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Tour de France: Official start list

Defending champion Alberto Contador will have the number one pinned to his jersey during the Tour de France.

Twenty two teams and 198 riders will line-up at the Grand Depart in Vendée on Saturday with 3,430km of road ahead of them.

World champion Thor Hushovd wears the Tour’s lucky number 51, while Andy Schleck, looking to dethrone Contador, is 11 and Bradley Wiggins is 111.

The full start list is below. Use it to make the final alterations to your RCUK Trek Fantasy Tour de France team. Prizes include a Trek Madone 5.2 worth £2,800 and Bontrager Race XXX Lite Carbon Clincher wheels worth £1,800.

SaxoBank Sungard

001 Alberto Contador (Spa)
002 Jesus Hernandez (Spa)
003 Dani Navarro (Spa)
004 Benjamin Noval (Spa)
005 Richie Porte (Aus)
006 Chris Anker Sorensen (Den)
007 Nicki Sorensen (Den)
008 Matteo Tosatto (Ita)
009 Brian Vandborg (Den)

Leopard Trek

011 Andy Schleck (Lux)
012 Fabian Cancellara (Swi)
013 Jakob Fuglsang (Den)
014 Linus Gerdemann (Ger)
015 Maxime Monfort (Bel)
016 Stuart O’Grady (Aus)
017 Joost Posthuma (Ned)
018 Frank Schleck (Lux)
019 Jens Voigt (Ger)

Euskaltel-Euskadi


021 Samuel Sanchez (Spa)
022 Gorka Izagirre (Spa)
023 Egoi Martinez (Spa)
024 Alan Perez (Spa)
025 Ruben Perez (Spa)
026 Amets Txurruka (Spa)
027 Pablo Urtasun (Spa)
028 Ivan Velasco (Spa)
029 Gorka Verdugo (Spa)

Omega Pharma-Lotto

031 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel)
032 Philippe Gilbert (Bel)
033 Andre Greipel (Ger)
034 Sebastian Lang (Ger)
035 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel)
036 Marcel Sieberg (Ger)
037 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel)
038 Jelle Vanendert (Bel)
039 Frederik Willems (Bel)

Rabobank

041 Robert Gesink (Ned)
042 Carlos Barredo (Spa)
043 Lars Boom (Ned)
044 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa)
045 Bauke Mollema (Ned)
046 Grischa Niermann (Ger)
047 Luis Leon Sanchez (Spa)
048 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned)
049 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned)

Garmin-Cervelo

051 Thor Hushovd (Nor)
052 Tom Danielson (USA)
053 Julian Dean (NZ)
054 Tyler Farrar (USA)
055 Ryder Hesjedal (Can)
056 David Millar (GB)
057 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu)
058 Christian Vande Velde (USA)
059 David Zabriskie (USA)

Astana

061 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz)
062 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra)
063 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz)
064 Andriy Grivko (Ukr)
065 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz)
066 Roman Kreuziger (Cze)
067 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita)
068 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu)
069 Andrey Zeits (Kaz)

Radioshack

071 Janez Brajkovic (Slo)
072 Chris Horner (USA)
073 Markel Irizar (Spa)
074 Andreas Kloden (Ger)
075 Levi Leipheimer (USA)
076 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz)
077 Sergio Paulinho (Por)
078 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr)
079 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa)

Movistar

081 David Arroyo (Spa)
082 Andrey Amador (Crc)
083 Rui Costa (Por)
084 Imanol Erviti (Spa)
085 Jose Ivan Gutierrez (Spa)
086 Benat Intxausti (Spa)
087 Vasil Kiryienka (Blr)
088 Jose Rojas (Spa)
089 Francisco Ventoso (Spa)

Liquigas-Cannondale

091 Ivan Basso (Ita)
092 Maciej Bodnar (Pol)
093 Kristijan Koren (Slo)
094 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita)
095 Daniel Oss (Ita)
096 Maciej Paterski (Pol)
097 Fabio Sabatini (Ita)
098 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol)
099 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita)

Agr2 La Mondiale

101 Nicolas Roche (Irl)
102 Maxime Bouet (Fra)
103 Hubert Dupont (Fra)
104 John Gadret (Fra)
105 Sebastien Hinault (Fra)
106 Blel Kadri (Fra)
107 Sebastien Minard (Fra)
108 Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra)
109 Christophe Riblon (Fra)

Team Sky

111 Bradley Wiggins (GB)
112 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa)
113 Simon Gerrans (Aus)
114 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor)
115 Christian Knees (Ger)
116 Ben Swift (GB)
117 Geraint Thomas (GB)
118 Rigoberto Uran (Col)
119 Xabier Zandio (Spa)

Quick Step

121 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra)
122 Tom Boonen (Bel)
123 Gerald Ciolek (Ger)
124 Kevin De Weert (Bel)
125 Dries Devenyns (Bel)
126 Addy Engels (Ned)
127 Jerome Pineau (Fra)
128 Gert Steegmans (Bel)
129 Niki Terpstra (Ned)

FDJ

131 Sandy Casar (Fra)
132 William Bonnet (Fra)
133 Mickael Delage (Fra)
134 Arnold Jeannesson (Fra)
135 Gianni Meersman (Bel)
136 Remi Pauriol (Fra)
137 Anthony Roux (Fra)
138 Jeremy Roy (Fra)
139 Arthur Vichot (Fra)

BMC Racing

141 Cadel Evans (Aus)
142 Brent Bookwalter (USA)
143 Marcus Burghardt (Ger)
144 George Hincapie (USA)
145 Amael Moinard (Fra)
146 Steve Morabito (Swi)
147 Manuel Quinziato (Ita)
148 Ivan Santaromita (Ita)
149 Michael Schar (Swi)

Cofidis

151 Rein Taaramae (Est)
152 Mickael Buffaz (Swi)
153 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra)
154 Leonardo Duque (Col)
155 Julien El Fares (Fra)
156 Tony Gallopin (Fra)
157 David Moncoutie (Fra)
158 Tristan Valentin (Fra)
159 Romain Zingle (Bel)

Lampre-ISD

161 Damiano Cunego (Ita)
162 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita)
163 Grega Bole (Slo)
164 Matteo Bono (Ita)
165 Danilo Hondo (Ger)
166 Denys Kostyuk (Ukr)
167 David Loosli (Swi)
168 Adriano Malori (Ita)
169 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita)

HTC-Highroad

171 Mark Cavendish (GB)
172 Lars Bak (Den)
173 Bernhard Eisel (Aut)
174 Matt Goss (Aus)
175 Tony Martin (Ger)
176 Danny Pate (USA)
177 Mark Renshaw (Aus)
178 Tejay Van Garderen (USA)
179 Peter Velits (Slo)

Europcar

181 Thomas Voeckler (Fra)
182 Anthony Charteau (Fra)
183 Cyril Gautier (Fra)
184 Yohann Gene (Fra)
185 Vincent Jerome (Fra)
186 Christophe Kern (Fra)
187 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra)
188 Pierre Rolland (Fra)
189 Sebastien Turgot (Fra)

Katusha

191 Vladimir Karpets (Rus)
192 Pavel Brutt (Rus)
193 Denis Galimzyanov (Rus)
194 Vladimir Gusev (Rus)
195 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus)
196 Vladimir Isaychev (Rus)
197 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus)
198 Egor Silin (Rus)
199 Yuriy Trofimov (Rus)

Vacansoleil-DCM

201 Romain Feillu (Fra)
202 Borut Bozic (Slo)
203 Thomas De Gendt (Bel)
204 Johnny Hoogerland (Ned)
205 Bjorn Leukemans (Bel)
206 Marco Marcato (Ita)
207 Wout Poels (Ned)
208 Rob Ruijgh (Ned)
209 Lieuwe Westra (Ned)

Saur-Sojasun

211 Jerome Coppel (Fra)
212 Arnaud Coyot (Fra)
213 Anthony Delaplace (Fra)
214 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra)
215 Jeremy Galland (Fra)
216 Jonathan Hivert (Fra)
217 Fabrice Jeandesboz (Fra)
218 Laurent Mangel (Fra)
219 Yannick Talabardon (Fra)

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