Yates gained the title by three minutes 56 seconds over Mexico’s Isaac del Toro, with Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz 47 seconds additional again in third.
Del Toro, 21, gained the white jersey for greatest younger rider, Denmark’s Mads Pedersen claimed the mauve factors classification jersey and Italy’s Lorenzo Fortunato took the blue mountains classification jersey.
It’s Yates’ second Grand Tour title following his victory within the 2018 Vuelta a Espana.
He’s solely the second British males’s bike owner to win a number of Grand Excursions after Chris Froome, who gained seven.
Yates is the third British rider to win the Giro, after Froome (2018) and Tao Geoghegan Hart (2020).
His victory comes seven years after a dramatic collapse within the 2018 Giro when he led the race for 13 days solely to crack when Froome seized the lead with an astonishing long-range assault two days from Rome.
Yates returned to the Giro in the hunt for victory over the following 4 consecutive years however fell quick, his greatest end third place in 2021.
After a two-year break from the race, throughout which he completed a career-high fourth within the 2023 Tour de France, Yates has lastly gained the Giro at his sixth try.
He’s set to journey this yr’s Tour in help of team-mate Jonas Vingegaard, who’s focusing on a 3rd Tour title.
That is Yates’ first season using for Dutch outfit Visma, having beforehand spent all of his skilled profession with Australian group Jayco–AlUla.
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