Overview

• Yates reversed an 81-second deficit on the Colle delle Finestre with a solo attack in stage 20, securing the pink jersey for the first time in the race.
• He finished 3 minutes 56 seconds clear of young leader Isaac del Toro, with Richard Carapaz rounding out the podium in third.
• The final stage through Rome began with a blessing from Pope Leo XIV before Yates’s Visma-Lease a Bike teammate Olav Kooij won the sprint finish.
• He became the third British rider to win the Giro after Chris Froome and Tao Geoghegan Hart, and the first since 2015 to win the race without a stage victory.
• Yates credited his team’s strategy—especially Wout van Aert’s work in the breakaway on the Finestre—for underpinning what he called the ‘peak’ of his career.