The Giro d'Italia concluded with 159 riders rolling across the finish line in Rome on stage 21, the final abandon tally sitting at 25 riders after the last to walk away from the Grand Tour left on stage 19.
The final DNFs on Friday's queen stage were Portuguese rider Afonso Eulálio of Bahrain Victorious. He pulled out with just under 60km to go after struggling with some fatigue combined with the heat after the temperatures at the mid-day start hovering around 26°C for a second day in a row. Just two days before he had finished 10th on the climbing stage to Bormio.
With three climbs covered and two remaining on the final 35km of stage 19, Marco Brenner [Tudor Pro Cycling) became the second rider to pull aside on Friday and discontinue racing. The team had not confirmed the reason for the 22-year-old German road champion to step off his bike and become the 25th rider to leave the race, but while he didn't get to the final presentation he wasn't forgotten with a teammate carrying his number on to the stage.
On stage 18 Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), a pre-race favourite to compete for the GC, ended his Giro d'Italia due to the effects from a bee sting the day before adding to a string of physical complications. He was able to start Thursday's stage, but climbed off the bike just over 30 kilometres from the start in Morbegno.
Australians Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla) and Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) were the 21st and 22nd riders to drop out of the 2025 Giro d'Italia on stage 17. Plapp fell ill, according to his team, as did Vine, who had also crashed on the opening stage in Albania.
It was a lighter day in the autobus than stage 16, when there were five drop-outs. Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) and Milan Fretin (Cofidis) did not start stage 16, and a crash took pre-race favourite Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) out of the race. Another victim was Alessio Martinelli, who slid into a ravine on Tuesday. He suffered only a cut to his chin and thigh and no fractures in the harrowing crash on wet roads. Joshua Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) also crashed and his team reported that "scans confirmed bone and soft tissue injuries to his lower back".
Previously Giulio Ciccone abandoned the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, with the Lidl-Trek GC leader not lining up for stage 15 after being injured in a crash the previous day.
The Italian fought on to the end of the stage on Saturday but the team later said medical checks revealed that he "suffered a major haematoma on the vastus lateralis muscle on his right quadricep as well as a small muscle fascia injury".
Before Ciccone's departure the last rider to leave was Brandon Rivera (Ineos Grenadiers) who fell ill overnight before stage 14.
It was an abandon free few days, after Koen Bouwman (Jayco-AlUla), who fell ill and Andrea Pasqualon (Bahrain Victorious), who crashed during the stage and fractured his collarbone, left on stage 9.
Early on Friday of the first week it was also announced by Israel-Premier Tech that Jan Hirt wouldn't start stage 7 as a result of injuries sustained in a crash-heavy day of racing the previous stage. Although he had finished stage 6, a CT scan later revealed a femur fracture. Michel Ries (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) was also a non-starter on stage 7 and Bram Welten (Picnic PostNL) left the race early in the day of racing as he was still suffering the effects of a crash.
On stage 6, four riders were forced out of the race after rain and wet roads sparked a massive crash in the peloton en route to Napoli with 70km still to race on the 227km stage.
Jai Hindley (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was the biggest name to leave. The main mountain helper and GC backup for Primož Roglič, who won the Giro d'Italia in 2022, went down near the front of the peloton, and the chain reaction of braking on wet roads caused a huge pile-up. Hindley suffered a concussion. Juri Hollmann (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Dion Smith (Intermarché-Wanty) also dropped out on the stage after the incident, whilst Alessandro Pinarello (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizané) didn't start on Thursday after a crash on stage 5.
They joined previous DNFs Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Søren Kragh Andersen (Lidl-Trek), Mikel Landa (Soudal-QuickStep) and Geoffrey Bouchard (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) in the list of drop-outs.
Kragh Andersen crashed in the final 20km of stage 4, and managed to finish the stage – albeit with only one hand holding the handlebars – but didn't start stage 5 after suffering a broken wrist. Zukowsky was involved in a crash earlier in stage 4, when a stray bottle saw several riders towards the back of the peloton go down. All got back on, except Zukowsky, who left the race with a collarbone break.
General classification hopeful Landa was the first rider to abandon the 2025 Giro d'Italia after crashing heavily in the final 6km of the opening stage in Albania.
The Spanish rider crashed at high speed on the descent of the Surrel climb with 5.3km remaining in the 160-kilometre stage, coming off the road with Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and others. Landa fell heavily over a metre-high ledge onto the sidewalk in a bend. Soudal-QuickStep later released a medical update that confirmed Landa had suffered a stable fracture of the Thoracic 11 vertebra and that he will need to remain in a stable lying position for an extended period of time.
Geoffrey Bouchard (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) crashed in the same incident as Landa, and also left the race on day one.
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Stage 1
- Mikel Landa (Soudal-QuickStep) – DNF, crash on fast descent, fractured vertebra
- Geoffrey Bouchard (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) – DNF, crash on fast descent
Stage 4
- Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling) – DNF, crash in the bunch, broken collarbone
- Søren Kragh Andersen (Lidl-Trek) – DNF, crash in final 20km, broken wrist
Stage 6
- Jai Hindley (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) – DNF, crash on wet roads, concussion
- Juri Hollmann (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – DNF, crash on wet roads, broken forearm and hip fracture
- Dion Smith (Intermarché-Wanty) – DNF, crash on wet roads
- Alessandro Pinarello (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizané) – DNS, stage 5 crash
Stage 7
- Jan Hirt (Israel-Premier Tech – DNS, crash on wet roads of stage 6, checks post stage revealed right femur fracture
- Michel Ries (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) – DNS, effects of crash
- Bram Welten (Picnic PostNL) – DNF, lingering injuries from crash
Stage 9
- Koen Bouwman (Jayco-AlUla) - DNS, illness
- Andrea Pasqualon (Bahrain Victorious) - DNF, crash and fractured collarbone
Stage 14
- Brandon Rivera (Ineos Grenadiers) - DNS, illness
Stage 15
- Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) - Injured in stage 14 crash, DNS on stage 15
Stage 16
- Milan Fretin (Cofidis) - DNS for the mountainous final week
- Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) - DNS
- Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) - DNF after a crash on the slippery wet roads
- Alessio Martinelli (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) - DNF, taken to hospital after crash which left him with cuts to chin and thigh
- Joshua Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) - DNF after crash from the break
Stage 17
- Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates)
- Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla) - illness
Stage 18
- Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) - DNF due compounding injuries, the last a bee sting on stage 17
Stage 19
- Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious) - DNF after struggling from heat
- Marco Brenner (Tudor Pro Cycling) - DNF
