All 18 UCI ProTeams are invited automatically and obligated to attend, with nine cyclists per team. Four UCI Professional Continental teams were also invited - , , and .

The cyclists will wear numbers from 1 to 219; the first team is to have numbers 1 to 9, the second team 11 to 19, etc. The exception to this rule will be the team, who will use numbers 100 to 107 and 109. 108 has been withdrawn by the organisers in memory of Wouter Weylandt who was wearing 108 when he suffered a fatal accident in the 2011 race.

By rider Legend No. Starting number worn by the rider during the Giro Pos. Position in the general classification † Denotes riders born on or after 1 January 1987 eligible for the Young rider classification      Denotes the winner of the General classification      Denotes the winner of the Points classification      Denotes the winner of the Mountains classification      Denotes the winner of the Young rider classification (eligibility indicated by †) DNS Denotes a rider who did not start,followed by the stage before which he withdrew DNF Denotes a rider who did not finish,followed by the stage in which he withdrew HD Denotes a rider who failed to finish within the time limit,followed by the stage in which this occurred DSQ Denotes a rider who was disqualified from the race,followed by the stage during which this occurred Age correct as of 5 May 2012, the date on which the Giro began

No. Name Nationality TeamAgePosition 1Michele Scarponi 32 4 2Damiano Cunego 30 6 3Diego Ulissi † 22 21 4Matteo Bono 28 99 5Adriano Malori † 24 68 6Przemysław Niemiec 32 39 7Daniele Pietropolli 31 91 8Daniele Righi 36 101 9Alessandro Spezialetti 37 77 11John Gadret 33 11 12Manuel Belletti 26 DNF-15 13Julien Bérard † 24 110 14Guillaume Bonnafond † 24 90 15Hubert Dupont 31 16 16Ben Gastauer † 24 67 17Gregor Gazvoda 30 134 18Matteo Montaguti 28 81 19Mathieu Perget 27 53 21José Rujano 30 DNF-19 22José Serpa 33 87 23Emanuele Sella 31 45 24Roberto Ferrari 29 147 25Fabio Felline † 22 50 26Alessandro De Marchi 25 98 27Miguel Ángel Rubiano 27 62 28Carlos José Ochoa 31 DNS-18 29Jackson Rodríguez 27 49 31Roman Kreuziger 25 15 32Enrico Gasparotto 30 66 33Paolo Tiralongo 34 23 34Simone Ponzi 25 88 35Alexsandr Dyachenko 28 119 36Andrey Zeits 25 85 37Kevin Seeldraeyers 25 33 38Evgeni Petrov 33 61 39Tanel Kangert † 25 26 41Thor Hushovd 34 DNF-6 42Alessandro Ballan 32 103 43Mathias Frank 25 83 44Taylor Phinney † 21 155 45Marco Pinotti 36 41 46Mauro Santambrogio 27 86 47Ivan Santaromita 28 52 48Johann Tschopp 29 14 49Danilo Wyss 26 82 51Domenico Pozzovivo 29 8 52Sacha Modolo † 24 138 53Enrico Battaglin † 22 74 54Gianluca Brambilla † 24 13 55Stefano Pirazzi † 25 46 56Sonny Colbrelli † 21 100 57Stefano Locatelli † 23 DNS-16 58Angelo Pagani † 23 97 59Marco Coledan † 23 153 61Mikel Nieve 27 10 62Adrián Sáez 26 156 63Jon Izagirre † 23 48 64Miguel Mínguez † 23 157 65Pierre Cazaux 27 123 66Víctor Cabedo † 22 129 67Iván Velasco 32 DSQ-20 68Amets Txurruka 29 42 69Juan José Oroz 31 51 71Filippo Pozzato 30 DNS-10 72Oscar Gatto 27 113 73Francesco Failli 28 58 74 Matteo Rabottini † 24 60 75Andrea Guardini † 22 DSQ-20 76Elia Favilli † 23 DNS-19 77Pierpaolo De Negri 25 120 78Luca Mazzanti 38 116 79Alfredo Balloni† 22 DNS-19 81Sandy Casar 33 25 82Mickaël Delage 26 144 83Arnaud Démare † 20 DNF-14 84William Bonnet 29 DNS-12 85Francis Mourey 31 78 86Geoffrey Soupe † 24 76 87Gabriel Rasch 36 151 88Dominique Rollin 29 DSQ-20 89Jussi Veikkanen 31 146 91Tyler Farrar 27 DNF-6 92Sébastien Rosseler 30 125 93Jack Bauer 27 114 94Ramūnas Navardauskas † 24 137 95 Ryder Hesjedal 31 1 96Robert Hunter 35 DSQ-20 97Alex Rasmussen 27 150 98Peter Stetina † 24 27 99Christian Vande Velde 35 22 100Matthew Goss 25 DNS-14 101Fumiyuki Beppu 29 121 102Jack Bobridge † 22 DNF-20 103Daryl Impey 27 DNS-17 104Jens Keukeleire † 23 127 105Brett Lancaster 32 DNS-14 106Christian Meier 26 135 107Svein Tuft 34 148 109Tomas Vaitkus 30 DNF-17 111 Joaquim Rodríguez 32 2 112Pavel Brutt 30 95 113Mikhail Ignatiev 26 143 114Alexander Kristoff † 24 149 115Aleksandr Kuschynski 32 118 116Alberto Losada 30 54 117Daniel Moreno 30 20 118Gatis Smukulis † 25 84 119Ángel Vicioso 35 69 121Ivan Basso 34 5 122Valerio Agnoli 27 57 123Maciej Bodnar 27 117 124Eros Capecchi 25 37 125Damiano Caruso † 24 24 126Paolo Longo Borghini 31 108 127Cristiano Salerno 27 105 128Sylwester Szmyd 34 28 129Fabio Sabatini 27 79 131Bart De Clercq 25 40 132Brian Bulgac † 24 102 133Francis De Greef 27 19 134Lars Bak 31 72 135Gaetan Bille † 23 DNF-17 136Adam Hansen 30 94 137Olivier Kaisen 29 142 138Gianni Meersman 26 DNF-7 139Dennis Vanendert † 23 133 141Giovanni Visconti 29 DNF-15 142Marzio Bruseghin 37 17 143José Herrada 26 44 144Beñat Intxausti 26 38 145Pablo Lastras 36 DNF-6 146Andrey Amador 25 29 147Sergio Pardilla 28 18 148Branislau Samoilau 26 43 149Francisco Ventoso 29 92 151Dario Cataldo 27 12 152Marco Bandiera 27 140 153Francesco Chicchi 31 DNF-19 154Michał Gołaś 28 93 155Nikolas Maes 26 106 156Serge Pauwels 28 47 157Michał Kwiatkowski † 21 136 158Martin Velits 27 DNS-18 159Julien Vermote † 22 89 161Mark Renshaw 29 DNS-14 162Juan Manuel Gárate 36 59 163Theo Bos 28 DNS-17 164Tom Leezer 26 DNF-11 165Stef Clement 29 71 166Grischa Niermann 36 55 167Tom-Jelte Slagter † 22 30 168Graeme Brown 33 DNF-15 169Dennis van Winden † 24 DNF-8 171Fränk Schleck 32 DNF-15 172Jan Bakelants 26 34 173Daniele Bennati 31 DNS-8 174Ben Hermans 25 73 175Giacomo Nizzolo † 23 130 176Nelson Oliveira † 23 64 177Thomas Rohregger 29 31 178Jesse Sergent † 23 139 179Oliver Zaugg 30 56 181Mark Cavendish 26 145 182Bernhard Eisel 31 152 183Juan Antonio Flecha 34 36 184Sergio Henao † 24 9 185Peter Kennaugh † 22 DNF-17 186Ian Stannard † 24 132 187Jeremy Hunt 38 DNS-15 188Geraint Thomas 25 80 189 Rigoberto Urán † 25 7 191Cesare Benedetti † 24 107 192Jan Bárta 27 65 193Timon Seubert † 25 DNF-20 194Andreas Schillinger 28 154 195Bartosz Huzarski 31 70 196Reto Hollenstein 26 DNF-13 197Andreas Dietziker 29 109 198Matthias Brändle † 22 111 199Daniel Schorn † 23 124 201Matteo Tosatto 37 104 202Anders Lund 27 112 203Volodymir Gustov 35 63 204Jonas Aaen Jørgensen 26 141 205Juan José Haedo 31 DNS-14 206Luke Roberts 35 115 207Mads Christensen 28 DNF-12 208Manuele Boaro † 24 131 209Lucas Sebastián Haedo 29 128 211Matteo Carrara 33 96 212Thomas De Gendt 25 3 213Romain Feillu 28 DNF-6 214Sergey Lagutin 31 32 215Gustav Larsson 31 35 216Tomasz Marczyński 28 HD-12 217Martijn Keizer † 24 126 218Stefan Denifl † 24 75 219Mirko Selvaggi 27 122

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By nationality

CountryNo. of ridersFinishersStage wins 2 1 7 2 1 (Matthew Goss) 5 5 2 2 15 13 1 (Thomas De Gendt) 4 3 4 4 1 (Miguel Ángel Rubiano) 1 1 1 (Andrey Amador) 2 2 1 (Roman Kreuziger) 5 4 1 (Lars Bak) 1 1 1 1 13 10 3 2 58 49 6 (Paolo Tiralongo, Domenico Pozzovivo, Roberto Ferrari, Matteo Rabottini, Andrea Guardini, Marco Pinotti) 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 7 4 2 2 3 2 7 6 1 1 3 3 1 0 1 1 2 0 19 17 4 (Francisco Ventoso, Joaquim Rodríguez x2, Jon Izagirre) 1 1 6 5 1 1 5 3 3 (Mark Cavendish x3) 4 3 1 (Taylor Phinney) 1 1 3 1 TOTAL 198 157 20

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