High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2000 Giro d`Italia of cycling, the 83rd running of the race, was held from 13 May to 4 June 2000. It consisted of a prologue plus 21 stages, for a total of 3,676 km, ridden at an average speed of 37.684 km/h. It was won by Stefano Garzelli, who led the all-Italian podium over countrymen Francesco Casagrande and Gilberto Simoni.