Here you are the list of the 32 teams that will take part in the 47th cycling Tour of Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. Among them, the names of the strongest italian clubs and a lot of foreign teams, coming from alla over the world.
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01 MIHOLJEVIC Hrvoje (CRO - 1979)
02 DEMARIN Massimo (CRO - 1979)
03 KISERLOVKI Emanuel (CRO - 1984)
04 DURASEK Kristijan (CRO - 1987)
05 ZANINOVIC Vinko (CRO - 1987)
06 BERNARDINI Alessandro (ITA - 1985)
07 PIECHELE Nicola (ITA - 1986)
08 PIECHELE Andrea (ITA - 1987)
09 COLEDAN Marco (ITA - 1988)
10 ZANCO Diego (ITA - 1988)
11 BETTI Emiliano (ITA - 1987)
12 GITTO Luigi (ITA - 1986)
13 MAJKA Rafal (POL - 1989)
14 ORTO Pieto (ITA - 1988)
15 PECORARO Giuseppe (ITA - 1986)
16 FERRARO Damiano (ITA - 1986)
17 SIMONI Alex (ITA - 1988)
18 GIACOMIN Andrea (ITA - 1986)
19 VIVIAN Marco (ITA - 1985)
20 ZAMPEDRI Derik (ITA - 1985)
21 BENEDETTI Cesare (ITA - 1987)
22 BRAMBILLA Giorgio (ITA - 1988)
23 DI CORRADO Andrea (ITA - 1988)
24 ALDEGHERI Daniele (ITA - 1990)
25 ALDEGHERI Diego (ITA - 1988)
26 CANZIANI Daniele (ITA - 1985)
27 FIGINI Francesco (ITA - 1985)
28 DI LEO Marco (ITA - 1987)
29 ROTA Valerio (ITA - 1987)
30 VICINI Mauro (ITA - 1988)
31 JENKO Robert (SLO - 1990)
32 REZMAN Bostjan (SLO - 1980)
33 KOSIR Nejc (SLO - 1990)
34 FURDI Blaz (SLO - 1988)
35 SVAB Gasper (SLO - 1986)
36 BELLERI Nicola (ITA - 1987)
37 GAFFURINI Nicola (ITA - 1989)
38 GATTI Alberto (ITA - 1988)
39 MOLA Lorenzo (ITA - 1988)
40 TURAEV Azamat (UZB - 1989)
41 PAGANI Angelo (ITA - 1988)
42 KOREN Kristjan (SLO - 1986)
43 BAGGIO Filippo (ITA - 1988)
44 BERTAZZO Omar (ITA - 1989)
45 GRAZIATO Massimo (ITA - 1988)
46 ANZALONE Maurizio (ITA - 1985)
47 BENEY Romain (SUI - 1987)
48 GIANI Marco (ITA - 1984)
49 ANELLI Fabio (SUI - 1988)
50 TRAFELET Stefan (SUI - 1984)
51 BIASIO Riccardo (ITA - 1989)
52 VACCHER Andrea (ITA - 1988)
53 CAVASIN Daniele (ITA - 1988)
54 NECHITA Andrei (ROM - 1988)
55 MASIERO Federico (ITA - 1987)
56 CIAVATTA Matteo (ITA - 1988)
57 PORTE Richard Julian (AUS - 1985)
58 TROTTA Alessandro (ITA - 1986)
59 DA ROS Michele (ITA- 1985)
60 PIRRERA Massimo (ITA - 1986)
61 APPOLLONIO Davide (ITA - 1989)
62 CADDEO Manuele (ITA - 1986)
63 FICHERA Mariano Davide (ITA - 1986)
64 MAMMINI Matteo (ITA - 1989)
65 PINIZZOTTO Leonardo (ITA - 1986)
66 ALBERTI Nicholas Luca (ITA - 1989)
67 BARSOTTINI Stefano (ITA - 1988)
68 LANZI Federico (ITA - 1988)
69 PAPALE Pasquale (ITA - 1988)
70 VOLIK Konstantin (UZB - 1984)
71 BRAMBILLA Gianluca (ITA - 1987)
72 MODOLO Sacha (ITA - 1987)
73 COLLODEL Matteo (ITA - 1988)
74 BATTAGLIN Enrico (ITA - 1989)
75 BENFATTO Marco (ITA - 1988)
76 FONRABE Maksym (UKR - 1988)
77 LAGKUTI Sergiy (UKR - 1985)
78 MAZUR Oleksander (UKR - 1989)
79 KULYK Andriy (UKR - 1989)
80 SHCHEDOV Vitaliy (UKR - 1987)
81 BIOLO Gianpaolo (ITA - 1985)
82 LORENZON Marco (ITA - 1988)
83 MOROSINI Alberto (ITA - 1984)
84 NICHELE Attilio (ITA - 1989)
85 PAPOK Siarhei (BLR - 1988)
86 BRANDLE Matthias (AUT - 1989)
87 ZOIDL Riccardo (AUT - 1988)
88 GRASSMANN Franz (AUT - 1987)
89 HRINKOW Dominik (AUT - 1988)
90 SCHORN Daniel (AUT - 1988)
91 LA NOTTE Marco (ITA - 1989)
92 BATTAGLINI Mirko (ITA - 1987)
93 COLO' Alessandro (ITA - 1986)
94 GRILLO Francesco Carlo (ITA - 1988)
95 TEDESCHI Mirko (ITA - 1989)
96 DRUCKER Jempy (LUX - 1986)
97 HEYMANS Cyrille (LUX - 1986)
98 BAZIN Nicolas (FRA - 1983)
99 HARBONNIER Sebastien (FRA - 1984)
100 BALDO Nicolas (FRA - 1984)
101 CICCONE Angelo (ITA - 1980)
102 BUTTAZZONI Alex (ITA - 1985)
103 PINOS Andrea (ITA - 1985)
104 DE MARCHI Alessandro (ITA - 1986)
105 BONIFETTO Federico (ITA - 1986)
106 KOCHETKOV Pavel (RUS - 1986)
107 SILIN Egor (RUS - 1988)
108 SOKOLOV Dmitriy (RUS - 1988)
109 TSATEVITCH Alexey (RUS - 1989)
110 ROOT Eugeny (RUS - 1989)
111 UTEGENOV Baurzhan (KAZ - 1989)
112 ISHANOV Abdraimzhan (KAZ - 1990)
113 KARASSEV Andrey (KAZ - 1988)
114 TLEUBAYEV Ruslan (KAZ - 1987)
115 MEREY Khakharman (KAZ - 1989)
116 HASANOVIC Esad (SRB - 1985)
117 DERR Zolt (SRB - 1983)
118 PROKIC Predrag (SRB - 1982)
119 JOVANOVIC Nebojsa (SRB - 1983)
120 PETROVIC Milanko (SRB - 1988)
121 LEBAS Thomas (FRA - 1985)
122 LESTAGE Georges (FRA - 1983)
123 OOGHE Yohan (FRA - 1988)
124 PAAJANEN Paavo (FRA - 1988)
125 ROSTOLLAN Thomas (FRA - 1986)
126 CHIRUKHIN Artem (RUS - 1988)
127 GORODNICHEV Ilya (RUS - 1987)
128 FILIPPOV Alexander (RUS - 1984)
129 SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (RUS - 1987)
130 PILLAI Andrea (ITA - 1986)
131 DUGANI FLUMIAN Luca (ITA - 1987)
132 PICCIN Eros (ITA - 1987)
133 FEDRIGO Leonida (ITA - 1988)
134 CORRA' Paolo (ITA - 1986)
135 BERDOS Oleg (MDA - 1987)
136 DOWNSETT Alex (GBR - 1988)
137 CHRISTIAN Mark (GBR - 1990)
138 FENN Andrew (GBR - 1990)
139 KENNAUGH Peter (GBR - 1989)
140McEVOY Jonathan (GBR - 1989)
141 BAGOT Yoann (FRA - 1987)
142 CONVERBET Matthieu (FRA - 1987)
143 EDET Nicolas (FRA - 1987)
144 MOLMY Amaud (FRA - 1988)
145 PINOT Thibaut (FRA - 1990)
146 BOBRIDGE Jack (AUS - 1989)
147 DENNIS Rohan (AUS - 1990)
148 MEYER Travis (AUS - 1989)
149 HOWARD Leigh (AUS - 1989)
150 SEMPLE Adam (AUS - 1989)
151 SAGAN Peter (SVK - 1990)
152 SAGAN Juraj (SVK - 1988)
153 VYSNA Matey (SVK - 1988)
154 MAHADR Martin (SVK - 1989)
155 MASNY Milos (SVK - 1987)
156 DEGENKOIB John (GER - 1989)
157 NERZ Dominik (GER - 1989)
158 FUCHS Sergey (GER - 1987)
159 FROHN Florian (GER - 1987)
160 HESSELBARTH David (GER - 1988)
Cyclists entered are 160, shared out among 75 italians and 85 foreigners.
Among them, the most represented nationalitiy is the french one, with 13 athletes. Then come russian riders, who are 9; there are then 6 slovenians and 6 australians, 5 ukrainians, 5 britains, 5 austrians, 5 kazakians, 5 slovaks, 5 croatians, 5 serbians, 5 germans, 3 swisses, 2 luxembourgians and 2 usbecos, 1 polish, 1 romanian, 1 byelorussian and 1 moldavian..
Under 23 are 107, that is 67%, while elite are 53, that is 33%; if we consider only under 26, they are 151 (that is 94%).
The oldest is 2008 winner Hrovje Miholjevic, (Croatia National Team), born on june 6th 1979; the youngest is Christian Mark, (Great Britain National Team), born on november 20th 1990: the difference between them is 11 years.
The teams with the youngest average age are the Great Britain National Team and Team AIS - Australia, with an average age of 19,8 years old; the team with the higher average age is the Croatia National Team with an average age of 25,8 years old.
The average age of all 160 cyclists which will take part at the race is 22 years old.
There are two cyclists who have their birthday during this Tour of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and they are friulan athlete Andrea Pinos (Cycling Team Friuli) and Alexey Tsatevich (Russia National Team): on Wednesday 7th May they will be respectively 24 and 20 years old.