List of teams and cyclists in the 2016 Giro d'Italia

The 2016 Giro d'Italia is the first of cycling's Grand Tours to take place in the 2016 road cycling season. It is the 99th edition of the Giro d'Italia and takes place over 21 stages, beginning in the Netherlands on 6 May and finishing in Turin on 29 May. After the first three stages take place in the Netherlands, most of the rest of the race will take place in Italy; France hosts one stage start and one stage finish, while Switzerland also hosts a stage start.^[1]

The eighteen UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and obliged to enter the race. In January 2016, four UCI Professional Continental teams were awarded wildcard places in the race by RCS Sport, the organisers of the Giro, to complete the 22-team peloton.^[2] With nine riders on each team, the peloton consists of 198 riders.^[3] These riders came from 34 countries; more than a quarter of the peloton (53 riders) were Italian, while no other nation had more than 20 riders participating in the race.^[4]

Teams

All 18 UCI WorldTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race.^[5] As the winner of the 2015 Coppa Italia competition, Southeast–Venezuela were automatically given a wildcard invitation. There were two surprises in the remaining three wildcard invitations: Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec were not invited, nor were the Dutch Roompot–Oranje Peloton, even though the race began in the Netherlands. Two of the remaining wildcards were given to Italian teams – Nippo–Vini Fantini and Bardiani–CSF – and the last place was given to the Russian team Gazprom–RusVelo.^[2] In the week before the race, Southeast–Venezuela changed its name to Wilier Triestina–Southeast.^[6]

UCI WorldTeams

UCI Professional Continental teams

Cyclists

Legend
No.	Starting number worn by the rider during the Giro
Pos.	Position in the general classification
Time	Deficit to the winner of the general classification
	Denotes riders born on or after 1 January 1991 eligible for the young rider classification
	Denotes the winner of the general classification
	Denotes the winner of the points classification
	Denotes the winner of the mountains classification
	Denotes the winner of the young rider classification (eligibility indicated by )
HD	Denotes a rider who failed to finish within the time limit, followed by the stage in which this occurred
DNS	Denotes a rider who did not start, followed by the stage before which he withdrew
DNF	Denotes a rider who did not finish, followed by the stage in which he withdrew
Ages correct as of 6 May 2016, the date on which the Giro began

By team

AG2R La Mondiale (ALM)
No.	Rider	Pos.
1	Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA)
2	Guillaume Bonnafond (FRA)
3	Axel Domont (FRA)
4	Hubert Dupont (FRA)
5	Patrick Gretsch (DEU)
6	Hugo Houle (CAN)
7	Blel Kadri (FRA)
8	Matteo Montaguti (ITA)
9	Jean-Christophe Péraud (FRA)

Astana (AST)
No.	Rider	Pos.
11	Vincenzo Nibali (ITA)
12	Valerio Agnoli (ITA)
13	Eros Capecchi (ITA)
14	Jakob Fuglsang (DNK)
15	Tanel Kangert (EST)
16	Bakhtiyar Kozhatayev (KAZ)
17	Davide Malacarne (ITA)
18	Michele Scarponi (ITA)
19	Andrey Zeits (KAZ)

Bardiani–CSF (CSF)
No.	Rider	Pos.
21	Stefano Pirazzi (ITA)
22	Simone Andreetta (ITA)
23	Paolo Simion (ITA)
24	Nicola Boem (ITA)
25	Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (ITA)
26	Giulio Ciccone (ITA)
27	Sonny Colbrelli (ITA)
28	Mirco Maestri (ITA)
29	Nicola Ruffoni (ITA)

BMC Racing Team (BMC)
No.	Rider	Pos.
31	Manuel Senni (ITA)
32	Darwin Atapuma (COL)
33	Alessandro De Marchi (ITA)
34	Silvan Dillier (SUI)
35	Stefan Küng (SUI)
36	Daniel Oss (ITA)
37	Manuel Quinziato (ITA)
38	Joey Rosskopf (USA)
39	Rick Zabel (DEU)

Cannondale (CAN)
No.	Rider	Pos.
41	Rigoberto Urán (COL)
42	André Cardoso (POR)
43	Simon Clarke (AUS)
44	Joe Dombrowski (USA)
45	Davide Formolo (ITA)
46	Moreno Moser (ITA)
47	Ramūnas Navardauskas (LTU)
48	Alberto Bettiol (ITA)
49	Nate Brown (USA)

Team Dimension Data (DDD)
No.	Rider	Pos.
51	Igor Antón (ESP)
52	Omar Fraile (ESP)
53	Songezo Jim (RSA)
54	Merhawi Kudus (ERI)
55	Kristian Sbaragli (ITA)
56	Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR)
57	Jay Thomson (RSA)
58	Johann Van Zyl (RSA)
59	Jaco Venter (RSA)

Etixx–Quick-Step (EQS)
No.	Rider	Pos.
61	Bob Jungels (LUX)
62	Gianluca Brambilla (ITA)
63	David de la Cruz (ESP)
64	Marcel Kittel (DEU)
65	Fabio Sabatini (ITA)
66	Pieter Serry (BEL)
67	Matteo Trentin (ITA)
68	Carlos Verona (ESP)
69	Łukasz Wiśniowski (POL)

FDJ (FDJ)
No.	Rider	Pos.
71	Arnaud Démare (FRA)
72	Arnaud Courteille (FRA)
73	Mickaël Delage (FRA)
74	Murilo Fischer (BRA)
75	Alexandre Geniez (FRA)
76	Ignatas Konovalovas (LTU)
77	Olivier Le Gac (FRA)
78	Marc Sarreau (FRA)
79	Benoît Vaugrenard (FRA)

Gazprom–RusVelo (GAZ)
No.	Rider	Pos.
81	Alexandr Kolobnev (RUS)
82	Aleksey Rybalkin (RUS)
83	Artur Ershov (RUS)
84	Sergey Firsanov (RUS)
85	Alexander Foliforov (RUS)
86	Artem Ovechkin (RUS)
87	Ivan Savitskiy (RUS)
88	Alexander Serov (RUS)
89	Andrey Solomennikov (RUS)

IAM Cycling (IAM)
No.	Rider	Pos.
91	Heinrich Haussler (AUS)
92	Matthias Brändle (AUT)
93	Leigh Howard (AUS)
94	Roger Kluge (DEU)
95	Matteo Pelucchi (ITA)
96	Stefan Denifl (AUT)
97	Larry Warbasse (USA)
98	Marcel Wyss (SUI)
99	Vegard Stake Laengen (NOR)

Lampre–Merida (LAM)
No.	Rider	Pos.
100	Diego Ulissi (ITA)
101	Valerio Conti (ITA)
102	Roberto Ferrari (ITA)
103	Ilia Koshevoy (BLR)
104	Sacha Modolo (ITA)
105	Matej Mohorič (SLO)
106	Manuele Mori (ITA)
107	Przemysław Niemiec (POL)
109	Simone Petilli (ITA)

Lotto–Soudal (LTS)
No.	Rider	Pos.
111	Tim Wellens (BEL)
112	Lars Bak (DNK)
113	Sean De Bie (BEL)
114	André Greipel (DEU)
115	Adam Hansen (AUS)
116	Pim Ligthart (NED)
117	Maxime Monfort (BEL)
118	Jürgen Roelandts (BEL)
119	Jelle Vanendert (BEL)

Movistar Team (MOV)
No.	Rider	Pos.
121	Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
122	Andrey Amador (CRC)
123	Carlos Betancur (COL)
124	José Herrada (ESP)
125	Javier Moreno (ESP)
126	José Joaquín Rojas (ESP)
127	Rory Sutherland (AUS)
128	Jasha Sütterlin (DEU)
129	Giovanni Visconti (ITA)

Nippo–Vini Fantini (NIP)
No.	Rider	Pos.
131	Damiano Cunego (ITA)
132	Giacomo Berlato (ITA)
133	Alessandro Bisolti (ITA)
134	Grega Bole (SLO)
135	Riccardo Stacchiotti (ITA)
136	Iuri Filosi (ITA)
137	Eduard-Michael Grosu (ROU)
138	Genki Yamamoto (JPN)
139	Gianfranco Zilioli (ITA)

Orica–GreenEDGE (OGE)
No.	Rider	Pos.
141	Esteban Chaves (COL)
142	Sam Bewley (NZL)
143	Caleb Ewan (AUS)
144	Michael Hepburn (AUS)
145	Damien Howson (AUS)
146	Luka Mezgec (SLO)
147	Rubén Plaza (ESP)
148	Svein Tuft (CAN)
149	Amets Txurruka (ESP)

Giant–Alpecin (TGA)
No.	Rider	Pos.
151	Tom Dumoulin (NED)
152	Nikias Arndt (DEU)
153	Bert De Backer (BEL)
154	Chad Haga (USA)
155	Ji Cheng (CHN)
156	Tobias Ludvigsson (SWE)
157	Georg Preidler (AUT)
158	Tom Stamsnijder (NED)
159	Albert Timmer (NED)

Team Katusha (KAT)
No.	Rider	Pos.
161	Ilnur Zakarin (RUS)
162	Maxim Belkov (RUS)
163	Pavel Kochetkov (RUS)
164	Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (RUS)
165	Anton Vorobyev (RUS)
166	Alexander Porsev (RUS)
167	Egor Silin (RUS)
168	Rein Taaramäe (EST)
169	Alexey Tsatevich (RUS)

LottoNL–Jumbo (TLJ)
No.	Rider	Pos.
171	Steven Kruijswijk (NED)
172	Enrico Battaglin (ITA)
173	Moreno Hofland (NED)
174	Twan Castelijns (NED)
175	Martijn Keizer (NED)
176	Primož Roglič (SLO)
177	Bram Tankink (NED)
178	Maarten Tjallingii (NED)
179	Jos van Emden (NED)

Team Sky (SKY)
No.	Rider	Pos.
181	Mikel Landa (ESP)
182	Ian Boswell (USA)
183	Philip Deignan (IRL)
184	Sebastián Henao (COL)
185	Mikel Nieve (ESP)
186	David López (ESP)
187	Christian Knees (DEU)
188	Nicolas Roche (IRL)
189	Elia Viviani (ITA)

Tinkoff (TNK)
No.	Rider	Pos.
191	Rafał Majka (POL)
192	Manuele Boaro (ITA)
193	Pavel Brutt (RUS)
194	Jesús Hernández (ESP)
195	Jay McCarthy (AUS)
196	Paweł Poljański (POL)
197	Ivan Rovny (RUS)
198	Evgeni Petrov (RUS)
199	Matteo Tosatto (ITA)

Trek–Segafredo (TFR)
No.	Rider	Pos.
201	Ryder Hesjedal (CAN)
202	Eugenio Alafaci (ITA)
203	Jack Bobridge (AUS)
204	Fabian Cancellara (SUI)
205	Marco Coledan (ITA)
206	Laurent Didier (LUX)
207	Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA)
208	Boy van Poppel (NED)
209	Riccardo Zoidl (AUT)

Wilier Triestina–Southeast (STH)
No.	Rider	Pos.
211	Filippo Pozzato (ITA)
212	Julen Amezqueta (ESP)
213	Manuel Belletti (ITA)
214	Liam Bertazzo (ITA)
215	Matteo Busato (ITA)
216	Cristián Rodríguez (ESP)
217	Jakub Mareczko (ITA)
218	Daniel Felipe Martínez (COL)
219	Eugert Zhupa (ALB)

By nationality

The 198 riders that are competing in the 2016 Giro d'Italia originated from 34 different countries.^[4]

Country	No. of riders	Stage wins
Albania	1
Australia	10
Austria	4
Belarus	2
Belgium	7
Brazil	1
Canada	3
China	1
Colombia	6
Costa Rica	1
Denmark	2
Eritrea	1
Estonia	2
France	12
Germany	8
Ireland	2
Italy	53
Japan	1
Kazakhstan	2
Lithuania	2
Luxembourg	2
Netherlands	12	1 (Tom Dumoulin)
New Zealand	1
Norway	1
Poland	4
Portugal	1
Romania	1
Russia	20
Slovenia	4
South Africa	4
Spain	16
Sweden	1
Switzerland	4
United States	6
Total	198

References

↑ "Giro d'Italia - General Classification (Preview)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
1 2 "Giro d'Italia 2016 wildcard invitations announced". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). 18 January 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
↑ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
1 2 "Giro d'Italia 2016 – General Classification – Statistics". ProCyclingStats. ProCyclingStats BV. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
↑ "UCI Cycling Regulations: Part 2: Road Races page 110 article 2.15.127" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
↑ Brown, Gregor (29 April 2016). "Wilier signs on as new Southeast – Venezuela title sponsor". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). Retrieved 3 May 2016.

External links

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