Tomorrow will see the start of the Tour de France 2013, hundredth edition! It's therefore time for us to have a quick look at the participating teams: 22 teams of 9 riders together form a peloton of 198 riders. They will get together for the start of the first stage this Saturday in Porto-Vecchio (see the Tour de France 2013 race route in detail on Google Maps).

The 22 participating teams in the Tour de France 2013

Let's have a look at these 22 teams and more importantly the leaders among the 9 selected riders for each of them.

Team Sky

Since the British team has the winner of last year's Tour, Bradley Wiggins, in its team, it naturally shows up on top of the list of participating riders in the Tour de France 2013.

The British rider is however, as you probably know, not at the start of the Tour and his team mate, who helped him that much last year is thus the leader of the team and the biggest favourite for the overall victory in this 100th edition of the Tour: Chris Froome.

He'll be accompanied by 3 other British riders, 2 White-Russian rider, a Norvegian, a Spanish rider and an Australian.

1/ Christopher Froome
2/ Edvald Boasson Hagen
3/ Peter Kennaugh
4/ Vasili Kiryienka
5/ David Lopez Garcia
6/ Richie Porte
7/ Kanstantsin Siutsou
8/ Ian Stannard
9/ Geraint Thomas

Cannondale

In the Italian team, the former mountainbiker Peter Sagan will be the leader in this Tour. The Slovakian rider will most probably want to win one or more stages and enjoy the moment to show off one of his famous wheelies on the finish line.

11/ Peter Sagan
12/ Maciej Bodnar
13/ Alessandro De Marchi
14/ Ted King
15/ Kristijan Koren
16/ Alan Marangoni
17/ Moreno Moser
18/ Fabio Sabatini
19/ Brian Vandborg

Lotto-Belisol

In the Belgian team we find Jurgen van den Broeck at the lead of a team which contains 3 other Belgian riders, two Australian riders, two Germans and one Danish rider. One of the German riders of the Lotto-Belisol team is the German road race national champion, André Greipel.

21/ Jurgen van den Broeck
22/ Lars Bak
23/ Bart de Clercq
24/ André Greipel
25/ Adam Hansen
26/ Gregory Henderson
27/ Jurgen Roelandts
28/ Marcel Sieberg
29/ Frederik Willems

BMC Racing Team

In the American team a former winner of the Tour de France, in 2011, is leading the team. Cadel Evans will be accompanied by another former World Champion, Philippe Gilbert, the young and strong Tejay van Garderen and the recent new Swiss national champion, Michael Schär.

31/ Cadel Evans
32/ Brent Bookwalter
33/ Marcus Burghardt
34/ Philippe Gilbert
35/ Amaël Moinard
36/ Steve Morabito
37/ Manuel Quinziato
38/ Michael Schär
39/ Tejay van Garderen

Radioshack-Leopard

The team from Luxembourg announces the big comeback of Andy Schleck as the leader of the team and the rider from Luxembourg can count on several riders with quite some experience in the Tour:

41/ Andy Schleck
42/ Jan Bakelants
43/ Laurent Didier
44/ Tony Gallopin
45/ Markel Irizar
46/ Andréas Kloden
47/ Maxime Monfort
48/ Jens Voigt
49/ Haimar Zubeldia

Europcar

The Europcar team, which was recently suspended by the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible for not having respected the rules of the MPCC during the Critérium du Dauphiné after the detection of an abnormally low cortisol level for Pierre Rolland comes to the Tour de France 2013 with ... exactly, Pierre Rolland as the leader of the team:

51/ Pierre Rolland
52/ Yukiya Arashiro
53/ Jérome Cousin
54/ Cyril Gautier
55/ Yohann Gène
56/ Davide Malacarne
57/ Kévin Réza
58/ David Veilleux
59/ Thomas Voeckler

Astana

The Astana team built up its selection for the Tour de France 2013 around Janez Brajkovic.

61/ Janez Brajkovic
62/ Assan Bazayev
63/ Jakob Fuglsang
64/ Enrico Gasparotto
65/ Francesco Gavazzi
66/ Andrey Kashechkin
67/ Fredrik Kessiakoff
68/ Alexey Lutsenko
69/ Dmitriy Muravyev

FDJ.fr

At the occasion of the Tour de France 2013, the FDJ team decided to promote its online presence, by renaming itself in FDJ.fr. In parallel, the team adopted a new jersey as you can see below, presented by Thibaut Pinot :

L'équipe FDJ.fr présente son nouveau maillot qu'elle arborera dès le Tour de France 2013. #TDF13 pic.twitter.com/lA4f3viqpc

— Equipe FDJ.fr (@EquipeFDJ) June 26, 2013

Apart from Murilo Fischer, all riders of the FDJ.fr team in the Tour de France 2013 around Thibaut Pinot are French. One of them, Arthur Vichot, will wear a jersey without sponsors. Indeed, as the French Champion he'll wear a blue/white/red jersey and like last year (with Nacer Bouhanni), the FDJ.fr team decided to make it an empty jersey by respect of the flag symbol:

71/ Thibaut Pinot
72/ William Bonnet
73/ Nacer Bouhanni
74/ Pierrick Fédrigo
75/ Murilo Fischer
76/ Alexandre Géniez
77/ Arnold Jeannesson
78/ Jérémy Roy
79/ Arthur Vichot

AG2R La Mondiale

The French AG2R La Mondiale team, which didn't participate in the Critérium du Dauphiné this year after having been auto-suspended following the rules of the MPCC, will come to the start of the Tour de France 2013 with a completely French team.

Its leader will be Jean-Christophe Péraud, and his target, as Vincent Lavenu declared on LNC radio last Saturday (listen to the first show in podcast), a place in the top 5 of this Tour. His team mates will thus all be French and combine both experience and young blood with for example Romain Bardet who will do his first Tour de France.

81/ Jean-Christophe Péraud
82/ Romain Bardet
83/ Maxime Bouet
84/ Samuel Dumoulin
85/ Hubert Dupont
86/ John Gadret
87/ Blel Kadri
88/ Sébastien Minard
89/ Christophe Riblon

Team Saxo-Tinkoff

Alberto Contador will probably be one of the rare challengers of Chris Froome for the overall victory in this Tour de France 2013. The Spanish rider will come to the Tour with quite a strong team ... the question however is whether it will be as strong as Team Sky!?

91/ Alberto Contador
92/ Daniele Bennati
93/ Jesus Hernandez
94/ Roman Kreuziger
95/ Benjamin Noval
96/ Sergio Paulinho
97/ Nicolas Roche
98/ Michael Rogers
99/ Matteo Tosatto

Katusha

Joaquim Rodriguez will be leading the Katusha team and Purito will be accompanied by 2 other Spanish riders, 3 Russian rider, one Norvegian rider and a White-Russian rider:

101/ Joaquim Rodriguez
102/ Pavel Brutt
103/ Alexander Kristoff
104/ Aliaksandr Kuchynski
105/ Alberto Losada
106/ Daniel Moreno
107/ Gatis Smukulis
108/ Yury Trofimov
109/ Eduard Vorganov

Euskaltel-Euskadi

In the Basque team, Romain Sicard will be the only French rider, next to 7 Spanish riders around their leader, Igor Anton :

111/ Igor Anton
112/ Mikel Astarloza
113/ Gorka Izaguirre
114/ Jon Izaguirre
115/ Juan Jose Lobato
116/ Mikel Nieve
117/ Juan José Oroz
118/ Ruben Perez
119/ Romain Sicard

Movistar Team

Alejandro Valverde is leading the Movistar team but let's not forget Nairo Quintana who could well use the mountains in this Tour de France 2013 to show what he's capable of!

The Movistar team also uses the context of the Tour de France to change its jersey, which will now show the O2 logo - a daughter company of Telefonica since 2008 -, in addition to the Movistar logo.

121/ Alejandro Valverde
122/ Andrey Amador
123/ Jonathan Castroviejo
124/ Rui Costa
125/ Imanol Erviti
126/ José Ivan Gutierrez
127/ Ruben Plaza
128/ Nairo Quintana
129/ Jose Joaquin Rojas

Cofidis, solutions crédits

The double Estonian champion (2009 and 2013) Rein Taaramae will be leading the Cofidis, solutions crédits team, in which we find 5 other French riders and 3 Spanish riders:

131/ Rein Taaramae
132/ Yoann Bagot
133/ Jérôme Coppel
134/ Egoitz Garcia
135/ Christophe Le Mével
136/ Guillaume Levarlet
137/ Luis Angel Maté Mardones
138/ Rudy Molard
139/ Daniel Navarro

Lampre-Merida

The Lampre-Merida team built around Damiano Cunego is almost completely Italian, except for the Polish rider Przemyslaw Niemiec and the Columbian José Serpa.

141/ Damiano Cunego
142/ Matteo Bono
143/ Davide Cimolai
144/ Elia Favilli
145/ Roberto Ferrari
146/ Adriano Malori
147/ Manuele Mori
148/ Przemyslaw Niemiec
149/ José Serpa

Omega Pharma-QuickStep

In the second Belgian team the new British Champion, Mark Cavendish, is the leader and his first goal is to get the first yellow jersey at the finish of the first stage in Bastia in this Tour de France 2013 before going on for other victories until the one on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. The green jersey is thus quite naturally also one of his goals.

In this team we also find the French time trial Champion on the list, Sylvain Chavanel and the German Champion of the same discipline, Tony Martin.

151/ Mark Cavendish
152/ Sylvain Chavanel
153/ Michal Kwiatkowski
154/ Tony Martin
155/ Jérôme Pineau
156/ Gert Steegmans
157/ Niki Terpstra
158/ Matteo Trentin
159/ Peter Velits

Belkin Pro Cycling

The Dutch Blanco Pro Cycling Team, former Rabobank, is from now on called Belkin Pro Cycling and comes to the start of the Tour de France 2013 with 5 Dutch riders, two Belgians and one Norvegian.

The team is built around Lars Boom and in the team we see numerous experimented riders and some strong men like Bauke Mollema.

161/ Lars Boom
162/ Robert Gesink
163/ Tom Leezer
164/ Bauke Mollema
165/ Lars Petter Nordhaug
166/ Bram Tankink
167/ Laurens ten Dam
168/ Sep Vanmarcke
169/ Maarten Wynants

Garmin-Sharp

In the Garmin-Sharp team we find the former winner of the Giro d'Italia, Ryder Hesjedal leading the team which contains no less than 7 nationalities:

171/ Ryder Hesjedal
172/ Jack Bauer
173/ Tom Danielson
174/ Rohan Dennis
175/ Dan Martin
176/ David Millar
177/ Ramunas Navardauskas
178/ Andrew Talansky
179/ Christian Vande Velde

Orica-GreenEDGE

The Australian team, which participated in its first Tour de France last year, has a team which is a bit less international but apart from the 6 Australian riders there's one Swiss, Michael Albasini, one South-African rider, Daryl Impey, and a Canadian rider, Svein Tuft, all working for Simon Gerrans.

181/ Simon Gerrans
182/ Michael Albasini
183/ Simon Clarke
184/ Matthew Goss
185/ Daryl Impey
186/ Brett Lancaster
187/ Cameron Meyer
188/ Stuart O'Grady
189/ Svein Tuft

Team Argos-Shimano

In the selection of the Dutch team we find only Dutch and German riders, of whom quite a lot have done the Tour de France one or more times in the past.

191/ John Degenkolb
192/ Roy Curvers
193/ Koen de Kort
194/ Tom Dumoulin
195/ Johannes Fröhlinger
196/ Simon Geschke
197/ Marcel Kittel
198/ Albert Timmer
199/ Tom Veelers

Vacansoleil-DCM

The Vacansoleil-DCM team mixes 3 different types of riders: 3 sprinters, 3 climbers and 3 attacking riders, including the recent Dutch Champion, Johnny Hoogerland.

201/ Wouter Poels
202/ Kris Boeckmans
203/ Thomas de Gendt
204/ Juan Antonio Flecha
205/ Johnny Hoogerland
206/ Sergey Lagutin
207/ Boy van Poppel
208/ Danny van Poppel
209/ Lieuwe Westra

Sojasun

The Sojasun team ends up the list of participating riders for the Tour de France 2013 and in this team, around Brice Feillu, we find for example the young rider Alexis Vuillermoz, who comes from mountain biking and who recently realised quite some good performances in the Rhône Alpes Isère Tour and in the Route du Sud. Stéphane Heulot explained why on LNC radio.

211/ Brice Feillu
212/ Anthony Delaplace
213/ Julien El Farès
214/ Jonathan Hivert
215/ Cyril Lemoine
216/ Jean Marc Marino
217/ Maxime Médérel
218/ Julien Simon
219/ Alexis Vuillermoz

The nationalities which are represented in the Tour de France 2013

With this list of participating riders we thus reach a total of 33 nationalities. The top 3 is formed by France (42), Spain (27) and Italy and The Netherlands which share the 3rd place with 18 riders.

They are followed by Belgium and Australia who have 12 riders at the start of the Tour de France 2013, and Germany with 10.

The United Kingdom and United States have 6 while Kazakhstan is represented by 4 riders.

Several countries have 3 riders at the start of the Tour: Norway, White-Rssia, Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada and Russia.

2 riders represented each of the following countries: Slovenia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Ireland, Columbie and Slovakia while Japan, Sweden, Brasil, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Costa Rica, Estonia, South-Africa, Littuania and Ouzbekistan all have one rider at the start in Porto-Vecchio.

door Thomas Vergouwen
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