With a win in the team time trial, BMC got the World Championships off to the perfect start. With 13 riders at the start in the time trial and road race, the team has lots of cards to play as it chases the rainbow jerseys.

Thirteen riders from the BMC Racing Team will participate in the UCI world road and time trial championships later this week in Ponferrada, Spain. 

Rohan Dennis (Australia), Silvan Dillier (Switzerland) and Tejay van Garderen (United States) will represent their respective countries in Wednesday's 47.1-kilometer time trial. All three were part of the BMC Racing Team's gold medal-winning team time trial squad Sunday.

Dennis and van Garderen will also compete in Sunday's 14-lap, 254.8-km road race, along with Brent Bookwalter (United States), Stephen Cummings (Great Britain), Cadel Evans (Australia), Philippe Gilbert (Belgium), Ben Hermans (Belgium), Dominik Nerz (Germany), Manuel Quinziato (Italy), Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium), Peter Velits (Slovakia) and Danilo Wyss (Switzerland).

Evans (2009) and Gilbert (2012) are past world road race champions while Velits was also a rider on the BMC Racing Team's winning team time trial squad.

"Each of these riders has proven themselves in recent competition and will be a fine representative for their country," BMC Racing Team President/General Manager Jim Ochowicz said. "We are proud to send a quality and sizable group of athletes to go for more gold this week."