Team Sky have named four British riders in their team for the Tour De Suisse which starts on Saturday.
Josh Edmondson, Luke Rowe, Ben Swift and Jonathan Tiernan-Locke compete in the race which starts in Quinto with an 8.1km individual time trial.
That is followed seven road stages before another final time trial on June 16th from Bad Ragaz to Flumserberg.
Ireland will have two representatives in the race with Garmin Sharp's Dan Martin and Saxo Tinkoff's Nicholas Roche.