At the end of the afternoon this Saturday, at the start Permanence in Houilles, the liste of participating riders in Paris-Nice 2013 has been confirmed.

184 riders in 23 teams of 8 riders will come to the start in this 71st edition of the Race to the sun, representing 31 nations. In this article you'll find the list of participating riders and the bib numbers for each of the riders of Paris-Nice 2013. At the end of this article you'll find further information about the TV coverage of this race.

The list of participating riders in Paris-Nice 2013 and their bib numbers

31 nations will be represented in this race which will litterally go find the sun, somewhere on the road between Houilles and Nice / the Col d'Eze.

Among these nations, France (42 riders), Belgium (22), Spain (20), Italy (18) and The Netherlands (13) form the top 5, followed by two nations further away: Australia with 10 riders and the United States with 8.

To continue with some interesting statistics on the riders who'll participate in Paris-Nice 2013, lets have a look at their age: the eldest riders are Jens Voigt (Radioshack-Leopard) who's 41 years old and Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Merida) and Sébastien Hinault (IAM Cycling) who are both 39 years old.
The youngest riders are Warren Barguil (Argos-Shimano) who will celebrate his 22nd anniversary this year and Wilco Kelderman (Blanco Pro Cycling Team) and Jacob Rathe (Garmin-Sharp) who already did so.

Let's now have a look at the riders for each of the teams and their bib numbers:

Team Sky

In the British team, the winner of Paris-Nice 2012, Bradley Wiggins, will not be present.

With him being absent, the leader of the selection for this race, Richie Porte, will thus wear number 1. The team still goes for a podium place in the general classification and a stage victory in this edition of the second race of the UCI WorldTour calendar.

1/ Richie Porte
2/ Ian Boswell
3/ Vasil Kiryienka
4/ David López
5/ Danny Pate
6/ Kanstantsin Siutsou
7/ Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
8/ Xabier Zandio

Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team

In the Dutch team, it's naturally Lieuwe Westra who will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2013 as the leader of the team but also as one of the potential candidates for the final victory, after having finished 2nd behind Bradley Wiggins last year. He'll be supported by a team which is mainly composed by Dutch and Belgian riders, Romain Feillu being the only French rider.

11/ Lieuwe Westra
12/ Kris Boeckmans
13/ Thomas de Gendt
14/ Romain Feillu
15/ Martijn Keizer
16/ Björn Leukemans
17/ Bert-Jan Lindeman
18/ Frederik Veuchelen

Movistar Team

In the Movistar team, Rui Costa will discover the Race to the sun as the leader of the Spanish team.

21/ Rui Costa
22/ Imanol Erviti
23/ José Ivan Gutierrez
24/ Jesús Herrada Lopez
25/ Javier Moreno
26/ Ruben Plaza
27/ Nairo Quintana
28/ José Joaquin Rojas

Blanco Pro Cycling Team

As the organisor remembers in an interview on its website, Robert Gesink will participate in Paris-Nice for the second time, after having finished at the 4th place in 2008.

In this interview, Gesink indicates being in good shape and target the general classification, adding that he hopes being able to do as well as I did the last time.

We'll see this week whether the Blanco team can continue its good results after the 10 victories it already got this year! In any case, with the two Australian riders (Mark Renshaw and David Tanner) and 6 Dutch riders, the team comes to the start with quite some ambitions.

31/ Robert Gesink
32/ Stef Clement
33/ Rick Flens
34/ Wilco Kelderman
35/ Steven Kruijswijk
36/ Mark Renshaw
37/ David Tanner
38/ Maarten Tjallingii

Euskaltel-Euskadi

The basque team will come to the start with 6 Spanish riders, one French rider and one Slovenian rider. Indeed, its riders are no longer exclusively Basque.

41/ Mikel Astarloza
42/ Ion Izagirre Insausti
43/ Gorka Izagirre Insausti
44/ Jure Kocjan
45/ Mikel Nieve
46/ Ruben Perez
47/ Romain Sicard
48/ Gorka Verdugo

Radioshack-Leopard

The team from Luxembourg will come to the start with an experimented Belgian rider as its leader, Maxime Monfort. Last year he finished the Race to the sun at the 7th place.

This team alone, with its 8 riders represents 8 nationalities, including the oldest rider of the peloton.

51/ Maxime Monfort
52/ Laurent Didier
53/ Tony Gallopin
54/ Markel Irizar
55/ Robert Kiserlovski
56/ Andréas Klöden
57/ Gregory Rast
58/ Jens Voigt

Lampre-Merida

The Italian team which adopted some green colour in its jersey in addition to the pink this year, will be led by Diego Ulissi whose best performance in Paris-Nice is a second place in the 8th stage Nice > Nice in 2011. In this team, we also find Alessandro Petacchi who will most probably try to be in front at the finish of the first stages to try to win one in the sprint. A Croatian rider (Kristijan Durasek) will complete the team which is completely Italian apart from him.

61/ Diego Ulissi
62/ Mattia Cattaneo
63/ Kristijan Durasek
64/ Elia Favilli
65/ Manuele Mori
66/ Andrea Francesco Palini
67/ Alessandro Petacchi
68/ Michele Scarponi

Lotto-Belisol

Next to the Danish rider Lars Bak and the Dutch rider Dirk Bellemakers, the Lotto-Belisol team in Paris-Nice 2013 is completely Belgian:

71/ Lars Bak
72/ Dirk Bellemakers
73/ Gaëtan Bille
74/ Bart de Clercq
75/ Francis de Greef
76/ Jens Debusschere
77/ Dennis Vanendert
78/ Frederik Willems

Orica-GreenEDGE

In the Australian team, Simon Gerrans is a sure value for the team in which Jens Keukeleire still uses my photo taken during the Paris-Nice prologue last year on Twitter.

81/ Simon Gerrans
82/ Michael Albasini
83/ Fumiyuki Beppu
84/ Simon Clarke
85/ Baden Cooke
86/ Leigh Howard
87/ Jens Keukeleire
88/ Michael Matthews

FDJ

The FDJ team will be completely French and comes to Paris-Nice with some ambition ... despite the previous deceptions as explained by the manager of the team, Marc Madiot, in the interview below:

91/ Nacer Bouhanni
92/ William Bonnet
93/ Pierrick Fédrigo
94/ Alexandre Geniez
95/ Arnold Jeannesson
96/ Yoann Offredo
97/ Jérémy Roy
98/ Geoffrey Soupe

BMC Racing Team

The BMC Racing Team will be built around the World Champion, Philippe Gilbert. In the selection of the American team we'll however also find another rider who regularly got up on the podium in Paris-Nice, Tejay van Garderen. At that time that was to receive the white jersey of best young rider and this time the American rider will most probably go for a place on the podium of the general classification!

101/ Philippe Gilbert
102/ Brent Bookwalter
103/ Mathias Frank
104/ Amaël Moinard
105/ Dominik Nerz
106/ Daniel Oss
107/ Ivan Santaromita
108/ Tejay van Garderen

AG2R La Mondiale

The AG2R La Mondiale team will come to Paris-Nice 2013 with the White-Russian Yauheni Hutarovich, former rider of the FDJ team which joined AG2R this year and who will probably try to get a stage victory in a sprint. Jean-Christophe Péraud, who finished 3rd in the final time trial on the Col d'Eze last year, will -as an experimented rider- wear the leader's bib number of the team.

111/ Jean-Christophe Péraud
112/ Romain Bardet
113/ Guillaume Bonnafond
114/ Maxime Bouet
115/ Samuel Dumoulin
116/ Hubert Dupont
117/ Yauheni Hutarovich
118/ Sébastien Minard

As you can see in the video below (at 1m27), the riders of the AG2R La Mondiale team wil discover the Paris-Nice 2013 race route on Google Maps thanks to velowire.com during the briefing in the bus:

Team Saxo-Tinkoff

A former rider of the AG2R La Mondiale team, Nicolas Roche, will be the leader of the Danish team Saxo-Tinkoff:

121/ Nicolas Roche
122/ Matti Breschel
123/ Mads Christensen
124/ Anders Lund
125/ Michael Morkov
126/ Evgeni Petrov
127/ Nicki Sörensen
128/ Rory Sutherland

Sojasun

Jonathan Hivert, leading the Sojasun team, already showed his good shape since the start of the season by winning the Etoile de Bessèges and two stages in the Tour of Andalusia.

131/ Jonathan Hivert
132/ Julien El Farès
133/ Cyril Lemoine
134/ Rémi Pauriol
135/ Julien Simon
136/ Evaldas Siskevicius
137/ Yannick Talabardon
138/ Alexis Vuillermoz

Garmin-Sharp

Andrew Talansky, winner of the Tour de l'Ain last year, is part of the favorites of this Paris-Nice 2013 and will be accompanied by a team of experimented riders coming from all horizons.

141/ Andrew Talansky
142/ Jack Bauer
143/ Alex Howes
144/ Andreas Klier
145/ David Millar
146/ Jacob Rathe
147/ Johan van Summeren
148/ Fabian Wegmann

Astana

The Astana team will come with a multi-national selection to the start of Paris-Nice 2013, with Jakob Fuglsang leading the team:

151/ Jakob Fuglsang
152/ Borut Bozic
153/ Enrico Gasparotto
154/ Andriy Grivko
155/ Maxim Iglinskiy
156/ Kevin Seeldrayers
157/ Egor Silin
158/ Andrey Zeits

Team Europcar

Not surprisingly, Thomas Voeckler will be the leader of the Europcar team. In the team, the Italian Davide Malacarne is the only foreign rider among all the Frenchies.

161/ Thomas Voeckler
162/ Jérome Cousin
163/ Damien Gaudin
164/ Vincent Jérôme
165/ Davide Malacarne
166/ Alexandre Pichot
167/ Angelo Tulik
168/ Sébastien Turgot

Omega Pharma-QuickStep

In the second Belgian team, a French rider is leading the selection, Sylvain Chavanel. He will be accompanied by another French rider, Jérôme Pineau, 5 Belgian rider and one Slovakian, Peter Velits.

171/ Sylvain Chavanel
172/ Tom Boonen
173/ Kevin de Weert
174/ Nikolas Maes
175/ Gianni Meersman
176/ Jérôme Pineau
177/ Stijn Vandenbergh
178/ Peter Velits

Katusha

The Katusha team's comeback among the UCI ProTeams is the reason why this edition of Paris-Nice will have a peloton made up of 23 teams and not 22 as initially planned. Indeed, the wildcard invitations had already been distributed when Katusha got back its license following a decision from the CAS.

In Paris-Nice 2013 Katusha will come to the start with Simon Spilak as its leader:

181/ Simon Spilak
182/ Xavier Florencio
183/ Alexander Kristoff
184/ Alberto Losada
185/ Denis Menchov
186/ Gatis Smukulis
187/ Yury Trofimov
188/ Eduard Vorganov

Cofidis solutions crédits

The Cofidis team will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2013 with its two leaders, Rein Taaramae and Jérôme Coppel. It will thus be interesting to see how the roles will be distributed among these two riders.

191/ Rein Taaramae
192/ Jérôme Coppel
193/ Egoitz Garcio Echeguibel
194/ Christophe Le Mével
195/ Romain Lemarchand
196/ Luis Angel Maté Mardones
197/ Daniel Navarro
198/ Romain Zingle

Cannondale Pro Cycling

The Cannondale team will be made up of 6 Italians, an Argentinian rider (Lucas Sebastian Haedo) and an American (Ted King). Ivan Basso will be the leader of the team.

201/ Ivan Basso
202/ Mauro da Dalot
203/ Alessandro de Marchi
204/ Lucas Sebastian Haedo
205/ Ted King
206/ Paolo Longo Borghini
207/ Daniele Ratto
208/ Elia Viviani

Team Argos-Shimano

The sprinter Marcel Kittel will be the leader of the Dutch team Argos-Shimano. He will be accompanied by a selection of French and Dutch riders and a Belgian.

211/ Marcel Kittel
212/ Warren Barguil
213/ Roy Curvers
214/ Bert de Backer
215/ Yann Huguet
216/ Thierry Hupond
217/ Tom Stamsnijder
218/ Tom Veelers

IAM Cycling

The new Swiss team, IAM Cycling, will come to the start with 8 riders including the leader, Thomas Lövkvist. Marco Bandiera, member of this team, will be the first to start in the prologue in Houilles at 1.37PM.

221/ Thomas Lövkvist
222/ Marco Bandiera
223/ Stefan Denifl
224/ Martin Elmiger
225/ Heinrich Haussler
226/ Sébastien Hinault
227/ Gustav Larsson
228/ Johann Tschopp

The TV broadcast of Paris-Nice 2013

If you cannot come see the race on the roads of Paris-Nice 2013, you can of course follow it on TV. Hereunder you'll find the different broadcasters of the race who will broadcast it live in the different countries:

France
> France 3: Sunday 3 March 3.20PM till 4.55PM, from Monday 4 till Friday 8 March 2.55PM till 4.10PM, Saturday 9 March 3.25PM till 4.50PM and Sunday 10 March 3.20PM till 4.55PM
> Eurosport: see below

Elsewhere in Europe
> Eurosport: prologue and stages 1, 2, 3 and 5 on Eurosport International and stages 4, 6 and 7 on Eurosport 2
> RTBF and VRT in Belgium, DKTV2 in Denmark, Teledeporte in Spain, Rai in Italy, RTL in Luxembourg, TV2 in Norway, NOS in The Netherlands and RTS/RSI in Switzerland

Elsewhere in the world
> Eurosport Asia, Supersport in Africa, TDN in Latin America, J Sports in Japan, Sky TV in New-Zealand and NBC Sports in the United States

The times and start order of the Paris-Nice 2013 prologue in Houilles

The 2.9 kilometer prologue in the streets of Houilles will see the 184 riders come to the start between 1.37PM (Marco Bandiera) and 4.40PM (Richie Porte):

> The start order and the start times of the Paris-Nice 2013 prologue

door Thomas Vergouwen
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