1. Mario Cipollini (Ita) Saeco 4.24.41 2. Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Amore e Vita 3. Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Ceramiche Refin 4. Nicola Loda (Ita) MG 5. Marcel Wust (Ger) Festina 6. Mariano Piccoli (Ita) Brescialat 7. Denis Zanette (Ita) Aki 8. Zbigniew Spruch (Pol) Mapei 9. Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Roslotto 10. Martin Hvastija (Slo) Roslotto 11. Mauro Bettin (Ita) Ceramiche Refin 12. Fausto Dotti (Ita) Ros Mary 13. Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Festina 14. Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Mapei 15. Dario Bottaro (Ita) Mercatone Uno 16. Fabrizio Bontempi (Ita) Brescialat 17. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 18. Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 19. Enrico Cassani (Ita) Polti 20. Andrea Noe (Ita) Asics all s.t. 21. Roscioli 22. Hernandez 23. Gallorini 24. Pianegonda 25. Miceli 26. Chiesa 27. Apollonio 28. Fincato 29. Ouchakov 30. Volpi 31. Gontchar 32. Serrano 33. Bramati 34. Jeker 35. Savoldelli 36. Rubiera 37. Molinari 38. Di Grande 39. Velo 40. Tonkov 41. Calzavara 42. Gonzalez Gutierrez 43. Gentili 44. Gotti 45. Giraldi 46. Guerini 47. Belli 48. Sgambelluri 49. Forconi 50. Frigo 51. De Paoli 52. Brasi 53. Merckx 54. Frattini C. 55. Bettini 56. Garcia Casas 57. Faresin 58. Ouslamine 59. Caruso 60. Santaromita 61. Lebreton 62. Puttini 63. Cabello 64. Tebaldi 65. Siboni 66. Laddomada 67. Cenghialta 68. Vidal 69. Petito 70. Podenzana 71. Pellicioli 72. Fornaciari 73. Patuelli 74. Gomez Gonzalo 75. Alberati 76. Donati 77. Gualdi 78. Barbero 79. Paluan 80. Lecchi 81. Djavanian 82. Berzin 83. Boscardin 84. Conti 85. Tani 86. Padrnos 87. Pierdomenico 88. Baronti 89. Lozano 90. Dalla Costa 91. Poser 92. Pozzi A. 93. Giacomelli 94. Bugno 95. Frattini F. 96. Finesso 97. Peschel 98. Konyshev 99. Della Vedova 100. Fontanelli 101. Pumar 102. Coppolillo 103. Gonzalez Pico 104. Schmidt 105. Calcaterra 106. Moos 107. Mondini 0.37 108. Vergnani 0.49 109. Cauz 1.00 110. Di Renzo 1.20 Original Starters: 180 Started Stage 22: 110 Finished: 110
1. Ivan Gotti (Ita) Saeco 102.53.58 2. Pavel Tonkov (Rus) Mapei 1.27 3. Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Polti 7.40 4. Nicola Miceli (Ita) Aki 12.20 5. Sergei Gontchar (Ukr) Aki 12.44 6. Wladimir Belli (Ita) Brescialat 12.48 7. Giuseppe di Grande (Ita) Mapei 12.54 8. Marcos Serrano (Spa) Kelme 16.07 9. Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 18.08 10. Jose Rubiera (Spa) Kelme 18.56 11. Andrea Noe (Ita) Asics 20.51 12. Felix Garcia (Spain) Festina 21.50 13. Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Roslotto 24.20 14. Dario Frigo (Ita) Saeco 31.35 15. Jose Gonzalez Pico (Col) Kelme 37.34 16. Alberto Volpi (Ita) Batik 41.32 17. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 43.28 18. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 47.22 19. Axel Merckx (Bel) Polti 47.44 20. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) Batik 49.02 21. Forconi 51.47 22. Gomez Gonzalo 53.47 23. Gentili 54.16 24. Petito 1.02.58 25. Bettini 1.04.55 26. Siboni 1.05.06 27. Puttini 1.13.14 28. Faresin 1.14.37 29. De Paoli 1.15.11 30. Velo 1.16.10 31. Jeker 1.16.18 32. Sgambelluri 1.29.16 33. Coppolillo 1.30.01 34. Bortolami 1.30.32 35. Calzavara 1.33.24 36. Pierdomenico 1.34.22 37. Konyshev 1.36.55 38. Donati 1.37.32 39. Pellicioli 1.39.50 40. Cenghialta 1.42.29 41. Mazzanti 1.43.22 42. Paluan 1.43.56 43. Barbero 1.45.13 44. Loda 1.46.24 45. Padrnos 1.46.28 46. Fincato 1.47.56 47. Sivakov 1.49.21 48. Piccoli 1.53.17 49. Patuelli 1.59.59 50. Lozano 2.00.22 51. Ouslamine 2.03.27 52. Gonzalez Gutierrez 2.06.29 53. Missaglia 2.06.34 54. Dotti 2.09.16 55. Vergnani 2.11.54 56. Lecchi 2.14.40 57. Molinari 2.14.46 58. Finesso 2.16.15 59. Hvastija 2.19.17 60. Della Vedova 2.21.16 61. Poser 2.25.53 62. Gualdi 2.26.21 63. Roscioli 2.29.07 64. Hernandez 2.29.50 65. Laddomada 2.31.36 66. Boscardin 2.33.52 67. Mondini 2.39.18 68. Lebreton 2.40.53 69. Tebaldi 2.43.17 70. Baronti 2.44.16 71. Frattini F. 2.44.35 72. Moos 2.48.05 73. Pumar 2.48.42 74. Pozzi A. 2.49.38 75. Bugno 2.50.07 76. Caruso 2.53.59 77. Zanette 2.54.29 78. Vidal 2.54.41 79. Crepaldi 2.55.14 80. Djavanian 2.55.26 81. Cabello 2.55.31 82. Chiesa 2.55.58 83. Apollonio 2.59.24 84. Tani 2.59.26 85. Magnusson 2.59.36 86. Frattini C. 3.01.13 87. Schmidt 3.01.30 88. Bettin 3.03.39 89. Cipollini 3.05.38 90. Dalla Costa 3.09.47 91. Brasi 3.13.54 92. Fontanelli 3.14.24 93. Alberati 3.15.34 94. Ouchakov 3.16.16 95. Giraldi 3.17.14 96. Bramati 3.17.59 97. Gallorini 3.21.07 98. Fornaciari 3.24.44 99. Bottaro 3.25.06 100. Spruch 3.26.09 101. Pianegonda 3.26.43 102. Bontempi 3.34.24 103. Calcaterra 3.34.49 104. Peschel 3.36.24 105. Wust 3.37.48 106. Cassani 3.40.47 107. Santaromita 3.51.36 108. Giacomelli 4.04.38 109. Cauz 4.05.44 110. Di Renzo 4.22.23
After a succession of Spanish, Swiss and Russian victories, the slim Italian headed Russian rival and defending champion Pavel Tonkov by one minute 27 seconds on the final run into Milan.
Franco Chioccioli, the last Italian to win a Giro in 1991, said: "I don't think we will have to wait another six years for the next. Now we have Gotti, Marco Pantani, and Francesco Casagrande."
Gotti has next month's Tour de France as his next target. "It will be a powerful line-up, but I believe that our team and myself can find our place among those big names," he said.
"This day, however, has been full of emotion for me. The first time I believed that I could keep the leader's pink jersey came after the time trial four days ago."
Gotti's team mate Mario Cipollini crowned the day with his fifth stage win as he beat off Sweden's Glenn Magnusson and Italian Luca Mazzanti in the closing 165 km leg from Boario Terme.
It was his 21st Giro stage win and lifted the big Tuscan into the 10 most successful stage-winners, but still only halfway to the record 42 of Alfredo Binda.
Cipollini spent the first two days in the leader's pink jersey until Tonkov took over for 11 days. The Italian also held the jersey for top points scorer throughout the 22-day, 3,918 km race.
"We have achieved more as a team than we predicted. It is one of the best moments of my life," said Cipollini who became a father last week.
"Gotti has given a lot to Italy, and I am sure that it will not be the only success. He has 'grown' a lot since I first knew him, and I am sure that he will be ready for the yellow jersey in the Tour."
Crashes, illness and injury took their toll, eliminating major hopes Pantani, Frenchman Luc Leblanc, Italian Enrico Zaina, and Russian Piotr Ugrumov.
The casualty list of 70 has been surpassed only three times in the last 40 years.
"The Giro is so important that everyone takes too many risks, and they crash," said Magnusson after finishing second on Milan's Parco Sempione circuit.