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Lotto Soudal announces line-up for 2016 Vuelta a Espana

It’s nearly time for the third and last Grand Tour of the season. On Saturday August 20th the 71st edition of the Vuelta a España begins with a team time trial. Sports directors Mario Aerts and Marc Wauters will lead Lotto Soudal to Madrid, where the race ends on Sunday 11 September.

This is the line-up of Lotto Soudal: Sander Armée, Bart De Clercq, Thomas De Gendt, Gert Dockx, Adam Hansen, Maxime Monfort, Tosh Van der Sande, Louis Vervaeke and Jelle Wallays.

For 27-year-old Jelle Wallays this will be his Grand Tour début. For Louis Vervaeke (22) last year’s Giro was his first Grand Tour ever, this season he can race the Vuelta for the first time. For Gert Dockx (28) this will be his second Vuelta. It’s the fifth Grand Tour of his career.Tosh Van der Sande (25) rode his second Vuelta in 2015. He claimed five individual top ten places. Sander Armée (30) is about to start his fourth Grand Tour, he already rode the Vuelta in 2014.

The four other riders have more experience with this Spanish race. After an excellent Tour, Thomas DeGendt (29) will now take part in his fourth ever Vuelta. Bart De Clercq, who turns 30 in the first week, will race the Vuelta for the fifth time. He got seventeenth overall in 2012 and fourteenth last year. 

Adam Hansen (35) will start his sixteenth consecutive Grand Tour since the Vuelta 2011. Maxime Monfort(33) has also ridden a lot of Grand Tours in his career. During his five previous Vuelta participations he finished four times on top twenty of GC.

Lotto Soudal announces line-up for 2016 Vuelta a Espana