For the upcoming Dubai Tour, scheduled from 3 to 6 February 2016, the 2015 winner Mark Cavendish (British Isles) leads a peloton that also includes the former world champions Bradley Wiggins (GBR), the Belgian Philippe Gilbert, the Portuguese Rui Alberto Faria da Costa, the Swiss Fabian Cancellara, the German Tony Martin and a bunch of great sprinters including the Italians Elia Viviani and Andrea Guardini, Germany’s Marcel Kittel and the Aussie Matthew Harley Goss.
The Dubai Tour is made up from three stage suited to the sprinters and one – stage three, The Westin Stage – to the puncheurs. New features for the 2016 Dubai Tour are the first finish in the Fujairah Emirate (Dubai Silicon Oasis Stage) and a new venue for the last sprint at the up and coming Business Bay district (Business Bay Stage).
The entry list includes 10 UCI WorldTeams, three UCI Professional Continental teams, three UCI Continental teams (with the UAE National Selection replaced by the Al Nasr Pro Cycling Team-Dubai). Each team at the start of Dubai Tour will consist of eight riders.
Due to the accident that occurred in Spain during the weekend, the Giant-Alpecin team will be updated shortly.
Below is the list of invited teams with the respective team main riders:
UCI WorldTeams
ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ) Lars Boom
BMC RACING TEAM (USA) Philippe Gilbert
DIMENSION DATA (RSA) Mark Cavendish
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (BEL) Marcel Kittel
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA) Sacha Modolo
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP) Giovanni Visconti
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN (GER) To be confirmed
TEAM SKY (GBR) Elia Viviani
TINKOFF (RUS) Daniele Bennati
TREK - SEGAFREDO (USA) Fabian Cancellara
UCI Professional Continental Teams
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL) Davide Rebellin
ONE PRO CYCLING (GBR) Matthew Harley Goss
TEAM NOVO NORDISK (USA) Stephen Clancy
UCI Continental Teams
AL NASR PRO CYCLING TEAM-DUBAI (UAE) Yousif Mirza
SKYDIVE DUBAI PRO CYCLING TEAM - AL AHLI CLUB (UAE) Ivan Santaromita
TEAM WIGGINS (GBR) Bradley Wiggins
Provisional start list
Dimension Data
1 Mark Cavendish (GBR)
2 Natnael Berhane (ERI)
3 Matt Brammeier (IRL)
4 Nick Dougall (RSA)
5 Bernhard Eisel (AUT)
6 Songezo Jim (RSA)
7 Mark Renshaw (AUS)
8 Daniel Teklehaimanot (ERI)
Astana
11 Andrea Guardini (ITA)
12 Lars Boom (NED)
13 Laurens De Vreese (BEL)
14 Daniil Fominykh (KAZ)
15 Dmitriy Gruzdev (KAZ)
16 Gatis Smukulis (LAT)
17 Ruslan Tleubayev (KAZ)
18 Lieuwe Westra (NED)
BMC Racing
21 Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
22 Tom Bohli (SUI)
23 Silvan Dillier (SUI)
24 Ben Hermans (BEL)
25 Amael Moinard (FRA)
26 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (ESP)
27 Manuel Senni (ITA)
28 Loic Vliegen (BEL)
CCC Sprandi Polkowice
31 Davide Rebellin (ITA)
32 Tomasz Kiendys (POL)
33 Adrian Kurek (POL)
34 Adrian Honkisz (POL)
35 Jaroslaw Marycz (POL)
36 Branislau Samoilau (BLR)
37 Grzegorz Stepniak (POL)
38 Simone Ponzi (ITA)
Etixx-QuickStep
41 Marcel Kittel (GER)
42 Tony Martin (GER)
43 Nikolas Maes (BEL)
44 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (ARG)
45 Fabio Sabatini (ITA)
46 Matteo Trentin (ITA)
47 Julien Vermote (BEL)
48 Lukasz Wisniowski (POL)
Lampre-Merida
51 Sacha Modolo (ITA)
52 Matteo Bono (ITA)
53 Valerio Conti (ITA)
54 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (POR)
55 Chun Kai Feng (TPE)
56 Roberto Ferrari (ITA)
57 Simone Petilli (ITA)
58 Jan Polanc (SLO)
Movistar
61 Giovanni Visconti (ITA)
62 Nicolas Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP)
63 Alex Dowsett (GBR)
64 Gorka Izaguirre Insausti (ESP)
65 Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (ESP)
66 Nelson Oliveira (POR)
67 Marc Soler (ESP)
68 Jasha Sütterlin (GER)
One Pro Cycling
71 Matthew Harley Goss (AUS)
72 Yanto Barker (GBR)
73 Marcin Bialoblocki (POL)
74 Sebastian Lander (DEN)
75 Hayden Mccormick (NZL)
76 Martin Mortensen (DEN)
77 Chris Opie (GBR)
78 Peter Williams (GBR)
Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling
81 Ivan Santaromita (ITA)
82 Soufiane Haddi (MAR)
83 Adil Jelloul (MAR)
84 Francisco Mancebo Perez (ESP)
85 Tariq Obaid (UAE)
86 Andrea Palini (ITA)
87 Rafaa Schtioui (TUN)
88 Kamberaj Xhuliano (ALB)
Giant-Alpecin
NB: Team line-up subject to change
91 [John Degenkolb (GER) – injured]
92 Roy Curvers (NED)
93 Bert De Backer (BEL)
94 Koen De Kort (NED)
95 Caleb Fairly (USA)
96 Carter Jones (USA)
[97 Ramon Sinkeldam (NED) - injured]
98 Sindre Skjoestad Lunke (NOR)
Novo Nordisk
101 Stephen Clancy (IRL)
102 Gerd De Keijzer (NED)
103 Kevin De Mesmaeker (BEL)
104 Nicolas Lefrancois (FRA)
105 David Lozano Riba (ESP)
106 Andrea Peron (ITA)
107 Charles Planet (FRA)
108 Martijn Verschoor (NED)
Team Sky
111 Elia Viviani (ITA)
112 Andrew Fenn (GBR)
113 Michal Golas (POL)
114 Christian Knees (GER)
115 Gianni Moscon (ITA)
116 Lars Petter Nordhaug (NOR)
117 Ben Swift (GBR)
118 Danny Van Poppel (NED)
Team Wiggins
121 Bradley Wiggins (GBR)
122 Mark Christian (GBR)
123 Jonathan Dibben (GBR)
124 Owain Doull (GBR)
125 Liam Holohan (GBR)
126 Christopher Latham (GBR)
127 Daniel Patten (GBR)
128 Andrew Tennant (GBR)
Tinkoff
131 Daniele Bennati (ITA)
132 Erik Baska (SVK)
133 Michael Gogl (AUT)
134 Robert Kiserlovski (CRO)
135 Michal Kolar (SVK)
136 Evgeny Petrov (RUS)
137 Ivan Rovny (RUS)
138 Juraj Sagan (SVK)
Trek-Segafredo
141 Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
142 Marco Coledan (ITA)
143 Stijn Devolder (BEL)
144 Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA)
145 Yaroslav Popovych (UKR)
146 Grégory Rast (SUI)
147 Jasper Stuyven (BEL)
148 Boy Van Poppel (NED)
Al Nasr Pro Cycling Team Dubai
151 Luca Wackermann (ITA)
152 Essaid Abelouache (UAE)
153 Majid Albalushi (UAE)
154 Ahmed Almansoori (UAE)
155 Jaber Almansoori (UAE)
156 Yousif Mirza (UAE)
157 Jesus Alberto Rubio (ESP)
158 Tomas Vaitkus (LTU)
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