Il Lombardia on Saturday, August 15, is the third single-day race of the top-flight UCI WorldTour calendar since resumption of racing after the Coronavirus break and is one of the five Monuments of cycling.
Given the race's status, it is no surprise to see some of the biggest names in professional cycling lining up in Bergamo for 231km of tough hills.
Defending champion Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) is down to try and retain his titleand he is joined by two of his team's Giro d'Italia leaders, in the shape of Vincenzo Nibali and Giulio Ciccone.
Fresh from another stage race success at the Tour of Poland, superstar 20-year-old, Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck - Quick-Step), is set to take the start line with a strong team of young talent to support him as he continues his preparation for the Giro.
Other Giro hopefuls that will be keen to add this Italian monument to their palmares are Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Richard Carapaz (Team Ineos) and Fabio Aru (UAE Team Emirates).
More big names down to ride are Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) who is riding his second monument after a disappointing Milan - San Remo, Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Michael Woods (EF Pro Cycling)
Here is the start list of all riders taking part in the second monument of this rejigged 2020 season.
Il Lombardia 2020 start list
AG2R La Mondiale
GASTAUER Ben
WARBASSE Larry
FRANK Mathias
HÄNNINEN Jaako
BOUCHARD Geoffrey
CHAMPOUSSIN Clément
VUILLERMOZ Alexis
Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec
PELLAUD Simon
BAGIOLI Nicola
BISOLTI Alessandro
FLÓREZ Miguel Eduardo
GABBURO Davide
CHIRICO Luca
RAVANELLI Simone
Astana Pro Team
FUGLSANG Jakob
ARANBURU Alex
IZAGIRRE Ion
BOARO Manuele
VLASOV Aleksandr
HOULE Hugo
TEJADA Harold
Bahrain-Merida
DAVIES Scott
BATTAGLIN Enrico
PADUN Mark
BOLE Grega
NOVAK Domen
CAPECCHI Eros
PERNSTEINER Hermann
Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè
ROMANO Francesco
CARBONI Giovanni
SAVINI Daniel
FIORELLI Filippo
ZANA Filippo
SENNI Manuel
COVILI Luca
Bora-Hansgrohe
POLJAŃSKI Paweł
BENEDETTI Cesare
MAJKA Rafał
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
DRUCKER Jempy
KONRAD Patrick
SCHELLING Ide
CCC Team
VALTER Attila
GESCHKE Simon
ROSSKOPF Joey
ZIMMERMANN Georg
MAŁECKI Kamil
PALUTA Michał
DE MARCHI Alessandro
Alpecin-Fenix
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
DE TIER Floris
JANSSENS Jimmy
SBARAGLI Kristian
VAKOČ Petr
VERVAEKE Louis
WALSLEBEN Philipp
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
HERRADA José
HERRADA Jesús
HANSEN Jesper
MORIN Emmanuel
LE TURNIER Mathias
BARCELÒ Fernando
VIVIANI Attilio
Deceuninck - Quick-Step
EVENEPOEL Remco
ALMEIDA João
BAGIOLI Andrea
CATTANEO Mattia
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
SERRY Pieter
DEVENYNS Dries
EF Education First
BETTIOL Alberto
WOODS Michael
CORT Magnus
CLARKE Simon
CAICEDO Jonathan
GUERREIRO Ruben
MORTON Lachlan
Gazprom-RusVelo
VELASCO Simone
RYBALKIN Aleksey
SCARONI Cristian
CHERKASOV Nikolay
CHERNETSKI Sergei
NYCH Artem
ROVNY Ivan
Groupama-FDJ
GUGLIELMI Simon
THOMAS Benjamin
MOLARD Rudy
SEIGLE Romain
BRUNEL Alexys
FRANKINY Kilian
ROUX Anthony
Israel Start-Up Nation
HERMANS Ben
PICCOLI James
BADILATTI Matteo
NAVARRO Daniel
CATAFORD Alexander
GOLDSTEIN Omer
BOIVIN Guillaume
Lotto-Soudal
WELLENS Tim
VAN DER SANDE Tosh
CRAS Steff
GOOSSENS Kobe
HANSEN Adam
MARCZYŃSKI Tomasz
MAES Nikolas
Mitchelton-Scott
NIEVE Mikel
GRMAY Tsgabu
ALBASINI Michael
HAMILTON Lucas
MEYER Cameron
STANNARD Robert
SCOTSON Callum
Movistar
RUBIO Einer Augusto
VILLELLA Davide
CATALDO Dario
ALBA Juan Diego
ERVITI Imanol
CARRETERO Héctor
SEPÚLVEDA Eduardo
Neri Sottoli-Selle Italia-KTM
VISCONTI Giovanni
FROTUNATO Lorenzo
FRAPPORTI Marco
GAROSIO Andrea
MITRI James
ROTA Lorenzo
STACCHIOTTI Riccardo
NTT Pro Cycling
SOBRERO Matteo
GASPAROTTO Enrico
DYBALL Ben
DE BOD Stefan
KING Ben
MÄDER gino
WYSS Danilo
Team Ineos
CARAPAZ Richard
DUNBAR Eddie
MOSCON Gianni
SWIFT Ben
PUCCIO Salvatore
SOSA Iván
GEOGHEGAN-HART Tao
Jumbo-Visma
TOLHOEK Antwan
HOFSTEDE Lennard
BENNETT George
BOUWMAN Koen
HARPER Chris
MARTENS Paul
VINGEGAARD Jonas
Team Sunweb
TUSVELD Martijn
KELDERMAN Wilco
HINDLEY Jai
HAGA Chad
DENZ Nico
HAMILTON Chris
STORK Floran
Trek-Segafredo
MOLLEMA Bauke
NIBALI Vincenzo
CICCONE Giulio
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
CONCI Nicola
DE KORT Koen
MOSCA Jacopo
UAE Team Emirates
ULISSI Diego
ARU Fabio
COVI Alessandro
RAVASI Edward
CONTI Valerio
MCNULTY Brandon
RIABUSHENKO Alexandr
Circus-Wanty Gobert
PETILLI Simone
MEURISSE Xandro
DE PLUS Jasper
DELACROIX Theo
EIKING Odd Christian
OFFREDO Yoann
PASQUALON Andrea
Tim Bonville-Ginn is one of Cycling Weekly's content writers for the web team responsible for writing stories on racing, tech, updating evergreen pages as well as the weekly email newsletter.
Bonville-Ginn started working in cycling journalism while still at school and university for a voluntary site based on Twitter before also doing slots for Eurosport's online web team and has been on location at the Tour de Yorkshire, Tour of Britain, UCI World Championships and various track events. He then joined the Cycling Weekly team in late February of 2020.
When not writing stories for the site, Bonville-Ginn doesn't really switch off his cycling side as he watches every race that is televised as well as being a rider himself and a regular user of the game Pro Cycling Manager.
He rides a Specialized Tarmac SL4 when out on his local roads back in West Yorkshire as well as in northern Hampshire with the hills and mountains being his preferred terrain.
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