On Saturday 9 May, the Giro d’Italia begins – organised by RCS Sport / La Gazzetta dello Sport. The provisional entry list has been announced.
Many of the best riders from around the globe will take on “the toughest race in the world's most beautiful place”, and the race will open with the spectacular and "unique" Team Time Trial on the Riviera dei Fiori cycling path, from San Lorenzo a Mare to Sanremo, racing 21 stages before finishing on Sunday 31 May in Milan, during the Expo 2015.
Among them are the Spaniard Alberto Contador, the Australian Richie Porte, the Colombian Rigoberto Urán, the Italian Fabio Aru and the Belgian Jurgen Van den Broeck.
Among stage hunters, finisseurs (a rider who has both the speed and power to attack the peloton in the final kilometre of a stage and stay away on their own) and sprinters there are many top names from the international peloton: the Belgians Tom Boonen (at his first Giro) and Philippe Gilbert; the Australians Simon Gerrans, Michael Matthews (winner in 2014 of Montecassino stage and leader of the Corsa Rosa for six days), Michael Rogers (winner of two stages last year, including the mighty Zoncolan) and Australian national champion Heinrich Haussler; the Spaniards Jon Izagirre, Beñat Intxausti, Juan José Lobato, Mikel Landa and Mikel Nieve; the Colombians Carlos Betancur and Darwin Atapuma; the Czechs Roman Kreuziger and Leopold König; Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel; the Russian national champion Aleksandr Porsev; the Germans André Greipel and Simon Geschke; the Dutchman Maarten Tjallingii; the Slovenians Grega Bolea and Luka Mezgec (winner of last year's sprint for the Trieste stage) and the Italians Domenico Pozzovivo, Giovanni Visconti, Luca Paolini, Diego Ulissi, Fabio Felline, Oscar Gatto, Elia Viviani, Sasha Modolo, Alessandro Petacchi, Giacomo Nizzolo, Matteo Pelucchi and Enrico Battaglin (winner of the Oropa stage in 2014).
There will also be four previous winners of Giro d'Italia at the start: Damiano Cunego (2004), Ivan Basso (2006 and 2010), Alberto Contador (2008) and Ryder Hesjedal (2012).
AG2R LA MONDIALE FRA
1 POZZOVIVO Domenico ITA
2 BERARD Julien FRA
3 BETANCUR GOMEZ Carlos A. COL
4 DOMONT Axel FRA
5 DUPONT Hubert FRA
6 GRETSCH Patrick GER
7 HOULE Hugo CAN
8 MONTAGUTI Matteo ITA
9 NOCENTINI Rinaldo ITA
ANDRONI-SIDERMEC ITA
11 PELLIZOTTI Franco ITA
12 BANDIERA Marco ITA
13 CHICCHI Francesco ITA
14 DALL'ANTONIA Tiziano ITA
15 FRAPPORTI Marco ITA
16 GATTO Oscar ITA
17 STORTONI Simone ITA
18 TVETCOV Serghei ROU
19 ZILIOLI Gianfranco ITA
ASTANA PRO TEAM KAZ
21 ARU Fabio ITA
22 CATALDO Dario ITA
23 KANGERT Tanel EST
24 LANDA MEANA Mikel ESP
25 MALACARNE Davide ITA
26 ROSA Diego ITA
27 SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon ESP
28 TIRALONGO Paolo ITA
29 ZEITS Andrey KAZ
BARDIANI CSF ITA
31 BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel ITA
32 BARBIN Enrico ITA
33 BATTAGLIN Enrico ITA
34 BOEM Nicola ITA
35 CHIRICO Luca ITA
36 COLBRELLI Sonny ITA
37 PIRAZZI Stefano ITA
38 RUFFONI Nicola ITA
39 ZARDINI Edoardo ITA
BMC RACING TEAM USA
41 GILBERT Philippe BEL
42 ATAPUMA HURTADO Darwin COL
43 BOOKWALTER Brent USA
44 BURGHARDT Marcus GER
45 CARUSO Damiano ITA
46 DILLIER Silvan SUI
47 KÜNG Stefan SUI
48 LODEWYCK Klaas BEL
49 ZABEL Rick GER
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE POL
51 PATERSKI Maciej POL
52 BOLE Grega SLO
53 KUREK Adrian POL
54 MARYCZ Jaroslaw POL
55 MATYSIAK Bartlomiej POL
56 OWSIAN Lukasz POL
57 RUTKIEWICZ Marek POL
58 SAMOILAU Branislau BLR
59 SZMYD Sylvester POL
ETIXX - QUICK-STEP BEL
61 URAN URAN Rigoberto COL
62 BOONEN Tom BEL
63 BOUET Maxime FRA
64 BRAMBILLA Gianluca ITA
65 DE LA CRUZ MELGAREJO David ESP
66 KEISSE Iljo BEL
67 SABATINI Fabio ITA
68 SERRY Pieter BEL
69 VAKOC Petr CZE
FDJ FRA
71 GENIEZ Alexandre FRA
72 COURTEILLE Arnaud FRA
73 ELISSONDE Kenny FRA
74 FISCHER Murilo Antonio BRA
75 LE BON Johan FRA
76 MOUREY Francis FRA
77 PINEAU Cédric FRA
78 ROUX Anthony FRA
79 VEIKKANEN Jussi FIN
IAM CYCLING SUI
81 CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA
82 CHEVRIER Clement FRA
83 CLEMENT Stef NED
84 HAUSSLER Heinrich AUS
85 KLUGE Roger GER
86 PELUCCHI Matteo ITA
87 PINEAU Jérome FRA
88 REICHENBACH Sébastien SUI
89 SARAMOTINS Aleksejs LAT
LAMPRE - MERIDA ITA
91 ULISSI Diego ITA
92 CONTI Valerio ITA
93 FERRARI Roberto ITA
94 GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam ETH
95 MODOLO Sacha ITA
96 MORI Manuele ITA
97 NIEMIEC Przemyslaw POL
98 RICHEZE Axel Maximiliano ARG
99 XU Gang CHN
LOTTO SOUDAL BEL
100 VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen BEL
101 ARMEE Sander BEL
102 BAK Lars Ytting DEN
103 BROECKX Stig BEL
104 GREIPEL André GER
105 HANSEN Adam AUS
106 HENDERSON Gregory NZL
107 MONFORT Maxime BEL
109 VERVAEKE Louis BEL
MOVISTAR TEAM ESP
111 INTXAUSTI ELORRIAGA Benat ESP
112 AMADOR BIKKAZAKOVA Andrey CRC
113 CAPECCHI Eros ITA
114 FERNANDEZ Ruben ESP
115 HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus ESP
116 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon ESP
117 LOBATO DEL VALLE Juan Jose ESP
118 QUINTANA ROJAS Dayer Uberney COL
119 VISCONTI Giovanni ITA
NIPPO - VINI FANTINI ITA
121 CUNEGO Damiano ITA
122 BERLATO Giacomo ITA
123 BISOLTI Alessandro ITA
124 COLLI Daniele ITA
125 DE NEGRI Pier Paolo ITA
126 FILOSI Iuri ITA
127 ISHIBASHI Manabu JPN
128 MALAGUTI Alessandro ITA
129 STACCHIOTTI Riccardo ITA
ORICA GREENEDGE AUS
131 MATTHEWS Michael AUS
132 BEWLEY Sam NZL
133 CHAVES RUBIO Johan Esteban COL
134 CLARKE Simon AUS
135 DURBRIDGE Luke AUS
136 GERRANS Simon AUS
137 HEPBURN Michael AUS
138 TUFT Svein CAN
139 WEENING Pieter NED
SOUTHEAST ITA
141 BELLETTI Manuel ITA
142 ANDRIATO Rafael BRA
143 CARRETERO Ramon PAN
144 CECCHINEL Giorgio ITA
145 GAVAZZI Francesco ITA
146 MONSALVE Jonathan VEN
147 PETACCHI Alessandro ITA
148 PONZI Simone ITA
149 TEDESCHI Mirko ITA
TEAM CANNONDALE - GARMIN USA
151 HESJEDAL Ryder CAN
152 ACEVEDO COLLE Javier Alexis COL
153 BROWN Nathan USA
154 CARDOSO Andre Fernando S.M. POR
155 DANIELSON Thomas USA
156 FORMOLO Davide ITA
157 MARANGONI Alan ITA
158 SLAGTER Tom Jelte NED
159 VILLELLA Davide ITA
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN GER
161 MEZGEC Luka SLO
162 ARNDT Nikias GER
163 DE BACKER Bert BEL
164 FAIRLY Caleb USA
165 GESCHKE Simon GER
166 HAGA Chad USA
167 JI Cheng CHN
168 LUDVIGSSON Tobias SWE
169 VEELERS Tom NED
TEAM KATUSHA RUS
171 PAOLINI Luca ITA
172 BELKOV Maxim RUS
173 CHERNETSKI Sergey RUS
174 LAGUTIN Sergey RUS
175 PORSEV Aleksandr RUS
176 SILIN Egor RUS
177 TROFIMOV Yury RUS
178 VOROBYEV Anton RUS
179 ZAKARIN Ilnur RUS
TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO NED
181 KRUIJSWIJK Steven NED
182 BENNETT George NZL
183 FLENS Rick NED
184 HOFLAND Moreno NED
185 KEIZER Martijn NED
186 MARTENS Paul GER
187 TJALLINGII Maarten NED
188 VAN DER LIJKE Nick NED
189 WAGNER Robert GER
TEAM SKY GBR
191 PORTE Richie AUS
192 HENAO GOMEZ Sebastian COL
193 KIRYIENKA Vasil BLR
194 KONIG Leopold CZE
195 LOPEZ GARCIA David ESP
196 NIEVE ITURALDE Mikel ESP
197 PUCCIO Salvatore ITA
198 SIUTSOU Kanstantsin BLR
199 VIVIANI Elia ITA
TINKOFF SAXO RUS
201 CONTADOR VELASCO Alberto ESP
202 BASSO Ivan ITA
203 HERNANDEZ BLAZQUEZ Jesus ESP
204 JUUL JENSEN Christopher DEN
205 KREUZIGER Roman CZE
206 MOREIRA PAULINHO Sergio M. POR
207 ROGERS Michael AUS
208 ROVNY Ivan RUS
209 TOSATTO Matteo ITA
TREK FACTORY RACING USA
211 NIZZOLO Giacomo ITA
212 ALAFACI Eugenio ITA
213 BEPPU Fumiyuki JPN
214 COLEDAN Marco ITA
215 FELLINE Fabio ITA
216 SILVESTRE Fabio POR
217 VAN POPPEL Boy NED
218 VANDEWALLE Kristof BEL
219 WATSON Calvin AUS
Hao YUE 32 years | today |
Shuo LIU 27 years | today |
Kenta NAGAI 21 years | today |
Mattias NORDAL 23 years | today |
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