Today, Paris-Nice 2011 will start in Houdan for a total of 1,307 kilometers towards Nice (don't forget you can see the race route of Paris-Nice 2011 on Google Maps/Google Earth) and if everyone's fine, 176 riders will be at the start for 22 teams of each 8 riders.

In this article, you'll find the list of participating riders, including the numbers of the participating riders in Paris-Nice 2011.

CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Rabobank The Dutch Rabobank team will come to Paris-Nice 2011 with a former winner of Paris-Nice (2009), Luis Léon Sanchez, as its leader. The Spanish rider, who joined the team during the winter, can among others count on his compatriot Juan Manuel Garate. The team decided not to select any sprinters but only good climbers, to allow Sanchez to go get a good classification in the end.
001/ Luis Léon Sanchez 002/ Juan Manuel Garate 003/ Bauke Mollema 004/ Grischa Niermann 005/ Laurens ten Dam 006/ Maarten Tjallingii 007/ Jos van Emden 008/ Pieter Weening
Team Garmin-Cervélo According to the team's website, Ryder Hesjedal and Christophe Le Mevel will be the riders who might get a good final ranking, while Martijn Maaskant and Heinrich Haussler will try to win any sprints or be part of a leading group in one or more stages.
	011/ Ryder Hesjedal 012/ Heinrich Haussler 013/ Christophe Le Mevel 014/ Daniel Lloyd 015/ Martijn Maaskant 016/ Gabriel Rasch 017/ Andrew Talansky 018/ Johan van Summeren
HTC-Highroad The American HTC-Highroad team will come to the start with the big favourite of Paris-Nice 2011, Tony Martin, who might use the individual time trial of Aix-en-Provence to get a good spot in the general classification. His team mate Tejay van Garderen is also one of the favourites. In case of a sprint, the team can count on Matthew Goss.
021/ Tony Martin 022/ Lars Bak 023/ Matthew Goss 024/ Danny Pate 025/ Alex Rasmussen 026/ Kanstantsin Sivtsov 027/ Tejay van Garderen 028/ Martin Velits
Team Sky For the British team, Bradley Wiggins is the leader in this Race to the sun. Like Michael Rogers and Geraint Thomas he might want to use the Aix-en-Provence time trial to go up in the general classification.
	031/ Bradley Wiggins 032/ Simon Gerrans 033/ Gregory Henderson 034/ Jeremy Hunt 035/ Michael Rogers 036/ Geraint Thomas 037/ Rigoberto Uran 038/ Xabier Zandio
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT AG2R La Mondiale The AG2R La Mondiale team will have the ambition to place a rider between the 5th and 8th place and win at least one stage. The team classification is also one of their goals.
041/ Nicolas Roche 042/ Maxime Bouet 043/ Hubert Dupont 044/ Blel Kadri 045/ Sébastien Minard 046/ Jean-Christophe Péraud 047/ Anthony Ravard 048/ Christophe Riblon
Movistar Team In the Spanish team, José Ivan Gutierrez will be the leader. Yvon Ledanois, the directeur sportif of the team, initially also selected Beñat Intxausti but he'll have to stay at home with the flu ... The winner of last year's forelast stage, Xavier Tondo, will be present in the team which will be completely Spanish (fortunately Yvon speaks Spanish!).
	051/ José Ivan Gutierrez 052/ Vicente Garcia Acosta 053/ Pablo Lastras 054/ David Lopez Garcia 055/ Sergio Pardilla 056/ Luis Pasamontes 057/ José Joaquin Rojas 058/ Xavier Tondo
Omega Pharma-Lotto The Belgian team will be lead by the number 5 of the Tour de France 2010, Jurgen van den Broeck.
061/ Jurgen van den Broeck 062/ Jan Bakelants 063/ Bart de Clercq 064/ Francis de Greef 065/ Oscar Pujol 066/ Jurgen Roelandts 067/ Jurgen van de Walle 068/ Jussi Veikkanen
Astana The kazakh rider who was at the origin of the creation of the Astana team will also be its leader in this 69th edition of Paris-Nice.
	071/ Alexandre Vinokourov 072/ Rémy Di Gregorio 073/ Dmitriy Fofonov 074/ Andriy Grivko 075/ Fredrik Kessiakoff 076/ Robert Kiserlovski 077/ Roman Kreuziger 078/ Tomas Vaitkus
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Team Radioshack The American team will come to the start with experienced riders around Janez Brajkovic.
081/ Janez Brajkovic 082/ Matthew Busche 083/ Robert Hunter 084/ Markel Irizar 085/ Andréas Klöden 086/ Levi Leipheimer 087/ Geoffroy Lequatre 088/ Sergio Paulinho
FDJ The FDJ team will be built up around Sandy Casar and Pierrick Fédrigo but Arthur Vichot and Yoann Offredo could also play an important role in this race to the sun. Jérémy Roy who fell in Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche (won by his team mate Arthur Vichot) managed to get rid of the pain of his hip and his swollen knee and will thus participate in Paris-Nice 2011 as well.
	091/ Pierrick Fédrigo 092/ Sandy Casar 093/ Arnold Jeannesson 094/ Yoann Offredo 095/ Rémi Pauriol 096/ Cédric Pineau 097/ Jérémy Roy 098/ Arthur Vichot
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team Not really surprisingly, the French rider Romain Feillu is the leader of the Dutch team.
101/ Romain Feillu 102/ Matteo Carrara 103/ Thomas de Gendt 104/ Stijn Devolder 105/ Sergey Lagutin 106/ Bjorn Leukemans 107/ Rob Ruijgh 108/ Lieuwe Westra
Liquigas-Cannondale The revelation of last year's Paris-Nice, Peter Sagan, will be the main man for the Italian Liquigas-Cannondale team.
	111/ Peter Sagan 112/ Valerio Agnoli 113/ Eros Capecchi 114/ Mauro Finetto 115/ Kristjan Koren 116/ Dominik Nerz 117/ Maciej Paterski 118/ Simone Ponzi
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Saxo Bank-Sungard The leader of the Danish team will be Richie Porte, the revelation of the Giro d'Italia 2010.
121/ Richie Porte 122/ Mads Christensen 123/ Laurent Didier 124/ Lucas Sebastian Haedo 125/ Benjamin Noval Gonzalez 126/ Chris Sörensen 127/ Nicki Sörensen 128/ Brian Vandborg
Team Leopard-Trek The second UCI WorldTour race of the Luxembourg Team Leopard-Trek could well be the first race of that level where they'll get a victory. The multi-national team seems to be ready for it! Next to Fränk Schleck, Linus Gerdemann, Maxime Monfort and Jakob Fuglsang will try to get a good place in the general classification. Wouter Weylandt will go for the sprints while Bruno Pires, Brice Feillu and Jens Voigt will especially participate to get ready for the Ardennes Classics.
	131/ Fränk Schleck 132/ Brice Feillu 133/ Jakob Fuglsang 134/ Linus Gerdemann 135/ Maxime Monfort 136/ Bruno Pires 137/ Jens Voigt 138/ Wouter Weylandt
Cofidis, le crédit en ligne The Cofidis team will come to the start with two riders who will work for the general classification, Rein Taaramae and the good climber David Moncoutié, and with two riders who will try to get a stage victory: Samuel Dumoulin and Tony Gallopin.
141/ David Moncoutié 142/ Mickaël Buffaz 143/ Samuel Dumoulin 144/ Julien El Fares 145/ Tony Gallopin 146/ Luis Angel Mate Mardones 147/ Rein Taaramae 148/ Tristan Valentin
Katusha Team Apart from Leif Hoste, all riders around Vladimir Gusev are Russian!
	151/ Vladimir Gusev 152/ Pavel Brutt 153/ Denis Galimzyanov 154/ Leif Hoste 155/ Serguei Ivanov 156/ Yury Trofimov 157/ Nikolay Trusov 158/ Eduard Vorganov
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT BMC Racing Team In the American team with Swiss sponsor, Taylor Phinney will not be present. Indeed, he fell during a training and will thus not be able to start in this race. The team will therefore not really have a leader in this race, but according to directeur sportif John Lelangue, 4 riders will try to get a good spot in the general classification: Brent Bookwalter, Amaël Moinard, Steve Morabito and Ivan Santaromita
161/ Amaël Moinard 162/ Brent Bookwalter 163/ Yannick Eijssen 164/ Karsten Kroon 165/ Jeff Louder 166/ Steve Morabito 167/ Ivan Santaromita 168/ Danilo Wyss
Quick Step Cycling Team At Quick Step, the rider who wore the yellow jersey for a few days during the Tour de France 2010, Sylvain Chavanel, will be the leader.
	171/ Sylvain Chavanel 172/ Marc de Maar 173/ Kevin de Weert 174/ Nikolas Maes 175/ Jérôme Pineau 176/ Francesco Reda 177/ Andreas Stauff 178/ Gert Steegmans
Team Europcar The French champion, Thomas Voeckler, will get company from 7 other French riders.
181/ Thomas Voeckler 182/ Damien Gaudin 183/ Cyril Gautier 184/ Vincent Jérôme 185/ Alexandre Pichot 186/ Perrig Quémeneur 187/ Pierre Rolland 188/ Sébastien Turgot
Euskaltel-Euskadi The Basque team will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2011 with the Olympic champion, Samuel Sánchez, as its leader and he will get company from two French riders in the team: Romain Sicard and Pierre Cazaux.
	191/ Samuel Sánchez 192/ Jorge Azanza 193/ Pierre Cazaux 194/ Iñaki Isasi 195/ Gorka Izagirre 196/ Romain Sicard 197/ Pablo Urtasun 198/ Gorka Verdugo
CONTINUE READING AFTER THIS ADVERTISEMENT Lampre-ISD
201/ Grega Bole 202/ Matteo Bono 203/ Francesco Gavazzi 204/ Oleksandr Kvachuk 205/ Daniele Righi 206/ Alessandro Spezialetti 207/ Simon Spilak 208/ Diego Ulissi
Bretagne-Schuller The team from Brittany will count on Romain Hardy and also on Sylvain Calzati probably.
	211/ Florian Vachon 212/ Eric Berthou 213/ Sylvain Calzati 214/ Jean-Luc Delpech 215/ Renaud Dion 216/ Florian Guillou 217/ Romain Hardy 218/ Gaël Malacarne

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