The list of participating riders in 2011 Paris-Nice and their numbers

Added: sunday 06 March 2011 at 0:23:00

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Today, Paris-Nice 2011 will start in Houdan for a total of 1,307 kilometers towards Nice (don't forget you can see the race route of Paris-Nice 2011 on Google Maps/Google Earth) and if everyone's fine, 176 riders will be at the start for 22 teams of each 8 riders.

In this article, you'll find the list of participating riders, including the numbers of the participating riders in Paris-Nice 2011.
Rabobank
The Dutch Rabobank team will come to Paris-Nice 2011 with a former winner of Paris-Nice (2009), Luis Léon Sanchez, as its leader. The Spanish rider, who joined the team during the winter, can among others count on his compatriot Juan Manuel Garate.

The team decided not to select any sprinters but only good climbers, to allow Sanchez to go get a good classification in the end.
Rabobank 001/ Luis Léon Sanchez
002/ Juan Manuel Garate
003/ Bauke Mollema
004/ Grischa Niermann
005/ Laurens ten Dam
006/ Maarten Tjallingii
007/ Jos van Emden
008/ Pieter Weening
Team Garmin-Cervélo
According to the team's website, Ryder Hesjedal and Christophe Le Mevel will be the riders who might get a good final ranking, while Martijn Maaskant and Heinrich Haussler will try to win any sprints or be part of a leading group in one or more stages.
011/ Ryder Hesjedal
012/ Heinrich Haussler
013/ Christophe Le Mevel
014/ Daniel Lloyd
015/ Martijn Maaskant
016/ Gabriel Rasch
017/ Andrew Talansky
018/ Johan van Summeren
HTC-Highroad
The American HTC-Highroad team will come to the start with the big favourite of Paris-Nice 2011, Tony Martin, who might use the individual time trial of Aix-en-Provence to get a good spot in the general classification. His team mate Tejay van Garderen is also one of the favourites. In case of a sprint, the team can count on Matthew Goss.
HTC-Highroad 021/ Tony Martin
022/ Lars Bak
023/ Matthew Goss
024/ Danny Pate
025/ Alex Rasmussen
026/ Kanstantsin Sivtsov
027/ Tejay van Garderen
028/ Martin Velits
Team Sky
For the British team, Bradley Wiggins is the leader in this Race to the sun. Like Michael Rogers and Geraint Thomas he might want to use the Aix-en-Provence time trial to go up in the general classification.
031/ Bradley Wiggins
032/ Simon Gerrans
033/ Gregory Henderson
034/ Jeremy Hunt
035/ Michael Rogers
036/ Geraint Thomas
037/ Rigoberto Uran
038/ Xabier Zandio
AG2R La Mondiale
The AG2R La Mondiale team will have the ambition to place a rider between the 5th and 8th place and win at least one stage. The team classification is also one of their goals.
041/ Nicolas Roche
042/ Maxime Bouet
043/ Hubert Dupont
044/ Blel Kadri
045/ Sébastien Minard
046/ Jean-Christophe Péraud
047/ Anthony Ravard
048/ Christophe Riblon
Movistar Team
In the Spanish team, José Ivan Gutierrez will be the leader. Yvon Ledanois, the directeur sportif of the team, initially also selected Beñat Intxausti but he'll have to stay at home with the flu ...
The winner of last year's forelast stage, Xavier Tondo, will be present in the team which will be completely Spanish (fortunately Yvon speaks Spanish!).
Movistar Team 051/ José Ivan Gutierrez
052/ Vicente Garcia Acosta
053/ Pablo Lastras
054/ David Lopez Garcia
055/ Sergio Pardilla
056/ Luis Pasamontes
057/ José Joaquin Rojas
058/ Xavier Tondo
Omega Pharma-Lotto
The Belgian team will be lead by the number 5 of the Tour de France 2010, Jurgen van den Broeck.
061/ Jurgen van den Broeck
062/ Jan Bakelants
063/ Bart de Clercq
064/ Francis de Greef
065/ Oscar Pujol
066/ Jurgen Roelandts
067/ Jurgen van de Walle
068/ Jussi Veikkanen
Astana
The kazakh rider who was at the origin of the creation of the Astana team will also be its leader in this 69th edition of Paris-Nice.
Astana 071/ Alexandre Vinokourov
072/ Rémy Di Gregorio
073/ Dmitriy Fofonov
074/ Andriy Grivko
075/ Fredrik Kessiakoff
076/ Robert Kiserlovski
077/ Roman Kreuziger
078/ Tomas Vaitkus
Team Radioshack
The American team will come to the start with experienced riders around Janez Brajkovic.
081/ Janez Brajkovic
082/ Matthew Busche
083/ Robert Hunter
084/ Markel Irizar
085/ Andréas Klöden
086/ Levi Leipheimer
087/ Geoffroy Lequatre
088/ Sergio Paulinho
FDJ
The FDJ team will be built up around Sandy Casar and Pierrick Fédrigo but Arthur Vichot and Yoann Offredo could also play an important role in this race to the sun.
Jérémy Roy who fell in Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche (won by his team mate Arthur Vichot) managed to get rid of the pain of his hip and his swollen knee and will thus participate in Paris-Nice 2011 as well.
091/ Pierrick Fédrigo
092/ Sandy Casar
093/ Arnold Jeannesson
094/ Yoann Offredo
095/ Rémi Pauriol
096/ Cédric Pineau
097/ Jérémy Roy
098/ Arthur Vichot
Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team
Not really surprisingly, the French rider Romain Feillu is the leader of the Dutch team.
101/ Romain Feillu
102/ Matteo Carrara
103/ Thomas de Gendt
104/ Stijn Devolder
105/ Sergey Lagutin
106/ Bjorn Leukemans
107/ Rob Ruijgh
108/ Lieuwe Westra
Liquigas-Cannondale
The revelation of last year's Paris-Nice, Peter Sagan, will be the main man for the Italian Liquigas-Cannondale team.
111/ Peter Sagan
112/ Valerio Agnoli
113/ Eros Capecchi
114/ Mauro Finetto
115/ Kristjan Koren
116/ Dominik Nerz
117/ Maciej Paterski
118/ Simone Ponzi
Saxo Bank-Sungard
The leader of the Danish team will be Richie Porte, the revelation of the Giro d'Italia 2010.
121/ Richie Porte
122/ Mads Christensen
123/ Laurent Didier
124/ Lucas Sebastian Haedo
125/ Benjamin Noval Gonzalez
126/ Chris Sörensen
127/ Nicki Sörensen
128/ Brian Vandborg
Team Leopard-Trek
The second UCI WorldTour race of the Luxembourg Team Leopard-Trek could well be the first race of that level where they'll get a victory. The multi-national team seems to be ready for it!

Next to Fränk Schleck, Linus Gerdemann, Maxime Monfort and Jakob Fuglsang will try to get a good place in the general classification. Wouter Weylandt will go for the sprints while Bruno Pires, Brice Feillu and Jens Voigt will especially participate to get ready for the Ardennes Classics.
Team Leopard-Trek 131/ Fränk Schleck
132/ Brice Feillu
133/ Jakob Fuglsang
134/ Linus Gerdemann
135/ Maxime Monfort
136/ Bruno Pires
137/ Jens Voigt
138/ Wouter Weylandt
Cofidis, le crédit en ligne
The Cofidis team will come to the start with two riders who will work for the general classification, Rein Taaramae and the good climber David Moncoutié, and with two riders who will try to get a stage victory: Samuel Dumoulin and Tony Gallopin.
141/ David Moncoutié
142/ Mickaël Buffaz
143/ Samuel Dumoulin
144/ Julien El Fares
145/ Tony Gallopin
146/ Luis Angel Mate Mardones
147/ Rein Taaramae
148/ Tristan Valentin
Katusha Team
Apart from Leif Hoste, all riders around Vladimir Gusev are Russian!
151/ Vladimir Gusev
152/ Pavel Brutt
153/ Denis Galimzyanov
154/ Leif Hoste
155/ Serguei Ivanov
156/ Yury Trofimov
157/ Nikolay Trusov
158/ Eduard Vorganov
BMC Racing Team
In the American team with Swiss sponsor, Taylor Phinney will not be present. Indeed, he fell during a training and will thus not be able to start in this race.

The team will therefore not really have a leader in this race, but according to directeur sportif John Lelangue, 4 riders will try to get a good spot in the general classification: Brent Bookwalter, Amaël Moinard, Steve Morabito and Ivan Santaromita
BMC Racing Team 161/ Amaël Moinard
162/ Brent Bookwalter
163/ Yannick Eijssen
164/ Karsten Kroon
165/ Jeff Louder
166/ Steve Morabito
167/ Ivan Santaromita
168/ Danilo Wyss
Quick Step Cycling Team
At Quick Step, the rider who wore the yellow jersey for a few days during the Tour de France 2010, Sylvain Chavanel, will be the leader.
171/ Sylvain Chavanel
172/ Marc de Maar
173/ Kevin de Weert
174/ Nikolas Maes
175/ Jérôme Pineau
176/ Francesco Reda
177/ Andreas Stauff
178/ Gert Steegmans
Team Europcar
The French champion, Thomas Voeckler, will get company from 7 other French riders.
181/ Thomas Voeckler
182/ Damien Gaudin
183/ Cyril Gautier
184/ Vincent Jérôme
185/ Alexandre Pichot
186/ Perrig Quémeneur
187/ Pierre Rolland
188/ Sébastien Turgot
Euskaltel-Euskadi
The Basque team will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2011 with the Olympic champion, Samuel Sánchez, as its leader and he will get company from two French riders in the team: Romain Sicard and Pierre Cazaux.
191/ Samuel Sánchez
192/ Jorge Azanza
193/ Pierre Cazaux
194/ Iñaki Isasi
195/ Gorka Izagirre
196/ Romain Sicard
197/ Pablo Urtasun
198/ Gorka Verdugo
Lampre-ISD
201/ Grega Bole
202/ Matteo Bono
203/ Francesco Gavazzi
204/ Oleksandr Kvachuk
205/ Daniele Righi
206/ Alessandro Spezialetti
207/ Simon Spilak
208/ Diego Ulissi
Bretagne-Schuller
The team from Brittany will count on Romain Hardy and also on Sylvain Calzati probably.
211/ Florian Vachon
212/ Eric Berthou
213/ Sylvain Calzati
214/ Jean-Luc Delpech
215/ Renaud Dion
216/ Florian Guillou
217/ Romain Hardy
218/ Gaël Malacarne