46th Edition of Tirreno-Adriatico Stage Race Starts Tomorrow

The seven stage Tirreno-Adriatico 2011 begins tomorrow in Tuscany in the town of Marina di Carrara.

The race begins with a 16.8 km team time trial along the coastline in Marina di Carrara, followed two fast stages favoring sprinters (Carrara to Indicatore, Arezzo and Terranuova to Bracciolini, Perugia) followed by opportunites for the climbers on two long stages of 240 km each (Narni to Chieti and Chieti to Castelraimondo). A very challenging arrival will follow in the sixth stage, from Ussita to Macerata, where racers will climb the Madonna del Monte three times before riders face the 18% grade up to the finish line in the historical town center. The final stage will be a short time trial (9.3 km) which will take place on the coast road in San Benedetto del Tronto.

Thor Hushovd, Vincenzo Nibali, Ivan Basso, Mark Cavendish, Stefano Garzelli, Cadel Evans, Fabian Cancellara and Alessandro Petacchi in Marina di Carrara before the start of the race:

Start list:

Acqua & Sapone
o 1 Stefano Garzelli (Ita)
o 2 Rafai Chtioui (Tun)
o 3 Massimo Codol (Ita)
o 4 Alessandro Donati (Ita)
o 5 Fabio Taborre (Ita)
o 6 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro)
o 7 Danilo Napolitano (Ita)
o 8 Alessandro Proni (Ita)

AG2R La Mondiale
o 11 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita)
o 12 Mickaël Chérel (Fra)
o 13 Martin Elmiger (Swi)
o 14 Sébastien Hinault (Fra)
o 15 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr)
o 16 David Lelay (Fra)
o 17 Lloyd Mondory (Fra)
o 18 Matteo Montaguti (Ita)

BMC Racing Team
o 21 Cadel Evans (Aus)
o 22 Alessandro Ballan (Ita)
o 23 Marcus Burghardt (Ger)
o 24 George Hincapie (USA)
o 25 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita)
o 26 Manuel Quinziato (Ita)
o 27 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel)
o 28 Michael Schär (Swi)

Euskaltel - Euskadi
o 31 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa)
o 32 Daniel Sesma (Spa)
o 33 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa)
o 34 Francisco Javier Aramendia Llorente (Spa)
o 35 Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa)
o 36 Ivan Murillo Velasco (Spa)
o 37 Amets Txurruka (Spa)
o 38 Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa)

Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli
o 41 Giovanni Visconti (Ita)
o 42 Diego Caccia (Ita)
o 43 Francesco Failli (Ita)
o 44 Oscar Gatto (Ita)
o 45 Leonardo Giordani (Ita)
o 46 Davide Ricci Bitti (Ita)
o 47 Andrea Noe' (Ita)
o 48 Patrick Sinkewitz (Ger)

HTC-Highroad
o 51 Mark Cavendish (GBr)
o 52 Michael Albasini (Swi)
o 53 Bernhard Eisel (Aut)
o 54 Bert Grabsch (Ger)
o 55 Marco Pinotti (Ita)
o 56 Mark Renshaw (Aus)
o 57 Hayden Roulston (NZl)
o 58 Peter Velits (Svk)

Katusha Team
o 61 Filippo Pozzato (Ita)
o 62 Giampaolo Caruso (Ita)
o 63 Danilo Di Luca (Ita)
o 64 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus)
o 65 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr)
o 66 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa)
o 67 Luca Paolini (Ita)
o 68 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa)

Lampre - ISD
o 71 Damiano Cunego (Ita)
o 72 Michele Scarponi (Ita)
o 73 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita)
o 74 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita)
o 75 Danilo Hondo (Ger)
o 76 Adriano Malori (Ita)
o 77 Manuele Mori (Ita)
o 78 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol)

Liquigas-Cannondale
o 81 Ivan Basso (Ita)
o 82 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
o 83 Maciej Bodnar (Pol)
o 84 Damiano Caruso (Ita)
o 85 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Ita)
o 86 Jacopo Guarnieri (Ita)
o 87 Alan Marangoni (Ita)
o 88 Daniel Oss (Ita)

Movistar Team
o 91 David Arroyo Duran (Spa)
o 92 Andrei Amador Bipkazacova (Crc)
o 93 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita)
o 94 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr)
o 95 Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu)
o 96 Angel Madrazo Ruiz (Spa)
o 97 Branislau Samoilau (Blr)
o 98 Francisco José Ventoso Alberdi (Spa)

Omega Pharma-Lotto
o 101 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
o 102 André Greipel (Ger)
o 103 Adam Hansen (Aus)
o 104 Olivier Kaisen (Bel)
o 105 Sebastian Lang (Ger)
o 106 Vicente Reynes Mimo (Spa)
o 107 Marcel Sieberg (Ger)
o 108 Frederik Willems (Bel)

Pro Team Astana
o 111 Allan Davis (Aus)
o 112 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita)
o 113 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
o 114 Assan Bazayev (Kaz)
o 115 Roman Kireyev (Kaz)
o 116 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita)
o 117 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo)
o 118 Simon Clarke (Aus)

Quickstep Cycling Team
o 121 Tom Boonen (Bel)
o 122 Marco Bandiera (Ita)
o 123 Francesco Chicchi (Ita)
o 124 Dries Devenyns (Bel)
o 125 Davide Malacarne (Ita)
o 126 Kevin Van Impe (Bel)
o 127 Gerald Ciolek (Ger)
o 128 Niki Terpstra (Ned)

Rabobank Cycling Team
o 131 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa)
o 132 Lars Boom (Ned)
o 133 Rick Flens (Ned)
o 134 Robert Gesink (Ned)
o 135 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned)
o 136 Tom Leezer (Ned)
o 137 Bram Tankink (Ned)
o 138 Maarten Wijnants (Bel)

Saxo Bank Sungard
o 141 Nick Nuyens (Bel)
o 142 Baden Cooke (Aus)
o 143 David Tanner (Aus)
o 144 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe)
o 145 Juan José Haedo (Arg)
o 146 Michael Christiansen Morkov (Den)
o 147 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den)
o 148 Matteo Tosatto (Ita)

Sky Procycling
o 151 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe)
o 152 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor)
o 153 Steven Cummings (GBr)
o 154 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa)
o 155 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)
o 156 Mathew Hayman (Aus)
o 157 Ian Stannard (GBr)
o 158 Christopher Sutton (Aus)

Team Garmin-Cervelo
o 161 Thor Hushovd (Nor)
o 162 Tyler Farrar (USA)
o 163 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu)
o 164 Roger Hammond (GBr)
o 165 Andreas Klier (Ger)
o 166 Brett Lancaster (Aus)
o 167 David Zabriskie (USA)
o 168 Matthew Wilson (Aus)

Team Leopard-Trek
o 171 Fabian Cancellara (Swi)
o 172 Andy Schleck (Lux)
o 173 Daniele Bennati (Ita)
o 174 Fabian Wegmann (Ger)
o 175 Stuart O'Grady (Aus)
o 176 Joost Posthuma (Ned)
o 177 Davide Viganò (Ita)
o 178 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned)

Team Radioshack
o 181 Robbie McEwen (Aus)
o 182 Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn)
o 183 Ben Hermans (Bel)
o 184 Tiago Machado (Por)
o 185 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz)
o 186 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr)
o 187 Grégory Rast (Swi)
o 188 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel)

Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
o 191 Borut Bozic (Slo)
o 192 Wout Poels (Ned)
o 193 Gorik Gardeyn (Bel)
o 194 Marco Marcato (Ita)
o 195 Jens Mouris (Ned)
o 196 Alberto Ongarato (Ita)
o 197 Mirko Selvaggi (Ita)
o 198 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel)

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