Vuelta a España 2021: teams, participating riders, favorites and numbers

From Saturday, August 14 to Sunday, September 5, La Vuelta 2021 will be held, which in this edition recovers its usual dates after the typical 2020 calendar, in which the Spanish round was held in the autumn. The race will start in Burgos and end in Santiago de Compostela. There will be a total of 184 runners among the 23 participating teams. That is, eight per squad, as has become customary in recent years. We review the protagonists of the last round of three weeks of the year:
Riders of the Vuelta 20211 Israel Start-Up NationBERWICK Sebastian
WÜRTZ SCHMIDT Mads
HAGEN Carl Fredrik
NIV Guy
VANMARCKE Sep
2 AG2R Citroën Team (Confirmed)BOUCHARD Geoffrey
CALMEJANE Lilian
CHAMPOUSSIN Clément
CHEREL Mikaël
DEWULF Stan
PRODHOMME Nicolas
TOUZÉ Damien
VENTURINI Clément
3 UAE-Team EmiratesGIBBONS Ryan
POLANC Jan
TRENTIN Matteo
DE LA CRUZ David
MAJKA Rafał
OLIVEIRA Rui
Team BikeExchangeHOWSON Damien
SNOW Mikel
CHAVES Esteban
HAMILTON Lucas
MATTHEWS Michael
STANNARD Robert
5 Intermarché - WantyGobert Matériaux
TAARAMÄE Rein
HIRT Jan
MEINTJES Louis
6 Astana - Premier Tech (confirmed)VLASOV Aleksandr
RODRÍGUEZ Óscar
IZAGIRRE Gorka
IZAGIRRE Ion
ARANBURU Alex
SÁNCHEZ Luis León
FRAILE Omar
NATAROV Yuriy
7 Team Jumbo-Visma (confirmed)ROGLIČ Primož
GESINK Robert
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan
BOUWMAN Koen
HOFSTEDE Lennard
KUSS Sepp
OOMEN Sam
8 BORA - hansgroheGAMPER Patrick
BENEDETTI Cesare
ZWIEHOFF Ben
LAAS Martin
GROßSCHARTNER Felix
MEEUS Jordi
SCHACHMANN Maximilian
9 EF Education - NippoCRADDOCK Lawson
BARTA Will
CARTHY Hugh
URÁN Rigoberto
10 Bahrain - Victorious (confirmed)LANDA Mikel
ARASHIRO Yukiya
CARUSO Damiano
HAIG Jack
MÄDER Gino
PADUN Mark
POELS Wout
TRATNIK Jan
11 Trek - Segafredo (confirmed)SIMMONS Quinn
REIJNEN Kiel
NIBALI Antonio
KIRSCH Alex
ELISSONDE Kenny
LÓPEZ Juan Pedro
CICCONE Giulio
BRAMBILLA Gianluca
12 Deceuninck - Quick Step (confirmed)BAGIOLI Andrea
JAKOBSEN Fabio
ČERNÝ Josef
KNOX James
SÉNÉCHAL Florian
ŠTYBAR Zdeněk
VAN LERBERGHE Bert
VANSEVENANT Mauri
13 INEOS Grenadiers (confirmed)BERNAL Egan
FACE Richard
NARVÁEZ Jhonatan
PIDCOCK Thomas
PUCCIO Salvatore
SIVAKOV Pavel
VAN BAARLE Dylan
YATES Adam
14 Movistar Team (confirmed)LÓPEZ Miguel Ángel
MAS Enric
VALVERDE Alejandro
OLIVEIRA Nelson
VERONA Carlos
JACOBS Johan
ROJAS José Joaquín
ERVITI Imanol
15 Lotto SoudalTHIJSSEN Gerben
VAN GILS Maxim
VERMEERSCH Florian
VANHOUCKE Harm
EWAN Caleb
KRON Andreas
CRAS Steff
16 Burgos-BHNAVARRO Daniel
BOL Jetse
MADRAZO Angel
17 Caja Rural - Insurance RGAAMEZQUETA Julen
GARCÍA Jhojan
LASTRA Jonathan
ABERASTURI Jon
18 Euskaltel - Euskadi (confirmed)BIZKARRA Mikel
BOU Joan
ITURRIA Mikel
LOBATO Juan José
SOTO Antonio
MARTIN Gotzon
AZPARREN Xabier Mikel
MATÉ Luis Ángel
19 Team DSM (confirmed)ARENSMAN Thymen
BARDET Romain
DAINESE Alberto
DENZ Nico
DO Chad
HAMILTON Chris
STORER Michael
TUSVELD Martijn
20 Alpecin-Fenix (confirmed)PLANCKAERT Edward
THWAITES Scott
PHILIPSEN Jasper
VINE Jay
MODOL Sacha
KRIEGER Alexander
DE TIER Floris
BAYER Tobias
21 Groupama - FDJLE GAC Olivier
MOLARD Rudy
DÉMARE Arnaud
GENIETS Kevin
22 Cofidis, Solutions Crédits (confirmed)MARTIN Guillaume
HERRADA Jesús
ALLEGAERT Piet
BARCELÓ Fernando
FINÉ Eddy
HERRADA José
MORIN Emmanuel
ROCHAS Rémy
23 Team Qhubeka NextHashARU Fabio
JANSE VAN RENSBURG Reinardt
POZZOVIVO Domenico
ARMÉE Sander
CLAEYS DimitrI
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