Vuelta a España 2018 / driver field

The following drivers and teams take part in the Vuelta a España 2018 :

Legend

• : Stage winner
• : Red jersey for the overall leader
• : Green jersey for the best in points
• : Blue polka dot jersey for the best mountain rider
• : White jersey for the best in the combined ranking
• : Yellow bib for the team score leading Team
• : Red number on the back for the most combative driver of a stage

team	No.	Surname	nationality	rank	Achievements / Other	Team evaluation
Bahrain-Merida (TBM) Bahrain	1	Vincenzo Nibali	Italy	59		12th to 15th stage
	2	Iván García	Spain	99
	3	Gorka Izagirre	Spain	29	13th stage
	4th	Ion Izagirre	Spain	9
	5	Mark Padun	Ukraine	––	17th stage not finished
	6th	Franco Pellizotti	Italy	50
	7th	Hermann Pernsteiner	Austria	––	not started for the 18th stage
	8th	Luka Pibernik	Slovenia	142
ag2r La Mondiale (ALM) France	11	Hubert Dupont	France	26th		00
	12	Mickaël Chérel	France	97
	13	Julien Duval	France	157
	14th	Tony Gallopin	France	11	7th stage
	15th	Ben Gastauer	Luxembourg	36
	16	Alexandre Geniez	France	90	12th stage
	17th	Alexis Gougeard	France	––	11th stage not finished
	18th	Nans Peters	France	72
Astana Pro Team (AST) Kazakhstan	21st	Miguel Ángel López	Colombia	3		4th to 8th stage
	22nd	Pello Bilbao	Spain	27
	23	Dario Cataldo	Italy	64
	24	Omar Fraile	Spain	63	17th stage
	25th	Jan Hirt	Czech Republic	74
	26th	Nikita Stalnov	Kazakhstan	104
	27	Davide Villella	Italy	48
	28	Andrey Zeits	Kazakhstan	52
BMC Racing Team (BMC) United States	31	Richie Porte	Australia	84		1st stage
	32	Brent Bookwalter	United States	66
	33	Alessandro De Marchi	Italy	76	11th stage
	34	Rohan Dennis	Australia	––	1st and 16th stage Stage 1 Stage 1 to Stage 17 non-runner
	35	Nicolas Roche	Ireland	40
	36	Joey Rosskopf	United States	81
	37	Dylan Teuns	Belgium	33
	38	Francisco Ventoso	Spain	111
Bora-hansgrohe (BOH) Germany	41	Peter Sagan	Slovakia	119	10th stage	00
	42	Emanuel Buchmann	Germany	12
	43	Marcus Burghardt	Germany	149
	44	Davide Formolo	Italy	22nd
	45	Rafał Majka	Poland	13
	46	Jay McCarthy	Australia	91
	47	Lukas Pöstlberger	Austria	––	not started for the 19th stage
	48	Michael Schwarzmann	Germany	150
Groupama-FDJ (GFC) France	51	Thibaut Pinot	France	6th	15th and 19th stage	00
	52	Mickael Delage	France	112
	53	Antoine Duchesne	Canada	127
	54	Rudy Molard	France	14th	5th to 8th stage
	55	Georg Preidler	Austria	––	11th stage not finished
	56	Marc Sarreau	France	131
	57	Benjamin Thomas	France	121
	58	Léo Vincent	France	77
Lotto Soudal (LTS) Belgium	61	Tiesj Benoot	Belgium	95		00
	62	Sander Armée	Belgium	73
	63	Victor Campenaerts	Belgium	102
	64	Thomas De Gendt	Belgium	67	12th stage 17th to 21st stage mountain classification winner
	65	Bjorg Lambrecht	Belgium	––	not started for the 15th stage
	66	Maxime Monfort	Belgium	42
	67	Tosh Van der Sande	Belgium	114
	68	Jelle Wallays	Belgium	143	18th stage
Mitchelton-Scott (MTS) Australia	71	Simon Yates	United Kingdom	1	14th stage, 9th to 11th, 14th to 21st stage, winner of the overall ranking, 19th and 21st stage, winner of the combined ranking	00
	72	Michael Albasini	Switzerland	118
	73	Alexander Edmondson	Australia	155
	74	Jack Haig	Australia	19th
	75	Damien Howson	Australia	70
	76	Luka Mezgec	Australia	141
	77	Matteo Trentin	Italy	125
	78	Adam Yates	United Kingdom	45
Movistar Team (MOV) Spain	81	Nairo Quintana	Colombia	8th		16th to 21st stage, team championship winner
	82	Andrey Amador	Costa Rica	93
	83	Winner Anacona	Colombia	69
	84	Daniele Bennati	Italy	133
	85	Richard Carapaz	Ecuador	18th
	86	Imanol Erviti	Spain	92
	87	Nélson Oliveira	Portugal	71
	88	Alejandro Valverde	Spain	5	2nd and 8th stage 5th, 7th to 18th stage 7th to 9th, 11th to 21st stage Winner points evaluation
Quick-Step Floors (QST) Belgium	91	Elia Viviani	Italy	145	3rd, 10th and 21st stage	00
	92	Kasper Asgreen	Denmark	134
	93	Laurens De Plus	Belgium	––	19th stage not finished
	94	Dries Devenyns	Belgium	94
	95	Enric Mas	Spain	2	20th stage winner of the junior ranking
	96	Michael Mørkøv	Denmark	148
	97	Fabio Sabatini	Italy	152
	98	Pieter Serry	Belgium	88
Team Dimension Data (DDD) South Africa	101	Louis Meintjes	South Africa	58		00
	102	Igor Antón	Spain	44
	103	Steve Cummings	United Kingdom	124
	104	Amanuel Gebreigzab here	Eritrea	37
	105	Ryan Gibbons	South Africa	82
	106	Benjamin King	United States	24	4th and 9th stage
	107	Merhawi kudu	Eritrea	31
	108	Johann van Zyl	South Africa	122
EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale (EFD) United States	111	Rigoberto Urán	Colombia	7th		00
	112	Simon Clarke	Australia	46	5th stage
	113	Mitchell Docker	Australia	151
	114	Sebastian Langeveld	Netherlands	128
	115	Daniel Moreno	Spain	38
	116	Pierre Rolland	France	56
	117	Tom Van Asbroeck	Belgium	87
	118	Michael Woods	Canada	34	17th stage
Team Katusha Alpecin (TKA) Switzerland	121	Ilnur Zakarin	Russia	20th		00
	122	Ian Boswell	United States	126
	123	José Gonçalves	Portugal	––	13th stage not finished
	124	Reto Hollenstein	Switzerland	55
	125	Pavel Kochetkov	Russia	53
	126	Maurits Lammertink	Netherlands	––	not started for the 8th stage
	127	Tiago Machado	Portugal	79
	128	Jhonatan Restrepo	Colombia	105
Team Lotto NL-Jumbo (TLJ) Netherlands	131	Steven Kruijswijk	Netherlands	4th		9th to 11th stage
	132	George Bennett	New Zealand	35
	133	Lars Boom	Netherlands	153
	134	Floris De Tier	Belgium	41
	135	Sepp kiss	United States	65
	136	Tom Leezer	Netherlands	139
	137	Bert-Jan Lindeman	Netherlands	136
	138	Danny van Poppel	Netherlands	132
Team Sky (SKY) United Kingdom	141	David de la Cruz	Spain	15th		2nd and 3rd stage
	142	Jonathan Castroviejo	Spain	100	19th stage
	143	Tao Geoghegan Hart	United Kingdom	62
	144	Sergio Henao	Colombia	28
	145	Michał Kwiatkowski	Poland	43	2nd to 4th stage  2nd to 6th stage  2nd to 4th and 6th stage 14th stage
	146	Salvatore Puccio	Italy	96
	147	Pavel Sivakov	Russia	––	14th stage not finished
	148	Dylan van Baarle	Netherlands	––	not started for the 14th stage
Team Sunweb (SUN) Germany	151	Wilco Kelderman	Netherlands	10		00
	152	Johannes Fröhlinger	Germany	115
	153	Simon Geschke	Germany	––	not started for the 18th stage
	154	Jai Hindley	Australia	32
	155	Michael Storer	Australia	117
	156	Mike Teunissen	Netherlands	109
	157	Martijn Tusveld	Netherlands	80
	158	Max Walscheid	Germany	156
Trek-Segafredo (TFS) United States	161	Bauke Mollema	Netherlands	30th	5th, 11th and 15th stages Most combative driver	00
	162	Gianluca Brambilla	Italy	16
	163	Matthias Brändle	Austria	158
	164	Nicola Conci	Italy	––	not started for the 16th stage
	165	Fabio Felline	Italy	61
	166	Markel Irizar	Spain	130
	167	Giacomo Nizzolo	Italy	140
	168	Kiel Reijnen	United States	135
UAE Team Emirates (UAD) United Arab Emirates	171	Fabio Aru	Italy	23		00
	172	Sven Erik Bystrøm	Norway	113
	173	Simone Consonni	Italy	147
	174	Valerio Conti	Italy	60
	175	Vegard stake lengths	Norway	107
	176	Daniel Martin	Ireland	––	not started for the 10th stage
	177	Simone Petilli	Italy	––	10th stage not finished
	178	Edward Ravasi	Italy	39
Burgos BH (BBH) Spain	181	José Mendes	Portugal	83		00
	182	Jetse Bol	Netherlands	101	18th stage
	183	Óscar Cabedo	Spain	86
	184	Jorge Cubero	Spain	89	6th and 8th stage
	185	Jesús Ezquerra	Spain	98	10th stage
	186	Jordi Simón	Spain	––	3rd stage 17th stage not finished
	187	Diego Rubio Hernández	Spain	138
	188	Pablo Torres	Spain	129
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (CJR) Spain	191	Sergio Pardilla	Spain	49		00
	192	Alex Aranburu	Spain	108	7th stage
	193	Jonathan Lastra	Spain	123
	194	Lluís Mas	Spain	47	9th stage
	195	Antonio Molina	Spain	120
	196	Cristian Rodríguez	Spain	25th
	197	Nick Schultz	Australia	75
	198	Nelson Soto	Colombia	154
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (COF) France	201	Nacer Bouhanni	France	––	6th stage 11th stage not finished	00
	202	Loïc Chetout	France	144
	203	Jesús Herrada	Spain	21st	12th and 13th stage 20th stage
	204	José Herrada	Spain	57
	205	Mathias Le tournament	France	110
	206	Luis Ángel Maté	Spain	106	2nd to 16th stage 2nd and 4th stage
	207	Stéphane Rossetto	France	54
	208	Kenneth Vanbilsen	Belgium	137
Euskadi Basque Country-Murias (EUS) Spain	211	Eduard Prades	Spain	68		00
	212	Jon Aberasturi	Spain	146
	213	Aritz Bagües	Spain	78
	214	Mikel Bizkarra	Spain	17th
	215	Garikoitz Bravo	Spain	116
	216	Mikel Iturria	Spain	103
	217	Óscar Rodríguez	Spain	51	13th stage
	218	Héctor Sáez	Spain	85

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