World Tour Team Katusha is ready for its last Grand Tour of the season, the Vuelta a España. The anniversary edition (80th birthday – 70th edition) of the biggest Spanish race starts in the south of the country in Marbella on August 22nd and finishes in Madrid on September 13th.

On the menu of this edition: an opening team time trial, an individual time trial of 39 km in Burgos, 6 flat stages and 13 hilly and mountain stages, including nine unprecedented high-altitude arrivals.

The team will be led by Joaquim Rodriguez who is targeting the overall win after last year's fourth place. He recently won two stages in the Tour de France where his GC ambitions failed.

Unlike in the Tour, he will be supported by Daniel Moreno who won the queen stage at the Vuelta a Espana and he can count on his usual crew of climbers that also includes Italian Giampaolo Caruso and compatriots Alberto Losada and Angel Vicioso. Egor Silin, Eduard Vorganov and Pavel Kochetkov provide more firepower for the climbs while Vladimir Isaychev will take care of the leaders on the flats.

The team’s line-up: Joaquim Rodriguez, Giampaolo Caruso, Vladimir Isaychev, Pavel Kochetkov, Alberto Losada, Daniel Moreno, Egor Silin, Angel Vicioso and Eduard Vorganov.