Road Cycling Blog

This year’s Tour de France includes 20 teams totaling 180 riders. The breakdown consists of 6 teams from France, 3 from Spain, 2 from USA, 2 from Belgium, 2 from Italy, 2 from Germany, 1 from Great Britain, 1 from Denmark and 1 from the Netherlands. The team roster is listed after the jump…

Ag2r (France)
- Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa)
- Cyril Dessel (Fra)
- Hubert Dupont (Fra)
- Vladimir Efimkin (Rus)
- Martin Elmiger (Swi)
- John Gadret (Fra)
- Stéphane Goubert (Fra)
- Christophe Riblon (Fra)
- Tadej Valjavec (Slo)

Agritubel (France)
- Freddy Bichot (Fra)
- Jimmy Casper (Fra)
- Romain Feillu (Fra)
- Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa)
- Nicolas Jalabert (Fra)
- David Le Lay (Fra)
- Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra)
- Christophe Moreau (Fra)
- Nicolas Vogondy (Fra)

Barloworld (Great Britain)
- John-Lee Augustyn (RSA)
- Felix Cardenas (Col)
- Giampaolo Cheula (Ita)
- Baden Cooke (Aus)
- Moisés Dueñas (Spa
- Chris Froome (GB)
- Robert Hunter (RSA)
- Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita)
- Juan Mauricio Soler (Col)

Bouygues Telecom (France)
- Stef Clement (Ned)
- Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra)
- Xavier Florencio (Esp)
- Laurent Lefèvre (Fra)
- Jérôme Pineau (Fra)
- Matthieu Sprick (Fra)
- Yuri Trofimov (Rus)
- Johann Tschopp (Swi)
- Thomas Voeckler (Fra)

Caisse d’Epargne (Spain)
- David Arroyo (Spa)
- Arnaud Coyot (Fra)
- Jose Luis Garcia Acosta (Spa)
- Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa)
- David Lopez (Spa)
- Oscar Pereiro (Spa)
- Nicholas Portal (Fra)
- Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa)
- Alejandro Valverde (Spa)

Cofidis (France)
- Stéphane Augé (Fra)
- Florent Brard (Fra)
- Sylvain Chavanel (Fra)
- Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra)
- Samuel Dumoulin (Fra)
- Leonardo Duque (Col)
- David Moncoutie (Fra)
- Amael Moinard (Fra)
- Maxime Monfort (Bel)

Team Columbia (USA)
- Marcus Burghardt (Ger)
- Mark Cavendish (GB)
- Gerald Ciolek (Ger)
- Bernhard Eisel (Aut
- Adam Hansen (Aus)
- George Hincapie (USA)
- Kim Kirchen (Lux)
- Thomas Lovkvist (Swe)
- Kanstantsin Sivtsov (Blr)

Credit Agricole (France)
- William Bonnet (Fra)
- Alexandre Botcharov (Rus)
- Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra)
- Dmitry Fofonov (Kaz)
- Simon Gerrans (Aus)
- Thor Hushovd (Nor)
- Christophe Le Mevel (Fra)
- Rémi Pauriol (Fra)
- Mark Renshaw (Aus)

CSC-Saxo Bank (Denmark)
- Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Den)
- Fabian Cancellara (Swi)
- Volodymir Gustov (Ukr)
- Stuart O’Grady (Aus)
- Carlos Sastre (Spa)
- Andy Schleck (Lux)
- Frank Schleck (Lux)
- Nicki Sorensen (Den)
- Jens Voigt (Ger)

Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spain)
- Mikel Astarloza (Spa)
- Iñaki Flores (Spa)*
- Egoi Martinez (Spa)
- Juanjo Oroz (Spa)
- Ruben Perez (Spa)
- Samuel Sanchez (Spa)
- Amets Txurruka (Spa)
- Gorka Verdugo (Spa)
- Haimar Zubeldia (Spa)

Française des Jeux (France)
- Sandy Casar (Fra)
- Sébastien Chavanel (Fra)
- Remy Di Gregorio (Fra)
- Arnaud Gerard (Fra)
- Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
- Lilian Jégou (Fra)
- Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra)
- Jeremy Roy (Fra)
- Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra).

Garmin-Chipotle (USA)
- Magnus Backstedt (Swe)
- Julian Dean (NZ)
- Will Frischkorn (USA)
- Ryder Hesjedal (Can)
- Trent Lowe (Aus)
- Martijn Maaskant (Ned)
- David Millar (GB)
- Danny Pate (USA)
- Christian Vande Velde (USA)

Gerolsteiner (Germany)
- Robert Forster (Ger)
- Markus Fothen (Ger)
- Bernhard Kohl (Aut)
- Sven Krauss (Ger)
- Sebastian Lang (Ger)
- Ronny Scholz (Ger)
- Stefan Schumacher (Ger)
- Fabian Wegmann (Ger)
- Oliver Zaugg (Swi)

Lampre (Italy)
- Alessandro Ballan (Ita)
- Matteo Bono (Ita)
- Marzio Brueseghin (Ita)
- Damiano Cunego (Ita)
- Marco Marzano (Ita)
- Massimiliano Mori (Ita)
- Daniele Righi (Ita)
- Sylvester Szmyd (Pol)
- Paolo Tiralongo (Ita)

Liquigas (Italy)
- Manuel Beltran (Spa)
- Francesco Chicchi (Ita)
- Murilo Fischer (Ita)
- Roman Kreuziger (Cze)
- Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr)
- Vincenzo Nibali (Ita)
- Filippo Pozzato (Ita)
- Manuel Quinziato (Ita)
- Frederik Willems (Bel)

Milram (Germany)
- Ralf Grabsch (Ger)
- Christian Knees (Ger)
- Brett Lancaster (Aus)
- Martin Müller (Ger)
- Bjorn Schroder (Ger)
- Niki Terpstra (Hol)
- Peter Velits (Svk)
- Marco Velo (Ita)
- Erik Zabel (Ger)

Quick Step-Innergetic (Belgium)
- Carlos Barredo (Spa)
- Matteo Carrara (Ita)
- Stijn Devolder (Bel)
- Mauro Facci (Ita)
- Steven De Jongh (Hol)
- Sebastien Rosseler (Bel)
- Gert Steegmans (Bel)
- Matteo Tosatto (Ita)
- Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel)

Rabobank (Netherlands)
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa)
- Oscar Freire (Spa)
- Sebastian Langeveld (Ned)
- Denis Menchov (Rus)
- Koos Moerenhout (Ned)
- Joost Posthuma (Ned)
- Bram Tankink (Ned)
- Laurens Ten Dam (Ned)
- Pieter Weening (Ned)

Saunier Duval-Scott (Spain)
- Rubens Bertogliati (Swi)
- Juan Jose Cobo (Spa)
- Jesus Del Nero (Spa)
- David De La Fuente (Spa)
- Josep Jufre (Spa)
- Angel Litu Gomez (Spa)
- Aurelien Passeron (Fra)
- Leonardo Piepoli (Spa)
- Riccardo Ricco (Ita)

Silence-Lotto (Belgium)
- Mario Aerts (Bel)
- Christophe Brandt (Bel)
- Dario David Cioni (Ita)
- Cadel Evans (Aus)
- Leif Hoste (Bel)
- Robbie McEwen (Aus)
- Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr)
- Johan Van Summeren (Bel)
- Wim Vansevenant (Bel)