Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2018: Riders

The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana is one of the first races in Europe. Former winners Alejandro Valverde, Wout Poels and Rubén Plaza are competing, as is Olympic Champion Greg Van Avermaet. Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list of the 2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.

World Tour Teams

AG2R La Mondiale
Alexis Vuillermoz, Cyril Gautier, François Bidard, Clément Chevrier, Axel Domont, Oliver Naesen, Clément Venturini

Astana Pro Team
Jakob Fuglsang, Pello Bilbao, Luis León Sánchez, Sergei Chernetckii, Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev, Hugo Houle, Nikita Stalnov

Bahrain Merida Pro Cycling Team
Giovanni Visconti, Ramunas Navardauskas, Domen Novak, Franco Pellizotti, Enrico Gasparotto, Hermann Pernsteiner, Luka Pibernik

BMC Racing Team
Greg Van Avermaet, Brent Bookwalter, Alessandro De Marchi, Kilian Frankiny, Stefan Küng, Jürgen Roelandts, Michael Schar

Dimension Data
Igor Anton, Bernhard Eisel, Nick Dougall, Merhawi Kudus, Serge Pauwels, Scott Thwaites, Johann van Zyl

LottoNL-Jumbo
Koen Bouwman, Sepp Kuss, Neilson Powless, Primoz Roglic, Jos van Emden, Gijs Van Hoecke, Danny van Poppel

Mitchelton-Scott
Michael Albasini, Luka Mezgec, Roman Kreuziger, Adam Yates, Simon Yates, Sam Bewley, Matteo Trentin

Movistar Team
Alejandro Valverde, Andrey Amador, Héctor Carretero, Jaime Roson, Joaquín José Rojas, Jorge Arcas, Nuno Bico

Team EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
Matti Breschel, Sebastian Langeveld, Daniel McLay, Sacha Modolo, Pierre Rolland, Tom Van Asbroeck, Sep Vanmarcke

Team Katusha – Alpecin
Maxim Belkov, Jenthe Biermans, Steff Cras, Matteo Fabbro, Reto Hollenstein, Baptiste Planckaert, Willie Smit

Team Sky
David de la Cruz, Wout Poels, Vasil Kiryienka, Gianni Moscon, Diego Rosa, Ian Stannard, Michal Kwiatkowski

Procontinental teams

Burgos-BH
Óscar Cabedo, Matvey Mamykin, Silvio Herklotz, Jordi Simón, Jesus Ezquerra, Ibai Salas, Pablo Torres, José Mendes

Caja Rural – Seguros RGA
Rafael Reis, Danilo Celano, Sergio Pardilla, Andres Nelson Soto, Cristian Rodríguez, Antonio Molina, Alex Aranburu

CCC Sprandi Polkowice
Manuel Amaro Antunes, Kamil Gradek, Jonas Koch, Marko Kump, Lukasz Owsian, Michal Schlegel, Jan Tratnik

Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
Luis Ángel Maté, Jesús Herrada, Dorian Godon, José Herrada, Hugo Hofstetter, Anthony Perez, Stephane Rossetto

Direct Energie
Damien Gaudin, Bryan Nauleau, Paul Ourselin, Adrien Petit, Romain Sicard, Rein Taaramäe, Angelo Tulik

Euskadi Basque Country – Murias
Jon Aberasturi, Enrique Sanz, Cyril Barthe, Julen Irizar, Eduard Prades, Héctor Saez, Sergio Rodríguez

Fundación Euskadi
Ander Jon Insausti, Egoitz Fernández, Ricardo Garcia, Peio Goikoetxea, Txomin Juaristi, Mikel Alonso, Marc Buades

Gazprom-RusVelo
Ildar Arslanov, Igor Boev, Sergey Firsanov, Artem Nych, Stepan Kurianov, Alexander Porsev, Nikolay Trusov

Inteja Dominican Cycling Team
Alfredo Jose Aguirre, Francisco Mancebo, Diego Milan, Adrian Nuñez, Alberto Jesus Rubio, Ignacio Sarabia, Albert Torres

Israel Cycling Academy
Rubén Plaza, Manuel José Díaz, Ben Hermans, Guy Niv, Guy Sagiv, Daniel Turek, Dennis van Winden

Nippo – Vini Fantini – Europa Ovini
Damiano Cunego, Marco Canola, Nicola Bagioli, Hideto Nakane, Ivan Santaromita, Simone Ponzi, Joan Bou, Kohei Uchima

Polartec-Kometa
Angel Miguel Ballesteros, Juan Camacho, Patrick Gamper, Michele Gazzoli, Kevin Inkelaar, Matteo Moschetti, Michel Ries

Rally Cycling
Ryan Anderson, Rob Britton, Matteo Dal-Cin, Adam De Vos, Evan Huffman, Colin Joyce, Emerson Oronte

Sport Vlaanderen – Baloise
Benjamin Declercq, Kevin Deltombe, Christophe Noppe, Thomas Sprengers, Mathias Van Gompel, Kenneth Van Rooy, Preben Van Hecke


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