As you probably know by now, the Tour de France 2010 will start in Rotterdam on Saturday (see my article The 2010 Tour de France route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule for detailed information about the route). While the official website indicates the participating riders are not known yet, they actually are now ...

In this article you'll thus discover the list of riders who will come to the start of the Tour de France 2010 and who'll do all they can to finish the 3,642 kilometers up to Paris where they'll finish on Sunday 25 July 2010. You'll also find their numbers ... for the time being only for the Astana team of the Tour de France 2009 winner, Alberto Contador, but the numbers for the other riders will be published as soon as possible!

The riders of the 22 teams in the 2010 Tour de France

At the start of the Tour de France 2010 we will find 198 riders: 22 teams of 9 riders and if I counted correcty they represent 31 different nationalities: 35 French, 31 Spanish, 18 Italian, 16 German, 13 Belgian, 10 Australian, 8 Dutch, 8 American, 7 British, 6 Russian, 5 Swiss and 5 Danish, 4 Slovenian, 3 Austrians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Belorussians and Portugues, 2 New-Zealanders, Canadians, from Luxembourg and Norway and one rider from Ireland, Estonia, South-Africa, Moldavia, Czech republic, Poland, Sweden, Japan and Lithuania.
In the list below you'll find a small flag next to the name of each of the riders. This flag represents the nationality of the rider. Also, national champions (in addition to the World Champions Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team, road) and Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank, time trial)) will be in the Tour de France 2010 and a small jersey indicates them in the list. The national champions time trial can wear their national jersey during the prologue and the individual time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac while the champions on the road will wear their jersey on all the other stages.

Astana

1/ Alberto Contador
2/ David De La Fuente
3/ Andriy Grivko
4/ Jesus Hernandez
5/ Maxim Iglinskiy
6/ Daniel Navarro
7/ Benjamin Noval
8/ Paolo Tiralongo
9/ Alexandre Vinokourov

Team Saxo Bank

11/ Andy Schleck
12/ Matti Breschel
13/ Fabian Cancellara
14/ Jakob Fuglsang
15/ Stuart O'Grady
16/ Fränk Schleck
17/ Chris Anker Sörensen
18/ Nicki Sörensen
19/ Jens Voigt

Team Radioshack

In the team which was created by and for him, Lance Armstrong is the leader. The American rider recently announced on Twitter that this will be his last Tour de France!

21/ Lance Armstrong
22/ Janez Brajkovic
23/ Christopher Horner
24/ Andreas Klöden
25/ Levi Leipheimer
26/ Dmitry Muravyev
27/ Sergio Paulinho
28/ Yaroslav Popovych
29/ Gregory Rast

Team Sky

31/ Bradley Wiggins
32/ Michael Barry
33/ Steve Cummings
34/ Juan Antonio Flecha
35/ Simon Gerrans
36/ Edvald Boasson Hagen
37/ Thomas Löfkvist
38/ Serge Pauwels
39/ Geraint Thomas

Liquigas-Doimo

41/ Ivan Basso
42/ Francesco Bellotti
43/ Kristjan Koren
44/ Roman Kreuziger
45/ Aliaksandr Kuschynski (photo)
46/ Daniel Oss
47/ Manuel Quinziato
48/ Sylwester Szmyd
49/ Brian Vandborg

Garmin-Transitions

51/ Christian Vande Velde
52/ Julian Dean
53/ Tyler Farrar
54/ Ryder Hesjedal
55/ Robbie Hunter
56/ Martijn Maaskant
57/ David Millar
58/ Johan van Summeren
59/ David Zabriskie

FDJ

The team of which the sponsor recently extended the contract until 2014 will be at the start in Rotterdam with the following 9 riders:

61/ Christophe Le Mével
62/ Sandy Casar
63/ Rémy di Grégorio
64/ Anthony Geslin
65/ Matthieu Ladagnous
66/ Anthony Roux
67/ Jérémy Roy
68/ Wesley Sulzberger
69/ Benoît Vaugrenard

Katusha Team

71/ Vladimir Karpets
72/ Pavel Brutt
73/ Sergey Ivanov
74/ Alexander Kolobnev
75/ Robbie McEwen
76/ Alexandr Pliuschin
77/ Joaquim Rodriguez
78/ Stijn Vandenbergh
79/ Eduard Vorganov

AG2R La Mondiale

81/ Nicolas Roche
82/ Maxime Bouet
83/ Dimitri Champion
84/ Martin Elmiger
85/ John Gadret
86/ David Le Lay
87/ Lloyd Mondory
88/ Rinaldo Nocentini
89/ Christophe Riblon

Cervélo TestTeam

91/ Carlos Sastre
92/ Xavier Florencio - the Spanish rider was caught in an internal doping check since he used medication which contained the forbidden component efedrine
93/ Volodimir Gustov
94/ Jérémy Hunt
95/ Thor Hushovd
96/ Andreas Klier
97/ Ignatas Konovalovas
98/ Brett Lancaster
99/ Daniel Lloyd (who takes over the place from Heinrich Haussler, who fell in the massive fall of the 4th stage of the Tour of Switzerland 2010)

Omega Pharma-Lotto

101/ Jurgen van den Broeck
102/ Mario Aerts
103/ Francis de Greef
104/ Mickaël Delage
105/ Sebastian Lang
106/ Matthew Lloyd
107/ Daniel Moreno
108/ Jurgen Roelandts
109/ Charles Wegelius

Team HTC-Columbia

111/ Mark Cavendish
112/ Bernhard Eisel
113/ Bert Grabsch
114/ Adam Hansen
115/ Tony Martin
116/ Maxime Monfort
117/ Mark Renshaw
118/ Michael Rogers
119/ Kanstantsin Siutsou

BMC Racing Team

121/ Cadel Evans
122/ Alessandro Ballan
123/ Brent Bookwalter
124/ Marcus Burghardt
125/ Mathias Frank
126/ George Hincapie
127/ Karsten Kroon
128/ Steve Morabito
129/ Mauro Santambrogio

Quick Step

Since Tom Boonen cannot participate in the Tour de France 2010 due to an injury, the team wanted to give the place of the Belgian sprinter to Wouter Weylandt. However, since this rider was not on the preselection of 15 riders which A.S.O. asked in April, the team finally decided to come with the Italian Francesco Reda.

131/ Sylvain Chavanel
132/ Carlos Barredo
133/ Kevin de Weert
134/ Dries Devenyns
135/ Jérôme Pineau
136/ Francesco Reda
137/ Kevin Seeldrayers
138/ Jurgen van de Walle
139/ Maarten Wynants

Team Milram

141/ Linus Gerdemann
142/ Gerald Ciolek
143/ Johannes Fröhlinger
144/ Roger Kluge
145/ Christian Knees
146/ Luke Roberts
147/ Thomas Rohregger
148/ Niki Terpstra
149/ Fabian Wegmann

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

151/ Thomas Voeckler
152/ Yukiya Arashiro
153/ Anthony Charteau
154/ Pierrick Fédrigo
155/ Cyril Gautier
156/ Pierre Rolland
157/ Matthieu Sprick
158/ Sébastien Turgot
159/ Nicolas Vogondy

Caisse d'Epargne

161/ Luis Léon Sanchez
162/ Rui Costa
163/ Imanol Erviti
164/ Ivan Gutierrez
165/ Vasil Kiryienka
166/ Christophe Moreau
167/ Mathieu Perget
168/ Ruben Plaza
169/ Jose Joaquin Rojas

Cofidis, le crédit par téléphone

171/ Rein Taaramae
172/ Stéphane Augé
173/ Samuel Dumoulin
174/ Julien El Fares
175/ Christophe Kern
176/ Sébastien Minard
177/ Amaël Moinard
178/ Damien Monier
179/ Rémi Pauriol

Euskaltel-Euskadi

181/ Samuel Sanchez
182/ Inaki Isasi
183/ Egoi Martinez
184/ Juan José Oroz
185/ Alan Pérez
186/ Ruben Pérez
187/ Amets Txurruka
188/ Ivan Velasco
189/ Gorka Verdugo

Rabobank

191/ Denis Menchov
192/ Lars Boom
193/ Oscar Freire
194/ Juan Manuel Garate
195/ Robert Gesink
196/ Koos Moerenhout
197/ Grischa Niermann
198/ Bram Tankink
199/ Maarten Tjallingii

Lampre-Farnese Vini

201/ Damiano Cunego
202/ Grega Bole
203/ Mauro Da Dalto
204/ Francesco Gavazzi
205/ Danilo Hondo
206/ Mirco Lorenzetto
207/ Adriano Malori
208/ Alessandro Petacchi
209/ Simon Spilak

Footon-Servetto

211/ Eros Capecchi
212/ Alberto Benitez
213/ Manuel Cardoso
214/ Arkaitz Duran
215/ Markus Eibegger
216/ Fabio Felline
217/ Iban Mayoz
218/ Aitor Perrez Arrieta
219/ Rafael Valls

door Thomas Vergouwen
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