2 new teams have confirmed their entry for the May 22nd start of An Post Rás.

The France Amical Vélo Club Aix-en-Provence and Germany Stradalli - Bike Aid have joined teams from Australia, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and the USA. The line-ups from both teams will raise the quality of racing even higher.
 The eight day event is Ireland’s toughest and most prestigious cycling race on the calendar.
France Amical Vélo Club Aix-en-Provence will include: Florent Castellarnau, Grégoire Tarride, Matthieu Converset, Alexis Dulin and Loïck Lebouvier. It is a team loaded with talent including Castellarnau who recently won Monaco – La Turbie. Tarride has picked up stages wins in the Vuelta Madrid and the Tour d’Alsace as well. Dulin has the most number of wins including the Trophée Roger Walkowiak, Circuit de la Drôme and Boucles du Haut-Var.
The Germany Stradalli - Bike Aid team, has been working towards the noble goal of developing young African cyclists. To date, they have raised over €200,000 in donations for social projects which support numerous young athletes.
The team for An Post Rás will include the Rwandans Jean Bosco Nsengimana and Janvier Hadi, as well as the Germans Nikodemus Holler, Timo Schäfer and Joschka Beck, all of whom have had great success to start the season.

Nsengimana took three stages plus the overall in last year’s Tour du Rwanda won a stage in the Tour du Cameroun this season. Hadi won the All African Games Road Race in 2015 while Niko Holler was second in the 2012 German championships. This year he also picked up fifth on a stage of the 2.1 ranked La Tropicale Amissa Bongo.
The An Post Rás will total 1240 kilometres and include 25 climbs. The race will roll out from Dublin Castle on Sunday May 22nd, with the venue chosen to mark the 2016 Easter Rising commemorations.
The world-ranked event will feature stage finishes in Multyfarnham, Charleville, Dingle, Sneem, Clonakilty, Dungarvan, Baltinglass and Skerries.