Edoardo Zardini

Edoardo Zardini of Bardiani CSF, who grabbed the Point d’Appui at the end of Stage 2, returned to the middle at the end of the race and finished as the Point d’Appui for the 2015 Giro d’Italia.

During 2014, Zardini won stages in the Giro del Trentino and the Tour of Britain, finishing fourth overall in the latter.

Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo finished the Giro wearing the maglia rosa, and Marco Coledan of TrekRacing came in at 6 hours and 40 minutes behind Contador to win the Lanterne Rouge.

Simon Clarke of Orica GreenEdge finished in 3 hours, 20 minutes, 33 seconds – the time closest to the median time. Vasil Kiryienka, who won the Point d’Appui in the 2012 Tour de France was only two spots off the fulcum in the general classification.

The general classification for the Point d’Appui:

• Stage 1 – Bertjan Lindeman.
• Stage 2 – Edoardo Zardini.
• Stage 3 – Daniele Colli.
• Stage 4 – Fabio Sabatini.
• Stage 5 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 6 – Pieter Weening.
• Stage 7 – Axel Domont.
• Stage 8 – Brent Bookwalter.
• Stage 9 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 10 – Manuele Mori.
• Stage 11 – Sonny Colbrelli.
• Stage 12 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 13 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 14 – Luca Paolini. (Vasil Kiryienka of Team Sky, who won the overall Point d’Appui in the 2012 Tour de France, was the stage winner of this 59.2km time trial.)
• Stage 15 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 16 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 17 – Simon Geschke.
• Stage 18 – Davide Malacarne.
• Stage 19 – No fulcrum.
• Stage 20 – Edoardo Zardini.
• Stage 21 – Edoardo Zardini.