The provisional line up for the 2012 Tour of Britain starting on Sunday, September 9 has been posted by the Tour of Britain organisers…
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Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins headlines The Tour of Britain’s provisional start list, which has been released today. The provisional start list contains stage winners from all three Grand Tours, including seven Tour de France stage winners, with 31 victories to their name, 23 of them falling to the world’s number one sprinter and current World Road Race Champion Mark Cavendish.
The rider list also contains four Tour de France jersey winners – Ivan Basso (2002 Best Young Rider), Mark Cavendish (2011 Green Jersey), Samuel Sanchez (2011 King of the Mountains) and Bradley Wiggins (2012 Yellow Jersey).
Six Giro d’Italia stage winners and six Vuelta a Espana stage winners are also on the list, while five of the riders lining up for this year’s Tour of Britain are Olympic medallists, including 2012 Individual Time Trial Champion Bradley Wiggins.
Seven teams line-up for The Tour having competed in this summer’s Tour de France, while Orica GreenEDGE, Liquigas – Cannondale, Saur Sojasun and Team UK Youth all make their Tour of Britain debuts.
Riders from 16 teams and of 23 different nationalities make up the start list for this year’s Tour of Britain, which gets underway in Ipswich on Sunday 9th September, for Stage One through Suffolk and Norfolk to the Norfolk Showground.
Amateur cyclists can take on the same challenges as the professionals via five different Tour Ride sportives this September, in East Anglia, Scotland, Wales, Stoke-on-Trent and at the Birmingham NEC Cycle Show. To sign-up and to take on the challenge of a route inspired by The Tour of Britain, to enter, please visit www.tourride.co.uk
TEAMS & RIDERS
The full start list is below:
Sky Pro Cycling
Servais Knaven
1) Bradley Wiggins
2) Mark Cavendish
3) Bernhard Eisel
4) Jeremy Hunt
5) Christian Knees
6) Luke Rowe
Endura Racing
Alex Sans Vega
11) Jonathan Tiernan-Locke
12) Jonathan McEvoy
13) Russell Downing
14) Ian Bibby
15) Zak Dempster
16) Paul Voss
Node4 – Giordana Racing
Malcolm Elliott
21) Marcin Bialoblocki
22) Dave Clarke
23) Matt Cronshaw
24) Rico Rogers
25) Michael Northey
26) Peter Williams
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling
Hendrik Redant
31) Jonny Clarke
32) Robert Forster
33) Christopher Jones
34) Marc De Maar
35) Kai Reus
36) Boy Van Poppel
Euskaltel Euskadi
Alex Diaz
41) Samuel Sanchez
42) Victor Cabedo
43) Pierre Cazaux
44) Ricardo Garcia
45) Adrian Saez de Arregiu
46) Pablo Urtasun
Orica GreenEDGE
Lionel Marie
51) Jack Bobridge
52) Brett Lancaster
53) Michael Hepburn
54) Leigh Howard
55) Aidis Kruopis
Liquigas Cannondale
Stefano Zanatta
61) Ivan Basso
62) Marco Benefatto
63) Fabio Sabatini
64) Damiano Caruso
65) Matthias Krizek
66) Paolo Longon Borghini
Saur Sojasun
Nicolas Guille
71) Jerome Coppel
72) Jeremie Galland
73) David Le Lay
74) Fabrice Jeandesboz
75) Yannock Talabardon
76) Rony Martias
Vacansoleil – DCM
Cees De Brouwer
82) Matteo Carrara
83) Wesley Kreder
84) Barry Markus
85) Jacek Morajko
86) Willem Wauters
Team IG – Sigma Sport
Roger Hammond
91) Dan Craven
92) Peter Hawkins
93) Tom Last
94) Daniel Lloyd
95) Simon Richardson
96) Wouter Sybrandy
Team NetApp
Enrico Poitschke
101) Jan Barta
102) Cesare Benedetti
103) Bartosz Huzarski
104) Blaz Jarc
105) Leopold Koenig
106) Daniel Schorn
Rapha Condor
John Herety
111) Kristian House
112) Mike Cuming
113) Ben Grenda
114) Richard Handley
115) Christopher Jennings
116) Rich Lang
AN Post Sean Kelly
Kurt Bogaerts
121) Gediminas Bagdonas
122) Sam Bennett
123) Mark McNally
124) Niels Wytinck
125) Pieter Ghyllebert
126) Ronan McLaughlin
Team Raleigh – GAC
Cherie Pridham
131) Graham Briggs
132) Russell Hampton
133) Liam Holohan
134) Evan Oliphant
135) Jamie Sparling
136) Bernard Sulzberger
Garmin – Sharp
Geert Van Bondt
141) Tyler Farrar
142) Nathan Haas
143) Jacob Rathe
144) Laclan Morton
145) Sep Vanmarcke
146) Steele Von Hoff
Team UK Youth
David Povall
151) Yanto Barker
152) Magnus Backstedt
153) Niklas Gustavsson
154) Chris Opie
155) Christofer Stevenson
156) David McGowan
Great Britain
Keith Lambert
161) George Atkins
162) Owain Doull
163) Josh Edmondson
164) Tom Moses
165) Alistair Slater
166) Simon Yates
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