The organisers of the Tour de Yorkshire have announced the second edition of three-day race will feature 18 teams, including the team of inaugural winner Lars Petter Nordhaug, Team Sky. Seven WorldTour teams in total will line up in Beverly for stage 1 on April 29 with Orica-GreenEdge and Katusha both debutants for 2016 as Giant-Alpecin, LottoNL-Jumbo, BMC, and Sky return, while Dimension Data is back under a WorldTour license after racing in 2015 as MTN-Qhubeka.
There will be strong British representation at the race with six British Continental teams, including Team WIGGINS, a national Great Britain team and the country's first Pro-Continental team, ONE Pro Cycling joining Sky on the start list
Along with the WorldTour and Continental teams, two French Pro-Continental squads, Cofidis Solutions Crédits and Direct Energie, return to the race in 2016 while Belgium and the Netherlands both have one team for the team, Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise and Roompot-Oranje Peloton respectively.
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There is no announcement on which riders will be taking to the start line although the likes of Bradley Wiggins (WIGGINS) are expected to pin on a race number.
Nordhaug's overall win last year was set up with victory on the challenging stage 1 to Scarborough, with LottoNL-Jumbo's Moreno Hofland winning stage 2 and Ben Hermans (BMC) claiming a solo win on stage 3.
Following stage 1 from Beverly to Settle, stage 2 takes the peloton from Otley to Doncaster over 135.5km, with a 196km stage 3 from Middlesbrough to Scarborough concluding the 2016 Tour de Yorkshire. A women's race will be be held on April 30 on the same route as the men's stage 2.
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