Cadel Evans headlines early Colorado tour startlist

BOULDER, Colo, (VN) — Tour de France champion Cadel Evans and his fellow podium finishers Andy and Fränk Schleck will headline the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge later this month. Organizers announced the BMC Racing and Leopard-Trek riders as part of the preliminary startlist Tuesday.

Also featuring in the Colorado tour’s first edition are Colorado residents Tom Danielson and Peter Stetina (Garmin-Cervélo), Tejay Van Garderen, Danny Pate and Caleb Fairly (HTC-Highroad), Timmy Duggan (Liquigas-Cannondale), Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) and Chris Baldwin and Frank Pipp (Bissell).

Other highlights of the early roster include fan favorite Jens Voigt (Leopard), former U.S. national champion George Hincapie (BMC) and Dutchman Robert Gesink (Rabobank).

The six-day USA Pro Cycling Challenge kicks off Monday August 22 with a prologue in Colorado Springs.

BMC RACING TEAM
Cadel Evans
George Hincapie
Brent Bookwalter
Chris Barton
Jeffry Louder
Chad Beyer
Timothy Roe
Chris Butler

TEAM RADIOSHACK (USA)
Levi Leipheimer
Dmitriy Muravyev
George Bennett
Philip Deignan
Ben King
Jason McCartney
Ivan Rovny
Bjorn Selander

LEOPARD TREK (LUX)
Andy Schleck
Fränk Schleck
Stefan Denifl
Brice Feillu
Anders Lund
Martin Mortensen
Stuart O’Grady
Jens Voigt

TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO (USA)
Tom Danielson
Ryder Hesjedal
Daniel Lloyd
Thomas Peterson
Peter Stetina
Christian Vande Velde
Dave Zabriskie
Danny Summerhill

HTC-HIGHROAD (USA)
Tejay Van Garderen
Caleb Fairly
Patrick Gretsch
Danny Pate
Frantisek Rabon
Hayden Roulston
Peter Velits
Lachlan Norris

LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE (ITA)
Ivan Basso
Davide Cimolai
Timothy Duggan
Edward King
Daniel Oss
Juraj Sagan
Sylwester Szmyd
Elia Viviani

SAXO BANK SUNGARD (DEN)
André Steensen
Brian Vandborg
Daniel Navarro
Jesus Hernandez
Gustav Larsson
Michael Mørkov
Laurent Didier
Richie Porte

RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM (NED)
Robert Gesink
Stef Clement
Marc Goos
Grischa Niermann
Laurens Ten Dam
Pieter Weening
Dennis Van Winden

UNITEDHEALTHCARE PRO CYCLING (USA)
Rory Sutherland
Jonathan Clarke
Robert Forster
Davide Frattini
Adrian Hegyvary
Christopher Jones
Bradley White
Scott Zwizanski

TEAM TYPE 1 – sanofi-aventis (USA)
Alexandr Efimkin
Vladimar Efimkin
Rubens Bertogliati
Valeriy Kobzarenko
Javier Megias Leal
Scott Stewart
William Dugan
Fabio Calabria

SKIL-SHIMANO (NED)
Ronan Van Zandbeek
Kenny Van Hummel
Thomas Bonnin
Martin Reimer
Sander Oostlander
Tobias Ludvigsson
Philipp Ries
Albert Timmer

TEAM SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10 (CAN)
Lucas Eusar
Flavio De Luna
Jonathan Patrick McCarty
David Boily
Bruno Langlois
Francois Parisien
Andrew Randell
Ryan Roth

BISSELL PRO CYCLING (USA)
Chris Baldwin
Frank Pipp
Jeremy Vennell
Chase Pinkham
Rob Britton
Paul Mach
Jay Thomson
Ben Jacques-Maynes

TEAM EXERGY (USA)
Andres Miguel Diaz Corrales
Carlos Eduardo Alzate Escobar
Freddie Rodriguez
Matthew Cooke
Sam Johnson
Christopher Hong
Erik Slack
Kai Applequis

JELLY BELLY CYCLING TEAM p/b KENDA (USA)
Sergio Hernandez
Emerson Oronte
Bernard Van Ulden
Sean Mazich
Ken Hanson
Jeremy Powers
Alex Hagman
Nic Hamilton

GOBERNACION DE ANTIOQUIA-INDEPORTES ANTIOQUIA (COL)
Sergio Luis Henao
Oscar Sevilla Rivera
Javier Acevedo Calle
Alejandro Ramirez Calderon
Rafael Montiel Cuello
Carlos Ospina Hernandez
Oscar Alvarez Paniagua
Cristhian Montoya

EPM-UNE (COL)
Giovanni Manuel Baez
Juan Pablo Suarez
Walter Fernando Pedraza
Edward Stiber Ortiz
Rafael Infantino Abreu
Carlos Fernando Piamonte Rodriguez
Eduard Alexander Beltran
Robigzon Leandro Oyola