A few days ago I already presented the 2010 Tour du Limousin route on Google Maps. Today, I present you exclusively, before the press conference this morning, the list of participating riders for this 43rd edition of the Tour du Limousin which will take place from 17 till 20 August.

A few surprises

The past few days, the organisor of the Tour du Limousin had some last minute surprises with especially the participation of a 18th team, Landbouwkrediet (Belgium) which has done a lot of forcing to be able to participate in the 4-day stage race. But there was also some bad news with the Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank) not participating, according to his team for personal reasons, while he he was seen as the potential winner of the individual time trial in Saint-Amand-Montrond. But also with Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) not participating because he'll finally start in the Eneco Tour ...

This didn't however really bother Tour du Limousin Organisation and that's not really surprising when you have a look at the list of participants which includes names like Fränk Schleck (Team Saxo Bank) who makes his comeback after his crash in the Tour de France 2010, Luis Léon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), Oscar Pereiro (Astana) who didn't participate in the Tour, the former Irish champion irlandais Nicolas Roche who finished 15th in the Tour de France 2010 and Christophe Riblon (AG2R La Mondiale), the yellow jersey for a few days in the Tour de France 2010, Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step), Pierrick Fédrigo, winner of the Bagnères-de-Luchon > Pau stage and twice winner of the Tour du Limousin and Anthony Charteau (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) who finished the Tour de France 2010 leading the king of the mountain classification and Sandy Casar (FDJ).

Among the riders who will start in the 43rd edition of the Tour du Limousin we find 4 stage winners of the last Tour de France: Sandy Casar for FDJ, Sylvain Chavanel for the Belgian Quick Step team, Pierrick Fédrigo for Bbox Bouygues Telecom and finally Christophe Riblon for AG2R La Mondiale.

We also find a nice collection of national champions:
- Luis Léon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne) for Spain (time trial)
- Jussi Veikkanen (FDJ) for Finland
- Nicolas Vogondy (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) for France (time trial; the national road champion, Thomas Voeckler, will not start in the 43rd Tour du Limousin)
- Fränk Schleck (Team Saxo Bank) for Luxembourg
- Gustav Larsson (Team Saxo Bank) for Sweden (time trial)

The numbers of the 2010 Tour du Limousin

18 teams will come to the start with each 8 riders, which makes a total of 144 riders.

The 18 teams are divided in 9 UCI ProTour teams, 6 Continental Pro teams and 3 Continental teams.

The 144 riders represent 21 nationalities from 4 continents (Europe, Asia, Oceania, America). France is the best represented country with 65 riders, followed by The Netherlands and Belgium with respectively 12 and 11 riders. Spain will be represented by 9 riders, Italy by 8 and Kazakhstan by 6. Denmark and Russia will both send 5 riders while Australia and Great-Britain will both be represented by 3 riders. 5 countries will be represented by 2 riders (Colombia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden) while Germany, Austria, Byelorussia, Estonia, Japan and Ukraine will all send one rider.

For more information:
- about the participating riders in the 2010 Tour du Limousin, check out the Tour du Limousin's press release
- about the 2010 Tour du Limousin: follow the whole Tour live on www.tourdulimousin.com; with my two colleagues I'll try to allow you to follow everything (almost) live with photos, videos and articles!

The selections of the 18 teams with their numbers

Caisse d'Epargne

1/ Mathieu Perget
2/ Arnaud Coyot
3/ Arnold Jeannesson
4/ Christophe Moreau
5/ José Joaquin Rojas
6/ Luis Léon Sanchez Juan José Cobo
7/ Xabier Zandio Francisco Perez Sanchez
8/ Rigoberto Uran

AG2R La Mondiale

11/ José Luis Arrieta
12/ Guillaume Bonnafond
13/ Dimitri Champion Cyril Dessel
14/ Sébastien Hinault Blel Kadri
15/ David Lelay Anthony Ravard
16/ Julien Loubet
17/ Christophe Riblon Nicolas Rousseau
18/ Nicolas Roche William Clarke

Rabobank

21/ Mauricio Ardila
22/ Steven Kruijswijk
23/ Sebastian Langeveld
24/ Dennis van Winden
25/ Grischa Niermann
26/ Laurens ten Dam
27/ Dmitry Kozontchuk
28/ Tom Stamsnijder

FDJ

31/ Sandy Casar
32/ Sébastien Chavanel
33/ Arnaud Gérard
34/ Francis Mourey
35/ Yoann Offredo Anthony Roux
36/ Benoît Vaugrenard
37/ Jussi Veikkanen
38/ Arthur Vichot

Team Sky

41/ Kjell Carlström
42/ Dario Cioni
43/ Russell Downing
44/ Christopher Froome
45/ Simon Gerrans
46/ Thomas Löfkvist
47/ Serge Pauwels
48/ Morris Possoni

Team Saxo Bank

51/ Anders Lund
52/ André Steensen
53/ Chris Anker Sørensen
54/ Michael Mørkov
55/ Gustav Larsson
56/ Fränk Schleck Baden Cooke
57/ Laurent Didier
58/ Stuart O'Grady

Astana

61/ Assan Bazayev
61/ Dmitriy Fofonov
63/ Maxim Gourov
62/ Josep Jufré
63/ Oscar Pereiro
64/ Andrey Zeits
65/ Sergey Renev
66/ Alexsandr Dyachenko
67/ Gorazd Stangelj
68/ Roman Kireyev

Team Katusha

(numbers to be confirmed)
71/ Marco Bandiera Alexandre Botcharov
72/ Laszlo Bodrogi
73/ Nikita Eskov
73/ Gianpaolo Caruso
74/ Mikhaylo Khalilov
75/ Serguei Klimov
76/ Luca Mazzanti
77/ Evgeny Petrov
78/ Egor Silin

Quick Step

81/ Sylvain Chavanel
82/ Addy Engels
83/ Andrei Kunitski
84/ Jérôme Pineau
85/ Francesco Reda Marco Velo
86/ Kevin Seeldraeyers
87/ Matteo Tosatto
88/ Kevin de Weert

Bbox Bouygues Telecom

91/ Yukiya Arashiro
92/ Anthony Charteau Guillaume Le Floch
93/ Mathieu Claude Yury Trofimov
94/ Pierrick Fédrigo
95/ Pierre Rolland
96/ Matthieu Sprick
97/ Sébastien Turgot
98/ Nicolas Vogondy

Cofidis, le crédit en ligne

101/ Stéphane Augé
102/ Samuel Dumoulin
103/ Leonardo Duqué
104/ Julien El Fares
105/ Nico Sijmens
106/ Rein Taaramae
107/ Romain Zingle
108/ Nicolas Edet

Cervélo TestTeam

111/ Davide Appollonio
112/ Theo Bos
113/ Philip Deignan
114/ Stefan Denifl
115/ Xavier Florencio
116/ Roger Hammond
117/ Brett Lancaster
118/ Oscar Pujol Munoz

Saur-Sojasun

121/ Cyril Bessy
122/ Cédric Coutouly
123/ Anthony Delaplace
124/ Jérémie Galland
125/ Fabrice Jeandesboz
126/ Christophe Laborie
127/ Laurent Mangel
128/ Paul Poux

Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team

131/ Matteo Carrara
132/ Romain Feillu
133/ Johnny Hoogerland
134/ Pim Ligthart
135/ Martin Mortensen
136/ Wout Poels
137/ Stéphane Rossetto
138/ Rob Ruijgh

Bretagne-Schuller

141/ Florian Vachon
142/ Eduardo Gonzalo
143/ Jean-Marc Bideau
144/ Florian Guillou
145/ Jean-Luc Delpech
146/ Lilian Jégou
147/ Laurent Pichon
148/ Sébastien Duret

Big Mat-Auber 93

151/ Nadir Haddou
152/ Dimitri Le Boulch Niels Brouzes
153/ Romain Lemarchand
154/ Julien Mazet Guillaume Faucon
155/ Maxime Méderel
156/ Johan Mombaerts
157/ Florian Morizot
158/ Jonathan Thiré

Roubaix-Lille-Métropole

161/ Jocelyn Bar Cédric Pineau
162/ Matthieu Boulo Steven Tronet
163/ Benoît Daeninck
164/ Renaud Dion
165/ Morgan Kneisky
166/ Alexandre Lemair
167/ Arnaud Molmy
168/ Clément Lhotellerie

Landbouwkrediet

171/ Bert Scheirlinckx
172/ Grégory Barteau
173/ Davy Commeyne
174/ Sébastien Delfosse
175/ Benjamin Gourgue
176/ Geert Verheyen
177/ Dirk Bellemakers
178/ Bart Dockx

door Thomas Vergouwen
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