The Giro dell’Emilia is one of the most prestigious races in pro cycling and it often sees many of the world’s best climbers and puncheurs battle in the streets of Bologna for a victory in one of the Italian Autumn classics. We take a look at it’s startlist. The race that is set to take place on the 4th of October, having an estimated start time at 10:25CET and finishing at 14:55CET.

The race has a lot of history and is certainly one for the climbers taking into consideration recent history. On paper, the short and sharp climbs favour the puncheurs, but nowadays most climbers do these sorts of ascents better than the classics specialists.

One of the most important races of the fall, it is a host to many World Tour teams, although Israel – Premier Tech will not be present due to the threats of protests in the city. Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, INEOS Grenadiers, Bahrain – Victorious, Lidl-Trek, Team Jayco AlUla, Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe, XDS Astana Team, EF Education-EasyPost, Team Picnic PostNL, Team Visma | Lease a Bike, Soudal – Quick-Step, UAE Team Emirates – XRG, Groupama – FDJ, Cofidis and Movistar Team are all present, making this virtually a World Tour event with almost all teams present.


Primoz Roglic and Isaac del Toro come in as the race headliners and will be amongst the main favourites. Ben Healy and Tom Pidcock, as puncheurs, can also win this year in the absence of Pogacar. Due to the clash with the European Championships, we do not have any of the main climbers such as Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard or Remco Evenepoel present. However we will also have big figures such as Egan Bernal, Lenny Martínez, Giulio Ciccone, Jai Hindley, Mikel Landa, Oscar Onley, Richard Carapaz, Jay Vine and Adam Yates present in what should be a tighter race than last year where Tadej Pogacar won with ease.
Download the startlist in A4!Startlist Giro dell’Emilia 2025

Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale

Bisiaux, Léo
Godon, Dorian
Isidore, Noa
Labrosse, Jordan
Lafay, Victor
Lapeira, Paul

INEOS Grenadiers

Arensman, Thymen
August, AJ
Bernal, Egan
Fraile, Omar
Hamilton, Lucas
Puccio, Salvatore
Rivera, Brandon

Tudor Pro Cycling Team

Alaphilippe, Julian
Eriksson, Lucas
Rondel, Mathys
Storer, Michael
Warbasse, Larry
Wilksch, Hannes
Wirtgen, Luc

Team Polti VisitMalta

Crescioli, Ludovico
Meredith, Charlie
Pietrobon, Andrea
Piganzoli, Davide
Sevilla, Diego Pablo
Zoccarato, Samuele

Bahrain Victorious

Bilbao, Pello
Buratti, Nicolò
Haig, Jack
Martinez, Lenny
Tiberi, Antonio

Uno-X Mobility

Træen, Torstein
Hoelgaard, Markus
Holter, Ådne
Hvideberg, Jonas
Johannessen, Tobias
Kulset, Johannes
Leknessund, Andreas
Løland, Sakarias Koller

Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

Azparren, Xabier Mikel
Badilatti, Matteo
Bax, Sjoerd
Brambilla, Gianluca
Calzoni, Walter
Camprubí, Marcel

Lidl – Trek

Pidcock, Tom
Bagioli, Andrea
Ciccone, Giulio
Geoghegan Hart, Tao
Konrad, Patrick
Lopez, Juan Pedro
Oomen, Sam
Withen Philipsen, Albert

Team Jayco AlUla

Conca, Filippo
De Marchi, Alessandro
Double, Paul
Dunbar, Eddie
Harper, Chris
O’Connor, Ben
Plapp, Luke

Burgos Burpellet BH

Chumil, Sergio
De La Calle, Hugo
Fagúndez, Eric
Fernández, Sinuhé
García, Carlos
Kudus, Merhawi
Okamika, Ander

Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe

Aleotti, Giovanni
Hindley, Jai
Moscon, Gianni
Roglič, Primož
Sobrero, Matteo
Vlasov, Aleksandr

XDS Astana Team

Basset, Pierre-Henry
Fortunato, Lorenzo
Higuita, Sergio
Kajamini, Florian
Masnada, Fausto
Velasco, Simone
Wang, Gustav

EF Education – EasyPost

Battistella, Samuele
Carapaz, Richard
Healy, Ben
Honoré, Mikkel
Powless, Neilson
Rafferty, Darren
Shaw, James

Team Picnic PostNL

Barguil, Warren
Broek, Frank van den
Koerdt, Bjoern
Leijnse, Enzo
Onley, Oscar
Vanhuffel, Matteo

Team Visma – Lease a Bike

Gloag, Thomas
Graat, Tijmen
Kruijswijk, Steven
Lemmen, Bart
Nordhagen, Jørgen
Tulett, Ben
Uijtdebroeks, Cian

Soudal – Quick-Step

Cattaneo, Mattia
Hayter, Ethan
Knox, James
Landa, Mikel
Serry, Pieter

UAE Team Emirates XRG

Del Toro, Isaac
Majka, Rafał
Oliveira, Ivo
Vine, Jay
Yates, Adam

Groupama – FDJ

Braz Afonso, Clément
Gaudu, David
Geniets, Kévin
Germani, Lorenzo
Pacher, Quentin
Paleni, Enzo
Rochas, Rémy

VF Group – Bardiani CSF – Faizanè

Marcellusi, Martin
Martinelli, Alessio
Paletti, Luca
Pinarello, Alessandro
Rojas, Vicente
Scalco, Matteo
Turconi, Filippo

Cofidis

Buchmann, Emanuel
Carr, Simon
Lastra, Jonathan
Meehan, Jamie
Moniquet, Sylvain
Samitier, Sergio
Teuns, Dylan

Movistar Team

Barta, Will
Formolo, Davide
Guerreiro, Ruben
Pescador, Diego
Quintana, Nairo
Romo, Javier
Rubio, Einer

Solution Tech – Vini Fantini

Baldaccini, Davide
Balmer, Alexandre
Conti, Valerio
Fabbro, Matteo
Piras, Andrea
Rolando, Joann
Samudio, Carlos