Some 34 teams will compete in the last international race to be held on British roads before the Olympic road race this summer.

All six of Britain’s UCI Continental squads have signed up for the 2012 Rutland-Melton CiCLE Classic, which will be held on Sunday April 29.

Endura Racing, Node4-Giordana, Raleigh-GAC, Rapha Condor Sharp, Team IG-Sigma Sport, and UK Youth will be among 25 British teams and nine overseas outfits to contest the 114-mile race from Oakham to Melton Mowbray.

The latest batch of talented under-23 riders from British Cycling’s highly respected academy will also take part and will field George Atkins, a former national junior road race champion and Commonwealth Games silver medalist.

Austria’s KTM Gebrüder Weiss team will field Tobais Erier, a former national road race champion and teammate of Mark Cavendish at the now-defunct HTC-Highroad squad.

Many of the overseas squads competed in the UCI’s Tour of Morroco and Tour de San Luis, an event won in January by Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).

The Rutland-Melton classic will be held for the eighth consecutive year and remains the only British event to hold UCI 1.2 status. British road race legend, Malcolm Elliott, won the first edition in 2007.

Farm tracks and rough roads feature as part of the route, earning the race the nickname, ‘Britain’s Paris-Roubaix’.