THE 11 GIRO D'ITALIA FOREIGN STARTS
1965 San Marino (Giro won by Vittorio Adorni); 1966 Monaco (Gianni Motta); 1973 Verviers – Belgium (Eddy Merckx); 1974 Vatican City (Eddy Merckx); 1996 Athens – Greece (Pavel Tonkov); 1998 Nice – France (Marco Pantani); 2002 Groeningen – Netherlands (Paolo Savoldelli); 2006 Seraing, Liege – Belgium (Ivan Basso); 2010 Amsterdam – Netherlands (Ivan Basso); 2012 Herning – Denmark (Ryder Hesjedal); 2014 Belfast – Northern Ireland (Nairo Quintana).
The 22 teams, each consisting of nine riders:
AG2R LA MONDIALE (FRA) – Pozzovivo, Péraud
ASTANA PRO TEAM (KAZ) – Nibali, Scarponi
BARDIANI CSF (ITA) – Colbrelli, Boem
BMC RACING TEAM (USA) – Atapuma, Oss
CANNONDALE PRO CYCLING TEAM (USA) – Urán, Formolo
ETIXX - QUICK STEP (BEL) – Kittel, Brambilla
FDJ (FRA) – Démare, Fischer
GAZPROM-RUSVELO (RUS) – Firsanov, Kolobnev
IAM CYCLING (SUI) – Haussler, Pelucchi
LAMPRE - MERIDA (ITA) – Ulissi, Modolo
LOTTO SOUDAL (BEL) – Greipel, Wellens
MOVISTAR TEAM (ESP) – Valverde, Visconti
NIPPO - VINI FANTINI (ITA) – Cunego, Bole
ORICA GREENEDGE (AUS) – Chaves, Ewan
TEAM DIMENSION DATA (RSA) – Anton, Sbaragli
TEAM GIANT - ALPECIN (GER) – Dumoulin, De Backer
TEAM KATUSHA (RUS) – Zakarin, Porsev
TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO (NED) – Battaglin, Kruijswijk
TEAM SKY (GBR) – Landa, Viviani
TINKOFF (RUS) – Majka, Tosatto
TREK - SEGAFREDO (USA) – Cancellara, Hesjedal
WILIER TRIESTINA - SOUTHEAST (ITA) – Pozzato, Belletti