This year, there will be no British riders, competing in the Giro D'Italia which starts this weekend.
All of the World Tour teams plus the wild card entries so far have not selected one British rider for the race whose 98th edition starts this Saturday with a team time trial in San Lorenzo al Mare and finishes in Milan on Sunday May 31st.
Even British based Team Sky have gone all foreign for this race with Sir David Brailsford opting for a team line which will be led by Australian Richie Porte, who has already won Paris-Nice, Volta a Catalunya and Giro del Trentino this season.
Also in the team are two Italians in Salvatore Puccio and sprinter Elia Viviani with Bernhard Eisel, Sebastián Henao, Vasil Kiryienka, Leopold König, Mikel Nieve and Kanstantsin Siutsou, also named in the nine man team.
Porte told the Team Sky press office that his goal this season was the Giro and said:“The Giro d’Italia has been my main goal of the season. I’ve worked very hard through the winter and am entering the race strong, healthy and up for the challenge.
"The competition will be tough, and obviously anything can happen in a Grand Tour, but we’ve got a great group of riders going into the race and we are ready for it.”
Provisional start list
| AG2R LA MONDIALE | ANDRONI-SIDERMEC | ||
| 1 POZZOVIVO Domenico (ITA) 2 BERARD Julien (FRA) 3 BETANCUR Carlos (COL) 4 DOMONT Axel (FRA) 5 DUPONT Hubert (FRA) 6 GRETSCH Patrick (GER) 7 HOULE Hugo (CAN) 8 MONTAGUTI Matteo (ITA) 9 NOCENTINI Rinaldo (ITA) |
11 PELLIZOTTI Franco (ITA) 12 BANDIERA Marco (ITA) 14 DALL'ANTONIA Tiziano (ITA) 15 FRAPPORTI Marco (ITA) 16 GATTO Oscar (ITA) 17 STORTONI Simone (ITA) 18 TVETCOV Serghei (ROU) 19 ZILIOLI Gianfranco (ITA) APPOLLONIO Davide (ITA) |
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| ASTANA PRO TEAM | BARDIANI-CSF | ||
| 21 ARU Fabio (ITA) 22 CATALDO Dario (ITA) 23 KANGERT Tanel (EST) 24 LANDA Mikel (ESP) 25 MALACARNE Davide (ITA) 26 ROSA Diego (ITA) 27 SANCHEZ Luis Leon (ESP) 28 TIRALONGO Paolo (ITA) 29 ZEITS Andrey (KAZ) |
31 BONGIORNO Francesco (ITA) 32 BARBIN Enrico (ITA) 33 BATTAGLIN Enrico (ITA) 34 BOEM Nicola (ITA) 35 CHIRICO Luca (ITA) 36 COLBRELLI Sonny (ITA) 37 PIRAZZI Stefano (ITA) 38 RUFFONI Nicola (ITA) 39 ZARDINI Edoardo (ITA) |
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| BMC RACING TEAM | CCC SPRANDI POLKOWICE | ||
| 41 GILBERT Philippe (BEL) 42 ATAPUMA Darwin (COL) 43 BOOKWALTER Brent (USA) 44 BURGHARDT Marcus (GER) 45 CARUSO Damiano (ITA) 46 DILLIER Silvan (SUI) 47 KÜNG Stefan (SUI) 48 LODEWYCK Klaas (BEL) 49 ZABEL Rick (GER) |
51 PATERSKI Maciej (POL) 52 BOLE Grega (SLO) 54 MARYCZ Jaroslaw (POL) 55 MATYSIAK Bartlomiej (POL) 56 OWSIAN Lukasz (POL) 57 RUTKIEWICZ Marek (POL) 58 SAMOILAU Branislau (BLR) 59 SZMYD Sylvester (POL) MIHAYLOV Nikolay (BUL) |
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| ETIXX-QUICKSTEP | FDJ | ||
| 61 URAN Rigoberto (COL) 62 BOONEN Tom (BEL) 63 BOUET Maxime (FRA) 65 DE LA CRUZ David (ESP) 66 KEISSE Iljo (BEL) 67 SABATINI Fabio (ITA) 68 SERRY Pieter (BEL) 69 VAKOC Michael (CZE) MEERSMAN Gianni (BEL) |
71 GENIEZ Alexandre (FRA) 72 COURTEILLE Arnaud (FRA) 73 ELISSONDE Kenny (FRA) 74 FISCHER Murilo Antonio (BRA) 75 LE BON Johan (FRAv 76 MOUREY Francis (FRA) 77 PINEAU Cédric (FRA) 78 ROUX Anthony (FRA) 79 VEIKKANEN Jussi (FIN) |
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| IAM CYCLING | LAMPRE-MERIDA | ||
| 81 CHAVANEL Sylvain (FRA) 82 CHEVRIER Clement (FRA) 83 CLEMENT Stef (NED) 84 HAUSSLER Heinrich (AUS) 85 KLUGE Roger (GER) 86 PELUCCHI Matteo (ITA) 87 PINEAU Jerome (FRA) 88 REICHENBACH Sebastien (SUI) 89 SARAMOTINS Aleksejs (LAT) |
91 ULISSI Diego (ITA) 92 CONTI Valerio (ITA) 93 FERRARI Roberto (ITA) 94 GRMAY Tsgabu (ETH) 95 MODOLO Sacha (ITA) 96 MORI Manuele (ITA) 97 NIEMIEC Przemyslaw (POL) 98 RICHEZE Maximiliano (ARG) 99 XU Gang (CHN) |
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| LOTTO SOUDAL | MOVISTAR TEAM | ||
| 100 VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen (BEL) 101 ARMEE Sander (BEL) 102 BAK Lars Ytting (DEN) 103 BROECKX Stig (BEL) 104 GREIPEL Andre (GER) 105 HANSEN Adam (AUS) 106 HENDERSON Gregory (NZL) 107 MONFORT Maxime (BEL) 109 VERVAEKE Louis (BEL) |
111 INTXAUSTI Benat (ESP) 112 AMADOR Andrey (CRC) 114 FERNANDEZ Ruben (ESP) 115 HERRADA Jesus (ESP) 116 IZAGUIRRE Jon (ESP) 117 LOBATO Juan Jose (ESP) 118 QUINTANA Dayer (COL) 119 VISCONTI Giovanni (ITA) ANTON Igor (ESP) |
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| NIPPO-VINI FANTINI | ORICA GREENEDGE | ||
| 121 CUNEGO Damiano (ITA) 122 BERLATO Giacomo (ITA) 123 BISOLTI Alessandro (ITA) 124 COLLI Daniele (ITA) 125 DE NEGRI Pier Paolo (ITA) 126 FILOSI Iuri (ITA) 127 ISHIBASHI Manabu (JPN) 128 MALAGUTI Alessandro (ITA) 129 STACCHIOTTI Riccardo (ITA) |
131 MATTHEWS Michael (AUS) 132 BEWLEY Sam (NZL) 133 CHAVES Esteban (COL) 134 CLARKE Simon (AUS) 135 DURBRIDGE Luke (AUS) 136 GERRANS Simon (AUS) 137 HEPBURN Michael (AUS) 139 WEENING Pieter (NED) LANCASTER Brett (AUS) |
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| SOUTHEAST | TEAM CANNONDALE-GARMIN | ||
| 141 BELLETTI Manuel (ITA) 143 CARRETERO Ramon (PAN) 145 GAVAZZI Francesco (ITA) 146 MONSALVE Jonathan (VEN) 147 PETACCHI Alessandro (ITA) BUSATO Matteo (ITA) FAVILLI Elia (ITA) FINETTO Mauro (ITA) ZHUPA Eugert (ALB) |
151 HESJEDAL Ryder (CAN) 152 ACEVEDO Javier (COL) 153 BROWN Nathan (USA) 154 CARDOSO Andre (POR) 155 DANIELSON Thomas (USA) 156 FORMOLO Davide (ITA) 157 MARANGONI Alan (ITA) 158 SLAGTER Tom Jelte (NED) 159 VILLELLA Davide (ITA) |
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| TEAM GIANT-ALPECIN | TEAM KATUSHA | ||
| 161 MEZGEC Luka (SLO) 162 ARNDT Nikias (GER) 163 DE BACKER Bert (BEL) 164 FAIRLY Caleb (USA) 165 GESCHKE Simon (GER) 166 HAGA Chad (USA) 167 JI Cheng (CHN) 168 LUDVIGSSON Tobias (SWE) STAMSNIJDER Tom (NED) |
171 PAOLINI Luca (ITA) 172 BELKOV Maxim (RUS) 173 CHERNETSKI Sergey (RUS) 174 LAGUTIN Sergey (RUS) 175 PORSEV Aleksandr (RUS) 177 TROFIMOV Yury (RUS) 178 VOROBYEV Anton (RUS) 179 ZAKARIN Ilnur (RUS) KOCHETKOV Pavel (RUS) |
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| TEAM LOTTO NL-JUMBO | TEAM SKY | ||
| 181 KRUIJSWIJK Steven (NED) 182 BENNETT George (NZL) 183 FLENS Rick (NED) 184 HOFLAND Moreno (NED) 185 KEIZER Martijn (NED) 187 TJALLINGII Maarten (NED) 188 VAN DER LIJKE Nick (NED) 189 WAGNER Robert (GER) LINDEMAN Bert-Jan (NED) |
191 PORTE Richie (AUS) 192 HENAO Sebastian (COL) 193 KIRYIENKA Vasil (BLR) 194 KONIG Leopold (CZE) 196 NIEVE Mikel (ESP) 197 PUCCIO Salvatore (ITA) 198 SIUTSOU Kanstantsin (BLR) 199 VIVIANI Elia (ITA) EISEL Bernhard (AUT) |
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| TINKOFF SAXO | TREK FACTORY RACING | ||
| 201 CONTADOR Alberto (ESP) 202 BASSO Ivan (ITA) 204 JUUL JENSEN Christopher (DEN) 205 KREUZIGER Roman (CZE) 206 PAULINHO Sergio (POR) 207 ROGERS Michael (AUS) 208 ROVNY Ivan (RUS) 209 TOSATTO Matteo (ITA) BOARO Manuele (ITA) |
211 NIZZOLO Giacomo (ITA) 212 ALAFACI Eugenio (ITA) 213 BEPPU Fumiyuki (JPN) 214 COLEDAN Marco (ITA) 215 FELLINE Fabio (ITA) 216 SILVESTRE Fabio (POR) 217 VAN POPPEL Boy (NED) 218 VANDEWALLE Kristof (BEL) 219 WATSON Calvin (AUS) |
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