Tomorrow, Paris-Nice 2016 will start with the 6.1 kilometer long prologue in the streets of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, followed by 7 stages in line which will bring the riders to the usual finish in Nice (see the Paris-Nice 2016 race route on Google Maps).

Except unexpected circumstances, 175 riders will come to the start (22 teams of 8 riders each, except for Lotto-Soudal which has one less) tomorrow and in this article you'll find all of them, including their bib numbers, but also the start order and -times of the prologue in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

The participants list of Paris-Nice 2016

175 riders coming from 35 different countries (the main nationalities are: 40 French riders, 16 Belgian riders, 16 Spanish riders, 15 Dutch riders and 8 Italian riders) will get off the start ramp starting at 11.44AM tomorrow morning.

The youngest rider will be the Norwegian Odd Christian Eiking (FDJ) who will discover Paris-Nice for the first time at 21 years old, while the oldest rider will be the Italian Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff) who will celebrate his 42nd anniversary in two months!

The big names of Paris-Nice 2016 will probably be Richie Porte (BMC Racing Team), Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) and why not Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale).

BMC Racing Team

As last year's winner, Richie Porte will have bib number 1, this time for his new team BMC Racing Team (last year he won Paris-Nice for Team Sky).

He will get help from several experimented riders:

1 - PORTE Richie
2 - BURGHARDT Marcus
3 - GILBERT Philippe
4 - HERMANS Ben
5 - MOINARD Amaël
6 - SCHÄR Michael
7 - VELITS Peter
8 - WYSS Danilo

Team Katusha

For Katusha Simon Špilak will wear the first bib number and in this team we'll also find the sprinter Alexander Kristoff, who already won 5 stages this season (!):

11 - ŠPILAK Simon
12 - BYSTRÖM Sven Erik
13 - GUARNIERI Jacopo
14 - KOCHETKOV Pavel
15 - KRISTOFF Alexander
16 - LAGUTIN Sergey
17 - MORKOV Michael
18 - ZAKARIN Ilnur

Lampre-Merida

The former World Champion, Rui Costa, will be the leader of the Lampre-Merida team in this 74th edition of Paris-Nice. In this team we'll also find the brother of the Portuguese rider, Mario Costa:

21 - FARIA DA COSTA Rui
22 - FARIA DA COSTA Mario
23 - BONO Matteo
24 - CIMOLAI Davide
25 - GRMAY Tsgabu Gebremaryam
26 - KUMP Marko
27 - MEINTJES Louis
28 - PIBERNIK Luka

Team Sky

The team which won Paris-Nice several times will start the Race to the sun without Richie Porte who thus now rides for BMC, and its leader will be Geraint Thomas:

31 - THOMAS Geraint
32 - BOSWELL Ian
33 - HENAO MONTOYA Sergio
34 - NIEVE ITURRALDE Mikel
35 - ROCHE Nicolas
36 - ROWE Luke
37 - STANNARD Ian
38 - SWIFT Ben

Lotto-Soudal

In the Belgian Lotto-Soudal team there's one missing rider because despite the fact that Marcel Sieberg was on his way to Paris-Nice yesterday the name of the German rider is finally not on the start list.

Tony Gallopin will try to get a good place in the general classification for the Belgian team but the team also counts on André Greipel who will try his chance in the sprint.

Don't try to find the Lotto-Soudal team in red in this Paris-Nice 2016 because for one week the team will change its kit for a grey/blue kit with the Fix ALL brand instead of Soudal (one of the brands of the Soudal group) as shown by Tony Gallopin in this video:


41 - GALLOPIN Tony
42 - BAK Lars Ytting
43 - DE GENDT Thomas
44 - GREIPEL André
45 - HANSEN Adam
46 - VANENDERT Jelle
47 - WELLENS Tim

AG2R La Mondiale

Romain Bardet is definitely the leader of the AG2R La Mondiale team, mainly after his good performance on the Green Mountain in the Tour of Oman. The French rider ecognises that the Madone d'Utelle will be the decisive finish in this Paris-Nice 2016, but he could also try his chance on the Mont Brouilly!

Except for Ben Gastauer, the team is entirely French:

51 - BARDET Romain
52 - CHEREL Mikael
53 - DOMONT Axel
54 - GASTAUER Ben
55 - GAUTIER Cyril
56 - GOUGEARD Alexis
57 - LATOUR Pierre-Roger
58 - VUILLERMOZ Alexis

Orica-GreenEDGE

Bling, the surname for Michael Matthews who won in Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule last year, will be the leader of the Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team:

61 - MATTHEWS Michael
62 - ALBASINI Michael
63 - BEWLEY Sam
64 - DOCKER Mitchell
65 - IMPEY Daryl
66 - NIELSEN Magnus Cort
67 - TXURRUKA ANSOLA Amets
68 - YATES Simon

Tinkoff

In the Tinkoff team we find the third favourite of the race, Alberto Contador. He can count on several riders who know Paris-Nice quite well:

71 - CONTADOR Alberto
72 - KISERLOVSKI Robert
73 - MAJKA Rafal
74 - PAULINHO Sergio
75 - POLJANSKI Pawel
76 - TOSATTO Matteo
77 - TROFIMOV Yury
78 - VALGREN Michael

Etixx-QuickStep

In the Belgian team we'll see whether Tom Boonen is back in shape for the sprint but the team will probably mainly count on Marcel Kittel in case of a sprint finish. The team also has Niki Terpstra on the start list:

81 - BOONEN Tom
82 - DE LA CRUZ David
83 - KITTEL Marcel
84 - MAES Nikolas
85 - SABATINI Fabio
86 - SERRY Pieter
87 - TERPSTRA Niki
88 - VANDENBERGH Stijn

FDJ

Arthur Vichot will be the leader of the French FDJ team and will try to get a good place in the general classification. In the team we also find the sprinter Arnaud Démare:

91 - VICHOT Arthur
92 - COURTEILLE Arnaud
93 - DELAGE Mickaël
94 - DEMARE Arnaud
95 - EIKING Odd Christian
96 - HOELGAARD Daniel
97 - KONOVALOVAS Ignatas
98 - REZA Kévin

Movistar Team

The Movistar team will come to the start with a completely Spanish team:

101 - IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Jon
102 - ERVITI Imanol
103 - FERNANDEZ Ruben
104 - HERRADA LOPEZ Jesus
105 - HERRADA LOPEZ José
106 - IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka
107 - LOBATO Juan Jose
108 - ROJAS Jose Joaquin

Astana Pro Team

The Astana team will start Paris-Nice 2016 with some known names like Luis Leon Sanchez, Lars Boom or Lieuwe Westra:

111 - SANCHEZ Luis-Leon
112 - BOOM Lars
113 - FOMINYKH Daniil
114 - GRUZDEV Dmitriy
115 - KANGERT Tanel
116 - LUTSENKO Alexey
117 - ROSA Diego
118 - WESTRA Lieuwe

Team Giant-Alpecin

The German Giant-Alpecin team will count on its big talent Tom Dumoulin who will be accompanied by 3 other Dutch riders, one German rider, one Chinese, one Swedish rider and and Austrian:

121 - DUMOULIN Tom
122 - CURVERS Roy
123 - DE KORT Koen
124 - GESCHKE Simon
125 - JI Cheng
126 - LUDVIGSSON Tobias
127 - PREIDLER Georg
128 - TEN DAM Laurens

Cofidis, solutions crédits

In the Cofidis team, the sprinter Nacer Bouhanni is a good candidate for a stage victory in a sprint! Except for the always smiling Luis Angel Mate Mardones, all his team mates are French:

131 - BOUHANNI Nacer
132 - COUSIN Jérome
133 - JEANNESSON Arnold
134 - LAPORTE Christophe
135 - LEMOINE Cyril
136 - MATE MARDONES Luis Angel
137 - SIMON Julien
138 - SOUPE Geoffrey

Cannondale

The Cannondale team has put the French rider Pierre Rolland as its leader for a multi-national team:

141 - ROLLAND Pierre
142 - BEVIN Patrick
143 - BRESCHEL Matti
144 - CRADDOCK Lawson
145 - SLAGTER Tom Jelte
146 - TALANSKY Andrew
147 - VAN BAARLE Dylan
148 - WIPPERT Wouter

Trek-Segafredo

151 - SCHLECK Frank
152 - BEPPU Fumiyuki
153 - BONIFAZIO Niccolo
154 - DIDIER Laurent
155 - FELLINE Fabio
156 - RAST Gregory
157 - THEUNS Edward
158 - VAN POPPEL Boy

Direct Energie

The Direct Energie team is almost completely French, except for Antoine Duchesne who's used to doing Paris-Nice, with Sylvain Chavanel as its leader:

161 - CHAVANEL Sylvain
162 - CALMEJANE Lilian
163 - DUCHESNE Antoine
164 - PETIT Adrien
165 - PICHOT Alexandre
166 - QUEMENEUR Perrig
167 - TULIK Angelo
168 - VOECKLER Thomas

Dimension Data

The UCI WorldTeam Dimension Data (formerly known as MTN-Qhubeka) will come with the Belgian rider Serge Pauwels as its leader:

171 - PAUWELS Serge
172 - BRAMMEIER Mattew
173 - FARRAR Tyler
174 - HAAS Nathan
175 - JANSE VAN RENSBURG Jacques
176 - REGUIGUI Youcef
177 - TEKLEHAIMANOT Daniel
178 - THOMSON Jay

Team Lotto NL-Jumbo

The Dutch Lotto NL-Jumbo team will see the Dutch rider Wilco Kelderman accompanied by 3 of his compatriotes, a New-Zealander, two Belgian and one German riders:

181 - KELDERMAN Wilco
182 - BENNETT George
183 - CAMPENAERTS Victor
184 - KRUIJSWIJK Steven
185 - MARTENS Paul
186 - TANKINK Bram
187 - VAN EMDEN Jos
188 - VANMARCKE Sep

IAM Cycling

The Swiss team will come with a French rider who could get a good spot right from the start in tomorrow's prologue of Paris-Nice 2016, Jérôme Coppel:

191 - COPPEL Jérôme
192 - BRANDLE Matthias
193 - DENIFL Stephan
194 - DEVENYNS Dries
195 - LAENGEN Vegard Stake
196 - NAESEN Oliver
197 - REYNES Vicente
198 - VAN GENECHTEN Jonas

Fortuneo-Vital Concept

201 - SORENSEN Chris Anker
202 - DELAPLACE Anthony
203 - FEDRIGO Pierrick
204 - LOUBET Julien
205 - MCLAY Daniel
206 - PERICHON Pierre-Luc
207 - TRONET Steven
208 - VACHON Florian

Delko Marseille Provence-KTM

211 - DI GREGORIO Rémy
212 - COMBAUD Romain
213 - DIAZ Daniel
214 - DUQUE Leonardo
215 - FERNANDEZ Delio
216 - HUPOND Thierry
217 - PACHER Quentin
218 - SISKEVICIUS Evaldas

The start order and -times for the prologue of Paris-Nice 2016 (Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Sunday 6 March 2016)

Hereunder you'll find the start order and -times for the 175 riders for the prologue of Paris-Nice 2016 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, tomorrow Sunday 6 March 2016 (to open it, click on the image and click on the arrows in the lower right corner to zoom in on it):

door Thomas Vergouwen
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