Team Giant-Alpecin heads to Norway with a young team looking to gain experience and battle for results in this spectacular four-day race.

The team will be captained by Thierry Hupond (FRA) who returns to this race for a third year in succession, and he will be joined by the young American Carter Jones, returning from a short break following illness, as well as Ramon Sinkeldam (NED) who returns to racing following his debut Tour de France.

Lars van der Haar (NED) lines up here as he continues to build for the coming cyclo-cross season, and Fredrik Ludvigsson (SWE) returns to the race he made a debut at last year with the WorldTour team when riding as a stagiaire.

The six-rider line-up is completed by 22-year-old stagiaire Maximilian Walscheid, starting his first race for Team Giant-Alpecin. 

"The race presents different opportunities for our riders here, starting with the first two stages where we have sprint opportunities with Ramon and also for Max here too," explained coach Dirk Reuling. "Stage 3 is a tough uphill finish of around 3,5 km, and we will support Fredrik and Lars for the finish here. It should be a nice diverse tour and will show ourselves, and challenge for results every day."