Giro d’Italia – Mark Cavendish, Alejandro Valverde, Vincenzo Nibali: The Giro 2022 squads

Mark Cavendish (Quick-Step) will also be making a comeback, nine years after his last participation. And Alejandro Valverde, for his part, will share the responsibilities within the Movistar team with the Colombian climber Ivan Sosa. In 2016, during his one and only appearance, he won a stage and took third place overall.

First for Martin

On the French side, Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) will discover the Giro. Ranked eighth in the Tour and ninth in the Vuelta in 2021, the Norman will chain Tour of Italy-Tour de France. « The objective will be to achieve a good or even a very good result in the general classification. I hope to do better than my best performance in a Grand Tour (8th). I have good memories in Italy for having won a stage in the Tour of Sicily and another in the Tour of Tuscany. It’s a race that suits the climbers very well and should suit me too ».

For its part, the Bahrain team is aiming for the final victory, one year after the second place of Damiano Caruso. In the absence of the Italian, focused on the Tour de France, the formation will align Mikel Landa (3rd in 2015) who had abandoned prematurely last year, from the 5th stage.

The teams present at the Giro 2022 (May 6 to 29):

Astana

Vincenzo Nibali (ITA), Valerio Conti (ITA), David de la Cruz (ESP), Joe Dombrowski (USA), Fabio Felline (ITA), Miguel Angel Lopez (COL), Vadim Pronskiy (KAZ), Harold Tejada (COL)

Bahrain

Mikel Landa (ESP), Phil Bauhaus (GER), Pello Bilbao (ESP), Santiago Buitrago (COL), Domen Novak (SLO), Wout Poels (NED), Jasha Sütterlin (GER), Jan Tratnik (SLO)

Eolo Kometa

Vincenzo Albanese (ITA), Davide Bais (ITA), Erik Fetter (HUN), Lorenzo Fortunato (ITA), Francesco Gavazzi (ITA), Mirco Maestri (ITA), Diego Rosa (ITA), Samuele Rivi (ITA)

Movistar

Alejandro Valverde (ESP), Jorge Arcas (ESP), Will Barta (USA), Oier Lazkano (ESP), Antonio Pedrero (ESP), José Joaquín Rojas (ESP), Sergio Samitier (ESP), Ivan Sosa (COL)

jumbo

Tom Dumoulin (PB), Edoardo Affini (ITA), Koen Bouwman (PB), Pascal Eenckhoorn (PB), Jos van Emden (PB), Tobias Foss (NOR), Gijs Leemreize (PB), Sam Oomen (PB)

Cofidis

Guillaume Martin (FRA), Davide Cimolai (ITA), Simone Consonni (ITA), Wesley Kreder (PB), Anthony Pérez (FRA), Pierre-Luc Périchon (FRA), Rémy Rochas (FRA), Davide Villella (ITA)

Quick-Step

Mark Cavendish (GBR), Davide Ballerini (ITA), James Knox (GBR), Michael Morkov (DEN), Mauro Schmid (SUI), Pieter Serry (BEL), Bert Van Lerberghe (BEL), Mauri Vansevenant (BEL)

BikeExchange

Smon Yates (GBR), Lawson Craddock (USA), Lucas Hamilton (AUS), Michael Hepburn (AUS), Damien Howson (AUS), Chris Juul-Jensen (DEN), Callum Scotson (AUS), Matteo Sobrero (ITA)

trekking

Giulio Ciccone (ITA), Dario Cataldo (ITA), Juan Pedro Lopez (ESP), Bauke Mollema (NED), Jacopo Mosca (ITA), Mattias Skjelmose (DEN), Edward Theuns (BEL), Otto Vergaerde (BEL)

Israel Premier Tech

Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA), Jenthe Biermans (BEL), Matthias Brändle (AUT), Alexander Cataford (CAN), Alessandro De Marchi (ITA), Alex Dowsett (GBR), Reto Hollenstein (SUI), Rick Zabel (GER)