Movistar Team heads the list of 25 teams, 9 of them in the UCI World Tour category, 9 UCI Pro Team and 7 Continental, which will participate in the XXXI edition of the Garden Hotels-Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca scheduled between January 26 and 30 . The team led by Eusebio Unzué and whose references are the Mallorcan Enric Mas and the Murcian Alejandro Valverde, is the only Spanish representative of the highest category of world cycling.
Mas is expected to lead the telephone squad in the Grand Tours and Valverde, cAt 42 years old, he retired in 2022, ending a successful career path. Along with the Movistar Team will compete: AE Team Emirates (United Arab Emirates), Bora-Hansgrohe (Germany), AG 2R CitroenI Team (France), Israel Start-Up Nation (Israel), Lotto Soudal (Belgium), Team Bike Exchange Jayco ( Australia), Cofidis (France) and Intermarché Wanty Gobert Materiaux (Belgium).
Registered in the UCI Pro Teams category are: Caja Rural Seguros RGA (Spain), Euskaltel Euskadi (Spain), Kern PharmaERN (Spain), Eolo Kometa (Spain), Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè (Italy), Team Arkèa Samsic (France) , Burgos BH (Spain), Sport Vlaanderen Baloise (Belgium) and Drone Hopper Androni Giocattoli (Italy). Enrollment in the Continental category is completed by: Beat Cycling (Holland), Minerva Cycling (Belgium), Manuela Fundación (Spain), Electro Hiper Europa (Colombia), Global 6 Cycling (New Zealand), Work Service Vitalcare Vega (Italy) and Java Atlantic Kiwi (Venezuela).
The organizers of the Challenge Mallorca They have scheduled a 780-kilometer route divided into five trophies that will begin on January 26 in Calviá and end four days later in Palma. The trophies in contention will be those of Calviá (150 kms.); Alcudia (160); Serra Tramuntana (150); Pollença (160) and Playa de Palma (160).