( VI )	166	Michele Bartoli	Italy
14th	Schio (VI)	Piancavallo ( PN )	165	Marco Pantani	Italy
15th	Trieste ( TS )	Trieste (TS)	40 (EZF)	Alex Zülle	Switzerland
16	Udine ( UD )	Asiago (VI)	227	Fabiano Fontanelli	Italy
17th	Asiago (VI)	Selva in Val Gardena ( BZ )	215	Giuseppe Guerini	Italy
18th	Selva in Val Gardena (BZ)	Alpe di Pampeago ( TN )	115	Pavel Tonkov	Russia
19th	Cavalese (TN)	Plan di Montecampione ( BS )	239	Marco Pantani	Italy
20th	Darfo Boario Terme (BS)	Mendrisio ( Switzerland )	137	Gian Matteo Fagnini	Italy
21st	Mendrisio (Switzerland)	Lugano (Switzerland)	34 (EZF)	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine
22nd	Lugano (Switzerland)	Milan ( MI )	173	Gian Matteo Fagnini	Italy

The pink jersey was worn by 6 different drivers:

• Alex Zülle ( Switzerland ): from the prologue to the 2nd, from the 6th to the 11th, from the 14th to the 16th stage 
• Serhiy Honchar ( Ukraine ): from the 3rd to the 4th stage 
• Michele Bartoli ( Italy ): 5th stage 
• Laurent Roux ( France ): 12th stage 
• Andrea Noè ( Italy ): 13th stage 
• Marco Pantani ( Italy ): 17th stage to the finish 

Final score

Overall rating

rank	Surname	nationality	time
1	Marco Pantani	Italy	98h48'32 "
2	Pavel Tonkov	Russia	1'33 "
3	Giuseppe Guerini	Italy	6'51 "
4th	Oscar Camenzind	Switzerland	12'16 "
5	Daniel Clavero Sebastián	Spain	18,04 "
6th	Gianni Faresin	Italy	18'31 "
7th	Paolo Bettini	Italy	21,03 "
8th	Daniele De Paoli	Italy	21'35 "
9	Paolo Savoldelli	Italy	25'54 "
10	Serhiy Honchar	Ukraine	25'58 "

Other ratings

• Intergiro : Gian Matteo Fagnini ( Italy ) 
• Points : Mariano Piccoli ( Italy ) 
• Mountain : Marco Pantani ( Italy ) 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Showdown on the mountain of champions. radsport-news.com, May 18, 2017, accessed May 22, 2017 . 

Web links

• Giro d'Italia 1998 in the ProCyclingStats.com database