This Sunday 8 March 2015, Paris-Nice 2015 will start in Maurepas with a prologue which precedes a race route made up of 7 stages with a total distance of 1134 kilometers!

In this article you'll find the official participants list, with their bib numbers and nationality. During the week you'll find many photos and at least one article a day with the summary of the stage on velowire.com!

Here are the participants per team:

AG2R La Mondiale

Since Carlos Betancur was last year's winner of Paris-Nice, the Race to the sun which will this year take place under the sun at least for the start in the Yvelines department(!), the AG2R La Mondiale team got the first bib numbers. Carlos Betancur will not participate in the race however and Jean-Christophe Péraud, who finished 2nd in the Tour de France 2014, will thus be the leader of the brown/blue team at the start in Maurepas.

1/ Jean-Christophe Péraud
2/ Jan Bakelants
3/ Romain Bardet
4/ Mikael Chérel
5/ Samuel Dumoulin
6/ Ben Gastauer
7/ Sébastien Minard
8/ Johan van Summeren

Lampre-Merida

In the Italian Lampre-Merida team the former World Champion, the Portuguese rider Rui Costa, will lead the team in which we find two other Portuguese riders but also other nationalities and his brother Mario:

11/ Rui Costa
12/ Nicolo Bonifazzio
13/ Matteo Bono
14/ Davide Cimolai
15/ Mario Costa
16/ Nelson Oliveira
17/ Ruben Plaza
18/ Rafael Valls

FDJ

In the second French team, FDJ, the house sprinter and French Champion Arnaud Démare will probably have set the goal to win one or more of the stages. He will be surrounded on the roads of the Race to the sun by other riders who make up a completely French team.

21/ Arnaud Démare
22/ William Bonnet
23/ Sébastien Chavanel
24/ Mickaël Delage
25/ Arnold Jeannesson
26/ Laurent Pichon
27/ Anthony Roux
28/ Arthur Vichot

Movistar Team

With Gorka Izaguirre as its leader, the Movistar Team will be almost completely Spanish in this Paris-Nice :

31/ Gorka Izaguirre
32/ Eros Capecchi
33/ Imanol Erviti
34/ Ruben Fernandez
35/ Beñat Intxausti
36/ Jon Izaguirre
37/ Dayer Quintana
38/ José Joaquin Rojas

Astana Pro Team

For the Astana Pro Team the participation in Paris-Nice 2015 seemed to be unsure when the UCI announced late February that after the audit by the Institut des Sciences du Sport de l'Université de Lausanne (ISSUL) on the team and its culture, its stratégie, its structures and its anti-doping management systems, the international federation asked the Licence Committee to withdraw the UCI WorldTeam licence which was rewarded in December under the condition to collaborate in this audit. Indeed this was meant to verify the correspondence between the strategy and the structure the team presented to the Licence Committee to get "saved by the bell" after the different doping cases in the team and its Continental counterpart team at the end of 2014 and the real situation in the team. The audit showed big differences between the theory and the reality and this made the UCI ask to withdraw the licence.

However, for now there hasn't been any decision taken and the Kazakh team can thus continue to use the benefits of its UCI WorldTeam licence to participate in UCI WorldTour races.

Fabio Aru, who really made himself a name in the Giro and the Vuelta last year, will be the leader of this multi-national team:

41/ Fabio Aru
42/ Lars Boom
43/ Borut Bozic
44/ Laurens de Vreese
45/ Jakob Fuglsang
46/ Luis-Léon Sanchez
47/ Rein Taaramäe
48/ Paolo Tiralongo

BMC Racing Team

The American BMC Racing Team will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2015 with a rider who seems to like the Race to the sun, Tejay van Garderen, who will get company from two Belgian riders, two Swiss riders and one Australian, one French (Amaël Moinard who starts in Maurepas and will ride bakc home) and a Slovakian rider.

51/ Tejay van Garderen
52/ Rohan Dennis
53/ Silvan Dillier
54/ Philippe Gilbert
55/ Ben Hermans
56/ Amaël Moinard
57/ Michael Schär
58/ Peter Velits

Team Sky

Team Sky, managed by its directeur sportif Nicolas Portal will come to the start with Bradley Wiggins, the winner of Paris-Nice in 2012, but also with Richie Porte, who won the race in 2013:

61/ Bradley Wiggins
62/ Christian Knees
63/ Lars-Petter Nordhaug
64/ Richie Porte
65/ Nicolas Roche
66/ Luke Rowe
67/ Ben Swift
68/ Geraint Thomas

Team Giant-Alpecin

The sprinters team Giant-Alpecin, which became German (instead of Dutch) this year, will come to the start with John Degenkolb who won the stage which finished on the Nevers-Magny Cours circuit last year.

71/ John Degenkolb
72/ Warren Barguil
73/ Roy Curvers
74/ Koen de Kort
75/ Tom Dumoulin
76/ Georg Preidler
77/ Ramon Sinkeldam
78/ Zico Waeytens

Team Europcar

Thomas Voeckler, still part of the Europcar team will be present in Paris-Nice 2015 next to Bryan Coquard and Cyril Gautier for example. Except for the Canadian Antoine Duchesne, the team is completely French.

81/ Thomas Voeckler
82/ Bryan Coquard
83/ Antoine Duchesne
84/ Cyril Gautier
85/ Yohann Gène
86/ Bryan Nauleau
87/ Romain Sicard
88/ Angelo Tulik

Orica-GreenEDGE

Michael Matthews will be the leader of the Australian Orica-GreenEDGE team in which we'll find two other Australian riders.

91/ Michael Matthews
92/ Michael Albasini
93/ Simon Clarke
94/ Mitchell Docker
95/ Daryl Impey
96/ Jens Keukeleire
97/ Christian Meier
98/ Simon Yates

IAM Cycling

The Swiss team which moved up to the UCI WorldTeam level for the first time this year will come to the start of Paris-Nice 2015 with Sylvain Chavanel as its leader.

101/ Sylvain Chavanel
102/ Dries Devenyns
103/ Mathias Frank
104/ Heinrich Haussler
105/ Jérôme Pineau
106/ Vicente Reynes
107/ David Tanner
108/ Jonas van Genechten

Team LottoNL-Jumbo

The LottoNL-Jumbo team which follows up on the Belkin team will have Wilco Kelderman as its leader in this Paris-Nice. He will get company from the New-Zealander George Bennett and the Belgian rider Maarten Wijnants and 5 Dutch riders.

111/ Wilco Kelderman
112/ George Bennett
113/ Moreno Hofland
114/ Steven Kruijswijk
115/ Bram Tankink
116/ Maarten Tjallingii
117/ Jos van Emden
118/ Maarten Wijnants

Lotto-Soudal

The Belgian Lotto-Soudal team has, just like IAM Cycling, decided to have a French leader in this race: for Lotto-Soudal that'll be Tony Gallopin who was the happy yellow jersey during the Tour de France last year.

121/ Tony Gallopin
122/ Lars Bak
123/ Thomas de Gendt
124/ André Greipel
125/ Adam Hansen
126/ Gregory Henderson
127/ Marcel Sieberg
128/ Tim Wellens

Cofidis, solutions crédits

The new house sprinter for the Cofidis team, Nacer Bouhanni, will be leading this team from the north of France.

131/ Nacer Bouhanni
132/ Jonas Ahlstrand
133/ Nicolas Edet
134/ Cyril Lemoine
135/ Luis Angel Maté Mardones
136/ Dominique Rollin
137/ Florian Sénéchal
138/ Geoffrey Soupe

Tinkoff-Saxo

Here are the 8 riders of the Tinkoff-Saxo team:

141/ Rafal Majka
142/ Matti Breschel
143/ Robert Kiserlovski
144/ Michael Morkov
145/ Sergio Paulinho
146/ Pawel Poljanski
147/ Chris Anker Sörensen
148/ Michael Valgren

Etixx-QuickStep

The World Champion Michal Kwiatkowski is the leader of the Belgian Etixx-QuickStep team in which we also find a candidate for the prologue victory, Tony Martin:

151/ Michal Kwiatkowski
152/ Julian Alaphilippe
153/ Tom Boonen
154/ Maxime Bouet
155/ Michal Golas
156/ Nikolas Maes
157/ Tony Martin
158/ Stijn Vandenbergh

Team Katusha

The Norwegian Alexander Kristoff is leading the Russian Katusha team:

161/ Alexander Kristoff
162/ Sergey Chernetski
163/ Jacopo Guarnieri
164/ Viacheslav Kuznetsov
165/ Tiago Machado
166/ Egor Silin
167/ Simon Spilak
168/ Yury Trofimov

Trek Factory Racing

The young Bob Jungels has been moved up as the leader of the Trek team but he can count on some sure values of the team like Gregory Rast and Gert Steegmans.

171/ Bob Jungels
172/ Eugenio Alafacci
173/ Marco Coledan
174/ Giacomo Nizzolo
175/ Gregory Rast
176/ Gert Steegmans
177/ Kristof Vandewalle
178/ Riccardo Zoidl

Team Cannondale-Garmin

Here are the riders who participate in Paris-Nice 2015 for Cannondale-Garmin:

181/ Andrew Talansky
182/ Jack Bauer
183/ Alex Howes
184/ Benjamin King
185/ Edward King
186/ Sebastian Langeveld
187/ Tom Jelte Slagter
188/ Dylan van Baarle

Bretagne-Séché Environnement

The Bretagne-Séché Environnement team was invited to Paris-Nice 2015 and comes to the start with its star, Eduardo Sepulveda, most probably with the wish to get some good results in the Race to the sun!

191/ Eduardo Sepulveda
192/ Anthony Delaplace
193/ Pierrick Fedrigo
194/ Arnaud Gérard
195/ Jonathan Hivert
196/ Yauheni Hutarovich
197/ Daniel McLay
198/ Florian Vachon

The start order and times for the prologue of Paris-Nice 2015 in Maurepas

The riders will start Paris-Nice 2015 with a prologue of 6.7 kilometers in Maurepas (see the Paris-Nice 2015 prologue race route on Google Maps and in video).

The first rider to start will be Daniel McLay of the Bretagne-Séché Environnement team, at 1.35PM and the riders will leave every minute until the start of Jean-Christophe Péraud (AG2R La Mondiale) who will get off the start ramp at precisely 4.14PM.

>> Download the list with the start orders and times of the Paris-Nice 2015 prologue

door Thomas Vergouwen
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