Somewhere in this start list are the names of the men that will make the 2015 An Post Rás; those who will win the stages and the classification jerseys.
The list is a provisional one and there will be changes, as there always are, by the time the race starts in Dunboyne, Co Meath, on Sunday.
For example, Ireland’s Sean Downey has had to withdraw from the An Post-Chainreaction team due to illness and Martyn Irvine has just been added to the Madison Genesis line-up.
Those squads are among 15 international teams in the UCI 2.2-ranked event.
Also travelling are the Austria Hrinkow Advarics Cycleang team of 2014 race winner Clemens Fankhauser and national teams from Canada and New Zealand.
Other squads include Austria Tirol Cycling, Australia Team Subaru-Albion, Azerbaijan Synergy Baku, Belgium Team 3M and the British JLT Condor, NFTO, Neon Velo Cycling, Italy Team Idea Conad, France Pays de Dinan and the all-diabetic Novo Nordisk development team.
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The remainder of the field is made up of 18 Irish domestic teams; the Men of the Rás that Irish fans and observers will be most interested in.
These are Antrim Phoenix, Cavan Velo Café Magasin, Cork Aquablue, Cork Strata3 VeloRevolution, Down North Graham Powerhouse Sport, Down Newry Wheelers, Dublin UCD, Dublin Orwell
Wheelers, Dublin South Eurocycles, Dublin Lucan Stagg Cycles, Dublin Bikeworx, Limerick Mego RT, Louth Team Asea, Mayo.ie, Mayo Coleman Electronics TKE, Meath Martin Donnelly/Fast Shipping, Meath DID Electrical and Waterford Dungarvan Minnies.
The race will feature stage finishes in Carlow, Tipperary, Bearna, Newport, Ballina, Ballinamore, Drogheda and Skerries.
It will total almost 1,200 kilometres in length and will include 21 categorised climbs.
Provisional Start List: An Post Rás 2015
| AUSTRIA Hrinkow AdvaricsUCI Continental
1 Clemens Frankhauser 2 Josef Benetseder 3 Dominik Hrinkow 4 Sebastian Baldauf 5 Andreas Graf
Manager Stefan Ruker |
IRELAND An Post Chain ReactionUCI Continental
6 Ryan Mullen 7 Aidis Kruopis 8 Xandro Meurisse 9 Conor Dunne 10 Sean Downey
Manager Kurt Bogaerts
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| AUSTRIA Tirol Cycling TeamUCI Continental
11 Patrick Bosman 12 Lukas Postlberger 13 Mario Schoibl 14 Sebastian Schonberger 15 Alexander Wachter
Manager Srecko Glivar
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Australia Team Subaru-Albion
16 Anthony Murray 17 Keegan Aitchinson 18 Daniel Molyneaux 19 Saxon Irvine 20 Kierin Lewis
Manager Frank Conceicao
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| Azerbaijan Synergy BakuUCI Continental
21 Elchin Asadov 22 Tural Isgandarov 23 Elgun Alizada 24 Denis van Winden 25 Matej Mugerli
Manager David McQuaid
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Belgium Team 3MUCI Continental
26 Martijn Degreve 27 Fabrice Mels 28 Elliott Porter 29 David Montgomery 30 Emiel Vermeulen
Manager Bernard Moerman
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| Britain NFTO Pro CyclingUCI Continental
31 Ian Bibby 32 Rob Partridge 33 Rhys Lloyd 34 James Lowsley Williams 35 Samuel Harrison
Manager Sid Barras
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Britain Madison GenesisUCI Continental
36 Liam Holohan 37 Dominic Jeffs 38 James McLaughlin 39 Mark McNally 40 Matt Holmes
Manager Roger Hammond
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| Britain JLT CondorUCI Continental
41 Dante Carpenter 42 Joseph Moses 43 David McCarthy 44 Edward Laverack 45 Luke Grivell-Mellor
Manager John Herety
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Britain Neon Velo
46 Jeremy Durrin 47 Peter Murdoch 48 Alex Minting 49 Hugo Robinson 50 Steven Lawley
Manager James McCallum
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| CANADA National Team
51 Sean Mackinnon 52 Adam Jamieson 53 Aidan Caives 54 William Elliot 55 Eric Johnstone
Manager Luc Arseneau
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FRANCE Pays de Dinan
56 Elie Gesbert 57 Axel Journiaux 58 Benjamin Lhermitte 59 Daniel Aurelien 60 Marie Rodolphe
Manager Francois Journiaux
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| ITALY Team Idea ConadUCI Continental
61 Matteo Malucelli 62 Alessandro Pettiti 63 Francesco Reda 64 Marco Tizza 65 Davide Vigano
Manager Alberto Elli
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NEW ZEALAND National Team
66 Marc Ryan 67 Nick Bain 68 Luke Mudgway 69 Pieter Bulling 70 Alex Frame
Manager Timothy Carswell
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| USA Team Novo Nordisk
71 Umberto Poli 72 Mehdi Benhamouda 73 Daragh Campbell 74 Quentin Valognes 75 Emanuel Mni
Manager Alexey Shmidt
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ANTRIM Phoenix CC
76 Daniel Stewart 77 Karl Morgan 78 Fergus Rooney 79 Aaron Mc Grady 80 Craig Rea
Manager Cormac McCann
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| CAVAN Velo Café Magasin
81 Mark Millar 82 Gary Shiels 83 Joe Henry
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84 Niall O’Hagan 85 Nigel MacAodha
Manager Brian Begley
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CORK Aquablue
86 Cathal Moynihan 87 Ronan McLaughlin 88 Anthony Walsh 89 Sean Lacey 90 Sean McKenna
Manager Tim Barry
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| CORK Strata3/Velorevolution
91 David Coughlan 92 Stephen Murray 93 Hugh McMahon 94 Aidan Crowley 95 Kieran Crean
Manager Brian Hayden
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DOWN NORTH GrahamPowerhouse Sport
96 David T Watson 97 David Hamilton 98 Chris Reilly 99 Peter Hawkins 100 Marc Potts
Manager David S Watson
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| DOWN Newry Wheelers
101 Sean Featherstone 102 Jude Sands 103 Gareth McCormack 104 Colm Quinn 105 Des Woods
Manager Barry Monaghan
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DUBLIN UCD
106 Eoin Morton 107 Ian Richardson 108 Joseph Breheny 109 Niall Dwyer 110 Liam Dolan
Manager Noel McGlynn
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| DUBLIN Orwell Wheelers
111 Brian McArdle 112 Dick O’Brien 113 Neal Hudson 114 Tom Blennerhassett 115 Michael Butler
Manager Patrick O’Brien
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DUBLIN SOUTH Eurocycles
116 Dave Reilly 117 James Lawless 118 John Lynch 119 John Paul Lyons 120 Darragh Zaidan
Manager Justin McGee
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| Team Withdrew
121 122 123 124 125
Manager
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Team Withdrew
126 127 128 129 130
Manager
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| DUBLIN Lucan Stagg Cycles
131 Peter Kirwan 132 Ross Campbell Grogan 133 Michael Leonard 134 Mark Nicholls 135 Ronan Killeen
Manager Thomas Graham
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DUBLIN Bikeworx
136 Gary Sheehan 137 Neil O’Leary 138 Keith Hughes 139 Richie McDonagh 140 Ken Tobin
Manager John Donnelly
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| LIMERICK Mego RT
141 Simon Ryan 142 Alan Loftus 143 Bobby Coleman 144 Shane Kenny 145 Peter Bane
Manager Vincent Gleeson
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LOUTH Team ASEA
146 Damien Shaw 147 Bryan McCrystal 148 Roger Aiken 149 Fraser Duncan 150 Alastair McAuley
Manager Brendan Grimes
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| MAYO Mayo.ie
151 David Brennan 152 Richard Meaney 153 James McGreevy 154 Keith O’Connell 155 Chris Troy
Manager Ray Staunton
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MAYO Coleman Electronics TKE
156 Patrick Clarke 157 Sean Hahessy 158 Jason Prendagast 159 Robin Kelly 160 Mark Shannon
Manager Simon Walsh
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| MEATH Martin Donnelly/FastShipping
161 Colin Robinson 162 Colm Laverty 163 Niall Doggett 164 A.N. Other 165 Stuart Cox
Manager James Gough
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MEATH DID Electrical
166 Mark Dowling 167 Javan Nulty 168 Eugene Moriarty 169 Tim O’Regan 170 Andrew Meehan
Manager John Wall
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| WATERFORD DungarvanMinnies
171 Mark Radley 172 John Hodge 173 Damien Travers 174 Marcus Flavin 175 Mick Ahern
Manager Derek Webb
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