Mark Cavendish rides in support of Chris Lawless: European Championship men's road race start list
Defending champion Matteo Trentin faces stiff competition from an elite field
Italy's Matteo Trentin (Mitchelton-Scott) will face stiff competition as he looks to defend his European road race title, as a number of high-profile riders have travelled to Alkmaar in the Netherlands for the 2019 European Championships.
Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) lines up for the host nation, looking to add to his stage win at the recent Tour de France, while German sprinter Pascal Ackermann (B0ra-Hansgrohe) is another strong contender, his 2019 already a success after picking up two stages and the points classification at the Giro d'Italia.
Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) has said he will ride in support of Tour de Yorkshire winner Chris Lawless (Ineos), with the Great Britain team also featuring Luke Rowe (Ineos), Alex Dowsett (Katusha-Alpecin) and Adam Blythe (Lotto-Soudal).
Here is the full start list for the European Championships men's road race 2019.
France
COQUARD Bryan
DELAGE Mickaël
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DÉMARE Arnaud
DUVAL Julien
GAUDIN Julien
LE GAC Olivier
PETIT Adrien
SENECHAL Florian
Belgium
KEUKELEIRE Jens
LAMPAERT Yves
MERLIER Tim
NAESEN Lawrence
PHILIPSEN Jasper
RICKAERT Jonas
THEUNS Edward
VERGAERDE Otto
Italy
BALLERINI Davide
CIMOLAI Davide
CONSONNI Simone
PASQUALON Andrea
PUCCIO Salvatore
SABATINI Fabio
TRENTIN Matteo
VIVIANI Elia
Netherlands
BOUWMAN Koen
GROENEWEGEN Dylan
LANGEVELD Sebastian
LEEZER Thomas
REINDERS Elmar
SINKELDAM Ramon
TEUNISSEN Mike
VAN BAARLE Dylan
Germany
ACKERMANN Pascal
DENZ Nico
KOCH Jonas
MATHIS Marco
SCHILLINGER Andreas
SCHWARZMANN Michael
SELIG Rüdiger
WOLF Justin
Slovenia
GROŠELJ Matic
GAŠPER Katrašnik
KUMP Marko
MEZGEC Luka
PER David
PIBERNIK Luka
Great Britain
BLYTHE Adam
CAVENDISH Mark
CULLAIGH Gabriel
DOWSETT Alex
LAWLESS Christopher
MCLAY Daniel
ROWE Luke
SWIFT Connor
Denmark
ASGREEN Kasper
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich
IVERSEN Rasmus Byriel
ANDERSEN Asbjørn Kragh
MØRKØV Michael
CORT Magnus
PEDERSEN Mads
SCHMIDT Mads Würtz
Norway
BYSTRØM Sven Erik
HALVORSEN Kristoffer
HOELGAARD Daniel
HOELGAARD Markus
KRISTOFF Alexander
SKAARSETH Anders
TILLER Rasmus Fossum
Poland
BERNAS Pawel
BROZYNA Piotr
GRADEK Kamil
MALECKI Kamil
PALUTA Michal
SAJNOK Szymon
STEPNIAK Grzegorz
SOSZ Patryk
Austria
KRIZEK Matthias
RABITSCH Stephan
SALZMANN Jodok
SCHLEMMER Lukas
Czech Republic
BÁRTA Jan
HAMPL Petr
KALOJÍROS Tomáš
NEUMAN Dominik
SCHEGEL Michal
SISR Fratišek
TUREK Daniel
Switzerland
ALBASINI Michael
DILLIER Silvan
IMHOF Claudio
LIENHARD Fabian
PELLAUD Simon
SPENGLER Lukas
Russia
FROLOV Igor
KULIKOV Vladislav
PORSEV Alexander
SHILOV Sergei
STASH Mamyr
VOROBYEV Anton
Ireland
BENNETT Sam
MCCARTHY Robert
TEGGART Matthew
TOWNSEND Rory
Portugal
MATRINGIL César
OLIVEIRA Rui
Slovakia
BABIC Adrian
BASKA Erik
BELLAN Juraj
Čanecky Marek
CULLY Jan Andrej
SAGAN Juraj
TYBOR Patrik
Estonia
LAAS Martin
NISU Oskar
NÕMMELA Aksel
RÄIM Mihkel
VAHTRA Norman
KALF Steven
Luxembourg
CENTRONE Ivan
DA SILVA Tiago
DIEDERICH Tim
PETELIN Jan
Latvia
BOGDANOVICS Maris
LIEPINS Emils
NEILANDS Krists
SARAMOTINS Aleksejs
SKUJINS Toms
Ukraine
BUTS Vitaliy
HOLOVASH Oleksandr
POLIVODA Oleksandr
VASYLYUK Andriy
Belarus
KARAKHAVIK Uladzimir
PAPOK Siarhei
STROKAU Vasili
Lithuania
NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
SISKEVICIUS Evaldas
PELIKÁN János Zsombor
Sweden
ERIKSSON Lucas
Israel
GOLDSTEIN Roy
Romania
GROSU Eduard Michael
Albania
BANUSHI Besmir
SEFA Ylber
VELIA Olsian
North Macedonia
PETROVSKI Andrej
POPSTEFANOV Gorgi
Andorra
CABANAS Quintla
PINPADO Madrigal
Greece
FARANTAKIS Stylianos
KASTRANTAS Charalampos
TZORTZAKIS Polychronis
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Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.
I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.
Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).
I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.
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