The Cancer Council Classic, won by Matt Goss was an appetizer to the Tour Down Under 2011 today.

The Tour Down Under 2011 itself will however only start next Tuesday. 133 riders will participate for 19 teams of 7 riders. In this article you'll find them all, with their numbers.

The participating riders in the 2011 Tour Down Under and their numbers

Omega Pharma-Lotto

André Greipel, often victorious in the Tour Down Under, will do his first season as a completely free sprinter this year. Indeed, while so far he either had to share the cycling calendar with his team mate Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) or had to accept that the British rider was the primary sprinter of the team in races in which they participated both, he'll be a sprinter without internal competition in the Belgian team Omega Pharma-Lotto this season.

It is thus not very surprising that the German rider is the leader of the team in the Tour Down Under 2011 under the overseeing eye of directeur sportif Herman Frison.

1/ Andre Greipel
2/ Jurgen van de Walle
3/ Adam Hansen
4/ Olivier Kaisen
5/ Vicente Reynes
6/ Jurgen Roelandts
7/ Marcel Sieberg

Team Radioshack

At Team Radioshack, directed by José Azevedo, Lance Armstrong will do his last race abroad (except if he makes up his mind ;-) with this Tour Down Under 2011 and he'll do that as the leader of the team he created himself in 2010.

The Australian rider Robbie McEwen recently joined this team, after the horror scenario for his Pegasus Sports team which didn't get a Continental Pro licence (after having been denied a ProTeam licence before). McEwen thus is the home sprinter of the American team in this Tour Down Under.

11/ Lance Armstrong
12/ Robbie McEwen
13/ Manuel Cardoso
14/ Ben Hermans
15/ Markel Irizar
16/ Robbie Hunter
17/ Gregory Rast

HTC-Highroad

At HTC-Highroad the British sprinter Mark Cavendish is leading the team under the directions of Allan Peiper.

The Australian rider Matt Goss however won the Cancer Council Classic.

21/ Mark Cavendish
22/ Bernhard Eisel
23/ Matthew Goss
24/ Bert Grabsch
25/ Danny Pate
26/ Mark Renshaw
27/ Hayden Roulston

Garmin-Cervélo

The Garmin-Cervélo team, born from a merger between the Garmin-Transitions team and what was left of the Cervélo TestTeam comes to Australia with Tyler Farrar as its leader. The Australian Matthew White is the directeur sportif of the team which is almost completely Australian in this Tour Down Under 2011.

31/ Tyler Farrar
32/ Jack Bobridge
33/ Julian Dean
34/ Brett Lancaster
35/ Cameron Meyer
36/ Matthew Wilson
37/ Travis Meyer

Rabobank

As usual, the Dutch Rabobank team comes to the start of the Tour Down Under 2011 with Graeme Brown, who was pretty much riding upfront in the Giro d'Italia 2010 without ever winning a stage, as its leader. Adri van Houwelingen is the directeur sportif in Australia.
Coen Vermeltfoort and Michael Matthews will this week do their very first UCI WorldTour race.

41/ Graeme Brown
42/ Tom Leezer
43/ Michael Matthews
44/ Laurens ten Dam
45/ Jos van Emden
46/ Coen Vermeltfoort
47/ Pieter Weening

Team Sky

4 Australian riders are part of the British team in the Tour Down Under 2011: Michael Rogers, Simon Gerrans, Chris Sutton and Matthew Hayman. The directeur sportif is British however because that's Sean Yates.

51/ Michael Rogers
52/ Geraint Thomas
53/ Simon Gerrans
54/ Greg Henderson
55/ Chris Sutton
56/ Ben Swift
57/ Mathew Hayman

Astana

The Australian rider Allan Davis is the home sprinter and leader of the team from Kazakhstan. The Italian Guido Bontempi is the directeur sportif.

61/ Allan Davis
62/ Simon Clarke
63/ Maxim Gourov
64/ Andriy Grivko
65/ Valentin Iglinskiy
66/ Tanel Kangert
67/ Yevgeniy Nepomnyachshiy

Team Leopard-Trek

The brand new Leopard-Trek is led by the Australian rider Stuart O'Grady under the direction of the Danish Lars Neiendam Michaelsen.

71/ Stuart O'Grady
72/ Martin Pedersen
73/ Stefan Denifl
74/ Davide Viganó
75/ Martin Mortensen
76/ Will Clarke
77/ Bruno Pires

Quick Step

The Belgian team led by Rik van Slycke comes to Australia with only one Belgian rider and can be listed as follows:

81/ Francesco Chicchi
82/ Marco Bandiera
83/ Gerald Ciolek
84/ Addy Engels
85/ Davide Malacarne
86/ Francesco Reda
87/ Julien Vermote

Katusha

The Russian Dmitriy Konychev is leading the following team in the Tour Down Under 2011:

91/ Denis Galimzyanov
92/ Juan Horrach
93/ Serguei Ivanov
94/ Aleksandr Kuchynski
95/ Nikolay Trusov
96/ Stijn Vandenbergh
97/ Eduard Vorganov

AG2R La Mondiale

The AG2R La Mondiale team is the foreign UCI ProTeam which has most participated in the Tour Down Under. 6 French rider and one Belgian form the team in the Tour Down Under 2011 led by Laurent Biondi:

101/ Julien Loubet
102/ Dimitri Champion
103/ Mathieu Perget
104/ Kristof Goddaert
105/ Steve Houanard
106/ Blel Kadri
107/ Yuriy Krivtsov

Lampre-ISD

The Italian team comes to the Tour Down Under 2011 with Bruno Vicino as its directeur sportif and the following riders:

111/ Alfredo Balloni
112/ Aitor Perez Arrieta
113/ Matteo Bono
114/ Vitaliy Buts
115/ Manuele Mori
116/ Alessandro Spezialetti
117/ Daniele Righi

Liquigas-Cannondale

The Italian team which switched to another bike supplier which is now partly giving the name to the team comes to Australia with a pretty light team directed by Dario Mariuzzo:

121/ Davide Cimolai
122/ Kristijan Koren
123/ Alan Marangoni
124/ Fabio Sabatini
125/ Simone Ponzi
126/ Elia Viviani
127/ Cameron Wurf

BMC Racing Team

The former World Champion Alessandro Ballan is the leader of the American team with Swiss sponsor. The American Michael Sayers is the directeur sportif.

131/ Alessandro Ballan
132/ Alexander Kristoff
133/ John Murphy
134/ Simon Zahner
135/ Timothy Roe
136/ Martin Kohler
137/ Amaël Moinard

Saxo Bank-Sungard

The young and very promissing Australian rider Richie Porte is the leader of the Danish team, directed by his compatriot Bradley McGee.

141/ Richie Porte
142/ Juan José Haedo
143/ Baden Cooke
144/ Nicki Sörensen
145/ David Tanner
146/ Sebastian Haedo
147/ Brian Vandborg

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Josu Larrazabal directs the team with Iñaki Isasi as its leader:

151/ Iñaki Isasi
152/ Gorka Izagirre
153/ Miguel Minguez
154/ Jon Izagirre
155/ Ruben Perez
156/ Daniel Sesma
157/ Ivan Velasco

Movistar Team

The Spanish team which saw its sponsor Caisse d'Epargne being replaced by Movistar is completely Spanish in the Tour Down Under 2011, from its leader José Joaquin Rojas to its directeur sportif José Luis Arrieta.

161/ José Joaquin Rojas
162/ José Ivan Gutierrez
163/ David Lopez
164/ Angel Madrazo
165/ Luis Pasamontes
166/ José Vicente Garcia
167/ Francisco Ventoso

Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team

The Dutch team makes its debut as a UCI ProTeams and comes to Australia with Romain Feillu as its leader, directed by Michel Cornelisse.

171/ Romain Feillu
172/ Rob Ruijgh
173/ Thomas de Gendt
174/ Sergey Lagutin
175/ Alberto Ongarato
176/ Mirko Selvaggi
177/ Joost van Leijen

Uni Sa - Australia

As usual in the Tour Down Under there's one Australian team with only Australian riders who can in this way participate in this UCI WorldTour race. Their directeur sportif is Dave Sanders.

181/ Luke Roberts
182/ Wesley Sulzberger
183/ Jonathan Cantwell
184/ Luke Durbridge
185/ Michael Hepburn
186/ Mitchell Docker
187/ Bernard Sulzberger

door Thomas Vergouwen
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