# List of teams and cyclists in the 1996 Giro d'Italia

The 1996 Giro d'Italia was the 79th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The field consisted of 160 riders, and 98 riders finished the race.

## By rider

Legend :
| No. | Starting number worn by the rider during the Giro |
| Pos. | Position in the general classification |
| DNF | Denotes a rider who did not finish |
| No. | Name | Nationality | Team |
| 1 | Abraham Olano | Spain | Mapei–GB |
| 2 | Adriano Baffi | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 3 | Manuel Beltrán | Spain | Mapei–GB |
| 4 | Gianluca Bortolami | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 5 | Giuseppe Di Grande | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 6 | Manuel Fernández Ginés | Spain | Mapei–GB |
| 7 | Daniele Nardello | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 8 | Andrea Noè | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 9 | Paolo Lanfranchi | Italy | Mapei–GB |
| 11 | Dimitri Konyshev | Russia | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 12 | Giuseppe Citterio | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 13 | Michelangelo Cauz [fr] | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 14 | Stefano Faustini | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 15 | Gianluca Gorini | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 16 | Erwann Menthéour [fr] | France | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 17 | Andrey Teteryuk | Kazakhstan | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 18 | Franco Vona | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 19 | Denis Zanette | Italy | Aki–Gipiemme |
| 21 | Zenon Jaskuła | Poland | Brescialat |
| 22 | Mariano Piccoli | Italy | Brescialat |
| 23 | Fabrizio Bontempi | Italy | Brescialat |
| 24 | Marco Milesi | Italy | Brescialat |
| 25 | Massimo Strazzer | Italy | Brescialat |
| 26 | Marco Velo | Italy | Brescialat |
| 27 | Marco Della Vedova | Italy | Brescialat |
| 28 | Daniele Contrini | Italy | Brescialat |
| 29 | Fausto Dotti | Italy | Brescialat |
| 31 | Claudio Chiappucci | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 32 | Enrico Zaina | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 33 | Beat Zberg | Switzerland | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 34 | Oscar Pelliccioli | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 35 | Sergio Barbero | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 36 | Marco Artunghi | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 37 | Stefano Checchin | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 38 | Filippo Simeoni | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 39 | Mario Traversoni | Italy | Carrera Jeans–Tassoni |
| 41 | Pavel Tonkov | Russia | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 42 | Wladimir Belli | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 43 | Davide Bramati | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 44 | Roberto Conti | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 45 | Gianni Faresin | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 46 | Alessio Galletti | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 47 | Marco Serpellini | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 48 | Gabriele Missaglia | Italy | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 49 | Zbigniew Spruch | Poland | Panaria–Vinavil |
| 51 | Bruno Boscardin | Italy | Festina–Lotus |
| 52 | Félix García Casas | Spain | Festina–Lotus |
| 53 | Pascal Hervé | France | Festina–Lotus |
| 54 | Stephen Hodge | Australia | Festina–Lotus |
| 55 | Jean-Cyril Robin | France | Festina–Lotus |
| 56 | Juan-Rodrigo Arenas | Spain | Festina–Lotus |
| 57 | Lylian Lebreton | France | Festina–Lotus |
| 58 | Joona Laukka | Finland | Festina–Lotus |
| 59 | David Plaza | Spain | Festina–Lotus |
| 61 | Evgeni Berzin | Russia | Gewiss Playbus |
| 62 | Gabriele Colombo | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 63 | Stefano Zanini | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 64 | Ermanno Brignoli | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 65 | Bruno Cenghialta | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 66 | Ivan Gotti | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 67 | Alberto Volpi | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 68 | Andrea Brognara | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 69 | Davide Perona | Italy | Gewiss Playbus |
| 71 | Nelson Rodríguez Serna | Colombia | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 72 | Henry Cárdenas | Colombia | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 73 | Ángel Camargo | Colombia | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 74 | Celio Roncancio | Colombia | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 75 | Álvaro Sierra | Colombia | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 76 | Roberto Caruso | Italy | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 77 | Nicola Miceli | Italy | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 78 | Stefano Giraldi | Italy | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 79 | Jacques Jolidon [nl] | Switzerland | Glacial–Selle Italia |
| 81 | Laudelino Cubino | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 82 | Hernán Buenahora | Colombia | Kelme–Artiach |
| 83 | Juan Carlos Domínguez | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 84 | Ángel Edo | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 85 | José Ángel Vidal | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 86 | Quintino Rodrigues | Portugal | Kelme–Artiach |
| 87 | José-Luis Sanchez De La Rocha | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 88 | Ignacio García Camacho | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 89 | Leon Giner Blas | Spain | Kelme–Artiach |
| 91 | Gianni Bugno | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 92 | Stefano Casagranda | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 93 | Michele Coppolillo | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 94 | Carlo Finco | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 95 | Fabiano Fontanelli | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 96 | Angelo Lecchi | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 97 | Nicola Loda | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 98 | Pascal Richard | Switzerland | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 99 | Marco Saligari | Italy | MG Maglificio–Technogym |
| 101 | Marcel Wüst | Germany | MX Onda |
| 102 | Tom Cordes | Netherlands | MX Onda |
| 103 | Claus Michael Møller | Denmark | MX Onda |
| 104 | Antonio Miguel Díaz | Spain | MX Onda |
| 105 | Germán Nieto [es] | Spain | MX Onda |
| 106 | José Luis Santamaría [es] | Spain | MX Onda |
| 107 | Alfredo Irusta [es] | Spain | MX Onda |
| 108 | Francisco Cerezo Perales | Spain | MX Onda |
| 109 | José Manuel Uría | Spain | MX Onda |
| 111 | Djamolidine Abdoujaparov | Uzbekistan | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 112 | Felice Puttini | Italy | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 113 | Rodolfo Massi | Italy | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 114 | Cristian Salvato | Italy | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 115 | Leonardo Piepoli | Italy | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 116 | Heinz Imboden | Switzerland | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 117 | Mauro Bettin | Italy | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 118 | Sergei Uslamin | Russia | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 119 | Asiat Saitov | Russia | Refin–Mobilvetta |
| 121 | Piotr Ugrumov | Russia | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 122 | Alexander Gontchenkov | Ukraine | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 123 | Daniele Sgnaolin | Italy | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 124 | Marco Zen | Italy | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 125 | Mario Manzoni | Italy | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 126 | Stefano Cattai | Italy | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 127 | Vassili Davidenko | Russia | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 128 | Viatcheslav Djavanian | Russia | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 129 | Alexei Sivakov | Russia | Roslotto–ZG Mobili |
| 131 | Mario Cipollini | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 132 | Francesco Casagrande | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 133 | Giorgio Furlan | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 134 | Silvio Martinello | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 135 | Mario Scirea | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 136 | Massimo Donati | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 137 | Dario Frigo | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 138 | Roberto Petito | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 139 | Giuseppe Calcaterra | Italy | Saeco–AS Juvenes San Marino |
| 141 | Riccardo Forconi | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 142 | Andrea Patuelli | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 143 | Glenn Magnusson | Sweden | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 144 | Dario Andriotto | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 145 | Maurizio De Pasquale | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 146 | Roberto Pelliconi | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 147 | Marco Vergnani [ca] | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 148 | Nicolaj Bo Larsen | Denmark | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 149 | Michele Laddomada [it] | Italy | Amore & Vita–ForzArcore |
| 151 | Mirko Rossato [fr] | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 152 | Fabrizio Guidi | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 153 | Filippo Casagrande | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 154 | Francesco Secchiari | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 155 | Andrea Vatteroni [nl] | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 156 | Davide Casarotto | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 157 | Alexandr Shefer | Kazakhstan | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 158 | Cristian Gasperoni | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 159 | Amilcare Tronca [nl] | Italy | Scrigno–Blue Storm |
| 161 | Dirk Baldinger | Germany | Team Polti |
| 162 | Mirko Crepaldi | Italy | Team Polti |
| 163 | Mauro Gianetti | Italy | Team Polti |
| 164 | Giuseppe Guerini | Italy | Team Polti |
| 165 | Giovanni Lombardi | Italy | Team Polti |
| 166 | Serguei Outschakov | Ukraine | Team Polti |
| 167 | Gianluca Pianegonda | Italy | Team Polti |
| 168 | Davide Rebellin | Italy | Team Polti |
| 169 | Georg Totschnig | Austria | Team Polti |
| 171 | Lars Kristian Johnsen | Norway | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 172 | Steffen Kjærgaard | Norway | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 173 | Stéphane Pétilleau | France | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 174 | Vladimir Poulnikov | Ukraine | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 175 | Laurent Roux | France | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 176 | Hendrik Redant | Belgium | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 177 | Jesper Skibby | Denmark | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 178 | Niels van der Steen | Netherlands | TVM–Farm Frites |
| 179 | Martin van Steen | Netherlands | TVM–Farm Frites |