Tour Of Britain Provisional Start List Published

Last updated : 05 September 2012 By Peter Hodges

Tour of Britain provisional start list published

Full 96-rider provisional start list for The Tour of Britain unveiled

  

Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins headlines The Tour of Britain’s provisional start list, which has been released today. 

The provisional start list contains stage winners from all three Grand Tours, including seven Tour de France stage winners, with 31 victories to their name, 23 of them falling to the world’s number one sprinter and current World Road Race Champion Mark Cavendish. 

The rider list also contains four Tour de France jersey winners – Ivan Basso (2002 Best Young Rider), Mark Cavendish (2011 Green Jersey), Samuel Sanchez (2011 King of the Mountains) and Bradley Wiggins (2012 Yellow Jersey). 

Six Giro d’Italia stage winners and six Vuelta a Espana stage winners are also on the list, while five of the riders lining up for this year’s Tour of Britain are Olympic medallists, including 2012 Individual Time Trial Champion Bradley Wiggins.

Seven teams line-up for The Tour having competed in this summer’s Tour de France, while Orica GreenEDGE, Liquigas – Cannondale, Saur Sojasun and Team UK Youth all make their Tour of Britain debuts.

Riders from 16 teams and of 23 different nationalities make up the start list for this year’s Tour of Britain, which gets underway in Ipswich on Sunday 9th September, for Stage One through Suffolk and Norfolk to the Norfolk Showground.

Amateur cyclists can take on the same challenges as the professionals via five different Tour Ride sportives this September, in East Anglia, Scotland, Wales, Stoke-on-Trent and at the Birmingham NEC Cycle Show.  To sign-up and to take on the challenge of a route inspired by The Tour of Britain, to enter, please visit www.tourride.co.uk

Tour of Britain 2012
Sky Pro Cycling                        Liquigas - Cannondale                      AN Post Sean Kelly
Sean Yates                              Stefano Zanatta                                 Kurt Bogaerts
1 Wiggins, Bradley GBR          61 Basso, Ivan ITA                             121 Bagdonas, Gediminas U
2 Cavendish, Mark GBR          62 Beneffato, Marco ITA                    122 Bennett, Sam IRL
3 Eisel, Bernhard AUT            63 Canuti, Federico ITA                     123 Christian, Mark GBR
4 Hunt, Jeremy GBR               64 Caruso, Damiano ITA                    124 Downey, Sean IRL
5 Knees, Christian GER          65 Krizek, Matthias AUT                      125 Ghyllebert, Pieter L
6 Lofkvist, Thomas SWE         66 Longo Borghini, Paolo ITA            126 McLaughlin, Ronan 

Endura Racing                       Saur - Sojasun                                     Team Raleigh - GAC
Alex Sans                              Vega Lylian Lebreton                          Cherie Pridham
11 Tiernan-Locke, Jonathan GBR 71 Engoulvent, Jimmy FRA         131 Briggs, Graham GBR
12 Camano, Iker SPA            72 Galland, Jérémie FRA                    132 Hampton, Russell GBR
13 Downing, Russell GBR     73 Hivert, Jonathan FRA                       133 Holohan, Liam GBR
14 Bibby, Ian GBR                74 Lemoine, Cyril FRA                         134 Oliphant, Evan GBR
15 Dempster, Zak AUS          75 Marino, Jean-Marc FRA                    135 Sparling, Jamie CAN
16 Voss, Paul GER                76 Martias, Rony FRA                           136 Sulzberger, Bernard AUS

Node4 - Giordana                   Racing Vacansoleil DCM                       Garmin - Sharp
Malcolm Elliott                      Cees De Brauwer                                     Geert Van Bondt
21 Bialoblocki, Marcin POL   81 Mortensen, Martin DEN                       141 Farrar, Tyler USA
22 Clarke, Dave GBR             82 Carrara, Matteo ITA                            142 Haas, Nathan AUS
23 Cronshaw, Matt GBR         83 Kreder, Wesley NED                           143 Hunter, Robbie RSA
24 Lavery, Philip IRL              84 Markus, Barry NED                             144 Morton, Lachlan AUS
25 Northey, Mike NZL             85 Novikov, Nikita RUS                           145 Vanmarcke, Sep BEL
26 Williams, Pete GBR           86 Wauters, Willem BEL                        146 Vonhoff, Steele AUS

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team IG - Sigma Sport                          Team  UK Youth
Hendrik Redant                       Becky Frewing                                        David Povall
31 Clarke, Jonny AUS            91 Craven, Dan NAM                             151 Barker, Yanto GBR
32 Forster, Robert GER          92 Hawkins, Peter IRL                            152 Backstedt, Magnus SWE
33 Jones, Christopher USA    93 Last, Tom GBR                                 153 Gustavsson, Niklas SWE
34 de Maar, Marc AHO          94 Lloyd, Dan GBR                                154 Opie, Chris GBR
35 Reus, Kai NED                  95 Richardson, Simon GBR                55 Stevenson, Christofer SWE
36 Van Poppel, Boy NED       96 Sybrandy, Wouter NED                    156 McGowan, David GBR

Euskaltel Euskadi                               Team NetApp
Alexander Diaz                                 Jens Heppner
41 Sanchez, Samuel SPA              101 Barta, Jan CZE
42 Cabedo, Victor SPA                  102 Benedetti, Cesare ITA
43 Cazaux, Pierre FRA                  103 Huzarski, Bartosz POL
44 Garcia, Ricardo SPA                104 Jarc, Blaz SLO
45 Saez de Arregui, Adrian SPA   105 Koenig, Leopold CZE
46 Urtasun, Pablo SPA                 106 Schorn, Daniel AUT

Orica - GreenEDGE                          Rapha Condor
Lionel Marie                                    John Herety
51 Bobridge, Jack AUS                    111 House, Kristian GBR
52 Bewley, Sam NZL                       112 Cuming, Mike GBR
53 Hepburn, Michael AUS               113 Grenda, Ben AUS
54 Howard, Leigh AUS                     114 Handley, Richard GBR
55 Kroupis, Aidis LTU                       115 Jennings, Christopher RSA
56 Langeveld, Sebastian NED           116 Lang, Richard AUS

 

The 2012 Tour of Britain will take place between Sunday 9th and Sunday 16th September 2012

 

Stage One        Sunday 9th September               Ipswich to Norfolk Showground

Stage Two        Monday 10th September             Nottingham to Knowsley

Stage Three      Tuesday11th September            Jedburgh to Dumfries

Stage Four        Wednesday 12th September       Carlisle to Blackpool

Stage Five        Thursday 13th September           The Stoke-on-Trent Stage

Stage Six          Friday 14th September                Welshpool to Caerphilly

Stage Seven     Saturday 15th September            Barnstaple to Dartmouth

Stage Eight       Sunday 16th September              Reigate to Guildford