The provisional list of teams and riders for the 2017 Abu Dhabi Tour starting February 23.
Astana Pro Team (Kazakhstan)
Tanel Kangert (Est), Fabio Aru (Ita), Pello Bilbao Lopez (Esp), Dario Cataldo (Ita), Sergei Chernetski (Rus), Riccardo Minali (Ita), Paolo Tiralongo (Ita), Artyom Zakharov (Kaz), Alexander Shefer (DS)
Ag2r La Mondiale (France)
Romain Bardet (Fra), Axel Domont (Fra), Sondre Holst Enger (Nor), Mathias Frank (Sui), Ben Gastauer (Lux), Cyril Gautier (Fra), Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita), Christophe Riblon (Fra) Gilles Mas (DS)
Bahrain — Merida (Bahrain)
Vincenzo Nibali (Ita), Valerio Agnoli (Ita), Manuele Boaro (Ita), Janez Brajkovic (Slo), Enrico Gasparotto (Ita), Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu), Franco Pellizotti (Ita), Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Gorazd Stangelj (DS)
Bardiani CSF (Italy)
Stefano Pirazzi (Ita), Simone Andreetta (Ita), Nicola Boem (Ita), Mirco Maestri (Ita), Nicola Ruffoni (Ita), Alessandro Tonelli (Ita), Luca Wackermann (Ita), Edoardo Zardini (Ita), Roberto Reverberi (DS)
BMC Racing Team (USA)
Tejay Van Garderen (USA), Alessandro De Marchi (Ita), Manuel Quinziato (Ita), Nicholas Roche (Irl), Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Esp), Manuel Senni (Ita), Dylan Teuns (Bel), Loic Vliegen (Bel), Michael Sayers (DS)
Bora — Hansgrohe (Germany)
Rafal Majka (Pol), Erik Baska (Svk), Emanuel Buchmann (Ger), Patrick Konrad (Aut), Matteo Pelucchi (Ita), Pawel Poljanski (Pol), Juraj Sagan (Svk), RuDiger Selig (Ger) Enrico Poitschke (DS)
Gazprom — Rusvelo (Russia)
Sergey Firsanov (Rus), Pavel Brutt (Rus), Artur Ershov (Rus), Alexander Porsev (Rus), Ivan Rovny (Rus), Ivan Savitskiy (Rus), Kirill Sveshnikov (Rus), Nikolay Trusov (Rus), Michele Devoti (DS)
Lotto Soudal (Belgium)
André Greipel (Ger), Lars Bark Ytting (Den), Sean De Bie (Bel), Adam James Hansen (Aus), Maxime Monfort (Bel), James Shaw (GBR), Rafael Valls Ferri (Esp), Louis Vervaeke (Bel), Herman Frison (DS)
Movistar Team (Spain)
Nairo Quintana Rojas (Col), Daniele Bennati (Ita), Victor De La Parte Gonzalez (Esp), Alex Dowsett (GBR), Ruben Fernandez Andujar (Esp), Jesus Herrada Lopez (Esp), Antonio Pedrero Lopez (Esp), Jasha Sutterlin (Ger), Yvon Ledanois (DS)
Nippo — Vini Fantini (Italy)
Julian Arredondo Moreno (Col), Marco Canola (Ita), Pier Paolo De Negri (Ita), Iuri Filosi (Ita), Eduard Michael Grosu (Rou), Yuma Koishi (Jpn), Kazushige Kuboki (Jpn), Alan Marangoni (Ita) Stefano Giuliani
Orica — Scott (Australia)
Roman Kreuziger (Cze), Alexander Edmondson (Aus), Caleb Ewan (Aus), Jack Haig (Aus), Roger Kluge (Ger), Luka Mezgec (Slo), Rob Power (Aus), Carlos Verona (Esp), David Mcpartland (DS)
Quick-Step Floors (Belgium)
Marcel Kittel (Ger), Julian Alaphilippe (Fra), Jack Bauer (NZL), Gianluca Brambilla (Ita), Davide Martinelli (Ita), Fabio Sabatini (Ita), Pieter Serry (Bel), Petr Vakoc (Cze) Rik Van Slycke (DS)
Team Dimension Data (South Africa)
Mark Cavendish (GBR), Igor Anton Hernandez (Esp), Bernhard Eisel (Aut), Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (RSA), Merhawi Kudus Ghebremedhin (Eri), Mark Renshaw (Aus), Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri), Johann Van Zyl (RSA) Thomas Campana (DS)
Team Katusha Alpecin (Russia)
Maxim Belkov (Rus), Robert Kiserlovski (Cro), Pavel Kochetkov (Rus), Alberto Losada Alguacil (Esp), Jhonatan Restrepo Valencia (Col), Rein Taaramae (Est), Rick Zabel (Ger), Ilnur Zakarin (Rus)
Team Lotto Nl — Jumbo (the Netherlands)
Steven Kruijswijk (Ned), Enrico Battaglin (Ita), George Bennett (NZL), Robert Gesink (Ned), Bert-Jan Lindeman (Ned), Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Esp), Paul Martens (Ger), Alexey Vermeulen (USA), Merijn Zeeman (DS)
Team Novo Nordisk (USA)
Fabio Calabria (Aus), Stephen Clancy (Irl), Joonas Henttala (Fin), Riba David Lozano, (Esp), Leal Javier Megias (Esp), Andrea Peron (Ita), Charles Planet (Fra), Martijn Verschoor (Ned), Massimo Podenzana (DS)
Team Sunweb (Germany)
Tom Dumoulin (Ned), Phil Bauhaus (Ger), Chris Hamilton (Aus), Lennard Hofstede (Ned), Lennard Kamna (Ger), Sindre Skjostad Lunke (Nor), Laurens Ten Dam (Ned), Albert Timmer (Ned), Luke Roberts (DS)
Team Sky (Great Britain)
Elia Viviani (Ita), Ian Boswell (USA), Jonathan Dibben (GBR), Philip Deignan (Irl), Owain Doull (GBR), Kenny Elissonde (Fra), Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBR), Peter Kennaugh (GBR), Sean Yates (DS)
Trek — Segafredo (USA)
Eugenio Alafaci (Ita), Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn), Julien Bernard (Fra), Laurent Didier (Lux), Michael Gogl (Aut), Bauke Mollema (Ned), Kiel Reijnen (USA) Peter Stetina (USA) Jose Azevedo (DS)
Team UAE Emirates (UAE)
Andrea Guardini (Ita), Simone Consonni (Ita), Kristijan Durasek (Cro), Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por), Louis Meintjes (RSA), Manuele Mori (Ita), Ben Swift (GBR), Diego Ulissi (DS)
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