Gent - Wevelgem 2016: Riders

Gent-Wevelgem is played out exactly one week prior to the Tour of Flanders. Strong field featuring the likes of Fabian Cancellara, Greg Van Avermaet, Peter Sagan and record holder Tom Boonen! Cyclingstage.com brings you the start list of Gent-Wevelgem 2016. (Slideshow route/profile)

World Tour Teams

AG2R La Mondiale
Gediminas Bagdonas, Maxime Daniel, Nico Denz, Damien Gaudin, Alexis Gougeard, Hugo Houle, Quentin Jauregui, Sébastien Turgot

Astana Pro Team
Laurens De Vreese, Lars Boom, Andrei Grivko, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Andrea Guardini, Arman Kamyshev, Alexey Lutsenko, Gatis Smukulis

BMC Racing Team
Greg Van Avermaet, Jean-Pierre Drucker, Daniel Oss, Taylor Phinney, Manuel Quinziato, Michael Schar, Marcus Burghardt, Rick Zabel

Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
Matti Breschel, Alberto Bettiol, Patrick Bevin, Jack Bauer, Sebastian Langeveld, Dylan van Baarle, Wouter Wippert, Ruben Zepuntke

Dimension Data
Mark Cavendish, Matthew Brammeier, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Nick Dougall, Tyler Farrar, Youcef Reguigui, Mark Renshaw, Jay Robert Thomson

Etixx – Quick Step
Tom Boonen, Fernando Gaviria, Nikolas Maes, Tony Martin, Zdenek Stybar, Niki Terpstra, Matteo Trentin, Stijn Vandenbergh

FDJ
Arnaud Démare, Mickaël Delage, Murilo Antonio Fischer, Olivier Le Gac, Ignatas Konovalovas, Matthieu Ladagnous, Johan Le Bon, Yoann Offredo

Giant – Alpecin
Søren Kragh Andersen, Roy Curvers, Bert De Backer, Koen de Kort, Ramon Sinkeldam, Tom Stamsnijder, Albert Timmer, Zico Waeytens

IAM Cycling
Heinrich Haussler, Sondre Holst Enger, Leigh Howard, Roger Kluge, Vegard Stake Laengen, Simon Pellaud, Vicente Reynes, Aleksejs Saramotins

Lampre – Merida
Mattia Cattaneo, Gang Xu, Chun Kai Feng, Roberto Ferrari, Marko Kump, Sacha Modolo, Luka Pibernik, Federico Zurlo

Lotto Soudal
André Greipel, Tiesj Benoot, Jasper De Buyst, Jens Debusschere, Lars Bak, Jürgen Roelandts, Marcel Sieberg, Frederik Frison

LottoNL-Jumbo
Sep Vanmarcke, Bram Tankink, Mike Teunissen, Maarten Tjallingii, Tom Van Asbroeck, Jos van Emden, Tom Leezer, Robert Wagner

Movistar Team
Andrey Amador, Jorge Arcas, Carlos Betancur, Nelson Oliveira, Antonio Pedrero, Juan José Lobato, Jasha Sütterlin, Francisco Ventoso

Orica GreenEDGE
Jens Keukeleire, Mitchell Docker, Luke Durbridge, Sam Bewley, Luka Mezgec, Magnus Cort, Svein Tuft

Team Katusha
~~Alexander Kristoff~~, Marco Haller, Jacopo Guarnieri, Sven Erik Bystrøm, Sergey Lagutin, Michael Mørkøv, Viacheslav Kuznetsov, Alexander Porsev

Team Sky
~~Ian Stannard~~, Michal Golas, Christian Knees, Salvatore Puccio, Luke Rowe, Andrew Fenn, Danny van Poppel, Elia Viviani

Tinkoff
Peter Sagan, Oscar Gatto, Adam Blythe, Maciej Bodnar, Pavel Brutt, Michael Gogl, Michael Kolar, Erik Baška

Trek – Segafredo
Fabian Cancellara, Stijn Devolder, Markel Irizar, Giacomo Nizzolo, Yaroslav Popovych, Gregory Rast, Edward Theuns, Boy van Poppel

Procontinental teams

Bardiani – CSF
Alessandro Tonelli, Luca Sterbini, Nicola Boem, Sonny Colbrelli, Mirco Maestri, Lorenzo Rota, Nicola Ruffoni, Paolo Simion

CCC Sprandi Polkowice
Tomasz Kiendys, Adrian Kurek, Michal Paluta, Jaroslaw Marycz, Bartłomiej Matysiak, Josef Cerny, Maciej Paterski, Simone Ponzi

Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
Jonas Ahlstrand, Hugo Hofstetter, Michael Van Staeyen, Nacer Bouhanni, Christophe Laporte, Cyril Lemoine, Florian Sénéchal, Kenneth Vanbilsen

Direct Energie
Romain Cardis, Sylvain Chavanel, Bryan Coquard, Yohann Gene, Tony Hurel, Julien Morice, Adrien Petit, Angelo Tulik

Roompot – Oranje Peloton
Jesper Asselman, Berden de Vries, Barry Markus, Raymond Kreder, Wesley Kreder, Andre Looij, Ivar Slik, Tim Kerkhof

Topsport Vlaanderen – Baloise
Preben Van Hecke, Tim Declercq, Jonas Rickaert, Amaury Capiot, Gijs Van Hoecke, Bert Van lerberghe, Jef Van Meirhaeghe, Pieter Vanspeybrouck

Wanty – Groupe Gobert
Kenny Dehaes, Dimitri Claeys, Simone Antonini, Tom Devriendt, Roy Jans, Marco Marcato, Kevin Van Melsen