A climber's paradise, a sprinter's hell! Welcome to the 2016 Tour d'Andorra. Five stages in total, all classified as high mountain stages, with a MTT coming on Stage 4.

With three MTF in the race, the queen stage will come on the final Stage 5, where the peleton will tackle nine ascents before a final climb to the finish.

	Mo	TT	Acc			Mo	TT	Acc
Amador	84	78	72		Ratiy	80	74	58
Machado	84	74	72		Kiserlovski	80	72	66
Denifl	84	72	65		Marquez	80	70	80
Úran	82	78	71		Ji	80	69	65
Intxausti	82	77	70		Nazaret	80	65	72
Contador	81	73	68		Valls	79	72	72
Monsalve	81	72	73		Talansky	79	72	69
Berhane	81	65	68		Pozzovivo	79	71	72
Brajkovic	80	77	71		Moschella	79	69	62
Duarte	80	75	73		Brenes	79	69	70

Defending champion Martijn Keizer isn't present on the startlist, and neither are former winners Domenico Pozzovivo and Andrew Bajadali, so it will be a new name on the race palmares.

Andrei Amador, Tiago Machado (2nd on GC in 2015) and Stefan Denifl will be big favourites for the title, all excelling in the Mountains with a steady TT rating to keep them at the top. Behind them, Rigoberto Úran and Beñat Intxausti (5th on GC in 2014)will no doubt be pushing them all the way.

A very strong startlist, which also includes Contador (4th on GC in 2015) and Brajkovic (2nd on GC in 2014), along with Monsalve, Ratiy and Duarte.

One rider who will not be hoping that the MTT will have any deciding factor will be Natnael Berhane. His low TT ability will force him to go on the attack on the climbs and put as much time into his rivals as possible. A similar tale might befall Jianhua Ji and Magno Nazaret as well.

2015	Martijn Keizer	Aegon - Lavazza
2014	Domenico Pozzovivo	Kappa-ENI
2013	Andrew Bajadali	7-Eleven

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