Full List Of TDF Riders Gets Closer

Last updated : 27 June 2011 By Kev Monks

The full list of 198 riders in twenty two teams, who will compete in the 98th Tour De France which starts in Vendee on Saturday July 2nd is closer to being complete with more teams announcing their nine man outfits over the weekend or today for the epic three week race.

Mark Cavendish, who has won a British record fifteen Tour De France stages since 2008, will have with him in the HTC Highroad team, fellow sprinter Matt Goss. Bernhard Eisel will captain the team with Tony Martin, Peter Velits and Tejay VanGarderen who is making his debut going for the general classification along with lead out man Mark Renshaw and support riders Lars Bak and Danny Pate.

Team Sky have named Edvald Boasson Hagen, Juan Antonio Flecha, Simon Gerrans, Christian Knees, Ben Swift (GB), Geraint Thomas (GB), Rigoberto Uran, Bradley Wiggins (GB) and Xabier Zandio.

Basque side Euskatel Euskadi have named Sammy Sanchez as their main man and he will be supported by Gorka Izagirre, Alan Pérez, Rubén Pérez, Pablo Urtasun, Egoi Martínez, Amets Txurruka and Gorka Verdugo.

Liquigas Cannondale have named the following team that includes top riders Ivan Basso and Daniel Oss. They will be assisted by Alessandro Vanotti, Paolo Longo Borghini, Fabio Sabatini, Sylvester Szmyd, Maciej Bodnar, Maciej Paterski and Kristijan Koren.

Astana go with Alexandre Vinokourov, Rémy Di Gregorio, Dmitriy Fofonov, Andriy Grivko, Maxim Iglinskiy, Roman Kreuziger, Paolo Tiralongo, Tomas Vaitkus and Andrey Zeits.

Alberto Contador leads the Saxo Bank Sungard team which comprises of Jesus Hernandez, Dani Navarro, Benjamin Noval, Richie Porte, Chris Anker Sørensen, Nicki Sørensen, Matteo Tosatto and Brian Vandborg.

Team Radio Shack go with Jani Brajkovic, Chris Horner, Markel Irizar, Andreas Klöden, Levi Leipheimer, Dmitriy Muravyev, Sérgio Paulinho
Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia.

BMC line up with Brent Bookwalter, Marcus Burghardt, Cadel Evans, George Hincapie, Amael Moinard, Steve Morabito, Ivan Santaromita,
Manuel Quinziato and Michael Schar.

FDJ Team is William Bonnet, Sandy Casar, Mickael Delage, Arnold Jeannesson, Gianni Meersman, Rémi Pauriol, Anthony Roux, Jeremy Roy and Athur Vichot.

Omega Pharma Lotto's nine man team is Philippe Gilbert, Andre Greipel, Sebastian Lang, Jurgen Roelandts, Marcel Sieberg, Jurgen Van den Broeck, Jurgen Van de Walle, Jelle Vanendert and Frederik Willems.

Quick Step go with Tom Boonen, Sylvain Chavanel, Gerald Ciolek,
Kevin De Weert, Dries Devenyns, Addy Engels, Jerome Pineau,
Gert Steegmans and Niki Terpstra.

Rabbobank's team is Carlos Barredo, Lars Boom, Juan Manuel Garate, Robert Gesink, Bauke Mollema, Grischa Niermann, Laurens Ten Dam, Maarten Tjallingii and Luis Leon Sanchez.

Team Europcar's team is Anthony Charteau, Cyril Gautier, Yohann Gène, Vincent Jérôme, Christophe Kern, Perrig Quémeneur, Pierre Rolland, Sébastien Turgot who will be led by Thomas Voeckler.

Lampre's team list is Leonardo Bertagnolli, Grega Bole, Matteo Bono, Damiano Cunego, Danilo Hondo, Denis Kostyuk, David Loosli, Adriano Malori and Alessandro Petacchi.

AG2R La Mondiale team is Maxime Bouet, Hubert Dupont, John Gadret, Sébastien Hinault, Blel Kadri, Sébastien Minard, Jean-Christophe Peraud, Scrap Christophe, Nicolas Roche (Ireland)

Saur Sojasun: Jérôme Coppel, Anthony Delaplace, Jimmy Engoulvent, Arnaud Coyot, Jérémy Galland, Jonathan Hivert, Fabrice Jeandesboz, Laurent Mangel and Yannick Talabardon.

Cofidis: Mickael Buffaz, Samuel Dumoulin, Leonardo Duque, Julien El Fares, Tony Gallopin, David Moncoutie, Rein Taaramae, Tristan Valentin, Romain Zingle.

Katusha go for an all Russian line up of Pavel Brutt, Denis Galimzyanov, Vladimir Gusev, Mikhail Ignatiev, Vladimir Isaychev, Vladimir Karpets, Alexandr Kolobnev, Egor Silin and Yuriy Trofimov  

To be announced - Garmin Cervelo, Vacansoleil, Movistar and Leopard Trek,

All the riders will be publically presented at Le Puy Du Fou on Thursday afternoon. This is live on Eurosport. 

 


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