Giro d'Italia 2023: The line-ups of the 22 teams at a glance

Sebastian Lindner

· 03.05.2023

Giro d'Italia 2023 - the participating teams at a glance: Soudal - Quick Step

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The Giro d'Italia 2023 is getting closer and closer. The first of the season's three-week national tours begins on 6 May in Fossacesia, Italy. All 22 teams have now announced their line-ups. Here is an overview of the start list.

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22 teams will contest the Giro d'Italia - all 18 teams from the World Tour plus four teams with a wildcard: Israel-Premier Tech, Eolo-Kometa, Team Corratec - Selle Italia and Green Project -Bardiani CSF - Faizane.

Giro d'Italia 2023 teams: DSM with three German debutants

The Dutch World Tour teams DSM and Jumbo-Visma kicked off the presentation of their line-ups. DSM in particular has a strong line-up from a German perspective. Because with Niklas Märkl, Marius Mayrhofer and Florian Stork there are three young Germans who are not only making their debut at the Giro, but at a Grand Tour in general.

Jumbo-Visma with a strong team around top favourite Roglic

The team that will compete for Jumbo-Visma is also known. It will be led by Primoz RoglicThe Slovenian will be supported by the strong climbers Koen Bouwman, who won the mountain classification in Italy last year, and Sepp Kuss. And Michel Heßmann. This will also be his first time in a three-week national tour.

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The strong time trialists Edoardo Affini and Rohan Dennis as well as Thomas Gloag and Sam Oomen complete the line-up, which is completely geared towards Roglic winning the Giro. Originally, Robert Gesink and Tobias Foss were also in the line-up, but had to cancel due to coronavirus infections. Jos van Emden and Dennis initially joined the team instead. However, on the Thursday before the start of the Giro, it was announced that van Emden had also contracted coronavirus. Sam Oomen replaced him. Jumbo-Visma's run of bad luck continued on the Friday before the Giro. Jan Tratnik, who was originally planned for the squad, collided with a car during a training ride and had to cancel at short notice. Gloag is now in the team for the Slovenian.

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Evenepoel reaches for his second Grand Tour

Primoz Roglic's big opponent is likely to be Remco Evenepoel (Soudal - Quick Step) at the Giro d'Italia 2023. After his triumph at the Vuelta a Espana last year, the Belgian now also wants to win the Tour of Italy. Ilan van Wilder and Jan Hirt are expected to assist him in the mountains. Davide Ballerini, Mattia Cattaneo, Pieter Serry, Josef Cerny and Louis Vervaeke complete the Soudal - Quick Step Giro squad.

Giro d'Italia 2023 teams: Bora-Hansgrohe gives everything for title defence

The Bora-Hansgrohe team is completely focused on defending its title. Although last year's winner Jai Hindley himself, because he is supposed to be at the front of the Tour de France for Raublinger this year. His legacy, however, will be taken up by the Russian Aleksandr Vlasov.

Ineos Grenadiers with Thomas and Geoghegan Hart

The Ineos Grenadiers and Bahrain-Victorious teams are also very strong in terms of the overall standings. Damiano Caruso, Jack Haig and top talent Santiago Buitrago make the Bahrain-Victorious team difficult to predict. Ineos has Geraint Thomas the 2018 Tour de France winner and the 2020 Giro winner Tao Geoghegan Hart at the start. They will be joined by Thymen Arensman and Pavel Sivakov, who could also play a role in the classification. Filippo Ganna is a candidate for victory in the opening time trial on Saturday.

Tadej Pogacar, who is currently taking a break due to injury and is focussing on the Tour de France, will not be at the start for UAE Team Emirates. Nevertheless, the team from the Emirates has put together a powerful squad. Joao Almeida and Jay Vine could play a good role in the overall standings and with Pascal Ackermann is the winner of the 2019 Giro points classification from a German perspective.