The Tour of Alberta announced today, the roster of teams set to participate in next month’s race.
The confirmed names from the preliminary roster, include current U.S. professional champion Matthew Busche, 7th place finisher in this year’s Tour de France Bauke Mollema, rising star and current Luxembourg road race and time trial champion Bob Jungels, all of Trek Factory Racing; Michael Matthews, one of the hottest riders on the international circuit this year with wins at Tour of Switzerland, Pais Vasco, Paris-Nice and two stages at Tour of Italy, and Adam Yates, the recent winner of the San Sebastian World Tour race, both of Orica GreenEdge Cycling; 2015 Tour de France stage winner Simon Geschke of Team Giant-Alpecin; three-time Czech time trial champion Jan Barta and Sam Bennett, a stage winner in several major tours this year, both of Bora-Argon18; Davide Formolo, a stage winner of this year’s Tour of Italy and Janier Acevedo, the 3rd place finisher at the 2013 Amgen Tour of California, and 2013 Tour of Alberta KOM jersey champion Tom Jelte Slagter, all of Team Cannondale-Garmin; and Hincapie Racing Team’s Toms Skujins, a stage winner and three-day race leader of 2015 Amgen Tour of California.
Nearly all the world’s top Canadians will be racing in this year’s race including previously-announced Ryder Hesjedal, the 2012 Tour of Italy champion from Team Cannondale-Garmin; Svein Tuft, three-time Canadian time trial champion and silver medalist in the 2008 World Championships in the time trial riding with Orica-GreenEdge Cycling; current Canadian national champion in road race Guillaume Boivin, two-time Tour of Alberta presented by ATB Financial Pomeroy Inn & Suites Best Canadian jersey winner Ryan Anderson, and Michael Woods, a recent stage winner and podium finisher at Tour of Utah, all of Team Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies; and past Canadian national champions in road race Ryan Roth of Silber Pro Cycling, and Zach Bell of Team SmartStop.
“This truly is an incredible field that is being assembled,” said Tour of Alberta presented by ATB Financial CEO, Duane Vienneau. “The quality of the riders is a strong indication that the event has continued to build momentum in only three short years. Plus, we are so thrilled to include so many of the world’s top Canadians this year.”
For more information, please visit www.TourofAlberta.ca.
2015 PRELIMINARY ROSTER
WORLD TOUR:
Orica-GreenEdge Cycling (Australia) Sam BEWLEY Michael MATTHEWS Luke DURBRIDGE Jens MOURIS Michael HEPBURN Adam YATES Svein TUFT Christian MEIER
Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team (USA) Janier ACEVEDO Davide FORMOLO Lasse-Norman HANSEN Ryder HESJEDAL Ted KING Kristoffer SKJERPING Tom-Jelte SLAGTER Jasper BOVENHUIS
Team Giant-Alpecin (Germany) Nikias ARNDT Simon GESCHKE Chad HAGA Fredrik LUDVIGSSON Tobias LUDVIGSSON Georg PREIDLER Ramon SINKELDAM Lars VAN DER HAAR
Team Katusha (Russia) Sergei CHERNETSKII Viacheslav KUZNETSOV Sergey LAGUTIN Tiago MACHADO Aleksandr PORSEV Gatis SMUKULIS Simon SPILAK Ilnur ZAKARIN
Trek Factory Racing (USA) Matthew BUSCHE Marco COLEDAN Laurent DIDIER Bob JUNGELS Bauke MOLLEMA Gregory RAST Jesse SERGENT Kristof VANDEWALLE
PRO-CONTINENTAL:
Bora-Argon18 (Germany) Shane ARCHBOLD Jan BÁRTA Cesare BENEDETTI Sam BENNETT Dominik NERZ Christoph PFINGSTEN Scott THWAITES Paul VOS
Drapac Pro Cycling (Australia) William CLARKE Jordan KERBY Wouter WIPPERT Malcolm RUDOLPH Travis MEYER Bernard SULZBERGER Graeme BROWN Peter KONING
CONTINENTAL:
Silber Pro Cycling Team (Canada) Alex CATAFORD Matteo DAL-CIN Nigel ELLSAY Michael LE ROSSIGNOL Benjamin PERRY Alexander RAY Ryan ROTH Derrick ST-JOHN
H & R Block Pro Cycling (Canada) Adam DE VOS Florenz KNAUER Garrett MCLEOD Travis SAMUEL Jacob SCHWINGBOTH Bailey MCKNIGHT Felix COTE BOUVETTE Jure RUPNIK
Team SmartStop (USA) Zachary BELL Shane KLINE Evan HUFFMAN Julian KYER Travis MCCABE Eric MARCOTTE Travis LIVERMON Kristofer DAHL
Hincapie Racing Team (USA) Toms SKUJINS Andzs FLAKSIS Jon HORNBECK Mac BRENNAN Miguel BYRON Ty MAGNER Joe LEWIS Dion SMITH
Team Optum presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies (USA) Ryan ANDERSON Michael WOODS William ROUTLEY Thomas ZIRBEL Scott ZWIZANSKI Guillaume BOIVIN Jesse ANTHONY Thomas SOLADAY
Axeon Cycling Team (USA) Greg DANIEL Daniel EATON Ruben GUERREIRO Justin OIEN James ORAM Logan OWEN Geoffrey CURRAN Philip O’DONNELL
Lupus Racing Team (USA) Thomas VAUBOURZEIX Evan MURPHY Michael OLHEISER Matthieu JEANNES Winston DAVID Kyle MURPHY Michael STONE Chad BEYER
Team Jelly Belly presented by Maxxis (USA) Lachlan MORTON Alexandr BRAICO Taylor SHELDEN Gavin MANNION Angus MORTON Steve FISHER Fred RODRIGUEZ Joshua BERRY
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