[1][2][3][4][5] Fourteen teams were invited by the race organizers to participate in the 1960 edition of the Giro d'Italia.

[6] Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 140 cyclists.

[13][14][15][16] The start of the race was moved to Rome to honor the Summer Olympics to be held in the city later that year.

The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey.

In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists.