Sprinters

[Tuarts]

Always a good topic of conversation is who is the sprinter(s) on teams.

Last night (it was too hot for sleep ) I tried to name all the sprinters I could from the WorldTour teams so I thought I'd listen them and get everyones help filling in those I missed, especially Euskatel and some of the French/Italian teams. Tried also to include those who are can be sprinters but even though may not have sprinted in awhile, are still used in leadouts (L). Will also add the ProConti teams to be filled later:

World Tour


AG2R LA MONDIALE
Jimmy Casper
Manuel Belletti
Sebastian Hinault
Lloyd Mondory
Anthony Ravard

ASTANA PRO TEAM
Borut Bozic
Enrico Gasparotto
Jacopo Guarnieri

BMC RACING TEAM
Thor Hushovd
Greg Van Avermaet
Adam Blythe
Taylor Phinney

EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI
Pablo Urtasun
Ruben Perez

FDJ-BIG MAT
Yauheni Hutarovich
Arnaud Demare
William Bonnet
Nacer Bouhanni

GARMIN-CERVELO
Tyler Farrar
Koldo Fernandez
Heinrich Haussler
Murilo Fischer (L)
Robert Hunter

GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM
Matt Goss
Allan Davis
Leigh Howard
Wes Sulzberger
Aidis Kroupis
Robbie McEwen
Tomas Vaitkus
Baden Cooke (L)
Julian Dean (L)
Brett Lancaster (L)
Stuart O'Grady (L)


KATUSHA TEAM
Oscar Freire
Alexander Kristoff
Dennis Galimzyanov
Alexey Tsatevitch

LAMPRE - ISD
Grega Bole
Danilo Hondo
Alessandro Petacchi

LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE
Daniel Oss
Elia Vivani
Fabio Sabatini

LOTTO BELISOL TEAM
Andre Greipel
Greg Henderson
Vincente Reynes
Jurgen Roelandts (L)
Adam Hansen (L)

MOVISTAR TEAM
Jose Rojas
Francisco Ventoso

OMEGA PHARMA-QUICKSTEP
Francesco Chicchi
Tom Boonen
Gerald Ciolek
Gert Steegmans

RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM
Theo Bos
Mark Renshaw
Michael Matthews
Coen Vermelfoort
Graeme Brown (L)
Tom Leezer (L)

RADIOSHACK-NISSAN
Daniele Bennati
Robert Wagner
Hayden Roulston (L)

SKY PROCYCLING
Davide Appollonio
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Mark Cavendish
Ben Swift
Geraint Thomas (L)
Chris Sutton
Luke Rowe

TEAM SAXO BANK
Jonathon Cantwell
JJ Haedo
Sebastian Haedo

VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM
Romain Feillu
Kenny Van Hummel
Barry Markus

Professional Continental

ACCENT JOBS - WILLEMS VERANDA'S
Stefan Van Dijk

LANDBOUWKREDIET
Bobbie Traksel

TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR
Sven Vandousselaere
Michael van Stayen

SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10
Guillaume Boivin
Keven Lacombe

CHAMPION SYSTEM PRO CYCLING TEAM
Aaron Kemps
Jaan Kirsipuu
Anuar Manan

COLOMBIA - COLDEPORTES
Juan Pablo Forero

ANDALUCIA
Juan José Lobato

CAJA RURAL
Manuel Cardoso
Aitor Galdos

BRETAGNE - SCHULLER
Guillaume Blot
Jean-Luc Delpech

COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE
Samuel Dumoulin
Leonardo Duque
Adrien Pétit

SAUR - SOJASUN
Stéphane Poulhies

TEAM EUROPCAR
Yohann Gène
Sébastien Turgot
Said Haddou
Angelo Tulik
Matteo Pelucchi

FARNESE VINI - SELLE ITALIA
Andrea Guardini
Pippo Pozzato?

TEAM NETAPP
Grischa Janorschke
Daniel Schorn
André Schulze

COLNAGO - CSF INOX
Sonny Colbrelli
Cristian delle Stelle
Sacha Modolo

UTENSILNORD NAMED
Marco Zanotti

ACQUA & SAPONE
Danilo Napolitano
Fabio Taborre

ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI
Roberto Ferrari
Francesco Ginanni
Fabio Felline

PROJECT 1T4I
Marcel Kittel
John Degenkolb

RUSVELO

TEAM TYPE 1 - SANOFI
Aldo Ino Ilesic
Jure Kocjan

UNITEDHEALTHCARE PRO CYCLING TEAM
Jake Keough
Robert Förster
Hilton Clarke
Boy Van Poppel

 

[Ferminal]

Missed Huta!

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Vicente Reynes? This guy hasn't won a single sprint in his whole career.

 

[maltiv]

Rui Costa is definitely not a sprinter. Neither is Lars Boom.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I dispute the classing of Roux or Costa as sprinters. Sagan at Liquigas (who has not been mentioned) is more of a sprinter than them.

At Euskaltel, Pablo Urtasun has an OK turn of speed when he needs one, at Movistar Giovanni Visconti is not a sprinter but will certainly involve himself in a few sprints in reduced fields.

 

[TeoSheva]

TSATEVITCH Alexey is missing for Katusha

 

[Kvinto]

Depends on what do you actually mean saying 'sprinter(s)', because it inevitably boils down to the guys who can sprint and your list proves it pretty much (Gasparotto or Van Avermaet or Rui Costa are not sprinters). Talking about Euskaltel pehaps Ruben Perez, but...

 

[maltiv]

I dispute the classing of Roux or Costa as sprinters. Sagan at Liquigas (who has not been mentioned) is more of a sprinter than them.

Looking at Sagan's season in 2011 he could be defined as a sprinter without a problem, almost all his victories are from bunch sprints (mostly reduced ones but some normal) except from two "descending" victories. Although it's not to be forgotten that his sprint victories in the Vuelta was versus very low competition with none of the top sprinters in the world present.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Farnese Vini - Andrea Guardini
Caja Rural - Manuel Cardoso, Aitor Galdos
Androni - Roberto Ferrari, Francesco Ginanni, Fabio Felline
Acqua - Danilo Napolitano

 

[TeoSheva]

Farnese Vini - Andrea Guardini
Caja Rural - Manuel Cardoso, Aitor Galdos
Androni - Roberto Ferrari, Francesco Ginanni, Fabio Felline
Acqua - Danilo Napolitano

and Taborre for Acqua e Sapone too

 

[Lupetto]

Coldeportes: Juan Pablo Forero.

 

[Tuarts]

Well yeah defining a sprinter is a hard one and was primarily the reason why I spent so long and just looking at WT first.

I dispute the classing of Roux or Costa as sprinters. Sagan at Liquigas (who has not been mentioned) is more of a sprinter than them.

At Euskaltel, Pablo Urtasun has an OK turn of speed when he needs one, at Movistar Giovanni Visconti is not a sprinter but will certainly involve himself in a few sprints in reduced fields.

I put Roux and Costa mianly on the back of Circuit de Lorrain results where they topped 2 in what I presume is a sprint against Marcato and Hinault. Happy to remove them though, didn't want to put all the classic riders with a turn of speed but the line is always blurry, Freire/EBH is obvious but I guess if Costa is there Sagan would have to be...

Missed Huta!

Of course :doh:

 

[Squire]

Ravard from AG2R was on fire last year.

FDJ have some you've forgotten. Bonnet, Hutarovich, Bouhanni. I guess you can also call Rollin, Delage and Geslin sprinters in some form or another. Pretty fast team actually, them French boys.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Well yeah defining a sprinter is a hard one and was primarily the reason why I spent so long and just looking at WT first.




I put Roux and Costa mianly on the back of Circuit de Lorrain results where they topped 2 in what I presume is a sprint against Marcato and Hinault. Happy to remove them though, didn't want to put all the classic riders with a turn of speed but the line is always blurry, Freire/EBH is obvious but I guess if Costa is there Sagan would have to be...



Of course :doh:

The Circuit de Lorraine is always full of those tricky finishes and slight uphills though, so while the field they beat was of sprinters, it's a bit like including Gerrans and Valverde because of their performances in Stirling in the TDU (though not quite as extreme an example of that).

And of course Roux's biggest sprint victory was this epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLZxUdo44s

I've had to point out to people on more than one occasion in the past that actually, Greipel wasn't beaten in the sprint by Anthony Roux, but that was a great, great win.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Europcar: Yohann Gène, Sébastien Turgot

 

[CobbleStoner]

funny how the 2nd and 3rd fastest guys in the peloton aren't even on Pro Tour teams this year, Kittel and Ferrari

 

[Tuarts]

Vicente Reynes? This guy hasn't won a single sprint in his whole career.

2nd in the Vuleta stage Sutton won last year and 3rd wheel in Greipel's sprint at the TDU?

Updated with some of the names supplied + UHC.

 

[theyoungest]

RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM
Lars Boom
Theo Bos
Graeme Brown (L)
Mark Renshaw
Michael Matthews

VACANSOLEIL-DCM PRO CYCLING TEAM
Romain Feillu
Marco Marcato
Kenny Van Hummel

Boom and Marcato aren't sprinters. Both of them are sort of quick, although they rarely win a sprint even from a smaller group

For Rabo you could add Vermeltfoort (power sprinter, at least he used to be in U23) and Leezer (leadout guy). Vacansoleil have signed Barry Markus (another power sprinter).

 

[Tuarts]

The Circuit de Lorraine is always full of those tricky finishes and slight uphills though, so while the field they beat was of sprinters, it's a bit like including Gerrans and Valverde because of their performances in Stirling in the TDU (though not quite as extreme an example of that).

And of course Roux's biggest sprint victory was this epic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLZxUdo44s

I've had to point out to people on more than one occasion in the past that actually, Greipel wasn't beaten in the sprint by Anthony Roux, but that was a great, great win.

Ah fair enough, thanks. Looks like a good win too

Ravard from AG2R was on fire last year.

FDJ have some you've forgotten. Bonnet, Hutarovich, Bouhanni. I guess you can also call Rollin, Delage and Geslin sprinters in some form or another. Pretty fast team actually, them French boys.

Not a case of forgotten, more don't know. I like to think I have large knowledge of the peloton but apart from the anglophones and the best it gets tricky knowing everyone.

 

[Tuarts]

Boom and Marcato aren't sprinters. Both of them are sort of quick, although they rarely win a sprint even from a smaller group

For Rabo you could add Vermeltfoort (power sprinter, at least he used to be in U23) and Leezer (leadout guy). Vacansoleil have signed Barry Markus (another power sprinter).

Didn't Boom sprint well at ToB? Seemed to remember Marcato doing well in Tour de Suisse as well from the bunch.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

ACCENT JOBS - WILLEMS VERANDA'S
Stefan van Dijk

LANDBOUWKREDIET
Bobbie Traksel

TOPSPORT VLAANDEREN - MERCATOR
Sven Vandousselaere
Michael van Stayen

SPIDERTECH POWERED BY C10
Guillaume Boivin
Keven Lacombe

CHAMPION SYSTEM PRO CYCLING TEAM
Aaron Kemps
Jaan Kirsipuu
Anuar Manan

ANDALUCIA
Juan José Lobato

BRETAGNE - SCHULLER
Guillaume Blot
Jean-Luc Delpech

COFIDIS, LE CREDIT EN LIGNE
Samuel Dumoulin
Leonardo Duque
Adrien Pétit

SAUR - SOJASUN
Stéphane Poulhies

TEAM EUROPCAR
Sébastien Chavanel
Yohann Gène
Said Haddou
Angelo Tulik

TEAM NETAPP
Grischa Janorschke
Daniel Schorn
André Schulze

COLNAGO - CSF INOX
Sonny Colbrelli
Cristian delle Stelle
Sacha Modolo

UTENSILNORD NAMED
Marco Zanotti

TEAM TYPE 1 - SANOFI
Aldo Ino Ilesic
Jure Kocjan

 

[theyoungest]

Didn't Boom sprint well at ToB? Seemed to remember Marcato doing well in Tour de Suisse as well from the bunch.

Boom can do well in a technical finish, when there's a corner 200 m before the line or something like that. But in a regular sprint against real sprinters he has no chance.

Marcato did a semi-attack there in Suisse, not really a sprint. Remember Paris-Tours? He was virtually standing still.

Vacansoleil also have Ligthart, forgot about him. Not really a great sprinter, but he's faster than Marcato.

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

Marcato? The guy who lost a two-man sprint duel against the gruelling Bert Scheirlinckx?

Marcato is a puncheur, aggressive riding style, good sense for opportunities, always there at the finishs, always in groups, piling up top ten results like other riders pile up simple race days. But in a classic flat-out sprint royale Marcato is nowhere. He's not a sprinter.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Europcar also have Matteo Pelucchi, he's pretty quick.

 

[taiwan]

funny how the 2nd and 3rd fastest guys in the peloton aren't even on Pro Tour teams this year, Kittel and Ferrari

lolwut etc.