This Sunday – Worlds Best Heading for London

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The world’s top international teams will race Britain’s latest generation of stars in this weekend’s Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic on Sunday 10 August

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This Sunday – Worlds Best Heading for London

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Wiggins Heads Line up forRideLondonClassic on Sunday

Cycling fans will see Sir Bradley Wiggins racing on British roads this weekend as the 2012 Tour de France winner and multiple Olympic gold medallist races in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic for the first time.

He will be joined by the likes of 2012 world champion Philippe Gilbert (BMC), Mark Renshaw (Omega Pharma-Quick-Step) and Tour de France top 10 finisher Laurens ten Dam (Belkin Pro Cycling) will line up against Scott Thwaites, bronze medallist at the Commonwealth Games, Tour de France star Simon Yates (Orica GreenEDGE) and a return to racing in the UK for former British champion Ian Stannard (Team Sky), who has been out injured for much of this season.

Gilbert leads the BMC Racing team in the 200-kilometre race which begins at 13:00 in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Team Sky’s line-up will include British trio Ben Swift, Ian Stannard and Luke Rowe. Simon Yates leads the Orica GreenEDGE team which also includes rising sprint star Caleb Ewan. The 20-year-old Ewan is one of several sprinters in the 150-rider field that includes Elia Viviani (Cannondale) and Sam Bennett (Team NetApp-Endura) while Omega Pharma-Quick-Step’s line-up contains a trio of fast men in Mark Renshaw and multiple Tour de France stage winners Alessandro Petacchi and Gert Steegmans.

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Andrew Fenn provides home interest to the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step line-up, a week after representing Scotland in the Commonwealth Games, while Belkin Pro Cycling will include two top 15 finishers from the recent Tour de France, in Laurens ten Dam (9th overall) and Steven Kruijswijk (15th overall).

A host of medallists from the road and track events at the Commonwealth Games will join them, led by road race bronze medallist Scott Thwaites (Team NetApp-Endura), who leads five from the top 10 from Glasgow to the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic.

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Elia Viviani (Cannondale), one of the candidates for a sprint victory.

The gold and bronze medallists from the points race, Kiwi duo Tom Scully (Madison Genesis) and Aaron Gate (AN Post Chain Reaction) and the scratch race gold medallist Shane Archbold (AN Post Chain Reaction), who also took bronze in the team pursuit, will also start.

Gilbert’s BMC Racing also boasts a Commonwealth gold medallist in Luke Davison, who rides as a stagiaire for the team, who was a member of the Australian team pursuit quartet that defeated the England team of Sir Bradley Wiggins in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow.

Domestically, Pearl Izumi Tour Series champions Rapha Condor JLT includes former Tour of Britain SKODA King of the Mountains winner Kristian House plus Team England’s Tom Moses, while Raleigh will bring current British Cycling Elite Road Series leader Yanto Barker.NFTO Pro Cycling, the leading squad in that competition, boastS both Adam Blythe and Russell Downing, the latter fourth at the Commonwealth Games.

A youthful Great Britain national team includes Dan McLay, winner of a stage and the Points Classification at the Tour of Normandy earlier this summer, while Irish interest will look to a brace of champions in former national champion Matt Brammeier with the Synergy Baku Cycling Project team and Ryan Mullen of AN Post Chain Reaction, current incumbent for both the road race and time trial.

The race will be covered live on BBC1 and British Eurosport and shown internationally in more than 160 countries worldwide.

 

AN Post Chain Reaction
MCCARTHY Robert Jon
MULLEN Ryan
MCNALLY Mark
ARCHBOLD Shane
GATE Aaron
DOWNEY Sean

Belkin Pro Cycling
CLEMENT Stef
TEN DAM Laurens
HIVERT Jonathan
KRUIJSWIJK Steven
VAN DER LIJKE Nick
MARTENS Paul

BMC Racing
Luke Davison (AUS),
Philippe Gilbert (BEL),
Martin Kohler (SUI),
Sebastian Lander (DEN),
Loïc Vliegen (BEL)

Bike Aid – Ride for help
CARSTENSEN Lucas
EXNER Kai
FRITZ Fabian
LECHNER Patrick
SCHNAPKA Matthias
SCHAFER Timo

Cannondale Pro Cycling
BETTIOL Alberto
BODNAR Maciej
KOREN Kristijan
LONGO BORGHINI Paolo
SABATINI Fabio
VIVIANI Elia

Colombia
ARANGO CARVAJAL Juan Esteban
AVILA VANEGAS Edwin Alcibiades
DIAZ CARDENAS Edward Fabian
DUQUE Leonardo Fabio
QUINTERO ARTUNDUAGA Duber Armando
VALENCIA GONZALEZ Juan Pablo

Team Giant Shimano
AHLSTRAND Jonas
LAMMERTINK Steven
DAMUSEAU Thomas
LOH Sea Keong
OLIVIER Daan
PETERSON Tom

Great Britain Cycling Team
WOOD Oliver
LATHAM Christopher
LAWLESS Christopher
SLATER Alistair
PEARSON Daniel
MCLAY Daniel

Team Kuota
BENOIT Andre
BRAUN Julian
HUPPERTZ Joshua
MONREAL Florian
WALBRUL Gero
WESTMATTELMANN Daniel

Team La Pomme Marseille 13
GIRAUD Benjamin
JULES Justin
SISKEVICIUS Evaldus
ANTOMARCHI Julien
SAINT MARTIN Clement
ROSTOLLAN Thomas

Madison Genesis
SCULLY Tom
NORTHEY Mike
HORTON Tobyn
PETERS Alex
BIBBY Ian
HAWKINS Peter

Metec-TKH Contintental Cyclingteam
ARIESEN Johim
DE KORT Bram
EISING Tijmen
GOEREE Niels
TE BRAKE Remco
WOLSINK Jelle

MTN-Qhubeka p.b Samsung
SBARAGLI Kristian
JIM Songezo
NIYONSHUTI Adrien
REGUIGUI Youcef
DOUGALL Nicolas
GRMAY Tsgabu

Team NetApp-Endura
BENNETT Sam
CAMANO Iker
DEMPSTER Zakkari
MCEVOY Jonathan
MUHLBERGER Gregor
THWAITES Scott

NFTO Pro Cycling
DOWNING Russell
BLYTHE Adam
MOULD Jon
WILLIAMS Sam
HARRISON Sam
HUNT Josh

Orica GreenEDGE
MEIER Christian
LANCASTER Brett
YATES Simon
EWAN Caleb
DOCKER Mitch

Omega Pharma-Quick-Step
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
FENN Andrew
GOLAS Michal
PETACCHI Alessandro
RENSHAW Mark
STEEGMANS Gert

Team Raleigh
CHRISTIAN Mark
WILKINSON Ian
KNEISKY Morgan
BOULO Matthieu
BARKER Yanto
OLIPHANT Evan

Rapha Condor JLT
BRIGGS Graham
OPIE Christopher
ENGLISH Felix
MOSES Thomas
HOUSE Kristian
HANDLEY Richard

Team Sky
SWIFT Ben
WIGGINS, Bradley
ROWE Luke
STANNARD Ian
SUTTON Christopher
BOSWELL Ian
EARLE, Nathan

Synergy Baku Cycling Project
BRAMMEIER Matt
SCHWEIZER Michael
EIBEGGER Markus
KLEMME Daniel
MCCONVEY Connor
SOKOL Jan

Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise
VAN STAEYEN Michael
STEELS Stijn
VAN HECKE Preben
THEUNS Edward
HELVEN Sander
VANOVERBERGHE Arthur

Wanty-Groupe Gobert
KREDER Michel
BACKAERT Frederik
BAUGNIES Jerome
GILBERT Jerome
DE GREEF Francis
MAES Alexander

Velosure-Giordana Racing Team
BIALOBLOCKI Marcin
EDMONDSON Nathan
CRONSHAW Matt
LAMPIER Steve
PARTRIDGE Rob
MOSS James

Team 3M
DEVRIENDT Tom
STEVENS Timothy
JUODVALKIS Egidijus
VAN ZIJL Melvin
VANSPEYBROECK Tim
VINGERLING Michael

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