Giro d'Italia 2011 / field of drivers

At the Giro d'Italia 2011 , a total of 207 cycling professionals took part in 23 teams.

Legend

• Suspension: exclusion by own team
• Exclusion: Exclusion by the race management before the start of the race
• Disqualification: Exclusion by the race management after the start of the race
• Awards after the finish:
  • : Stage winner
  • : Pink jersey for the overall leader
  • : Green jersey for the best in the mountains
  • : Red jersey for the best on points
  • : White jersey for the best young driver under 25 years of age
  • : Premio Fuga for the most combative driver of the race
  • The in the team standings leading Team

Participants by nationality

No.	country	Attendees
01	Italy	62
02	Spain	25th
03	Netherlands	11
04th	Belgium	10
05	France	9
06th	United States	8th
07th	Australia	7th
07th	Russia	7th
07th	Switzerland	7th
10	Germany	6th
11	Colombia	5
11	United Kingdom	5
13	Belarus	4th
13	Denmark	4th
15th	Poland	3
15th	Portugal	3
15th	Slovenia	3
15th	Ukraine	3
19th	Venezuela	3
19th	Croatia	2
19th	Czech Republic	2
22nd	Finland	2
22nd	Kazakhstan	2
22nd	Luxembourg	2
22nd	Norway	2
22nd	Austria	1
22nd	Brazil	1
22nd	Canada	1
22nd	Chile	1
22nd	Ireland	1
22nd	Japan	1
22nd	Lithuania	1
22nd	South Africa	1
22nd	Sweden	1
22nd	Uzbekistan	1
total		207

Participants by team

Acqua e Sapone (Italy)

• Sports director: Bruno Cenghialta

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
1	Stefano Garzelli	Italy	15-21 stage
2	Massimo Codol	Italy
3	Claudio Corioni	Italy
4th	Carlos Betancur	Colombia
5	Ruggero Marzoli	Italy
6th	Vladimir Miholjević	Croatia
7th	Danilo Napolitano	Italy	Abandoned after a fall during the 11th stage
8th	Cayetano Sarmiento	Colombia
9	Fabio Taborre	Italy

Ag2r La Mondiale (Italy)

• Sports director: Laurent Biondi

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
11	Rinaldo Nocentini	Italy
12	Julien Bérard	France
13	Mickaël Chérel	France
14th	Cyril Dessel	France
15th	Hubert Dupont	France
16	John Gadret	France	11th stage
17th	Ben Gastauer	Luxembourg
18th	Yuri Krivtsov	Ukraine
19th	Matteo Montaguti	Italy

Androni Giocattoli (ITA)

• Sports Director: Gianni Savio

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
21st	José Serpa	Colombia
22nd	Emanuele Sella	Italy
23	José Rujano	Venezuela	13th stage
24	Alessandro De Marchi	Italy
25th	Giairo Ermeti	Italy
26th	Roberto Ferrari	Italy
27	Carlos Ochoa	Venezuela
28	Jackson Rodríguez	Venezuela	Retired after a fall during the 9th stage
29	Ángel Vicioso	Spain	3rd stage

BMC Racing Team (USA)

• Sports director: Fabio Baldato

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
31	Chris Barton	United States	Task on the 5th stage
32	Chad Beyer	United States
33	Mathias Frank	Switzerland
34	Martin Kohler	Switzerland	5th-6th Stage; Task on the 13th stage
35	Alexander Kristoff	Norway
36	Chris Butler	United States	Task on the 9th stage
37	Johann Tschopp	Switzerland
38	Danilo Wyss	Switzerland
39	Simon Zahner	Switzerland

Colnago-CSF Inox (Ireland)

• Sports director: Roberto Reverberi

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
41	Domenico Pozzovivo	Italy
42	Manuel Belletti	Italy	Not started for the 13th stage
43	Sacha Modolo	Italy	Task during the 13th stage
44	Stefano Pirazzi	Italy
45	Filippo Savini	Italy	9-12 Stage; Task during the 19th stage
46	Federico Canuti	Italy
47	Simone Stortoni	Italy
48	Gianluca Brambilla	Italy	3rd to 4th stage
49	Marco Frapporti	Italy

Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spain)

• Sports Director: Alvaro Gonzalez De Galdeano

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
51	Igor Antón	Spain	14th stage
52	Daniel Sesma	Spain
53	Miguel Mínguez	Spain
54	Iñaki Isasi	Spain
55	Pierre Cazaux	France
56	Francisco Javier Aramendia	Spain
57	Jorge Azanza	Spain
58	Juan José Oroz	Spain	Task during the 15th stage
59	Mikel Nieve	Spain	15th stage

Geox-TMC (Spain)

• Sports director: Stefano Zanini

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
61	Denis Menshov	Russia
62	Carlos Sastre	Spain
63	Marcel Wyss	Switzerland
64	David Blanco	Spain
65	Giampaolo Cheula	Italy
66	Dmitri Anatolyevich Kosonchuk	Russia
67	Fabio Duarte	Colombia	Task during the 8th stage
68	Mauricio Ardila	Colombia
69	Rafael Valls	Spain

HTC-Highroad (USA)

• Sports director: Valerio Piva

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
71	Mark Cavendish	United Kingdom	2nd stage; 10th & 12th stage; Not started for the 13th stage
72	Marco Pinotti	Italy	1st stage; Task during the 19th stage
73	Patrick Gretsch	Germany
74	Craig Lewis	United States	Task during the 19th stage
75	Lars Bak	Denmark
76	František Raboň	Czech Republic
77	Alex Rasmussen	Denmark
78	Mark Renshaw	Australia	Not started for the 13th stage
79	Kanstanzin Siuzou	Belarus
			1st stage (MZF); 1st - 2nd stage

Katyusha (Russia)

• Sports director: Serge Parsani

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
81	Joaquim Rodríguez	Spain
82	Danilo Di Luca	Italy
83	Pawel Gross	Russia
84	Giampaolo Caruso	Italy
85	Daniel Moreno	Spain
86	Eduard Worganow	Russia
87	Alberto Losada	Spain
88	Joan Horrach	Spain
89	Alyaksandr Kuschynski	Belarus

Lampre-ISD (Italy)

• Sports director: Maini Tebaldi

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
91	Michele Scarponi	Italy
92	Alessandro Petacchi	Italy	2nd stage; 2nd-7th & 10.-12. Stage; Not started for the 13th stage
93	Marco Marzano	Italy
94	Diego Ulissi	Italy	17th stage
95	Danilo Hondo	Germany	Not started for the 13th stage
96	Przemysław Niemiec	Poland
97	Alessandro Spezialetti	Italy
98	Daniele Righi	Italy
99	Simon Špilak	Slovenia

Leopard Trek (Luxembourg)

• Sports director: Luca Guercilena

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
101	Brice Feillu	France	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
102	Dominic Klemme	Germany	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
103	Thomas Rohrgger	Austria	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
104	Tom Stamsnijder	Netherlands	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
105	Bruno Pires	Portugal	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
106	Davide Viganò	Italy	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
107	Fabian Wegmann	Germany	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death
108	Wouter Weylandt (†)	Belgium	On May 9, 2011, Wouter Weylandt had an accident around 25 kilometers from the finish. He died later at the accident site.
109	Oliver Zaugg	Switzerland	The team withdrew after the 4th stage because of Weylandt's death

Liquigas-Cannondale (Italy)

• Sports director: Roberto Amadio

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
111	Vincenzo Nibali	Italy
112	Valerio Agnoli	Italy
113	Eros Capecchi	Italy	18th stage
114	Alan Marangoni	Italy
115	Tiziano Dall'Antonia	Italy
116	Fabio Sabatini	Italy
117	Cristiano Salerno	Italy
118	Sylwester Szmyd	Poland
119	Alessandro Vanotti	Italy

Movistar Team (Spain)

• Sports director: Eusebio Unzue

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
121	David Arroyo	Spain
122	Vasil Kiryenka	Belarus	20th stage
123	Ignatas Konovalovas	Lithuania
124	Carlos Oyarzun	Chile
125	Pablo Lastras	Spain
126	Sergio Pardilla	Spain
127	Luis Pasamontes	Spain
128	Branislau Samojlau	Belarus
129	Francisco José Ventoso	Spain	6th stage; Not started for the 13th stage
			5th-8th stage

Omega Pharma Lotto (Belgium)

• Sports director: Roberto Damiani

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
131	Jan Bakelants	Belgium	3rd to 4th stage
132	Adam Blythe	United Kingdom	Task during the 10th stage
133	Francis De Greef	Belgium
134	Bart De Clercq	Belgium	7th stage; 7th-8th stage
135	Device Dockx	Belgium
136	Olivier Kaisen	Belgium
137	Sebastian Lang	Germany	2nd stage
138	Jussi Veikkanen	Finland
139	Klaas Lodewyck	Belgium

Pro Team Astana (Kazakhstan)

• Sports director: Giuseppe Martinelli

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
141	Roman Kreuziger	Czech Republic	9-21 stage
142	Paolo Tiralongo	Italy	19th stage
143	Francesco Masciarelli	Italy	Not started for the 17th stage
144	Robert Kišerlovski	Croatia
145	Maxim Gurow	Kazakhstan
146	Josep Jufré	Spain
147	Alexander Dyachenko	Kazakhstan
148	Yevgeny Petrov	Russia
149	Gorazd Štangelj	Slovenia
			9-21 stage

Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli (Great Britain)

• Sports director: Luca Scinto

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
150	Giovanni Visconti	Italy
151	Francesco Failli	Italy	Task on the 5th stage
152	Leonardo Giordani	Italy
153	Oscar Gatto	Italy	8th stage
154	Matteo Rabottini	Italy
155	Luca Mazzanti	Italy
156	Elia Favilli	Italy
157	Andrea Noè	Italy	Task on the 14th stage
158	Davide Ricci Bitti	Italy

Due to the unification of Italy 150 years ago, the start number 150 was awarded this year for this special occasion.

Quick Step (Belgium)

• Sports Director: Davide Bramati

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
161	Francesco Chicchi	Italy	Task on the 14th stage
162	Dario Cataldo	Italy
163	Gerald Ciolek	Germany	Task on the 13th stage
164	Francesco Reda	Italy
165	Addy Engels	Belgium
166	Davide Malacarne	Italy
167	Jérôme Pineau	France
168	Kevin Seeldraeyers	Belgium
169	Kristof Vandewalle	Belgium

Rabobank Cycling Team (Netherlands)

• Sports director: Erik Dekker

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
171	Graeme Brown	Australia	Time limit exceeded on the 9th stage
172	Rick Flens	Netherlands
173	Steven Kruijswijk	Netherlands	5th-8th stage
174	Stef Clement	Netherlands
175	Tom Slagter	Netherlands	Abandoned after a serious fall on the 5th stage
176	Bram Tankink	Netherlands
177	Jos van Emden	Netherlands
178	Dennis van Winden	Netherlands
179	Pieter Weening	Netherlands	5th stage; 5th-8th stage

Saxo Bank SunGard (Denmark)

• Sports director: Philippe Mauduit

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
181	Alberto Contador	Spain	9th & 16th stage; 9-21 Stage; 13-14 Stage; 9 & 13-21 stage
182	Laurent Didier	Luxembourg
183	Volodymyr Hustov	Ukraine
184	Jesús Hernández	Spain
185	Kasper Klostergaard	Denmark
186	Richie Porte	Australia
187	Daniel Navarro	Spain
188	Matteo Tosatto	Italy
189	Michael Mørkøv	Denmark

Sky ProCycling (UK)

• Sporting Director: Sean Yates

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
191	Thomas Lövkvist	Sweden
192	Michael Barry	Canada
193	Kjell Carlström	Finland
194	Dario Cioni	Italy
195	Russell Downing	United Kingdom
196	Davide Appollonio	Italy	Task during the 13th stage
197	Lars Petter Nordhaug	Norway
198	Peter Kennaugh	United Kingdom
199	Morris Possoni	Italy

Team Garmin-Cervélo (USA)

• Sports Director: Lionel Marie

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
201	Tyler Farrar	United States	Did not start the 5th stage because of the fatal accident of his friend Wouter Weylandt
202	Brett Lancaster	Australia
203	Thomas Peterson	United States
204	Murilo Fischer	Brazil	Task during the 17th stage
205	Christophe Le Mével	France
206	Cameron Meyer	Australia
207	David Millar	United Kingdom	3rd to 4th Stage; 21st stage
208	Peter Stetina	United States
209	Matthew Wilson	Australia	Task during the 17th stage
			3rd to 4th stage

Team RadioShack (USA)

• Sports Director: Alain Gallopin

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
211	Tiago Machado	Portugal
212	Yaroslav Popovych	Ukraine
213	Robbie McEwen	Australia	Time limit exceeded on the 9th stage
214	Fumiyuki Beppu	Japan
215	Manuel António Cardoso	Portugal
216	Philip Deignan	Iran
217	Robert Hunter	South Africa
218	Ivan Rowny	Russia
219	Bjorn Selander	United States	1st - 2nd stage

Vacansoleil-DCM (Netherlands)

• Sports director: Hilaire van der Schueren

No.	Surname	nationality	Remarks
221	Matteo Carrara	Italy
222	Borut Božič	Slovenia	Task during the 11th stage
223	Maxim Belkov	Russia
224	Michał Gołaś	Poland	Not started for the 16th stage
225	Johnny Hoogerland	Netherlands
226	Sergey Lagutin	Uzbekistan
227	Alberto Ongarato	Italy
228	Mirko Selvaggi	Italy
229	Frederik Veuchelen	Belgium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start list Giro d´Italia 2011. Accessed on May 7, 2011 . 
2. ↑ spiegel.de Belgian professional cyclist dies after falling , accessed on May 9, 2011.