Slovenia:World 14:16

Italian Giovanni Aleotti is the latest name on the list of overall winners of the Tour of Slovenia. With his victory the score between Slovenian cyclists against the rest of the world changed to 14:16. Slovenians had a chance to match the result this year, but now we'll have to wait until 2026 at minimum.

Aleotti is also sixth Italian to win the race, riders from Poland & Russia won twice, one victory went to Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany & Zimbabwe. No single rider has more than two victories under his belt.

Tour of Slovenia overall winners:
1993 Boris Premužič, Slovenia
1994 Tobias Steinhauser, Germany
1995 Valter Bonča, Slovenia
1996 Lorenzo Di Silvestro, Italy
1998 Branko Filip, Slovenia
1999 Tim Jones, Zimbabwe
2000 Martin Derganc, Slovenia
2001 Faat Zakirov, Russia
2002 Evgeni Petrov, Russia
2003 Mitja Mahorič, Slovenia
2004 Mitja Mahorič, Slovenia
2005 Przemyslaw Niemiec, Poland
2006 Jure Golčer, Slovenia
2007 Tomaž Nose, Slovenia
2008 Jure Golčer, Slovenia
2009 Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark
2010 Vincenzo Nibali, Italy
2011 Diego Ulissi, Italy
2012 Janez Brajkovič, Slovenia
2013 Radoslav Rogina, Croatia
2014 Tiago Machado, Portugal
2015 Primož Roglič, Slovenia
2016 Rein Taaramäe, Finland
2017 Rafał Majka, Poland
2018 Primož Roglič, Slovenia
2019 Diego Ulissi, Italy
2021 Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia
2022 Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia
2023 Filippo Zana, Italy
2024 Giovanni Aleotti, Italy

Photo: Mario Stiehl