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2025 Giro d'Italia

Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 1 Results: Mads Pedersen Wins Opening Stage

Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 1 Results: Mads Pedersen Wins Opening Stage

Mads Pedersen won the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia 2025 on Friday, a 160-kilometer dash over rugged hills ending with two loops of downtown Tirana.

May 10, 2025 by AFP Report
Giro '25 Stage 1 Crushes Some, Celebrates One

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Denmark's Mads Pedersen of Lidl-Trek won the opening stage of the Giro d'Italia 2025 on Friday, a 160-kilometer dash over rugged hills ending with two loops of downtown Tirana, as Albania hosts the first three days of this edition.

Pedersen was beautifully led out before resisting a late surge from Belgian Visma rider Wout van Aert. Primoz Roglic, the overall favorite to win the 21-day race, finished on the same time in a small bunch just behind.

"I knew he (Van Aert) was behind me, so you never know if you can win until the line," Pedersen said. "The team set it up. We rode hard and then got ahead for the finale."

Pedersen then took to the podium to slip on the iconic race leader's pink jersey and spray the crowds with a magnum of sparkling wine.

"It's the first leader's jersey I have in a Grand Tour, so that's something nice," said Pedersen, the 2019 world champion.

This was the 51st career win for Pedersen and his second on the Giro, after one in 2023. He also has won stages at the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.

Spanish climber Mikel Landa was one of five victims of a nasty crash on a tight corner 5 kilometers from the finish line, as the 184 riders began their epic three-week, 3,400-kilometer slog to the Vatican in Rome.

Landa, who was third in the Giro in 2015 and 2022, hit a curb and flew into a drop of 1 meter to the pavement and rolled in agony, before being taken away in an ambulance, making him the first casualty of the Giro.

An enthusiastic early break surged ahead of the main peloton aiming for the first King of the Mountains blue jersey, taken by Cofidis rider Sylvain Moniquet.

Saturday's Stage 2 is a 13.7-kilometer individual time-trial on the streets of the Albanian capital, with van Aert again a major contender for the stage and the pink jersey.

The time-trial features a short 1.3-kilometer climb, with the peculiarity of a U-turn at the top.

Sunday's Stage 3 will suit the sprinters who were dropped in the hills Friday, as it is a flat run around the coastal city of Valona.

The final week of the Giro will be decisive with Stage 20, which ends with a grueling climb up the Colle delle Finestre to the Sestriere ski resort, the moment when the winner is likely to emerge.

Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 1 Results - Top 25

  1. Mads Pedersen (Lidl - Trek) – 03h 36' 24''
  2. Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 03h 36' 24''
  3. Orluis Aular (Movistar Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  4. Francesco Busatto (Intermarché - Wanty) – 03h 36' 24''
  5. Thomas Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  6. Diego Ulissi (XDS Astana Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  7. Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost) – 03h 36' 24''
  8. Max Poole (Team Picnic PostNL) – 03h 36' 24''
  9. Nicola Conci (XDS Astana Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  10. Davide Piganzoli (Team Polti VisitMalta) – 03h 36' 24''
  11. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl - Trek) – 03h 36' 24''
  12. Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain - Victorious) – 03h 36' 24''
  13. Paul Double (Team Jayco AlUla) – 03h 36' 24''
  14. Felix Engelhardt (Team Jayco AlUla) – 03h 36' 24''
  15. Primož Roglič (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 03h 36' 24''
  16. Romain Bardet (Team Picnic PostNL) – 03h 36' 24''
  17. Jai Hindley (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 03h 36' 24''
  18. Einer Rubio (Movistar Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  19. Damiano Caruso (Bahrain - Victorious) – 03h 36' 24''
  20. Isaac Del Toro (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 03h 36' 24''
  21. Simon Yates (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 03h 36' 24''
  22. Mathias Vacek (Lidl - Trek) – 03h 36' 24''
  23. Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 03h 36' 24''
  24. David Gaudu (Groupama - FDJ) – 03h 36' 24''
  25. Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers) – 03h 36' 24''

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