The 2021 Giro d’Italia will take place from May 8 to May 30, after having to start in October last year due to the Global Pandemic.
The race is set to start in Turin and work it’s way around the Piedmont region before stretching further afield around the country.
A stellar line-up of GC riders are expected take part, with no Tao Geoghegan-Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) down to defend his titile, it will be down to Egan Bernal, 2019 Tour de Frane winner, to try and come up with the goods.
Tifosi favourite Vincenzo Nibali will likely ride for Trek-Segafredo team, but he accepts that his GC days may be over, team mate Giulio Ciccone could potentially be the new focus.
Simon Yates (Team BikeExchange) will return to the Giro this year to attempt to right the wrongs of three years ago when he led the race with three stages to go. In 2020 he also lost ground for unknown reasons, until he returned a positive Covid-19 test.
There’s also a strong sprinting line-up for the Corsa Rosa. Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) is down to return after he enjoyed the 2020 edition, Grand Tour stage winners Fernando Gaviria (UAE Team Emirates), European champion Giacomo Nizzolo (Qhubeka-Assos) and Elia Viviani (Cofidis) will all be competing for the victory on the flat stages.
Also, Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) will hope that he can start his trio of Grand Tours win an early win as he looks to become just the fourth rider ever to win a stage at all three race of the Giro, Tour de France an Vuelta a España in the same year.
Giro d’Italia 2021 start list
Ineos Grenadiers
BERNAL Egan
GANNA Filippo
SIVAKOV Pavel
MARTÍNEZ Daniel
Ag2r La Mondiale-Citroën
CALMEJANE Lilian
NAESEN Lawrence
WARBASSE Larry
CHEREL Mikaël
GASTAUER Ben
Astana-Premier Tech
VLASOV Aleksandr
Bahrain Victorious
LANDA Mikel
BILBAO Pello
Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè
Bora-Hansgrohe
SAGAN Peter
BUCHMANN Emanuel
Intermarché-Wanty Gobert Matériaux
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
VIVIANI Elia
CONSONNI Simone
EDET Nicolas
Deceuninck – Quick-Step
EVENEPOEL Remco
KNOX James
EF Education-Nippo
Groupama – FDJ
Israel Start-Up Nation
MARTIN Dan
GREIPEL André
Lotto-Soudal
EWAN Caleb
DE GENDT Thomas
Team BikeExchange
YATES Simon
Movistar Team
SOLER Marc
Team Qhubeka-Assos
NIZZOLO Giacomo
Jumbo-Visma
Team DSM
Trek-Segafredo
NIBALI Vincenzo
CICCONE Giulio
UAE Team Emirates
GAVIRIA Fernando
FORMOLO Davide
Vini Zabù – KTM
Alpecin-Fenix
EOLO-Kometa Cycling Team
