List of teams and cyclists in the 2011 Giro d'Italia
No Rider Nationality Team Age Pos
1 Stefano Garzelli Italy Acqua & Sapone 37 26
2 Massimo Codol Italy Acqua & Sapone 38 32
3 Claudio Corioni Italy Acqua & Sapone 28 150
4 Carlos Betancur Colombia Acqua & Sapone 21 59
5 Ruggero Marzoli Italy Acqua & Sapone 35 118
6 Vladimir Miholjević Croatia Acqua & Sapone 37 31
7 Danilo Napolitano Italy Acqua & Sapone 30 DNF-11
8 Cayetano Sarmiento Colombia Acqua & Sapone 24 33
9 Fabio Taborre Italy Acqua & Sapone 25 98
11 Rinaldo Nocentini Italy Ag2r-La Mondiale 33 70
12 Julien Bérard France Ag2r-La Mondiale 23 132
13 Mickaël Cherel France Ag2r-La Mondiale 25 62
14 Cyril Dessel France Ag2r-La Mondiale 36 99
15 Hubert Dupont France Ag2r-La Mondiale 30 12
16 John Gadret France Ag2r-La Mondiale 32 4
17 Ben Gastauer Luxembourg Ag2r-La Mondiale 23 88
18 Yuriy Krivtsov France Ag2r-La Mondiale 32 119
19 Matteo Montaguti Italy Ag2r-La Mondiale 27 77
21 José Serpa Colombia Androni Giocattoli 32 52
22 Emanuele Sella Italy Androni Giocattoli 30 35
By rider
All 18 UCI ProTeams are invited automatically and obligated to attend, with nine cyclists per team. Two UCI Professional Continental were announced well ahead of time, Androni Giocattoli and Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli. UCI rules normally limit races to a peloton of 200 riders, but the Giro received special dispensation for a 207-rider peloton, allowing a 23rd team. The three additional invited teams are Acqua & Sapone, Colnago-CSF Inox, and Geox-TMC. Despite talk that ProTeam Vacansoleil-DCM might be excluded to the doping scandals involving team members Riccardo Riccò and Ezequiel Mosquera, they were included pursuant to UCI rules. The cyclists wore numbers from 1 to 229; the first team had numbers 1 to 9, the second team 11 to 19, etc. The exception to this rule was the Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli, who wore numbers 150 to 158 instead of 151 to 159, thus giving Italian champion Giovanni Visconti the number 150, as in 2011 it is 150 years after Italy was unified in the Kingdom of Italy.