1993 Giro d'Italia
Team Points
1 Ariostea 531
2 Mercatone Uno-Zucchini-Medeghini 460
3 Lampre-Polti 444
4 Carrera Jeans-Tassoni 417
5 Mecair-Ballan 383
Team points classification
The 1993 Giro d'Italia, (), was the 76th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro started off in Porto Azzurro on 23 May with a split stage, with the first leg being a mass-start stage and the latter an individual time trial. The race ended on 13 June with a stage that stretched from Biella to Milan. Twenty teams entered the race, which was won by Miguel Indurain of the team. Second and third respectively were the Latvian Pēteris Ugrjumovs and the Italian rider, Claudio Chiappucci. Indurain's victory in the 1993 Giro was his first step in completing the Giro - Tour double - winning the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in one calendar year - becoming the first rider to repeat this feat in consecutive years. Moreno Argentin was the first rider to wear the race leader's maglia rosa () after winning the opening stage. Argentin held that lead for ten more days before losing it to Miguel Indurain after the conclusion stage 10. Bruno Leali stole the lead away from Indurain after the race's eleventh leg and held it until the end of the fourteenth day of racing. Indurain gained the lead after mountainous stage 14 and then held it all the way to the Giro's finish in Milan. Indurain became the first Spanish rider to win the Giro d'Italia in consecutive years. Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Italian Adriano Baffi of won the points competition, 's Claudio Chiappucci won the mountains classification, 's Pavel Tonkov completed the Giro as the best rider aged 25 or younger in the general classification, finishing fifth overall, and Ján Svorada of Lampre-Polti won the intergiro competition.