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2016 Giro d’Italia Stats

– 22 teams (18 World Tour, 4 Pro Continental) will line-up for the 99th edition of the Corsa Rosa

– Of these, only one is winless this season: Giant-Alpecin

– The 2016 race starts in Apeldoorn and finishes in Turin, after 3383 kilometers

– It will be for the 12th time in history that the Giro d’Italia will kick-off from a foreign country and for the third time that Netherlands get to host the depart

– At 2744 meters, Colle dell’Agnello will be Cima Coppi this year

– Four former winners are at the start of the Giro d’Italia this year: Damiano Cunego, Ryder Hesjedal, Vincenzo Nibali and Michele Scarponi

– For the second season running, Sky and Trek-Segafredo are the only teams not to field a rider from the country in which they are registered

– Bardiani-CSF and Gazprom-Rusvelo will line up riders from a single country, Italy, respectively Russia

– Giant-Alpecin, IAM Cycling and Trek-Segafredo are the teams with the most nationalities in the squad, 7

– Cyclists from 34 countries will run the Giro d’Italia: Albania, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Eritrea, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A.

– As expected, Italy has the most riders in the peloton: 53

– Colombia’s Daniel Martinez (20 years) is the youngest cyclist at the start, while Matteo Tossato (42 years) is the oldest one

– For Tossato, this will be the 33rd career start in a Grand Tour

– The Italian is also the cyclist with the most starts in Corsa Rosa: 13 (including this one)

– Adam Hansen is poised to ride his 14th consecutive Grand Tour

– Eduard Grosu will become the first Romanian cyclist to record two Grand Tour starts

– The riders who are at the start have won a combined total of 7 Grand Tours, 16 Monuments, 4 world titles and more than 100 Grand Tour stages

– Six neo-pros will make their debut in a Grand Tour: Julen Amezqueta, Giulio Ciccone, Mirco Maestri, Simone Petilli, Cristian Rodriguez and Alexey Rybalkin

Giro d’Italia favourites – race days/wins

Mikel Landa – 15/3

Esteban Chaves – 16/0

Tom Dumoulin – 24/0

Alejandro Valverde – 24/6

Rigoberto Uran – 25/0

Rafal Majka – 26/0

Vincenzo Nibali – 27/2

Ilnur Zakarin – 28/1

2016 Giro d’Italia

Stage 1 – Apeldoorn-Apeldoorn – 9,8 km (May 6th)

Stage 2 – Arnhem-Nijmegen – 190 km (May 7th)

Stage 3 – Nijmegen-Arnhem – 189 km (May 8th)

Stage 4 – Catanzaro-Praia a Mare – 191 km (May 10th)

Stage 5 – Praia a Mare-Benevento – 233 km (May 11th)

Stage 6 – Ponte-Roccaraso – 165 km (May 12th)

Stage 7 – Sulmona-Foligno – 210 km (May 13th)

Stage 8 – Foligno-Arezzo – 169 km (May 14th)

Stage 9 – Radda in Chianti-Greve in Chianti – 40,4 km (May 15th)

Stage 10 – Campi Besenzio-Sestola – 216 km (May 17th)

Stage 11 – Modena-Asolo – 212 km (May 18th)

Stage 12 – Noale-Bibione – 168 km (May 19th)

Stage 13 – Palmanova-Cividale del Friuli – 161 km (May 20th)

Stage 14 – Alpago-Corvaro – 210 km (May 21st)

Stage 15 – Castelrotto-Alpe di Siusi – 10,8 km (May 22nd)

Stage 16 – Bressanone-Andalo – 133 km (May 24th)

Stage 17 – Molveno-Cassano d’Adda – 196 km (May 25th)

Stage 18 – Muggio-Pinerolo – 234 km (May 26th)

Stage 19 – Pinerolo-Risoul – 161 km (May 27th)

Stage 20 – Guillestre-Sant’Anna di Vinadio – 134 km (May 28th)

Stage 21 – Cuneo-Torino – 150 km (May 29th)