Olav Kooij won the last step in the sprint, Simon Yates offers himself the final victory

The Visma-Lease A Bike training runner won the sprint in the streets of Rome, during the last stage on Sunday.

Unlike the 2025 edition of the Tour de France, the GIRO offered itself a parade without great relief for its final stage, Sunday, June 1. At the conclusion of a flat step drawn around Rome, it was Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease A Bike) which won the sprint, ahead of Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Matteo Moschetti (Q36.5) to conclude this 108th Tour of Italy.

His teammate Simon Yates (Visma-Lease A Bike), who had overturned the whole race in the last mountain stage on Saturday, won his first Giro, at 32, ahead of Isaac Del Toro (UAE-Emirates XRG), best young people of this edition, and Richard Carapaz (EF-Education Esypost). The twin of the Yates brothers, who finished third in the event in 2021, thus won his second big round after the Vuelta, in 2018. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), winner of four stages, wins the Cyclamen jersey, Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS-Astana) that of the mountain.

This last step, where six fugitives could never believe it before being caught less than ten kilometers from the finish, saw a single small alert when the 5th of the general, Damiano Caruso (Bahrain-Victorious) was the victim of a puncture before regaining his place in the peloton. After a visit to the Vatican to greet the new pope, Kooij, perfectly taken by Wout Van Aert, was right in his rivals in the final packaging.

For Simon Yates, still well placed in the three weeks, it is an almost surprised victory, notably obtained thanks to a strange strategy error in the pink jersey, Isaac Del Toro, during the 20th stage. He who had wore the leader's leader 14 days and won three stages when he almost won in 2018, this time went to the end in a completely different way, wearing the jersey for a single day and by winning no stage. The last runner to have won a big round without winning a stage was until then Egan Bernal (ineos-grenadiers), during the Tour de France 2019. The Colombian finished 7th in this edition.

On the French side, Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale) finished first tricolor to general (15th) with a stage victory. Romain Bardet (Team Picnic Post-NL) finished 26th for his last big tour, before retiring after the Critérium du Dauphiné (June 8-15).