<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1909_Giro_d'Italia" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1909 Giro d'Italia">The first edition</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giro_d'Italia" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Giro d'Italia">Giro d'Italia</a>, a long-distance multiple-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_stage" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Race stage">stage</a> bicycle race, began in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Milan">Milan</a>; the Italian cyclist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ganna" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Luigi Ganna">Luigi Ganna</a> was the eventual winner. <sup about="#mwt56" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_13#cite_note-9" id="mwhw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwiA">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt53" class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source" id="mwBfU"><a class="external text" href="http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/divers/Tour_dItalie/147186" id="mwBfY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Tour d'Italie ou Giro d'Italia"</a> <span id="mwBfc" typeof="mw:Entity">[</span>Tour of Italy or Giro d'Italia<span id="mwBfg" typeof="mw:Entity">]</span> (in French). Larousse.fr. 30 March 2012<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBfk">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBfo">10 August</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt53" class="Z3988" id="mwBfs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Tour+d%27Italie+ou+Giro+d%27Italia&amp;rft.pub=Larousse.fr&amp;rft.date=2012-03-30&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.larousse.fr%2Fencyclopedie%2Fdivers%2FTour_dItalie%2F147186&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+13"></span><link about="#mwt53" href="./Category:CS1_French-language_sources_(fr)" id="mwBfw" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>