On 28, 29 September and 1 October, the RCS Sport / La Gazzetta dello Sport races Milano-Torino (28 September), GranPiemonte (29 September) and Il Lombardia (1 October) will bring to a close the European cycling season. Today the teams of eight riders who will participate in the three races have been announced.
Most of the attention was of course taken by the seven wild cards for Il Lombardia. Unsurprisingly, the four Italian pro continental teams, Nippo-Vini Fantini, Androni, Bardiani and Wilier-Southeast all got the nod. The final three spots were taken by Gazprom-Rusvelo, CCC and Cofidis.
Ag2r, Astana, BMC, Cannondale, Lampre-Merida, Movistar, Katusha, Sky and Tinkoff were invited for both Milano-Torino and Gran Piemonte. Giant-Alpecin and Trek were only invited for Milano-Torino and Etixx-QuickStep will only be present at Gran Piemonte.
The four Italian pro continental teams were invited to both races as were Caja Rural, CCC and Gazpom-Rusvelo. Cofidis will only be at the start of Gran Piemonte.
Last year Vincenzo Nibali won Il Lombardia, his teammate Diego Rosa won Milano-Torino and Jan Bakelants won Gran Piemonte.
97th Milano-Torino - 28 September (18 teams: 11 UCI WorldTeams and 7 UCI Professional Continental Teams)
AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA)
ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ)
BMC RACING TEAM (USA)
CANNONDALE-DRAPAC PRO CYCLING TEAM (USA)
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA)
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP)
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN (GER)
TEAM KATUSHA (RUS)
TEAM SKY (GBR)
TINKOFF (RUS)
TREK - SEGAFREDO (USA)
ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI - SIDERMEC (ITA)
BARDIANI CSF (ITA)
CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA (ESP)
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL)
GAZPROM-RUSVELO (RUS)
NIPPO - VINI FANTINI (ITA)
WILIER TRIESTINA - SOUTHEAST (ITA)
100th GranPiemonte - 29 September (18 teams: 10 UCI WorldTeams and 8 UCI Professional Continental Teams)
AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA)
ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ)
BMC RACING TEAM (USA)
CANNONDALE-DRAPAC PRO CYCLING TEAM (USA)
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (BEL)
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA)
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP)
TEAM KATUSHA (RUS)
TEAM SKY (GBR)
TINKOFF (RUS)
ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI - SIDERMEC (ITA)
BARDIANI CSF (ITA)
CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA (ESP)
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL)
COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS (FRA)
GAZPROM-RUSVELO (RUS)
NIPPO - VINI FANTINI (ITA)
WILIER TRIESTINA - SOUTHEAST (ITA)
110th Il Lombardia - 1 October (25 teams: 18 UCI WorldTeams and 7 UCI Professional Continental Teams)
AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA)
ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ)
BMC RACING TEAM (USA)
CANNONDALE-DRAPAC PRO CYCLING TEAM (USA)
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (BEL)
FDJ (FRA)
IAM CYCLING (SUI)
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA)
LOTTO SOUDAL (BEL)
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP)
ORICA-BIKEEXCHANGE (AUS)
TEAM DIMENSION DATA (RSA)
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN (GER)
TEAM KATUSHA (RUS)
TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO (NED)
TEAM SKY (GBR)
TINKOFF (RUS)
TREK - SEGAFREDO (USA)
ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI - SIDERMEC (ITA)
BARDIANI CSF (ITA)
CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE (POL)
COFIDIS, SOLUTIONS CREDITS (FRA)
GAZPROM-RUSVELO (RUS)
NIPPO - VINI FANTINI (ITA)
WILIER TRIESTINA - SOUTHEAST (ITA)
Georgia CATTERICK 27 years | today |
Christophe PREMONT 35 years | today |
Shinpei FUKUDA 37 years | today |
Christoph HENCH 38 years | today |
Brian LIGNEEL 33 years | today |
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