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Santini supplied 744 products (jerseys and other items of clothing) across the 21 race days of the Giro d’Italia. This included 460 race jerseys, of which 160 were pink.

The reason for the high number is the need to cater to the various sizes of the riders. As well as producing the pink jersey for the GC leader, Santini also made the jerseys for the best young rider, points classification leader and King of the Mountains – including the reverse-zipped jerseys adorned on the podium, as well as regular race-day jerseys.

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The eight riders to wear the leader’s jersey in this year’s race were: Tom Dumoulin, Marcel Kittel, Gianluca Brambilla, Bob Jungels, Andrey Amador, Steven Kruijswijk, Esteban Chaves and Vincenzo Nibali.

Kittel, Amador and Chaves had the shortest stints in the maglia rosa, wearing the pink jersey for just one stage, while Dumoulin, who led the race on two separate occasions, topped the GC for a total for six stages.

Of course, Nibali won the race overall, while Giacomo Nizzolo won the point classification, Mikel Nieve triumphed in the mountains classification and Jungels was the best young rider.

1951

Alongside the four main jerseys – pink for the GC leader, white for the best young rider, red for the points classification leader and blue for the King of the Mountains – Santini created a black replica jersey for fans this year.

From 1946 to 1951, the maglia nera was awarded to the rider last in the general classification – an ‘honour’ riders were known to deploy underhand tactics to achieve – and when Giovanni Pinarello took the final ‘prize’. Of course, he went on to found the bike brand which now bears his name. This year’s last-placed finisher was Trek-Segafredo’s Jack Bobridge, so look out for ‘Bobridge Bikes’ in 65 years time.

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Significantly less Brits have pulled on the maglia rosa, however – which is little surprise given this year, for the second year running, there was no British rider on the startline.

David Millar (three times), Sir Bradley Wiggins (once) and Mark Cavendish (four times) are the three Brits to have worn the maglia rosa, but that didn’t stop more than 2,000 of Santini’s replica pink jerseys selling in the UK – second only to Italy itself where more than 4,000 were sold.

58kg

Vincenzo Nibali, who weighs in at 65kg, wore a size small jersey on the final podium but he’s a positive giant compared to the smallest rider to have pulled on the maglia rosa – 2014 winner Nairo Quintana, whose 58kg frame fitted into an extra-small jersey.

Santini produce all jerseys for the race in sizes extra-small to large, with 1992 and 1993 winner Miguel Indurain living up to his ‘Big Mig’ moniker when he squeezed his 80kg frame into a large jersey during his two race wins.