List of teams and cyclists in the 2014 Vuelta a España

The 2014 Vuelta a España was the 69th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta a España features 198 riders competing from 22 cycling teams; the race took place from 23 August to 14 September 2014, starting in Jerez de la Frontera and finishing in Santiago de Compostela.

Teams edit

All eighteen UCI ProTeams were automatically invited and were obliged to attend the race. In April 2014, four UCI Professional Continental teams were given wildcard places into the race, to complete a 22-team peloton.[1] MTN–Qhubeka's inclusion in the race was the first instance of an African-licensed team appearing at a Grand Tour.[2]

The 22 teams that competed in the race were:

*: Pro Continental teams given wild card entry to this event.

By rider edit

The list of riders at the start of the race was:[3]

Legend
No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Vuelta
Pos. Position in the general classification
      Denotes the winner of the General classification
      Denotes the winner of the Points classification
      Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification
      Denotes the winner of the Combination classification
DNS Denotes a rider who did not start, followed by the stage before which he withdrew
DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish, followed by the stage in which he withdrew
HD Denotes a rider finished outside the time limit, followed by the stage in which he did so
DSQ Denotes a rider who was disqualified from the race, followed by the stage in which this occurred
Age correct as of 23 August 2014, the date on which the Vuelta began
No. Name Nationality Team Age Position
1 Valerio Conti   Italy Lampre–Merida 21 112
2 Winner Anacona   Colombia Lampre–Merida 26 27
3 Damiano Cunego   Italy Lampre–Merida 32 76
4 Elia Favilli   Italy Lampre–Merida 25 109
5 Roberto Ferrari   Italy Lampre–Merida 31 145
6 Przemysław Niemiec   Poland Lampre–Merida 34 26
7 Filippo Pozzato   Italy Lampre–Merida 32 DNS-20[4]
8 Maximiliano Richeze   Argentina Lampre–Merida 31 138
9 José Serpa   Colombia Lampre–Merida 35 93
11 Hubert Dupont   France Ag2r–La Mondiale 33 54
12 Carlos Betancur   Colombia Ag2r–La Mondiale 24 158
13 Maxime Bouet   France Ag2r–La Mondiale 27 DNF-11[5]
14 Damien Gaudin   France Ag2r–La Mondiale 28 132
15 Patrick Gretsch   Germany Ag2r–La Mondiale 27 126
16 Yauheni Hutarovich   Belarus Ag2r–La Mondiale 30 134
17 Lloyd Mondory   France Ag2r–La Mondiale 32 DNF-15[6]
18 Rinaldo Nocentini   Italy Ag2r–La Mondiale 36 96
19 Sébastien Turgot   France Ag2r–La Mondiale 30 154
21 Fabio Aru   Italy Astana 24 5
22 Daniil Fominykh   Kazakhstan Astana 22 DNF-20[4]
23 Andrea Guardini   Italy Astana 25 159
24 Jacopo Guarnieri   Italy Astana 27 150
25 Tanel Kangert   Estonia Astana 27 DNF-17[7]
26 Mikel Landa   Spain Astana 24 28
27 Alexey Lutsenko   Kazakhstan Astana 21 100
28 Paolo Tiralongo   Italy Astana 37 33
29 Andrey Zeits   Kazakhstan Astana 27 50
31 Wilco Kelderman   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 23 14
32 Stef Clement   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 31 69
33 Laurens ten Dam   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 33 44
34 Robert Gesink   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 28 DNS-18[8]
35 Moreno Hofland   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 22 DNF-9[9]
36 Paul Martens   Germany Belkin Pro Cycling 30 58
37 Martijn Keizer   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 26 80
38 Maarten Tjallingii   Netherlands Belkin Pro Cycling 36 137
39 Robert Wagner   Germany Belkin Pro Cycling 31 151
41 Samuel Sánchez   Spain BMC Racing Team 36 6
42 Rohan Dennis   Australia BMC Racing Team 24 84
43 Cadel Evans   Australia BMC Racing Team 37 52
44 Philippe Gilbert   Belgium BMC Racing Team 32 45
45 Steve Morabito    Switzerland BMC Racing Team 31 DNF-11[5]
46 Dominik Nerz   Germany BMC Racing Team 24 18
47 Manuel Quinziato   Italy BMC Racing Team 34 68
48 Larry Warbasse   United States BMC Racing Team 24 74
49 Danilo Wyss    Switzerland BMC Racing Team 28 36
51   Luis León Sánchez   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 30 56
52 Javier Aramendia   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 27 98
53 David Arroyo   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 34 20
54 Pello Bilbao   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 24 60
55 Karol Domagalski   Poland Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 24 124
56 Francesco Lasca   Italy Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 26 156
57 Lluís Mas   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 25 121
58 Antonio Piedra   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 29 99
59 Amets Txurruka   Spain Caja Rural–Seguros RGA 31 48
61 Peter Sagan   Slovakia Cannondale 24 DNF-14[10]
62 George Bennett   New Zealand Cannondale 24 89
63 Maciej Bodnar   Poland Cannondale 29 122
64 Guillaume Boivin   Canada Cannondale 25 149
65 Damiano Caruso   Italy Cannondale 26 9
66 Alessandro De Marchi   Italy Cannondale 28 67
67 Oscar Gatto   Italy Cannondale 29 DNF-16[11]
68 Matthias Krizek   Austria Cannondale 25 125
69 Paolo Longo Borghini   Italy Cannondale 33 101
71 Daniel Navarro   Spain Cofidis 31 10
72 Jérôme Coppel   France Cofidis 28 31
73 Romain Hardy   France Cofidis 25 64
74 Gert Jõeäär   Estonia Cofidis 27 152
75 Christophe Le Mével   France Cofidis 33 22
76 Guillaume Levarlet   France Cofidis 29 49
77 Luis Ángel Maté   Spain Cofidis 30 19
78 Yoann Bagot   France Cofidis 26 119
79 Romain Zingle   Belgium Cofidis 27 83
81 Romain Sicard   France Team Europcar 26 13
82 Natnael Berhane   Eritrea Team Europcar 23 148
83 Jérôme Cousin   France Team Europcar 25 78
84 Dan Craven   Namibia Team Europcar 31 140
85 Jimmy Engoulvent   France Team Europcar 34 157
86 Vincent Jérôme   France Team Europcar 29 91
87 Yannick Martinez   France Team Europcar 26 81
88 Maxime Méderel   France Team Europcar 33 35
89 Bryan Nauleau   France Team Europcar 26 DNF-7[12]
91 Nacer Bouhanni   France FDJ.fr 24 DNF-14[10]
92 Kenny Elissonde   France FDJ.fr 23 DNF-13[13]
93 Murilo Fischer   Brazil FDJ.fr 35 DNF-13[14]
94 Johan Le Bon   France FDJ.fr 23 79
95 Laurent Mangel   France FDJ.fr 33 153
96 Cédric Pineau   France FDJ.fr 29 77
97 Thibaut Pinot   France FDJ.fr 24 DNF-11[5]
98 Anthony Roux   France FDJ.fr 27 DNF-15[15]
99 Geoffrey Soupe   France FDJ.fr 26 94
101 Ryder Hesjedal   Canada Garmin–Sharp 33 24
102 Dan Martin   Ireland Garmin–Sharp 28 7
103 Koldo Fernández   Spain Garmin–Sharp 32 86
104 Nathan Haas   Australia Garmin–Sharp 25 143
105 Nate Brown   United States Garmin–Sharp 23 85
106 André Cardoso   Portugal Garmin–Sharp 29 25
107 David Millar   Great Britain Garmin–Sharp 37 144
108 Andrew Talansky   United States Garmin–Sharp 25 51
109 Johan Vansummeren   Belgium Garmin–Sharp 33 118
111 Warren Barguil   France Giant–Shimano 22 8
112 Nikias Arndt   Germany Giant–Shimano 22 102
113 Lawson Craddock   United States Giant–Shimano 22 DNF-14[16]
114 Koen de Kort   Netherlands Giant–Shimano 31 DNF-18[17]
115   John Degenkolb   Germany Giant–Shimano 25 116
116 Johannes Fröhlinger   Germany Giant–Shimano 29 97
117 Chad Haga   United States Giant–Shimano 25 73
118 Tobias Ludvigsson   Sweden Giant–Shimano 23 62
119 Ramon Sinkeldam   Netherlands Giant–Shimano 25 136
121 Marcel Aregger    Switzerland IAM Cycling 25 117
122 Jonathan Fumeaux    Switzerland IAM Cycling 26 142
123 Sébastien Hinault   France IAM Cycling 40 106
124 Dominic Klemme   Germany IAM Cycling 27 DNF-14[16]
125 Pirmin Lang    Switzerland IAM Cycling 29 146
126 Matteo Pelucchi   Italy IAM Cycling 25 DNF-15[15]
127 Vicente Reynés   Spain IAM Cycling 33 61
128 Aleksejs Saramotins   Latvia IAM Cycling 32 DNF-7[12]
129 Johann Tschopp    Switzerland IAM Cycling 32 DNS-14[18]
131 Joaquim Rodríguez   Spain Team Katusha 35 4
132 Giampaolo Caruso   Italy Team Katusha 34 15
133 Sergey Chernetskiy   Russia Team Katusha 24 113
134 Alexandr Kolobnev   Russia Team Katusha 33 40
135 Dmitry Kozonchuk   Russia Team Katusha 30 95
136 Alberto Losada   Spain Team Katusha 32 42
137 Daniel Moreno   Spain Team Katusha 32 11
138 Yuri Trofimov   Russia Team Katusha 30 72
139 Eduard Vorganov   Russia Team Katusha 31 46
141 Jurgen Van den Broeck   Belgium Lotto–Belisol 31 DNF-13[14]
142 Sander Armée   Belgium Lotto–Belisol 28 103
143 Vegard Breen   Norway Lotto–Belisol 24 129
144 Bart De Clercq   Belgium Lotto–Belisol 27 34
145 Jens Debusschere   Belgium Lotto–Belisol 24 107
146 Adam Hansen   Australia Lotto–Belisol 33 53
147 Greg Henderson   New Zealand Lotto–Belisol 37 133
148 Pim Ligthart   Netherlands Lotto–Belisol 26 127
149 Maxime Monfort   Belgium Lotto–Belisol 31 16
151 Alejandro Valverde   Spain Movistar Team 34 3
152 Andrey Amador   Costa Rica Movistar Team 27 30
153 Jonathan Castroviejo   Spain Movistar Team 27 65
154 Imanol Erviti   Spain Movistar Team 30 63
155 José Herrada   Spain Movistar Team 28 32
156 Gorka Izagirre   Spain Movistar Team 26 37
157 Adriano Malori   Italy Movistar Team 26 114
158 Javier Moreno   Spain Movistar Team 30 90
159 Nairo Quintana   Colombia Movistar Team 24 DNF-11[5]
161 Sergio Pardilla   Spain MTN–Qhubeka 30 17
162 Gerald Ciolek   Germany MTN–Qhubeka 27 139
163 Merhawi Kudus   Eritrea MTN–Qhubeka 20 92
164 Louis Meintjes   South Africa MTN–Qhubeka 22 55
165 Kristian Sbaragli   Italy MTN–Qhubeka 24 104
166 Daniel Teklehaymanot   Eritrea MTN–Qhubeka 25 47
167 Jay Thomson   South Africa MTN–Qhubeka 28 155
168 Jaco Venter   South Africa MTN–Qhubeka 27 123
169 Jacques Janse van Rensburg   South Africa MTN–Qhubeka 26 59
171 Tom Boonen   Belgium Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 33 DNS-18[19]
172 Gianluca Brambilla   Italy Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 27 DSQ-16[20]
173 Nikolas Maes   Belgium Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 28 111
174 Tony Martin   Germany Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 29 DNF-15[6]
175 Wout Poels   Netherlands Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 26 38
176 Pieter Serry   Belgium Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 25 DNS-20[4]
177 Rigoberto Urán   Colombia Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 27 DNS-17[21]
178 Martin Velits   Slovakia Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 29 130
179 Carlos Verona   Spain Omega Pharma–Quick-Step 21 66
181 Sam Bewley   New Zealand Orica–GreenEDGE 27 135
182 Esteban Chaves   Colombia Orica–GreenEDGE 24 41
183 Simon Clarke   Australia Orica–GreenEDGE 28 70
184 Mitchell Docker   Australia Orica–GreenEDGE 27 147
185 Brett Lancaster   Australia Orica–GreenEDGE 34 DNF-13[14]
186 Michael Matthews   Australia Orica–GreenEDGE 23 75
187 Cameron Meyer   Australia Orica–GreenEDGE 26 DNS-18[22]
188 Ivan Santaromita   Italy Orica–GreenEDGE 30 DNF-7[23]
189 Adam Yates   Great Britain Orica–GreenEDGE 22 82
191 Chris Froome   Great Britain Team Sky 29 2
192 Dario Cataldo   Italy Team Sky 29 DNS-20[24]
193 Philip Deignan   Ireland Team Sky 30 39
194 Peter Kennaugh   Great Britain Team Sky 25 71
195 Vasil Kiryienka   Belarus Team Sky 33 110
196 Christian Knees   Germany Team Sky 33 DNS-17[25]
197 Mikel Nieve   Spain Team Sky 30 12
198 Luke Rowe   Great Britain Team Sky 24 141
199 Kanstantsin Sivtsov   Belarus Team Sky 32 43
201    Alberto Contador   Spain Tinkoff–Saxo 31 1
202 Michael Valgren   Denmark Tinkoff–Saxo 22 128
203 Daniele Bennati   Italy Tinkoff–Saxo 33 108
204 Jesús Hernández   Spain Tinkoff–Saxo 32 21
205 Sérgio Paulinho   Portugal Tinkoff–Saxo 34 57
206 Ivan Rovny   Russia Tinkoff–Saxo 26 DSQ-16[20]
207 Chris Anker Sørensen   Denmark Tinkoff–Saxo 29 29
208 Matteo Tosatto   Italy Tinkoff–Saxo 40 120
209 Oliver Zaugg    Switzerland Tinkoff–Saxo 33 23
211 Fabian Cancellara    Switzerland Trek Factory Racing 33 DNS-18[26]
212 Julián Arredondo   Colombia Trek Factory Racing 26 DNF-15[15]
213 Fabio Felline   Italy Trek Factory Racing 24 105
214 Bob Jungels   Luxembourg Trek Factory Racing 21 DNS-19[27]
215 Yaroslav Popovych   Ukraine Trek Factory Racing 34 115
216 Jesse Sergent   New Zealand Trek Factory Racing 26 131
217 Jasper Stuyven   Belgium Trek Factory Racing 22 88
218 Kristof Vandewalle   Belgium Trek Factory Racing 29 87
219 Haimar Zubeldia   Spain Trek Factory Racing 37 DNS-17[28]

By nationality edit

The 198 riders that competed in the 2014 Vuelta a España represented 34 different countries.

Country No. of riders Finishers Stage wins
  Argentina 1 1
  Australia 9 7 2 (Adam Hansen, Michael Matthews)
  Austria 1 1
  Belarus 3 3
  Belgium 13 10
  Brazil 1 0
  Canada 2 2 1 (Ryder Hesjedal)
  Colombia 7 4 1 (Winner Anacona)
  Costa Rica 1 1
  Denmark 2 2
  Eritrea 3 3
  Estonia 2 1
  France 27 20 2 (Nacer Bouhanni x2)
  Germany 11 8 5 (John Degenkolb x4, Tony Martin)
  Great Britain 5 5
  Ireland 2 2
  Italy 26 20 4 (Fabio Aru x2, Alessandro De Marchi, Adriano Malori)
  Kazakhstan 3 2
  Latvia 1 0
  Luxembourg 1 0
  Namibia 1 1
  Netherlands 11 8
  New Zealand 4 4
  Norway 1 1
  Poland 3 3 1 (Przemysław Niemiec)
  Portugal 2 2
  Russia 6 5
  Slovakia 2 1
  South Africa 4 4
  Spain 28 27 4 (Alberto Contador x2, Daniel Navarro, Alejandro Valverde)
  Sweden 1 1
   Switzerland 8 5
  Ukraine 1 1
  United States 5 4
Total 198 159

References edit

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