Velonews: Preliminary Start List: 2015 Giro D’italia

<figure ><img title="Brakethrough best of 2014, off course: Giro d'Italia - grand depart" src="cdn.velonews.competitor.com4 20140508 ©BrakeThrough Media AX7O9700 320x213.jpg"Open ↗/><p></p></figure><p>This is the preliminary start list for the Giro d’Italia, which runs May 9-31.</p>
<p>An asterisk (*) indicates the team has been finalized.</p>
<p><strong>Ag2r La Mondiale</strong><br />1. Domenico Pozzovivo (I)<br />2. Julien Berard (F)<br />3. Carlos Betancur (Col)<br />4. Axel Domont (F)<br />5. Hubert Dupont (F)<br />6. Patrick Gretsch (G)<br />7. Hugo Houle (Can)<br />8. Matteo Montaguti (I)<br />9. Rinaldo Nocentini (I)<br />DS Laurent Biondi</p>
<p><strong>Androni-Giocattoli</strong><br />11. Franco Pellizotti (I)<br />12. Marco Bandiera (I)<br />13. Francesco Chicchi (I)<br />14. Tiziano Dall’antonia (I)<br />15. Marco Frapporti (I)<br />16. Oscar Gatto (I)<br />17. Simone Stortoni (I)<br />18. Serghei Tvetcov (Rou)<br />19. Gianfranco Zilioli (I)<br />DS Giovanni Ellena</p>
<p><strong>Astana</strong><br />21. Fabio Aru (I)<br />22. Dario Cataldo (I)<br />23. Tanel Kangert (Est)<br />24. Mikel Landa (Sp)<br />25. Davide Malacrane (I)<br />26. DIego Rosa (I)<br />27. Luis Leon Sanchez (Sp)<br />28. Paolo Tiralongo (I)<br />29. Andrey Zeits (Kaz)<br />DS Alexandr Shefer</p>
<p><strong>Bardiani CSF</strong><br />31. Francesco Manuel Bongiorno (I)<br />32. Enrico Barbin (I)<br />33. Enrico Battaglin (I)<br />34. Nicola Boem (I)<br />35. Luca Chirico (I)<br />36. Sonny Colbrelli (I)<br />37. Stefano Pirazzi (I)<br />38. Nicola Ruffoni (I)<br />39. Edoardo Zardini (I)<br />DS Roberto Reverberi</p>
<p><strong>BMC Racing</strong><br />41. Philippe Gilbert (B)<br />42. Darwin Atapuma (Col)<br />43. Brent Bookwalter (USA)<br />44. Marcus Burghardt (G)<br />45. Damiano Caruso (I)<br />46. Silvan Dillier (Swi)<br />47. Stefan Kûng (Swi)<br />48. Klaas Lodewyck (B)<br />49. Rick Zabel (G)<br />DS Valerio Piva</p>
<p><strong>Cannondale-Garmin</strong><br />151. Ryder Hesjedal (Can)<br />152. Javier Alexis Acevedo (Col)<br />153. Nathan Brown (USA)<br />154. Andre Cardoso (P)<br />155. Thomas Danielson (USA)<br />156. Davide Formolo (I)<br />157. Alan Marangoni (I)<br />158. Tom Jelte Slagter (Nl)<br />159. Davide Villella (I)<br />DS Charly Wegelius</p>
<p><strong>CCC Sprandi-Polkowice</strong><br />51. Maciej Paterski (Pl)<br />52. Grega Bole (Slo)<br />53. Adrian Kurek (Pl)<br />54. Jaroslaw Maeycz (Pl)<br />55. Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pl)<br />56. Lukasz Owsian (Pl)<br />57. Marek Rutkiewicz (Pl)<br />58. Branislau Samoilau (Blr)<br />59. Sylvester Szmyd (Pl)<br />DS Piotr Wadecki</p>
<p><strong>Etixx-Quick-Step</strong><br />61. Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col)<br />62. Tom Boonen (B)<br />63. Maxime Bouet (F)<br />64. Gianluca Brambilla (I)<br />65. David De La Cruz (Sp)<br />66. Iljo Keisse (B)<br />67. Fabio Sabatini (I)<br />68. Pieter Serry (B)<br />69. Michael Vakoc (Cz)<br />DS Davide Bramati</p>
<p><strong>FDJ</strong><br />71. Alexandre Geniez (F)<br />72. Arnaud Courteille (F)<br />73. Kenny Elissonde (F)<br />74. Murilo Fischer (Bra)<br />75. Johan Le Bon (F)<br />76. Francis Mourey (F)<br />77. Cedric Pineau (F)<br />78. Anthony Roux (F)<br />79. Jussi Veikkanen (Fin)<br />DS Frederic Guesdon</p>
<p><strong>Giant-Alpecin *</strong><br />161. Luka Mezgec (Slo)<br />162. Nikias Arndt (G)<br />163. Bert De Backer (B)<br />164. Caleb Fairly (USA)<br />165. Simon Geschke (G)<br />166. Chad Haga (USA)<br />167. Cheng Ji (Chn)<br />168. Tobias Ludvigsson (S)<br />169. Tom Veelers (Nl)<br />DS Addy Engels</p>
<p><strong>IAM Cycling</strong><br />81. Sylvain Chavanel (F)<br />82. Clement Chevrier (F)<br />83. Stef Clement (Nl)<br />84. Heinrich Haussler (Aus)<br />85. Roger Kluge (G)<br />86. Matteo Pelucchi (I)<br />87. Jerome Pineau (F)<br />88. Sebastien Reichenbach (Swi)<br />89. Aleksejs Saramotins (Lat)<br />DS Rubens Bertogliati</p>
<p><strong>Katusha</strong><br />171. Luca Paolini (I)<br />172. Maxim Belkov (Rus)<br />173. Sergey Chernetski (Rus)<br />174. Sergey Lagutin (Rus)<br />175. Aleksandr Porsev (Rus)<br />176. Egor Silin (Rus)<br />177. Yury Trofimov (Rus)<br />178. Anton Vorobyev (Rus)<br />179. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus)<br />DS Claudio Cozzi</p>
<p><strong>Lampre-Merida</strong><br />91. Diego Ulissi (I)<br />92. Valerio Conti (I)<br />93. Roberto Ferrari (I)<br />94. Tsgabu Grmay (Eth)<br />95. Sacha Modolo (I)<br />96. Manuele Mori (I)<br />97. Przemyslaw Neimiec (Pl)<br />98. Axel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg)<br />99. Gang Xu (Chn)<br />DS Orlando Maini</p>
<p><strong>Lotto-Soudal *</strong><br />101. Jurgen Van den Broeck (B)<br />102. Sander Armee (B)<br />103. Lars Bak (Dk)<br />104. Stig Broeckx (B)<br />105. Andre Greipel (G)<br />106. Adam Hansen (Aus)<br />107. Gregory Handerson (NZ)<br />108. Maxime Monfort (B)<br />109. Louis Vervaeke (B)<br />DS Bart Leysen</p>
<p><strong>LottoNL-Jumbo</strong><br />181. Steven Kruijswijk (Nl)<br />182. George Bennett (NZ)<br />183. Rick Flens (Nl)<br />184. Moreno Hofland (Nl)<br />185. Martijn Keizer (Nl)<br />186. Paul Martens (G)<br />187. Maarten Tjallingii (Nl)<br />188. Nick Van Der Lijke (Nl)<br />189. Robert Wagner (G)<br />DS Jan Boven</p>
<p><strong>Movistar</strong><br />111. Benat Intxausti (Sp)<br />112. Andrey Amador (CR)<br />113. Eros Capecchi (I)<br />114. Ruben Fernandez (Sp)<br />115. Jesus Herrada (Sp)<br />116. Jon Izaguirre (Sp)<br />117. Juan Jose Lobato (Sp)<br />118. Dayer Quintana (Col)<br />119. Giovanni Visconti (I)<br />DS Jose Jaimerena</p>
<p><strong>Nippo-Vini Fantini</strong><br />121. Damiano Cunego (I)<br />122. Giacomo Berlato (I)<br />123. Alessandro Bisolti (I)<br />124. Daniele Colli (I)<br />125. Pier Paolo De Negri (I)<br />126. Iuri Filosi (I)<br />127. Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn)<br />128. Alessandro Malaguti (I)<br />129. Riccardo Stacchiotti (I)<br />DS Stefano Giuliani</p>
<p><strong>Orica-GreenEdge</strong><br />131. Michael Matthews (Aus)<br />132. Sam Bewley (NZ)<br />133. Esteban Chavez (Col)<br />134. Simon Clarke (Aus)<br />135. Luke Durbridge (Aus)<br />136. Simon Gerrand (Aus)<br />137. Michael Hepburn (Aus)<br />138. Svein Tuft (Can)<br />139. Pieter Weening (Nl)<br />DS Mattews White</p>
<p><strong>Southeast</strong><br />141. Manuel Belletti (I)<br />142. Rafael Andriato (Bra)<br />143. Ramon Carretero (Pan)<br />144. Giorgio Cecchinel (I)<br />145. Francesco Gavazzi (I)<br />146. Jonathan Monsalve (Ven)<br />147. Alessandro Petacchi (I)<br />148. Simone Ponzi (I)<br />149. Mirko Tedeschi (I)<br />DS Serge Parsani</p>
<p><strong> Team Sky</strong><br />191. Richie Porte (Aus)<br />192. Sebastian Henao Gomez (Col)<br />193. Vasil Kiryienka (Blr)<br />194. Leopold Konig (Cze)<br />195. David Lopez Garcia (Sp)<br />196. Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Sp)<br />197. Salvatore Puccio (I)<br />198. Kanstantsin Siusou (Blr)<br />199. Elia Viviani (I)<br />DS Dario Cioni</p>
<p><strong>Tinkoff-Saxo</strong><br />201. Alberto Contador Velasco (Sp)<br />202. Ivan Basso (I)<br />203. Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Sp)<br />204. Christopher Juul Jensen (Dk)<br />205. Roman Kreuziger (Cze)<br />206. Sergio M. Moreira Paulinho (Por)<br />207. Michael Rogers (Aus)<br />208. Ivan Rovny (Rus)<br />209. Matteo Tosatto (I)<br />DS Steven De Jongh</p>
<p><strong>Trek Factory Racing</strong><br />211. Giacomo Nizzolo (I)<br />212. Eugenio Alafaci (I)<br />213. Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn)<br />214. Marco Coledan (I)<br />215. Fabio Felline (I)<br />216. Fabio Silvestre (Por)<br />217. Boy Van Poppel (Nl)<br />218. Kristof Vandewalle (B)<br />219. Calvin Watson (Aus)<br />DS Adriano Baffi</p>
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