Tour of the Alps 2018: Riders

With Froome, Aru, Pinot, López, Bennett and Pozzovivo all lined-up, the Tour of the Alps is a perfect test of strength in regard to the upcoming Giro d'Italia. Furthermore, the route of the Middle-european race overlaps with that of the Worlds in Innsbruck next September. Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list of the 2018 Tour of the Alps. (Slideshow route/profile)

World Tour Teams

AG2R La Mondiale
Matteo Montaguti, Alexandre Geniez, Mickaël Chérel, Hubert Dupont, Clément Venturini, Clément Chevrier, Quentin Jauregui

Astana Pro Team
Miguel Ángel López, Pello Bilbao, Jan Hirt, Luis León Sánchez, Nikita Stalnov, Davide Villella, Andrey Zeits

Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team
Chun Kai Feng, Antonio Nibali, Mark Padun, Luka Pibernik, Domenico Pozzovivo, Giovanni Visconti, Meiyin Wang

BORA – hansgrohe
Felix Grossschartner, Michael Kolar, Aleksejs Saramotins, Matteo Pelucchi, Christoph Pfingsten, Lukas Pöstlberger, Michael Schwarzmann

Dimension Data
Igor Anton, Natnael Berhane, Merhawi Kudus, Louis Meintjes, Lachlan Morton, Ben O’Connor, Jacques J. van Rensburg

Groupama – FDJ
Thibaut Pinot, William Bonnet, Tobias Ludvigsson, Steve Morabito, Georg Preidler, Sebastien Reichenbach, Jérémy Roy

LottoNL-Jumbo
Enrico Battaglin, George Bennett, Koen Bouwman, Pascal Eenkhoorn, Sepp Kuss, Neilson Powless, Gijs Van Hoecke

Team Sky
Chris Froome, Philip Deignan, Kenny Elissonde, David de la Cruz, Sebastián Henao, Salvatore Puccio, Diego Rosa

UAE-Team Emirates
Fabio Aru, Valerio Conti, Kristijan Durasek, Stake Vegard Laengen, Przemyslaw Niemiec, Simone Petilli, Edward Ravasi

Procontinental teams

Androni – Sidermec – Bottecchia
Davide Ballerini, Mattia Cattaneo, Marco Frapporti, Francesco Gavazzi, Fausto Masnada, Ramiro Ivan Sosa, Andres Rodolfo Torres

Bardiani – CSF
Simone Andreetta, Giovanni Carboni, Giulio Ciccone, Umberto Orsini, Lorenzo Rota, Manuel Senni, Simone Sterbini

CCC Sprandi Polkowice
Manuel Amaro Antunes, Piotr Brożyna, Lukasz Owsian, Michal Paluta, Leszek Plucinski, Michal Schlegel, Patryk Stosz

Euskadi – Murias
Mikel Bizkarra, Aitor Gonzalez, Julen Irizar, Mikel Iturria, Sergio Samitier, Gotzon Udondo

Gazprom-RusVelo
Sergey Firsanov, Alexander Foliforov, Ildar Arslanov, Nicolay Cherkasov, Ivan Rovny, Aleksey Rybalkin, Sergey Shilov

Israel Cycling Academy
Edwin Avila, Nathan Earle, Ben Hermans, Luis Lemus, Guy Niv, Guy Sagiv, Daniel Turek, Omer Goldstein

Italy
Nicola Conci, Alberto Amici, Alessandro Monaco, Luca Covili, Matteo Sobrero, Marco Bernardinetti, Michel Piccot

Nippo – Vini Fantini – Europa Ovini
Damiano Cunego, Joan Bou, Nicola Bagioli, Hideto Nakane, Ivan Santaromita, Filippo Zaccanti, Masakazu Ito

Team Felbermayr – Simplon Wels
Riccardo Zoidl, Markus Eibegger, Filippo Fortin, Matthias Krizek, Daniel Lehner, Stephan Rabitsch, Lukas Schlemmer

Tirol Cycling Team
Johannes Adamietz, Benjamin Brkic, Mario Gamper, Johannes Schinnagel, Marco Friedrich, Georg Zimmermann, Markus Wildauer

Wilier Triestina – Selle Italia
Matteo Busato, Miguel Eduardo Florez, Jacopo Mosca, Ilia Koshevoy, Simone Velasco, Edoardo Zardini, Eugert Zhupa

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