Saturday 08 May 2010 at 15h35

Matthias Russ (Team Milram) was the first rider to start in the individual time trial which was the first stage of the Giro d'Italia 2010 today (see this article about the Tour of Italy 2010 route on Google Maps). With Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam), Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team), Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) and Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) as the big favourites, 198 riders will start in this 93rd Tour of Italy.

The participating riders for the different teams of the Giro d'Italia 2010

BMC Racing Team

Since Giro d'Italia 2009 winner, Denis Menchov (Rabobank) does not participate this year, the World Champion, Cadel Evans, of the American team with the Swiss sponsor gets the number 1.
The team's goal is to make Evans the first Australian rider to win the Giro d'Italia and team manager John Lelangue said about his team: It may not be a team of big names, but we know they can do the job for us, so that's most important. Our only objective for this race is riding for Cadel for the general classification.

001/ Cadel Evans
002/ Brent Bookwalter
003/ Martin Kohler
004/ Jeff Louder
005/ Mauro Santambrogio
006/ John Murphy
007/ Michael Schar
008/ Florian Stalder
009/ Danilo Wyss

Acqua & Sapone

The Italian team which participates in the Giro on a wildcard has Stefano Garzelli as its leader.

011/ Stefano Garzelli
012/ Dario Andriotto
013/ Massimo Codol
014/ Alessandro Donati
015/ Francesco Failli
016/ Andrea Masciarelli
017/ Francesco Masciarelli
018/ Vladimir Miholjevic
019/ Jose' Cayetano Sarmiento Tunarrosa

AG2R La Mondiale

The AG2R La Mondiale team would usually have had Tadej Valjavec as its leader in the Giro but the Slovenian rider is suspected of using doping based on the values of his biological passport and the team has thus decided to no longer let him participate in races and suspend him for the time being. According to Valjavec the fluctuating blood values can be explained because of an illness for which he received a treatment; according to him his team has forgotton to deliver the medical certificate for this threatment to the UCI. Hubert Dupont replaces Valjavec.

021/ Guillaume Bonnafond
022/ Hubert Dupont
023/ Alexander Efimkin
024/ John Gadret
025/ Sebastien Hinault
026/ Yuriy Krivtsov
027/ René Mandri
028/ Anthony Ravard
029/ Ludovic Turpin

Androni Giocattoli-Diquigiovanni

The leader of this second Italian team with a wildcard is Michele Scarponi. In the team there are 3 other Italians, 2 Venezuelians, a Colombian, a Swiss rider and an Australian.

031/ Michele Scarponi
032/ Leonardo Bertagnolli
033/ Alessandro Bertolini
034/ Rubens Bertogliati (photo)
035/ Alberto Loddo
036/ Carlos Jose' Ochoa
037/ Jackson Jesus Rodriguez Ortiz
038/ Jose' Rodolfo Serpa Perez
039/ Cameron Wurf

Astana

The Kazakh team comes to the start of the Giro d'Italia 2010 with a team which was built around Alexandre Vinokourov who won Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2 weeks ago.

041/ Alexandre Vinokourov
042/ Paolo Tiralongo
043/ Enrico Gasparotto
044/ Andriy Grivko
045/ Josep Jufre Pou
046/ Roman Kireyev
047/ Valentin Iglinskiy
048/ Gorazd Stangelj
049/ Alexsandr Dyachenko

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

The French team has chosen Thomas Voeckler to be its leader but counts on William Bonnet for a possible stage win, in case of a bunch sprint (like in Paris-Nice 2010 where he won the stage in Limoges).

051/ Thomas Voeckler
052/ Yukiya Arashiro
053/ William Bonnet (photo)
054/ Anthony Charteau
055/ Mathieu Claude
056/ Damien Gaudin
057/ Guillaume Le Floch
058/ Yury Trofimov
059/ Johann Tschopp

Caisse d'Epargne

The Spanish team with French sponsor counts on the Italian rider Marzio Bruseghin, former rider of the Lampre team, in this Giro d'Italia 2010.

061/ Marzio Bruseghin
062/ Andrei Amador
063/ David Arroyo
064/ Arnold Jeannesson
065/ Vasil Kiryienka
066/ Pablo Lastras
067/ Alberto Losada
068/ Rigoberto Uran (photo)
069/ Xabier Zandio

Cervélo TestTeam

In the team of the Canadian bike manufacturer the Tour de France 2008 winner, Carlos Sastre, would like to get a good place in the general classification. Will he be able to improve his 3rd place in the Giro d'Italia 2009 where he won 2 stages?

Despite the only 8 race days he has done so far, he seems to be ready for it: I want to win the Giro, that is my first goal. The last 10 days are very hard, I am a climber and there are less kilometers of time trial, so all of this works in my favor," Sastre said Thursday after arriving in Amsterdam. "I have a very strong team here to support me. Everyone is very motivated, it's the first big tour of the season, and we have a new sponsor, so there are a lot good things for us in this Giro.

(concerning the new sponsor: that's Tata Consultancy Services which name will be shown on the riders' chests, just below the Cervélo logo)

071/ Carlos Sastre
072/ Inigo Cuesta
073/ Volodymir Gustov
074/ Edward King
075/ Ignatas Konovalovas
076/ Daniel Lloyd
077/ Marcel Wyss
078/ Gabriel Rasch
079/ Xavier Tondo

Cofidis

The French team has appointed David Moncoutié as it's leader and counts on him espcecially in the mountain stages. Moncoutié won the king of the mountains classification in the Tour of Spain 2009, just like in 2008. In 2010 Moncoutié participates for the first time in the Giro d'Italia.

In the team for the Tour of Italy, Damien Monier replaces Tristan Valentin who was initially planned to participate but couldn't make it because of a bronchitis.

081/ David Moncoutié
082/ Guillaume Blot
083/ Mickael Buffaz
084/ Remi Cusin
085/ Leonardo Duque
086/ Julien Fouchard
087/ Kalle Kriit
088/ Nico Sijmens
089/ Damien Monier

Colnago - CSF Inox

Domenico Pozzovivo, leader of this Italian team, said yesterday during the team presentations of the Giro d'Italia 2010 that his goals were to get a good place in the general classification and to win a mountain stage. In the Giro his team is completely Italian.

091/ Domenico Pozzovivo
092/ Manuel Belletti
093/ Sacha Modolo
094/ Alessandro Bisolti
095/ Federico Canuti
096/ Marco Frapporti
097/ Alan Marangoni
098/ Simone Stortoni
099/ Stefano Pirazzi

Footon-Servetto

In this Giro Footon-Servetto is the youngest team with an average age of 25.

101/ Ermanno Capelli
102/ Matthias Brändle
103/ Eros Capecchi
104/ Giampaolo Cheula (photo)
105/ Markus Eibegger
106/ Iban Mayoz
107/ Marco Corti
108/ Michele Merlo
109/ Martin Pedersen

Garmin-Transitions

Matthew White, directeur sportif of the American team, said about his selection for the Tour of Italy 2010: Our squad is versatile, so we'll be looking for every opportunity for potential stage wins and with the team we have at this race, even a day or two in the coveted Maglia Rosa is a realistic goal.

The Scottish rider David Millar, who won the individual time trial of the Critérium International at the end of March, is the leader of this team.

111/ David Millar
112/ Christian Vandevelde
113/ Tyler Farrar
114/ Jack Bobridge
115/ Julian Dean
116/ Murilo Antonio Fischer
117/ Daniel Martin
118/ Cameron Meyer
119/ Svein Tuft

Lampre-Farnese Vini

The Italian prince, Damiano Cunego, finds in the Lampre-Farnese Vini team for this Tour of Italy Gilberto Simoni as a co-leader, while they didn't really manage to work out a similar situation in 2004 (Saeco) and 2005 (Lampre).
For the sprints the Italian team counts on Alessandro Petacchi.

As usual the Lampre-Farnese Vini team has published some statistics about its team: the oldest rider is Gilberto Simoni with his 38 years and he's also the rider with the highest number of participations in the Giro d'Italia: 13. The youngest rider of Lampre-Farnese Vini is Matteo Bono (26 years old) and the average age is 32.3 years.
The tallest rider is Danilo Hondo (1.86m) while the smallest is of course Damiano Cunego (1.69m) and the average length is 1.77m. Danilo Hondo is also the heaviest rider with 75 kg while Marco Marzano is the lightest rider with only 58 kg; the average weight is 66 kg.
The team represents three countries: Italy, Germany and Switzerland.
4 riders in the team have already won a stage in the Giro: Damiano Cunego, Alessandro Petacchi, Gilberto Simoni and Danilo Hondo.

121/ Damiano Cunego
122/ Alessandro Petacchi
123/ Gilberto Simoni
124/ Matteo Bono
125/ Danilo Hondo
126/ Marco Marzano
127/ David Loosli
128/ Daniele Righi
129/ Alessandro Spezialetti

Liquigas-Doimo

Since Franco Pellizotti is one of the other riders who can not participate in the Giro because of the variations detected in his blood levels in his biological passport, Ivan Basso and Vincenzo Nibali are the two leaders for the Liquigas-Doimo team. Nibali has been asked as a last minute replacement for the Giro d'Italia 2010.

Ivan Basso said about the Giro: Winning the Tour of Italy is my dream this year. I take this new challenge with confidence and come to the start as a relaxed man. There are many candidates for the final win and it will thus not be easy to bring the pink jersey to Verona: whatever happens, I'll go for it for 110%.
Vincenzo Nibali said: The Giro d'Italia is always a special occasion. I would like to achieve a good result, depending on my condition; I'll live the race on a day by day base to see how far I can come. Concerning the individual time trial in Amsterdam he simply said: Short and technical, that's how I love them.

131/ Ivan Basso
132/ Vincenzo Nibali
133/ Valerio Agnoli
134/ Maciej Bodnar
135/ Tiziano Dall'antonia
136/ Robert Kiserlovski
137/ Fabio Sabatini (photo)
138/ Sylvester Szmyd
139/ Alessandro Vanotti

Omega Pharma-Lotto

Marc Sergeant, manager of the Belgian team presented his team for the Giro with the following comments: The selection is a mix of young talent, completed with experience and must be able to show something nice.

Adam Blythe, Michiel Elijzen and Jan Bakelants will do their very first Giro d'Italia: Bakelants is a former winner of the Tour de l'Avenir and will thus start a stage race like this one with some ambitions, Blythe would like to seize the occasions at bunch sprints and Elijzen wants to be good in the individual time trial in Amsterdam.

Francis de Greef targets a stage win in one of the mountain stages, just like Matthew Lloyd, while Daniel Moreno would like to get a good position in the general classification.

141/ Sebastian Lang
142/ Jan Bakelandts
143/ Adam Blyth
144/ Francis De Greef
145/ Michiel Elijzen
146/ Olivier Kaisen
147/ Matthew Lloyd
148/ Daniel Moreno
149/ Charles Wegelius

Quick Step

In this Belgian team Addy Engels is the Dutch rider with the highest number of participations in the Giro d'Italia: 8.

151/ Dario Cataldo
152/ Addy Engels
153/ Mauro Facci
154/ Jérôme Pineau (photo)
155/ Francesco Reda
156/ Branislau Samoilau
157/ Matteo Tosatto
158/ Marco Velo
159/ Wouter Weylandt

Rabobank

The Rabobank team had to face some health problems, to be more precise, allergy problems, which made it impossible for their leader Oscar Freire and Koos Moerenhout to participate in the Giro d'Italia 2010. The second rider is replaced by Tom Stamsnijder, while Freire's place was taken by the young espoir Steven Kruijswijk.

161/ Steven Kruijswijk
162/ Mauricio Ardila
163/ Graeme Brown
164/ Rick Flens (photo)
165/ Dmitry Kozontchuk
166/ Tom Stamsnijder
167/ Bauke Mollema
168/ Jos van Emden
169/ Pieter Weening

Team Sky

The British Team Sky is of course led by Bradley Wiggins and this will also be the case in the Tour de France 2010.

Dave Brailsford, the manager of the team said about Team Sky's selection: It's a well-balanced team and there's a real opportunity in that first week for us.

171/ Bradley Wiggins
172/ Michael Barry
173/ Dario Cioni
174/ Steven Cummings
175/ Christopher Froome
176/ Mathew Hayman
177/ Gregory Henderson (photo)
178/ Morris Possoni
179/ Christopher Sutton

Team HTC-Columbia

The HTC-Columbia team counts on its German sprinter for the bunch sprints, just like in the Tour Down Under where he had some good results again this year.

181/ Andre Greipel
182/ Marco Pinotti
183/ Michael Albasini
184/ Matthew Goss
185/ Adam Hansen
186/ Craig Lewis
187/ Frantisek Rabon
188/ Vicente Reynes
189/ Marcel Sieberg

Katusha Team

The Russian team announced that, after his 5th place in the Tour de Romandie, Vladimir Karpets asked to participate in the Giro d'Italia 2010 and his request has been accepted. Karpets thus takes the place of the young Italian rider Marco Bandiera and comes to support the leader of the team, Filippo Pozzato.

191/ Filippo Pozzato
192/ Vladimir Karpets
193/ Robert McEwen
194/ Giampaolo Caruso
195/ Joan Horrach
196/ Mikhail Ignatiev
197/ Luca Mazzanti
198/ Evgeni Petrov
199/ Serguei Klimov

Team Milram

The German team with milk sponsor comes to the start with an almost completely German team (7 riders), completed with one Australian and one Austrian rider.

201/ Linus Gerdemann
202/ Robert Förster
203/ Markus Fothen
204/ Luke Roberts
205/ Dominik Roels
206/ Thomas Rohregger
207/ Matthias Russ
208/ Paul Voss
209/ Fabian Wegmann

Team Saxo Bank

The Saxo Bank team does not target a spot in the general classification in the Giro d'Italia 2010 and is thus completely focussed on stage wins.

211/ Anders Lund
212/ Baden Cooke
213/ Chris Anker Sörensen (photo)
214/ Nicki Sörensen
215/ Gustav Erik Larsson
216/ Laurent Didier
217/ Lucas Sebastian Haedo
218/ Michael Morkov
219/ Richie Porte

door Thomas Vergouwen
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