1. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull – Bora – Hansgrohe)
The Slovenian, a lifetime insurance in the stages, is the most favorite to conquer what would be – of getting it – his second turn of Italy and the sixth great return in his record. It will be your fourth participation in the pink raceproof that ended 3 in 2019 and won in 2023, and the one that arrives after starting the season at the idle in the Algarve (8th) and conquering the Volta to Catalunya with a champion coup in the final stage in Montjuic. Solid and reliable as few, Roglic will have at his service a team that includes a winner of the turn (Jai Hindley), to the runner -up in 2024 (Daniel Felipe Martínez), a first climber like Giulio Pellizzari, and luxury gregarious as Jan Tretek or Nico Denz.
2. Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates)
At 22, he will make his debut in the Italian round with Roglic’s main rival label. His talent is indisputable, and after winning the sub-23 turn in 2021 and being 3rd and 4th in his first two participations in the Vuelta, Juan Ayuso has the Giro of Italy as the main objective in 2025. The Alicante has signed its best start of the season, with victories in the faun Drôme Classic, the Laigueglia, the Tyrrreno-Adriatic and a stage of the Volta 2nd of the general after the Slovenian), and will be accompanied by a very potent team, with Adam Yates, Jay Vine, Brandon McNulty, Rafał Majka, Isaac del Toro, Igor Arrieta and Filippo Baroncini. “I think we have the strongest team of the race and that is our greatest strength, “he says.
3. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)
The British climber is the second asset for the Emirati squad general, and has enough quality to be in the fight for the pink jersey… although it remains to be seen how the distribution of roles is in the team, and especially its coexistence with Ayuso. 3º In the Tour de France 2023, it will be the second participation of Adam Yates in the Giro de Italia, where he ended up ninth and as a second best young man in his debut in 2017. This season he has conquered the Tour de Oman and ended 16th in the Tyrrhenian-Adriatic that took his partner Ayuso.
4. Anthony Tiberius (Bahrain Victorious)
At 23, one of the great hopes of Italian cycling continues to grow step by step and consolidated as a reliable and complete cyclist, good climber and counterrelojista solvent. 5th of the general and best young man of the 2024 turn, Tiberi hopes to take another step forward in this year’s edition, which he arrives after ending 3 in the tyrrheny-adriatic and being forced to leave the Alps Tour due to stomach problems. Run at home It will give you an extra motivation, and your side at the Bahrain Victorios will have veteran and quality cyclists who have already shone in the pink race Como bilbao or Damiano Caruso.
5. Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick-Step)
The Alavés cyclist, who has just renewed with the Soudal Quick-Step by 2026, faces his eighth participation in the Italian round With the double objective of achieving a stage victory and, above all, making a good general. “I would like to be on the podium of the Giro de Italia. That is my dream and I will fight for him,” Landa says, a great climber and background cyclist who has achieved two podiums (third in 2015 and 2022) and a 4th place in 2019, three stage victories-two in 2015 and one in 2017-and the mountain grand prize in 2017. The season has started the season at a good level: 7th in Tyrrhenian-Adriatic and 4th in the VOL to Catalunya.
6. Thymen Arensman (INEOS Grenadiers)
The Dutch, 25, has all the qualities to be a great return, something that has already shown ending sixth in three large (In the return to Spain 2022 and in the last two editions of the Italian turn), and his good season start invites the ineos Grenadiers to dream, where a priori will share gallons of the leader with Egan Bernal. Arensman has been 4th in the Volta to the Valencian Community, 3rd in Paris-Niza and 2nd in the Alps Tour-where he signed a spectacular solo victory-results that support his options in the fight for the podium.
7. Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
His spectacular victory in the mountainous general Tour of the Alps – before cyclists who will be in this turn such as Arensman, Gee, Ciccone, Caruso, Poole, Hindley, Bardet …- has relaunched the candidacy of the Australian of the Tudor to fight for the honor positions of a career in which he was already 10th in the last edition. In addition this season has been 5th in Paris-Niza-where he won a mountain stage, in Auron-and 3rd in the Laigueglia trophy, results that confirm his progression.
8. Derek Gee (Israel – Premier Tech)
It can be another of the covered In the fight for the podium. The 27 -year -old Canadian cyclist has shown a remarkable progression in the two last seasons, and now returns to the race in which he dazzled in 2023 with his constant combativity. Last year ended 9th the Tour of France and this season has signed hopeful results, such as the victory in O Gran Camiño-the first round in stages that conquers-, 4th in Tyrrhenian-Adriatic and 3rd in the Tour of the Alps. In addition, he acknowledges having prepared the turn conscientiously. “I have done specific training, I have made many key stages and worked a lot of the time trial“, dice.
9. Tom Pidcock (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team)
The talented and multifaceted British cycling will run “With great ambitions“His first turn of Italy, which will also be the debut in a great return of the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. After being Top-20 twice at the Tour de France (16th in 2022 and 13th in 2023), Pidcock wants to take a step forward in the pink racewhere he hopes to prolong the good moment in a way that he has exhibited in what we have been the season, in which he has conquered the Tour allula (more stages), it has been 3rd in the Tour of Andalusia (where he also won a partial), 2nd in Strade Bianche, 6th in TiRreno-Adriatic and 11th in the Brabanzone arrow, before closing the spring classics with three top-10 (3rd in Vallea Arrow and 9th in Amstel Gold Race and Lieja).
10. Richard Carapaz (EF Education – EasyPost)
Three years after his last participation, the EF Ecatorian returns to a test that has always been done very well, in which he achieved the greatest success of his career and in which he has not dropped from the fourth place in his three presences: 4th in 2018, winner in 2019 and 2nd in 2022. After two years complicated by various injuries and falls, with his fourth place in return 2024 he showed that he remains a cyclist to take into account rounds. Although it is not among the greatest favorites, you can never discard a climber in your class and combativity. This season has run a lot, although for now without great results (the 10th in Volta to Catalonia has been the most prominent).
Other Top-10 applicants
Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-trek), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Jay Vine y Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), Simon Yates (Visma | Lease a Bike), Jai Hindley y Daniel Felipe Martínez (Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe), Lorenzo Fortunato (XDs asa), A rubio (Movistar Team), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Romain Bardet y Max Poole (Team Picnic PostNL), Davide Piganzoli (Polti VisitMalta), Chris Harper (Team Jayco AlUla).
Startlist: These are the 184 protagonist of the 2025 turn
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