Visma-Lease a Bike were one of the last teams to announce their lineup for the Giro d'Italia, and it is a team with mixed ambitions.
The squad which won all three Grand Tours in 2023 heads back to Italy with Cian Uijtdebroeks leading their general classification charge, with Olav Kooij aiming for sprint wins.
The race begins this Saturday, 4 May, in Turin, and all the teams have now been announced.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) heads to Italy for the start on 4 May in top form after recently winning Liège–Bastogne–Liège for the second time, and is firmly the overwhelming favourite.
Pogačar will be supported by Rafał Majka, Domen Novak, Mikkel Bjerg, Rui Oliveira, Vegard Stake Laengen, Felix Großschartner and Sebastian Molano.
Ben O'Connor will lead Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, aiming to better his best result at a Grand Tour - fourth at the 2021 Tour de France. A strong team aims to back him up in the mountains.
Meanwhile, Romain Bardet will lead dsm-firmenich PostNL and is one of the riders expected to challenge Pogačar for overall victory.
The Frenchman, who most recently finished second to the UAE Emirates talisman at Liège, will be hoping to best the Slovenian over three weeks in Italy.
He will be supported by a split-strategy team, which also includes Fabio Jakobsen and Tobias Lund Andresen for sprints.
Bora-Hansgrohe also announced their lineup for the Giro on Monday afternoon; the German team will be lead by Dani Martínez. Notable by their absence were Sam Welsford and Emanuel Buchmann, with the latter taking to social media to complain about his non-selection.
In the battle for the pink jersey, O'Connor, Martínez and Bardet will be up against race favourite Pogačar and Geraint Thomas, who is to lead an "aggressive" Ineos Grenadiers team at the race.
The Welshman will be joined by Thymen Arensman, Filippo Ganna, Magnus Sheffield, Tobias Foss, Jhonatan Narvaéz, Ben Swift and Connor Swift for Ineos Grenadiers. Thomas, Foss, and Arensman have all previously finished in the top 10 at the race, while Ganna is a six-time stage winner at his home Grand Tour.
Nairo Quintana (Movistar) will ride his first Grand Tour since 2022 at this year's race, too.
The Colombian, who returned two positive blood samples for the painkiller tramadol in 2022, spent last season without a team, and returned to Movistar at the start of this year. He will now lead the Spanish team's Giro bid, a decade after he won the Grand Tour himself.
Other teams, like Lidl-Trek and Astana Qazaqstan, have opted to go without a clear pink jersey contender. Lidl-Trek will instead pin their hopes on stage victories, led by promising Italian sprinter Jonathan Milan, while Astana Qazaqstan will take leader Alexey Lutsenko and Lorenzo Fortunato, a former stage winner on the Monte Zoncolan.
Jayco-AlUla, too, are going to Italy with "multiple cards". The Australian team are taking five-time Giro-stage-winning sprinter Caleb Ewan, as well as Irishman Eddie Dunbar, who finished seventh overall last year.
Bahrain-Victorious' team contains Damiano Caruso, who finished second at the Giro in 2021, and fourth in 2023. Their lineup also contains Antonio Tiberi, who finished third at the recent Tour of the Alps. Phil Bahaus is their sprint option.
Cofidis are aiming for stage wins with a mixed team that includes Devon's Harrison Wood, who is set for his Grand Tour debut.
Julian Alaphilippe and Tim Merlier lead Soudal Quick-Step's attempt at victories over the next three weeks, with the puncheur and sprinter hoping to offer up multiple wins. They will be joined by Luke Lamperti, who will make his Grand Tour bow in his first year at WorldTour level.
Merlier will be contested in the sprints by Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), a former winner in Italy, Laurence Pithie (Groupama-FDJ) and Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) among others.
EF Education-EasyPost have a mixed team prepared to challenge for hilly days, with recent Tour of the Alps stage winner Simon Carr and former runner-up Esteban Chaves among their eight.
Another team hunting for stage wins and not the overall is Israel-Premier Tech, with Mike Woods, Simon Clarke and Ethan Vernon among those hoping to taste victory. The ProTeam was handed an invite after qualifying through scoring points.
In the invited teams, Tudor look one of the strongest, with Matteo Trentin hoping to win at his home Grand Tour for the first time since 2016. He will be joined by fellow former stage winner Alberto Dainese, and Vuelta KoM winner Michael Storer.
Domenico Pozzovivo lines up for his 18th Giro with his seventh different team, this time appearing for VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè.
The race begins this Saturday in Turin, with 21 stages across Italy over the next month, including six summit finishes and two individual time trials.
Eight men are allowed in each squad, with a mix of climbers, sprinters, general classification hopefuls and domestiques.
Below are the confirmed squads for the race. We will update this page with more riders as teams are announced.
Giro d'Italia 2024 start list
Ineos Grenadiers
THOMAS Geraint (GBr)
ARENSMAN Thymen (Ned)
FOSS Tobias (Nor)
GANNA Filippo (Ita)
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan (Ecu)
SHEFFIELD Magnus (USA)
SWIFT Ben (GBr)
SWIFT Connor (GBr)
Alpecin-Deceuninck
GROVES Kaden (Aus)
BAYER Tobias (Aut)
CONCI Nicola (Ita)
HERMANS Quinten (Bel)
JANSSENS Jimmy (Bel)
KIELICH Timo (Bel)
PLANCKAERT Edward (Bel)
VAN DEN BOSSCHE Fabio (Bel)
Arkéa-B&B Hotels
BIERMANS Jenthe (Bel)
BARRÉ Louis (Fra)
COSTIOU Ewen (Fra)
DEKKER David (Ned)
GRONDIN Donavan (Fra)
RIES Michel (Lux)
RIOU Alan (Fra)
VERRE Alessandro (Ita)
Astana-Qazaqstan
LUTSENKO Alexey (Kaz)
VELSACO Simone (Ita)
MULUBRHAN Henok (Eri)
SCARONI Christian (Ita)
BALLERINI Davide (Ita)
FORTUNATO Lorenzo (Ita)
KANTER Max (Ger)
PRONSKIY Vadim (Kaz)
Bahrain-Victorious
TIBERI Antonio (Ita)
KEPPLINGER Rainer (Aut)
BAUHAUS Phil (Ger)
CAURSO Damiano (Ita)
PASQUALON Andrea (Ita)
ZAMBANINI Edoardo (Ita)
SÜTTERLIN Jasha (Ger)
TRÆEN Torstein (Nor)
Bora-Hansgrohe
MARTÍNEZ Dani (Col)
ALEOTTI Giovanni (Ita)
KOCK Jonas (Ger)
LIPOWITZ Florian (Ger)
MULLEN Ryan (Ita)
SCHACHMANN Max (Ger)
VAN POPPEL Danny (Ned)
GAMPER Patrick (Aut)
Cofidis
OLDANI Stefano (Ita)
ANIOŁKOWSKI Stanisław (Pol)
DEBEAUMARCHÉ Nicolas (Fra)
CHAMPION Thomas (Fra)
FERNÁNDEZ Rubén (Esp)
GESCHKE Simon (Ger)
THOMAS Benjamin (Fra)
WOOD Harrison (GBr)
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale
O'CONNOR Ben (Aus)
BAUDIN Alex (Fra)
PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (Fra)
PARET-PEINTRE Valentin (Fra)
TOUZÉ Damien (Fra)
TRONCHON Bastien (Fra)
VENDRAME Andrea (Ita)
WARBASSE Larry (USA)
dsm-firmenich PostNL
BARDET Romain (Fra)
ANDRESEN Tobias Lund (Den)
HAMILTON Chris (Aus)
JAKOBSEN Fabio (Ned)
WELTEN Bram (Ned)
LEEMREIZE Gijs (Ned)
VAN DEN BERG Julius (Ned)
VERMAERKE Kevin (USA)
EF Education-EasyPost
PICCOLO Andrea (Ita)
CEPEDA Jefferson Alexander (Ecu)
DE BOD Stefan (RSA)
VALGREN Michel (Den
CARR Simon (GBr)
CHAVES Esteban (Col)
HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich (Den)
STEINHAUSER Georg (Ger)
Groupama-FDJ
PITHIE Laurence (NZl)
ASKEY Lewis (GBr)
BARTHE Cyril (Fra)
DAVY Clément (Fra)
GERMANI Lorenzo (Ita)
LE GAC Olivier (Fra)
LIENHARD Fabian (Sui)
PALENI Enzo (Fra)
Jayco-AlUla
PLAPP Luke (Aus)
EWAN Caleb (Aus)
MEZGEC Luka (Slo)
WALSCHEID Max (Ger)
DE MARCHI Alessandro (Ita)
HEPBURN Michael (Aus)
ZANA Filippo (Ita)
DUNBAR Eddie (Irl)
Intermarché-Wanty
GIRMAY Biniam (Eri)
CALMEJANE Lilian (Fra)
COLLEONI Kevin (Ita)
MIHKELS Madis (Est)
DE POOTER Dries (Bel)
PETIT Adrien (Fra)
SMITH Dion (NZl)
VAN SINTMAARTENSDIJK Roel (Ned)
Israel-Premier Tech
WOODs Michael (Can)
CLARKE Simon (Aus)
FRIGO Marco (Ita)
HOFSTETTER Hugo (Fra)
PICKRELL Riley (Can)
RAISBERG Nadav (Isr)
SCHULTZ Nick (Aus)
VERNON Ethan (GBr)
Lidl-Trek
LÓPEZ Juan Pedro (Esp)
HOOLE Daan (Ned)
BAGIOLI Anrea (Ita)
MILAN Jonathan (Ita)
STUYVEN Jasper (Bel)
THEUNS Edward (Bel)
GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel (Eri)
CONSONNI Simone (Ita)
Movistar
QUINTANA Nairo (Col)
TORRES Albert (Esp)
BARTA Will (USA)
CIMOLAI Davide (Ita)
GAVIRIA Fernando (Col)
MILESI Lorenzo (Ita)
RUBIO Einer (Col)
SÁNCHEZ Pelayo (Esp)
Polti Kometa
FABBRO Matteo (Ita)
BAIS Davide (Ita)
BAIS Mattia (Ita)
LONARDI Giovanni (Ita)
MAESTRI Mirco (Ita)
PIETROBON Andrea (Ita)
PIGANZOLI Davide (Ita)
MUÑOZ Francisco (Esp)
Soudal Quick-Step
ALAPHILIPPE Julian (Fra)
ČERNY Josef (Cze)
HIRT Jan (Cze)
LAMPERTI Luke (USA)
MERLIER Tim (Bel)
SERRY Pieter (Bel)
VAN LERBERGHE Bert (Bel)
VANSEVENANT Mauri (Bel)
Tudor
TRENTIN Matteo (Ita)
DAINESE Alberto (Ita)
FROIDEVAUX Robin (Sui)
KAMP Alexander (Den)
KRIEGER Alexander (Ger)
MAYRHOFER Marius (Ger)
STORER Michael (Aus)
STORK Florian (Ger)
UAE Team Emirates
POGAČAR Tadej (Slo)
OLIVEIRA Rui (Por)
NOVAK Domen (Slo)
MOLANO Sebastian (Col)
MAIJKA Rafal (Pol)
LANGEN STAKE Vegard (Nor)
GROßSCHARTNER Felix (Aus)
BJERG Mikkel (Den)
Visma-Lease a Bike
LAPORTE Christophe (Fra)
AFFINI Edoardo (Ita)
VAN DIJKE Tim (Ned)
GESINK Robert (Ned)
KOOIJ Olav (Ned)
TRATNIK Jan (Slo)
UIJTDEBROEKS Cian (Bel)
VALTER Attila (Hun)
VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
POZZOVIVO Domenico (Ita)
COVILI Luca (Ita)
FIORELLI Filippo (Ita)
MARCELLUSI Martin (Ita)
TAROZZI Manuele (Ita)
PELLIZZARI Giulio (Ita)
TONELLI Alessandro (Ita)
ZANONCELLO Enrico (Ita)
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