The Volta a Catalunya has already identified the teams for the 2023 edition

The Volta Ciclista and Catalunya It has already identified all the participating teams in its 102nd edition, which will take place between the next 20 and 26 March and will once again bring the best spectacle in world cycling to the Catalan roads.

As always, the test UCI World Tour will enjoy the presence of the 18 best cycling teams in the world, the UCI WordTeam, which has mandatory participation in all events of the highest category in the world. A participation that increases to seven teams UCI ProTeam that the race organization has invited and that will participate in the 2023 edition, which will be launched in Sant Feliu de Guíxols to finish in Barcelona after seven exciting stages full of attractions.

As a team that ensures its presence as one of the two best UCI ProTeams in the world ranking, there will be Lotto Dstny, the team of one of the great symbols of world cycling and of the Volta in particular in the last decade, such as thomas degendt, stage winner in five different editions of the Catalan race (2013, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021). The Belgian team also has the Danish Andreas Kron, the first leader of the Volta 2021.

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For his part, a man known for his career as a UCI WorldTeam will also participate in the Volta, Israel-Premier Techa group of old acquaintances from the Catalan race such as Chris Froomea four-time winner of the Tour de France who has accumulated eight participations in the Volta, the Canadian Michael Woods6th in the 2019 edition, or the South African Daryl Impeystage winner in the 2017 edition.

At your invitation, the team Burgos-BH He will experience his fourth participation in the Volta after the 2018, 2019 and 2022 editions. The man from Navarre will also repeat his presence in the race. Caja Rural-Seguros RGAthe Spanish team with the longest history as a UCI ProTeam, with more than a consecutive decade in the elite, whose 2023 team includes the Catalan Abel Balderstone, Joel Nicolau and Eduard Prades.

The Kern Pharma Team He will enjoy his third presence in a race in which he has already taken part in its last two editions. The young structure of Navarra continues to be the professional team with the most Catalan cyclists in its team, including Roger Adrià, Kiko Galván, Álex Jaime, Jordi López, Martí Márquez and Pau Miquel. This will also be the third consecutive year at the Volta for the team Euskaltel-Euskadiwhich has not failed to quote since the historical structure of Euskadi Foundation regained international status.

Finally, it will repeat its presence after it participated in the last edition in One-X Pro Cycling Team. The Norwegian team, which made its debut in UCI World Tour stage races at the last Volta a Catalunya, established itself as one of the great teams of the world elite, as it showed at the last Volta with two cyclists (Tobias Johannessen and Torstein Træen) finishing in the top ten of the general classification.

So, between next March 20 and 26, the best cyclists in the world will once again compete on Catalan roads in the 102nd edition of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, which remains consolidated as an unmissable event on the international cycling calendar. The 25 participating teams will seek to take over from Colombian Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe), the last winner in the centennial history of the third oldest stage race in the world afterThe Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia.