Grand Tour hopefuls will be out in force at Tirreno-Adriatico (March 13-19), with Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) as well as Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) and Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) all taking to the start line.
The race opens and ends with time trials, but these sandwich two flat sprint stages and three rolling days.
There will be a host of Classics contenders such as Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) among the peloton, hoping to improve their form ahead of cobbled races later in March, plus Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) fresh from his win at Strada Bianche.
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The flat days could be another target for Sagan, alongside Columbian fast man Fernando Gaviria (Deceuninck-Quick Step).
Reigning champion Michał Kwiatkowski will not return for 2019, and neither will 2017 and 2015’s winner Nairo Quintana – meaning the most recent victor among the starters is 2016’s leader Van Avermaet.
Tirreno-Adriatico 2019 start list
Team Sky
THOMAS Geraint
CASTROVIEJO Jonathan
MOSCON Gianni
POELS Wout
PUCCIO Salvatore
AG2R La Mondiale
DENZ Nico
DILLIER Silvan
DUVAL Julien
GODON Dorian
PETERS Nans
VENTURINI Clément
VUILLERMOZ Alexis
Astana Pro Team
FUGLSANG Jakob
BIZHIGITOV Zhandos
BALLERINI Davide
CATALDO Dario
FRAILE Omar
GRUZDEV Dmitriy
LUTSENKO Alexey
Bahrain Merida
NIBALI Vincenzo
BAUHAUS Phil
CARUSO Damiano
DENNIS Rohan
MOHORIČ Matej
SIEBERG Marcel
TRATNIK Jan
Bardiani – CSF
BARBIN Enrico
BRESCIANI Michael
MAESTRI Mirco
MARONESE Marco
SIMION Paolo
TONELLI Alessandro
WACKERMANN Luca
BORA – hansgrohe
SAGAN Peter
BODNAR Maciej
BURGHARDT Marcus
FORMOLO Davide
GATTO Oscar
MAJKA Rafał
OSS Daniel
CCC Team
VAN AVERMAET Greg
ROSSKOPF Joey
SCHÄR Michael
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
VAN HOECKE Gijs
VAN KEIRSBULCK Guillaume
WIŚNIOWSKI Łukasz
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
BOUHANNI Nacer
BERHANE Natnael
CLAEYS Dimitri
LEMOINE Cyril
PEREZ Anthony
SIMON Julien
VANBILSEN Kenneth
Deceuninck – Quick Step
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
ASGREEN Kasper
LAMPAERT Yves
MØRKØV Michael
RICHEZE Maximiliano
ŠTYBAR Zdeněk
VIVIANI Elia
EF Education First
VANMARCKE Sep
BETTIOL Alberto
KANGERT Tanel
LANGEVELD Sebastian
MODOLO Sacha
PHINNEY Taylor
Gazprom-RusVelo
ARSLANOV Ildar
KURIANOV Stepan
NYCH Artem
PORSEV Alexander
ROVNY Ivan
SHALUNOV Evgeny
SHILOV Sergey
Groupama – FDJ
PINOT Thibaut
KÜNG Stefan
LADAGNOUS Matthieu
MORABITO Steve
SCOTSON Miles
ROUX Anthony
THOMAS Benjamin
Israel Cycling Academy
HERMANS Ben
BRÄNDLE Matthias
CIMOLAI Davide
ENGER Sondre Holst
NEILANDS Krists
SAGIV Guy
VAN ASBROECK Tom
Lotto Soudal
WELLENS Tim
BENOOT Tiesj
CAMPENAERTS Victor
HAGEN Carl Fredrik
KEUKELEIRE Jens
MARCZYŃSKI Tomasz
VAN DER SANDE Tosh
Mitchelton-Scott
YATES Adam
BOOKWALTER Brent
DURBRIDGE Luke
HEPBURN Michael
JUUL-JENSEN Christopher
Movistar Team
ARCAS Jorge
CARAPAZ Richard
MAS Lluís
OLIVEIRA Nelson
PRADES Eduard
ROJAS José Joaquín
SÜTTERLIN Jasha
Neri Sottoli – Selle Italia – KTM
VISCONTI Giovanni
BONGIORNO Francesco Manuel
GABBURO Davide
QUINTANA Dayer
SCHÖNBERGER Sebastian
VELASCO Simone
ZARDINI Edoardo
Team Dimension Data
KREUZIGER Roman
VALGREN Michael
CUMMINGS Steve
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt
KING Ben
NIZZOLO Giacomo
Team Jumbo-Visma
ROGLIČ Primož
BOUWMAN Koen
DE PLUS Laurens
GESINK Robert
MARTIN Tony
MARTENS Paul
VAN EMDEN Jos
Team Katusha – Alpecin
BATTAGLIN Enrico
BOSWELL Ian
GONÇALVES José
GUERREIRO Ruben
KUZNETSOV Vyacheslav
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads
Team Sunweb
DUMOULIN Tom
KÄMNA Lennard
KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren
ARNDT Nikias
OOMEN Sam
POWER Robert
ROCHE Nicolas
Trek – Segafredo
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
CONCI Nicola
FELLINE Fabio
IRIZAR Markel
PEDERSEN Mads
SKUJIŅŠ Toms
STUYVEN Jasper
UAE-Team Emirates
GAVIRIA Fernando
BOHLI Tom
CONSONNI Simone
CONTI Valerio
COSTA Rui
POLANC Jan
TROIA Oliviero
