This year’s Tour de France podium, five world champions and eight stage winners from the Tour de France are on the official rosters announced Tuesday for Colorado’s inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge.
As previously reported, the 17-team field includes this year’s top three in the Tour de France: Cadel Evans, Andy Schleck and Frank Schleck. World champions include Evans, Danny Pate and Ivan Basso.
Tour de France stage winners featured will be George Hincapie, Jens Voigt, Levi Leipheimer, David Zabriskie, Rubens Bertogliati, Andy Schleck, Evans and Basso.
Besides Zabriskie, the roster for Boulder-based Team Garmin-Cervelo includes race-favorite Tom Danielson, Ryder Hesjedal, Daniel Lloyd, Thomas Peterson, Peter Stetina, Christian Vande Velde and Danny Summerhill.
“With the pieces in place,” co-chairman Shawn Hunter said in a statement, “the final countdown has begun and we can’t wait to showcase these riders to the world in just a few short weeks.”
The first international pro cycling race in Colorado since 1988 is from Aug. 22-28, starting in Colorado Springs and ending in front of the Capitol building in Denver.
STAGES:
Stages for the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge include:
Prologue: Colorado Springs – August 22
Stage 1: Salida to Crested Butte/Mt. Crested Butte – August 23
Stage 2: Gunnison to Aspen – August 24
Stage 3: Vail Time Trial – August 25
Stage 4: Avon to Steamboat Springs – August 26
Stage 5: Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge – August 27
Stage 6: Golden to Denver – August 28
ROSTERS
Note: Team rosters are subject to change
1. BMC RACING TEAM (SUI/USA)
Cadel Evans
George Hincapie
Brent Bookwalter
Chris Barton
Jeff Louder
Chad Beyer
Thimothy Roe
Chris Butler
2. TEAM RADIOSHACK (USA)
Levi Leipheimer
Dmitriy Muravyev
George Bennett
Philip Deignan
Ben King
Jason McCartney
Ivan Rovny
Bjorn Selander
3. LEOPARD TREK (LUX)
Andy Schleck
Frank Schleck
Stefan Denifl
Brice Feillu
Anders Lund
Martin Mortensen
Stuart O’Grady
Jens Voigt
4. TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (USA)
Tom Danielson
Ryder Hesjedal
Daniel Lloyd
Thomas Peterson
Peter Stetina
Christian Vande Velde
Dave Zabriskie
Danny Summerhill
5. HTC-HIGHROAD (USA)
Tejay Van Garderen
Caleb Fairly
Patrick Gretsch
Danny Pate
Frantisek Rabon
Hayden Roulston
Peter Velits
Lachlan Norris
6. LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (ITA)
Ivan Basso
Davide Cimolai
Timothy Duggan
Edward King
Daniel Oss
Juraj Sagan
Sylwester Szmyd
Elia Viviani
7. SAXO BANK-SUNGARD (DEN)
André Steensen
Brian Vandborg
Daniel Navarro Garcia
Jesus Hernandez
Gustav Larsson
Michael Morkov
Laurent Didier
Richie Porte
8. RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (NED)
Robert Gesink
Stef Clement
Marc Goos
Grischa Niermann
Laurens Ten Dam
Pieter Weening
Dennis Van Winden
9. UNITEDHEALTHCARE PRO CYCLING (USA)
Rory Sutherland
Jonathan Clarke
Robert Forster
Davide Frattini
Adrian Hegevary
Christopher Jones
Bradley White
Scott Zwizanski
10. TEAM TYPE 1 – sanofi-aventis (USA)
Alexsandr Efimkin
Vladimir Efimkin
Rubens Bertogliati
Valeriy Kobzarenko
Javier Megias Leal
Scott Stewart
William Dugan
Fabio Calabria
11. SKIL-SHIMANO (NED)
Ronan Van Zandbeek
Kenny Van Hummel
Thomas Bonnin
Martin Reimer
Sander Oostlander
Tobias Ludvigsson
Philipp Ries
Albert Timmer
12. SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10 (CAN)
Lucas Eusar
Flavio De Luna Davila
Jonathan Patrick McCarty
David Boily
Bruno Langlois
Francois Parisien
Andrew Randell
Ryan Roth
13. BISSELL PRO CYCLING (USA)
Chris Baldwin
Frank Pipp
Jeremy Vennell
Chase Pinkham
Rob Britton
Paul Mach
Jay Thomson
Ben Jacques-Maynes
14. TEAM EXERGY (USA)
Andres Miguel Diaz Corrales
Carlos Eduardo Alzate Escobar
Freddie Rodriguez
Matthew Cooke
Sam Johnson
Christopher Hong
Erik Slack
Kai Applequist
15. JELLY BELLY CYCLING TEAM p/b KENDA (USA)
Sergio Hernandez
Emerson Oronte
Bernard van Ulden
Sean Mazich
Ken Hanson
Jeremy Powers
Alex Hagman
Nic Hamilton
16. GOBERNACION DE ANTIOQUIA-INDEPORTES ANTIOQUIA (COL)
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
Oscar Sevilla Ribera
Javier Alexis Acevedo Colle
Alejandro Ramirez Calderon
Rafael Montiel Cuello
Carlos Alberto Ospina Hernandez
Oscar Alvarez Paniagua
Cristian Montoya Giraldo
17. EPM-UNE (COL)
Giovanni Manuel Baez Alvarez
Juan Pablo Suarez
Walter Fernando Pedraza Morales
Edward Stiber Ortiz Caro
Rafael Infantino Abreu
Carlos Fernanado Piamonte Rodriguez
Eduard Alexander Beltran Suarez
Robigzon Leandro Oyola
