dutchman erik breukink gained the lead of the 1989 giro d'italia after winning the stage 10 individual time trial. breukink lost the lead after the fourteenth stage that contained five major passes. the frenchman laurent fignon took the lead of the race from breukink and then held it all the way to the finish in florence. this was also the year the intergiro classification was introduced to the giro d'italia – the calculation for the intergiro is similar to that of the general classification, in each stage there is a midway point that the riders pass through a point and where their time is stopped and then totaled up after each stage. jure pavlič was the first winner of the intergiro classification. gianni bugno dominated the 1990 edition after gaining the lead after the first stage. bugno led the race from start to finish – a feat that had only been done three times before in the history of the giro d'italia.