Tonight at 10.04PM the Vuelta a España 2010 will start in Sevilla with a team time trial. Indeed, the Vuelta a España celebrates its 75th anniversary by starting with a nightly stage which will finish for the last team only at 11.42PM!!

In this article you'll find the list of participants à la 65ème édition du Tour of Spain !

22 teams participate in the Tour of Spain 2010 with each 9 riders (for a total of 198 riders). The participating teams are 17 of the 18 UCI ProTour teams (AG2R La Mondiale, Astana, Caisse d'Epargne, Euskaltel-Euskadi, Footon-Servetto, FDJ, Garmin-Transitions, Lampre-Farnese Vini, Liquigas-Doimo, Omega Pharma-Lotto, Quick Step, Rabobank, Team HTC-Columbia, Team Katusha, Team Milram, Team Saxo Bank and Team Sky; Team Radioshack having decided not to participate in the Vuelta) and the Continental Pro teams Andalucia-Cajasur, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, Cervélo TestTeam, Cofidis, le crédit en ligne and Xacobeo Galicia.

The riders of these teams are all presented below:

Cervélo TestTeam

The winner of the Vuelta a España 2009, Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne), no longer being in the peloton, the Cervélo TestTeam has received the number 1 and the honour to wear it is for Iñigo Cuesta ... some sort of recognition for his 16 participations in the Vuelta?! As for the sprinters, the team will come to the start of the Vuelta a España 2010 with the experienced Thor Hushovd and the rooky in Grand Tours, Theo Bos. Bos explained on Dutch TV that Thor's main goal is to prepare the World Championships and as such he'll probably select only 2 stages on which he would like to test himself and the other sprint opportunities would thus be for the former Dutch track rider.
Next to Thor Hushovd, the team will come to the start with the winner of the 2008 Tour de France, Carlos Sastre.

001/ Iñigo Cuesta
002/ Theo Bos
003/ Philip Deignan
004/ Stefan Denifl
005/ Xavier Florencio
006/ Oscar Pujol Muñoz
007/ Thor Hushovd
008/ Carlos Sastre
009/ Xavier Tondo

(AG2R La Mondiale

The team from Chambéry comes to the Tour of Spain with three riders who are listed as competition leaders by Vincent Lavenu: the Irish rider Nicolas Roche, the Italian Rinaldo Nocentini and the French rider Christophe Riblon who all participated in the Tour de France 2010.

Concerning his goals, Vincent Lavenu comments the team: We have a good performing team and we now have to get back to the top to shine in this Vuelta and win a stage. Concerning the general classification, our leaders should be able to get a place in the top 15.

011/ Nicolas Roche
012/ José Luis Arrieta
013/ Guillaume Bonnafond
014/ Hubert Dupont
015/ Sébastien Hinault
016/ Blel Kadri
017/ Rinaldo Nocentini
018/ Christophe Riblon
019/ Ludovic Turpin

Andalucia-Cajasur

The Spanish team will come to the start in Sevilla with 8 Spanish riders and one Argentine:

021/ José Angel Gomez Marchante
022/ Jorge Martin Montenegro
023/ Sergio Carrasco Garcia
024/ Juan Javier Estrada Ruiz
025/ Javier Moreno Bazan
026/ Manuel Ortega Ocaña
027/ Antonio Piedra Perez
028/ Javier Ramirez Abeja
029/ Jose Vicente Toribio Alcolea

Astana

The Kazakh team is made up Kazakh riders for 2/3rd and these include the leader Sergey Renev, completed by an Australian, Italian and Spanish rider.

031/ Sergey Renev
032/ Assan Bazayev
033/ Allan Davis
034/ Alexsandr Dyachenko
035/ Dmitriy Fofonov
036/ Enrico Gasparotto
037/ Valentin Iglinksiy
038/ Josep Jufre Pou
039/ Andrey Zeits

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

Except for Johann Tschopp the whole Bbox Bouygues Telecom team in this Vuelta a España 2010 is French:

041/ Johann Tschopp
042/ William Bonnet
043/ Freddy Bichot
044/ Vincent Jérôme
045/ Alexandre Pichot
046/ Perrig Quemeneur
047/ Pierre Rolland
048/ Matthieu Sprick
049/ Nicolas Vogondy

Caisse d'Epargne

In the Spanish team with a French sponsor, which will continue next year as Team Movistar, we find the number 11 of the Tour de France 2010 general classification, Luis Léon Sanchez:

051/ David Arroyo Duran
052/ Marzio Bruseghin
053/ Imanol Erviti
054/ José Vicente Garcia Acosta
055/ David Lopez Garcia
056/ Luis Pasamontes Rodriguez
057/ Ruben Plaza Molina
058/ Luis Léon Sanchez Gil
059/ Rigoberto Uran Uran

Cofidis, le crédit en ligne

In the French team we find 2 Belgian riders next to 7 French:

061/ Samuel Dumoulin
062/ Tony Gallopin
063/ Mickaël Buffaz
064/ Arnaud Labbe
065/ David Moncoutié
066/ Rémi Pauriol
067/ Nico Sijmens
068/ Sébastien Minard
069/ Romain Zingle

Euskaltel-Euskadi

The orange team will be led by Igor Anton and Beñat Intxausti and according to Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano the goal is to win one or more stages while still getting the highest possible place in the general classification. Here are the 9 riders of the Spanish team:

071/ Igor Anton Hernandez
072/ Koldo Fernandez
073/ Beñat Intxausti Elorriaga
074/ Egoi Martinez de Esteban
075/ Mikel Nieve Ituralde
076/ Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde
077/ Amets Txurruka
078/ Pablo Urtasun Perez
079/ Gorka Verdugo Marcotegui

Footon-Servetto

This Spanish team will come to the start in Sevilla with a young team of riders. Only one week ago the team still counted on the young Rafael Valls but his current health situation (fever and diarrhoea) make it impossible for him to start in this Tour of Spain. His place has been taken by the Australian Johnnie Walker.

For the sprints the team counts on Manuel Cardoso.

081/ Jose Alberto Benitez Roman
082/ Manuel Antonio Leal Cardoso
083/ Giampaolo Cheula
084/ Arkaitz Duran Daroca
085/ David Gutierrez
086/ Enrique Mata
087/ Martin Pedersen
088/ Johnnie Walker
089/ David Vitoria

FDJ

The French team which has shortened its name since the Tour de France 2010 will have the experienced Christophe Le Mével as its leader:

091/ Christophe Le Mével
092/ Rémy Di Gregorio
093/ Pierre Cazaux
094/ Sébastien Chavanel
095/ Mikael Cherel
096/ Yauheni Hutarovich
097/ Gianni Meersman
098/ Yoann Offredo
099/ Arthur Vichot

Garmin-Transitions

Team Garmin-Transitions comes to the Tour of Spain 2010 with its leader Christian Vande Velde who gets back to competition after his terrible fall in the Tour de France 2010, next to Tyler Farrar, recent winner of the Vattenfall Cyclassics and David Millar who will do his third Grand Tour this season, just like Julian Dean.
Michel Kreder and Tom Peterson however discover their first Grand Tour!

101/ Tom Danielson
102/ Julian Dean
103/ Tyler Farrar
104/ Michel Kreder
105/ David Millar
106/ Tom Peterson
107/ Christian Vande Velde
108/ Matthew Wilson
109/ David Zabriskie

Lampre-Farnese Vini

In the Italian team the green jersey winner of the Tour de France 2010 will be leading: Alessandro Petacchi.

111/ Alessandro Petacchi
112/ Grega Bole
113/ Danilo Hondo
114/ Andrey Kashechkin
115/ Angelo Furlan
116/ Marco Marzano
117/ Manuele Mori
118/ Daniele Pietropolli
119/ Daniele Righi

Liquigas-Doimo

Here are the 9 riders of this Italian team:

121/ Daniele Bennati
122/ Mauro Finetto
123/ Jacopo Guarnieri
124/ Maciej Paterski
125/ Roman Kreuziger
126/ Vincenzo Nibali
127/ Oliver Zaugg
128/ Ivan Santaromita
129/ Frederik Willems

Omega Pharma-Lotto

The Belgian team will come to the start in Sevilla with a French/Belgian team, with 7 Belgian riders and 2 French:

131/ Jan Bakelandts
132/ Jurgen van Goolen
133/ Mickael Delage
134/ Philippe Gilbert
135/ Leif Hoste
136/ Olivier Kaisen
137/ Jean-Christophe Peraud
138/ Greg van Avermaet
139/ Jelle Vanendert

Quick Step

The second Belgian team will be led by a Spanish rider, Carlos Barredo. With Kevin de Weert they are the two riders for the mountain stages, while the team counts on Wouter Weylandt for the sprints.

141/ Carlos Barredo Llamazales
142/ Dario Cataldo
143/ Kevin de Weert
144/ Nikolas Maes
145/ Davide Malacarne
146/ Branislau Samoilau
147/ Andreas Stauff
148/ Matteo Tosatto
149/ Wouter Weylandt

Rabobank

The Dutch team is mainly focusing on stage wins instead of the general classification. Denis Menchov will be the leader of the team, but they will see from day to day whether they'll have to fight for a good place in the general classification for the Russian rider or whether they continue to concentrate on stage wins.

The young Dutch rider Sebastian Langeveld, recently 2nd in the general classification and best young rider of the 2010 Tour du Limousin, is of course also part of the team.

151/ Mauricio Ardila Cano
152/ Oscar Freire Gomez
153/ Juan Manuel Garate
154/ Dmitry Kozontchuk
155/ Sebastian Langeveld
156/ Grischa Niermann
157/ Denis Menchov
158/ Laurens ten Dam
159/ Nick Nuyens

Team Sky

The British team with the blue line will be led by the Swedish rider Thomas Löfkvist who ended 17th in the Tour de France 2010 and who just finished the Tour du Limousin, where he made his comeback in competition while preparing for the Vuelta, at the 6th place. He was quite happy with his result in the time trial where he finished 8th at 1'33" from his fellow countryman Gustav Erik Larsson (Team Saxo Bank).

For the sprint finishes, Team Sky counts on Ben Swift while Juan Antonio Flecha and Simon Gerrans will try to get in one or more break aways to try to win a stage.

161/ Thomas Löfkvist
162/ John-Lee Augustyn
163/ Kjell Carlström
164/ Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni
165/ Simon Gerrans
166/ Peter Kennaugh
167/ Lars Petter Nordhaug
168/ Ian Stannard
169/ Ben Swift

Team HTC-Columbia

If you'd have to describe the HTC-Columbia team in this Vuelta a España in just a few words it would probably look something like: one sprinter - Mark Cavendish, two climbers - Kanstantsin Sivtsov and Peter Velits and one general classification contender - Tejay Van Garderen.

Cavendish will do his very first Tour of Spain and he's quite aware of the many climbs in this race. However, after having passed the mountains without too much trouble during the Tour de France in July, he's quite confident he'll be able to do the same in September in the Vuelta!

171/ Lars Ytting Bak
172/ Mark Cavendish
173/ Bernhard Eisel
174/ Matthew Harley Goss
175/ Hayden Roulston
176/ Kanstantsin Siutsou
177/ Tejay van Garderen
178/ Martin Velits
179/ Peter Velits

Team Katusha

The Russian team's target is to get both a stage win and a good spot in the general classification with Filippo Pozzato.

181/ Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver
182/ Gianpaolo Caruso
183/ Denis Galimzyanov
184/ Vladimir Gusev
185/ Joan Horrach Rippoll
186/ Vladimir Karpets
187/ Alexandr Kolobnev
188/ Mikhail Ignatiev
189/ Filippo Pozzato

Team Milram

The Dutch champion Niki Terpstra who recently announced his transfer to Quick Step for the 2011 season, will be leading the German team in Spain, together with Markus Fothen.

The team's goal is to win at least one stage and to be riding in front in the break aways.

191/ Robert Förster
192/ Markus Fothen
193/ Markus Eichler
194/ Volodymir Gustov
195/ Johannes Fröhlinger
196/ Björn Schröder
197/ Roy Sentjens
198/ Niki Terpstra
199/ Paul Voss

Team Saxo Bank

The Danish team which will be known under the name of its new main sponsor Sungard, will come to the 2010 Tour of Spain with the Schleck brothers, the recent winner of the 2010 Tour du Limousin, Gustav Erik Larsson and the Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara.

The team initially also counted on the presence of Michael Mørkøv but since he was not on the list of riders which was given to the Vuelta organiser 20 days before the start of the race, the UCI rules made it impossible for him to participate. While the team chose Mørkøv instead of Baden Cooke, his place will finally be taken by Kasper Klostergaard.

While the Danish team seems to be one of the favorites for today's team time trial, it will count on Juan José Haedo to try to get a stage win when it finishes with a sprint.

201/ Anders Lund
202/ Fabian Cancellara
203/ Kasper Klostergaard Larsen
204/ Juan José Haedo
205/ Domenik Klemme
206/ Gustav Larsson
207/ Stuart O'Grady
208/ Andy Schleck
209/ Fränk Schleck

Xacobeo Galicia

The last Spanish team will come to the start with 8 Spanish riders and one Russian:

211/ Ezequiel Mosquera Miguez
212/ Gustavo Cesar Veloso
213/ Delio Fernandez Cruz
214/ David Garcia da Peña
215/ Marcos Garcia Fernandez
216/ Vladimir Isaichev
217/ Serafin Martinez
218/ Gonzalo Rabunal Rios
219/ Gustavo Rodriguez Iglesias

door Thomas Vergouwen
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