Tour Colombia 2.1 has announced the provisional roster for Team Ineos. For the first time in its three-year history, Team Ineos will send a Latin American contingent to the six-day stage race.

Tour de France champion Egan Bernal (Colombia) and 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Richard Carapaz (Ecuador) will lead a six-man team that also includes Colombians Ivan Sosa, Brandon Rivera, and Sebastian Henao, and Ecuadorian Honatan Narvaez. leading the team of athletes.

The race will begin on Tuesday, February 11 with a 16.7 km individual time trial in Tunja and conclude on Sunday, February 16 with a 182.6 km stage from Zipaquila to the climb of Alto del Berhon.

Bernal, who won the overall in Colombia in 2018 when the race was called Colombia Oro y Paz, ahead of Movistar's Nairo Quintana, rode in support of Sosa last year, and in a dramatic battle on the final day's Alto de las Palmas climb, the same Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana) took the lead.

Quintana will not race in Colombia this year with his new team, Arkea Samsic, but Lopez finished with Sosa to take the win. Bernal, who assisted Sosa, finished fourth, and EF Education First's Rigoberto Urán was fifth.

Carapas, who moved to Team Ineos this year after three seasons with Movistar, has raced in Colombia twice before, last year supporting Quintana and finishing 9th overall. He finished third on the difficult fifth stage to La Unión, where he created a dangerous breakaway with eventual stage winner Julian Alaphilippe (Detuninck-Quick Step) and three other riders, including Lopez, Martinez, and Sosa.

This year, Tour Colombia has announced that Fabio Aru will compete with UAE Team Emirates. Other World Tour teams include Detunink Quickstep, Movistar, Israel Startup Nation, and EF Education First. From Pro Continental, Arkea Samsic, Larry Procycling, Bardiani-CSF Faizane, and Androni Giacatori will compete.