Ryder Hesjedal might still be the king of Canadian Grand Tour riders with a Giro d’Italia title and three other Grand Tour top-10’s. Derek Gee’s directeur sportif Steve Bauer might have one more Grand Tour top-10 than his Israel-Premier Tech charge. But at the 2025 Giro d’Italia, Gee accomplished a first: he’s the only Canadian to place in the top-10 of consecutive Grand Tours. Gee followed up his ninth in last year’s Tour de France with fourth in the 108th Giro. He tied Bauer’s second-highest achievement for a Canadian in a Grand Tour. His GT top-10 is Canada’s tenth.
Considering that Gee lost 57 seconds to all his rivals on the first stage of the Giro, the Canadian showed spectacular grit in coming fourth, a…