Giro d'Italia 2021: All teams and riders - The start list of the Giro d'Italia 2021

After last year's postponement to autumn due to the coronavirus, the Giro will once again kick off the three Grand Tours as usual this season. Shorter and steeper is the motto of this year's event. The profile, with a total of eight mountain finishes (three more than last year), has attracted a large number of riders with a strong mountain pedigree to Italy, while rouleurs and good time trialists have fewer opportunities to shine in view of the steep mountain passes and only 38 kilometres of time trial.

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Highlights of the Giro route include the excursion on the Tuscan gravel roads known from Strade Bianche on stage 11, the very steep climb to Monte Zoncolan on stage 13 and a brutal final week of racing, including the supposed queen stage over the Bernardino Pass and the Splügen Pass. With a total of 48,000 metres of ascent, there are fewer to complete than last year, but the climbs are significantly steeper throughout - perfect terrain for lightweight mountain specialists.

Giro live again on Eurosport 1

Unlike last year, sports channel Eurosport will once again broadcast all stages of the Tour of Italy live on the free-to-air channel Eurosport 1. The broadcasts will start between 12 noon and 2 pm, depending on the stage. The finishes are scheduled for around 5pm throughout. In addition, Eurosport Player and the GCN app will offer the complete race action from start to finish every day on smartphone, PC or TV.

Last year's surprise winner, Tao Geoghan Hart, will not be at the start as he is due to take part in the Tour de France for the first time this year. In his place, the captain of the Ineos team is the Colombian Egan Bernal. The German team Bora-hansgrohe will start the race with the double lead Buchmann-Sagan. The Slovakian former world champion will probably be battling it out with Dylan Groenewegen in the bunch sprints. The Dutchman will make his debut this season at the Giro on 7 May after completing his nine-month ban.

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Other big names in the starting field for the 104th Giro are Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious), Hugh Carthy (EF Education Nippo), Dan Martin (Israel Start Up Nation) Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo) and Simon Yates (Bike Exchange). Deceuninck-QuickStep will line up with an exciting double lead: Alongside last year's fourth-placed Joao Almeida, youngster Remco Evenepoel is set to make his GrandTour debut. The sprinters' field appears to be weaker than in the past: apart from Sagan and Groenewegen, only Elia Vivian (Cofidis) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) stand out on paper.

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The Italian ProContinental team Androni Giocattoli, which had initially not received a wildcard for the Giro, was moved up to the starting field at short notice. The reason for this is a positive doping test for Vini Zabù rider Matteo De Bonis, which led to the team's withdrawal. This is the second case of doping at Androni Giocattoli within a year, which would have resulted in a race ban of between 15 and 45 days according to UCI regulations.

Eight German starters

With Alexander Krieger (Team Alpecin-Fenix participating for the first time), Nikias Arndt, Nico Denz, Max Kanter (all three Team DSM), Paul Martens (Jumbo-Visma), Roger Kluge (Lotto-Soudal), Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-hansgrohe) and Max Walscheid (Assos-Qubeka), there are eight German pros at the start in Turin, three more than last year. They are listed in the following provisional start list (current changes on the organiser website) bolded for better recognisability.

The start list of the Giro d'Italia 2021

INEOS Grenadiers

1 Egan Bernal (Colombia)

2 Jonathan Castroviejo (Spain)

3 Filippo Ganna (Italy)

4 Daniel Felipe Martínez (Colombia)

5 Gianni Moscon (Italy)

6 Salvatore Puccio (Italy)

7 Pavel Sivakov (Russia)

8 Iván Ramiro Sosa (Colombia)

AG2R Citroën Team

11 Tony Gallopin (France)

12 François Bidard (France)

13 Geoffrey Bouchard (France)

14 Clément Champouissin (France)

15 Mathias Frank (Switzerland)

16 Ben Gastauer (Luxembourg)

17 Andrea Vendrame (Italy)

18 Larry Warbasse (USA)

Alpecin-Fenix

21 Tim Merlier (Belgium)

22 Dries de Bondt (Belgium)

23 Jimmy Janssens (Belgium)

24 Alexander Krieger (Germany)

25 Senne Leysen (Belgium)

26 Oscar Riesebeek (Netherlands)

27 Gianni Vermeersch (Belgium)

28 Louis Vervaeke (Belgium)

Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec

31 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (Equador)

32 Simon Pellaud (Switzerland)

33 Andrii Ponomar (Ukraine)

34 Simone Ravanelli (Italy)

35 Eduardo Sepúlveda (Argentina)

36 Filippo Tagliani (Italy)

37 Natnael Tesfatsion (Eritrea)

38 Nicola Venchiarutti (Italy)

Astana - Premier Tech

41 Aleksandr Vlasov (Russia)

42 Samuele Battistella (Italy)

43 Fabio Felline (Italy)

44 Gorka Izagirre (Spain)

45 Vadim Pronskiy (Kazakhstan)

46 Luis León Sánchez (Spain)

47 Matteo Sobrero (Italy)

48 Harold Tejada (Colombia)

Bahrain - Victorious

51 Mikel Landa (Spain)

52 Pello Bilbao (Spain)

53 Santiago Buitrago (Colombia)

54 Damiano Caruso (Italy)

55 Gino Mäder (Switzerland)

56 Matej Mohorič (Slovenia)

57 Domen Novak (Slovenia)

58 Jan Tratnik (Slovenia)

Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè

61 Giovanni Visconti (Italy)

62 Enrico Battaglin (Italy)

63 Filippo Fiorelli (Italy)

64 Davide Gabburo (Italy)

65 Umberto Marengo (Italy)

66 Alessandro Tonelli (Italy)

67 Filippo Zana (Italy)

68 Samuele Zoccarato (Italy)

BORA - hansgrohe

71 Peter Sagan (Slovakia)

72 Giovanni Aleotti (Italy)

73 Cesare Benedetti (Italy)

74 Maciej Bodnar (Poland)

75 Emanuel Buchmann (Germany)

76 Matteo Fabbro (Italy)

77 Felix Großschartner (Austria)

78 Daniel Oss (Italy)

Cofidis, Solutions Crédits

81 Elia Viviani (Italy)

82 Natnael Berhane (Eritrea)

83 Simone Consonni (Italy)

84 Nicolas Edet (France)

85 Victor Lafay (France)

86 Rémy Rochas (France)

87 Fabio Sabatini (Italy)

88 Attilio Viviani (Italy)

Deceuninck - Quick Step

91 Remco Evenepoel (Belgium)

92 João Almeida (Portugal)

93 Rémi Cavagna (France)

94 Mikkel Frølich Honoré (Denmark)

95 Iljo Keisse (Belgium)

96 James Knox (Great Britain)

97 Fausto Masnada (Italy)

98 Pieter Serry (Belgium)

EF Education - Nippo

101 Hugh Carthy (Great Britain)

102 Will Barta (USA)

103 Alberto Bettiol (Italy)

104 Jonathan Klever Caicedo (Equador)

105 Simon Carr (Great Britain)

106 Ruben Guerreiro (Portugal)

107 Jens Keukeleire (Belgium)

109 Tejay van Garderen (USA)

EOLO cometa

111 Luca Wackermann (Italy)

112 Vincenzo Albanese (Italy)

113 Davide Bais (Italy)

114 Manuel Belletti (Italy)

115 Lorenzo Fortunato (Italy)

116 Francesco Gavazzi (Italy)

117 Edward Ravasi (Italy)

118 Alejandro Ropero (Spain)

Groupama - FDJ

121 Rudy Molard (France)

122 Matteo Badilatti (Switzerland)

123 Antoine Duchesne (Canada)

124 Simon Guglielmi (France)

125 Tobias Ludvigsson (Sweden)

126 Sébastien Reichenbach (Switzerland)

127 Attila Valter (Hungary)

128 Lars van den Berg (Netherlands)

Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux

131 Jan Hirt (Czech Republic)

132 Quinten Hermans (Belgium)

133 Wesley Kreder (Netherlands)

134 Riccardo Minali (Italy)

135 Andrea Pasqualon (Italy)

136 Simone Petilli (Italy)

137 Rein Taaeamäe (Estonia)

138 Taco van der Hoorn (Netherlands)

Israel Start-Up Nation

141 Dan Martin (Ireland)

142 Patrick Bevin (New Zealand)

143 Matthias Brändle (Austria)

144 Davide Cimolai (Italy)

145 Alessandro de Marchi (Italy)

146 Alex Dowsett (Great Britain)

147 Krists Neilands (Lithuania)

148 Guy Niv (Israel)

Team Jumbo-Visma

151 George Bennett (New Zealand)

152 Edoardo Affini (Italy)

153 Koen Bouwman (Netherlands)

154 David Dekker (Netherlands)

155 Tobias Foss (Netherlands)

156 Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands)

157 Paul Martens (Germany)

158 Jos van Emden (Netherlands)

Lotto Soudal

161 Caleb Ewan (Australia)

162 Jasper de Buyst (Belgium)

163 Thomas de Gendt (Belgium)

164 Kobe Goosens (Belgium)

165 Roger Kluge (Germany)

166 Tomasz Marczynski (Poland)

167 Stefano Oldani (Italy)

168 Harm Vanhoucke (Belgium)

Movistar Team

171 Marc Soler (Spain)

172 Dario Cataldo (Italy)

173 Matteo Jorgenson (USA)

174 Nelson Oliveira (Portugal)

175 Antonio Pedrero (Spain)

176 One Augusto Rubio (Colombia)

177 Albert Torres (Spain)

178 Davide Villella (Italy)

Team BikeExchange

181 Simon Yates (Great Britain)

182 Michael Hepburn (Australia)

183 Christopher Juul-Jensen (Denmark)

184 Tanel Kangert (Estonia)

185 Cameron Meyer (Australia)

186 Mikel Nieve (Spain)

187 Nick Schultz (Australia)

188 Callum Scotson (Australia)

Team DSM

191 Jai Hindley (Australia)

192 Nikias Arndt (Germany)

193 Romain Bardet (France)

194 Nico Denz (Germany)

195 Chris Hamilton (Australia)

196 Max Kanter (Germany)

197 Nicolas Roche (Ireland)

198 Michael Storer (Australia)

Team Qhubeka ASSOS

201 Giacomo Nizzolo (Italy)

202 Victor Campenaerts (Belgium)

203 Kilian Frankiniy (Switzerland)

204 Bert-Jan Lindeman (Netherlands)

205 Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy)

206 Mauro Schmid (Switzerland)

207 Max Walscheid (Germany)

208 Łukasz Wiśniowski (Poland)

Trek - Segafredo

211 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)

212 Gianluca Brambilla (Italy)

213 Giulio Ciccone (Italy)

214 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier (Eritrea)

215 Bauke Mollema (Netherlands)

216 Jacopo Mosca (Italy)

217 Matteo Moschetti (Italy)

218 Ryan Mullen (Ireland)

UAE-Team Emirates

221 Davide Formolo (Italy)

222 Valerio Conti (Italy)

223 Alessandro Covi (Italy)

224 Joe Dombrowski (USA)

225 Fernando Gaviria (Colombia)

226 Juan Sebastián Molano (Colombia)

227 Maximiliano Richeze (Argentina)

228 Diego Ulissi (Italy)

*Provisional start list / Status: 3 May 2021