Tour de France 2008 / field of drivers

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The following riders and teams took part in the 2008 Tour de France :

The German, Austrian and Swiss drivers are marked in bold .

Legend:

Overview of participants

No. country Attendees Reached destination in Paris
01 FranceFrance France 40 30th
02 SpainSpain Spain 30th 20th
03 ItalyItaly Italy 21st 14th
04th GermanyGermany Germany 16 15th
05 BelgiumBelgium Belgium 12 11
06th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 10 10
07th AustraliaAustralia Australia 09 07th
08th RussiaRussia Russia 04th 03
09 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 04th 04th
10 United StatesUnited States United States 04th 04th
11 ColombiaColombia Colombia 03 02
12 LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg 03 03
13 NorwayNorway Norway 02 02
14th AustriaAustria Austria 02 02
15th SwedenSweden Sweden 02 01
16 South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 02 02
17th UkraineUkraine Ukraine 02 02
18th Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 02 02
19th United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 02 01
20th BrazilBrazil Brazil 01 01
21st DenmarkDenmark Denmark 01 01
22nd CanadaCanada Canada 01 01
23 KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 01 01
24 KenyaKenya Kenya 01 01
25th New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 01 01
26th PolandPoland Poland 01 01
27 SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia 01 01
28 SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia 01 01
29 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 01 01
total 180 145

Silence Lotto (Belgium)

Athletic Director: Herman Frison

No. Surname nationality Remarks
1 Cadel Evans AustraliaAustralia Australia Yellow jersey: 11th - 15th stage ; Second overall
2 Mario Aerts BelgiumBelgium Belgium 31st overall
3 Christophe Brandt BelgiumBelgium Belgium Task during the 19th stage
4th Dario Cioni ItalyItaly Italy 83rd overall
5 Leif Hoste BelgiumBelgium Belgium 124th overall
6th Robbie McEwen AustraliaAustralia Australia 122nd overall
7th Yaroslav Popovych UkraineUkraine Ukraine 24th overall
8th Johan Vansummeren BelgiumBelgium Belgium 87th overall
9 Wim Vansevenant BelgiumBelgium Belgium 145th overall

Team CSC-Saxo Bank (Denmark)

Sporting director: Kim Andersen

No. Surname nationality Remarks
11 Carlos Sastre SpainSpain Spain winner: 17th stage ; Yellow jersey: 18th - 21st stage ; Overall winner
12 Kurt Asle Arvesen NorwayNorway Norway winner: 11th stage ; 57th overall
13 Fabian Cancellara SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 65th overall
14th Volodymyr Hustov UkraineUkraine Ukraine 46th overall
15th Stuart O'Grady AustraliaAustralia Australia 109th overall
16 Andy Schleck LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg White jersey: 10th , 17th - 21st stage ; Winner of the junior ranking ; 12th overall
17th Frank Schleck LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg Yellow jersey: 16th & 17th stage ; Sixth overall
18th Nicki Sørensen DenmarkDenmark Denmark 118th overall
19th Jens Voigt GermanyGermany Germany 37th overall
Team ranking: 8th - 10th , 12th - 21st stage ; Winner of the team classification

Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spain)

Sports director: Gorka Gerrikago

No. Surname nationality Remarks
21st Haimar Zubeldia SpainSpain Spain 45th overall
22nd Mikel Astarloza SpainSpain Spain 16th overall
23 Iñaki Isasi SpainSpain Spain 104th overall
24 Egoi Martínez SpainSpain Spain Most combative driver: 16th stage ; 50th overall
25th Juan José Oroz SpainSpain Spain 103rd overall
26th Rubén Pérez SpainSpain Spain 91st overall
27 Samuel Sánchez SpainSpain Spain Seventh overall
28 Amets Txurruka SpainSpain Spain 52nd overall
29 Gorka Verdugo SpainSpain Spain 73rd overall

Caisse d'Epargne (Spain)

Sporting director: José Luis Jaimerena

No. Surname nationality Remarks
31 Alejandro Valverde SpainSpain Spain winner: 1st stage ; Yellow jersey: 2nd & 3rd stage ; Green jersey: 2nd stage ; Ninth overall
32 David Arroyo SpainSpain Spain 30th overall
33 Arnaud Coyot FranceFrance France 115th overall
34 José Vicente García Acosta SpainSpain Spain 141st overall
35 José Iván Gutiérrez SpainSpain Spain Most combative driver: 15th stage ; 56th overall
36 David López SpainSpain Spain 51st overall
37 Óscar Pereiro SpainSpain Spain Task during the 15th stage (fall)
38 Nicolas Portal FranceFrance France 66th overall
39 Luis León Sánchez SpainSpain Spain winner: 7th stage ; Most combative driver: 8th stage ; 62nd overall
Team ranking: 2nd & 3rd stage

Team Columbia (USA)

Sporting director: Brian Holm

No. Surname nationality Remarks
41 Kim churches LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg Yellow jersey: 7th - 10th stage ; Green jersey: 3rd - 5th , 7th , 8th & 10th stage ; Eighth overall
42 Marcus Burghardt GermanyGermany Germany winner: 18th stage ; Most combative driver: 19th stage ; 120th overall
43 Mark Cavendish United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom winner: 5th , 8th , 12th & 13th stage ; Task before the start of the 15th stage
44 Gerald Ciolek GermanyGermany Germany 106th overall
45 Bernhard Eisel AustriaAustria Austria 144th overall
46 Adam Hansen AustraliaAustralia Australia 108th overall
47 George Hincapie United StatesUnited States United States 35th overall
48 Thomas Lövkvist SwedenSweden Sweden White jersey: 5th - 9th stage ; 41st overall
49 Kanstanzin Siuzou Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 17th overall

Team Barloworld (Great Britain)

Sports director: Valerio Tebaldi

No. Surname nationality Remarks
51 Mauricio Soler ColombiaColombia Colombia Task during the 5th stage , fall (wrist injury)
52 John-Lee Augustyn South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 48th overall
53 Félix Cárdenas ColombiaColombia Colombia Task during the 11th stage
54 Giampaolo Cheula ItalyItaly Italy 88th overall
55 Bathing Cooke AustraliaAustralia Australia Task during the 12th stage (fall)
56 Moisés Dueñas SpainSpain Spain Suspension before the 11th stage (A-sample positive for EPO)
57 Chris Froome United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 84th overall
58 Robert Hunter South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 107th overall
59 Paolo Longo Borghini ItalyItaly Italy Task during the 11th stage (fall)

Liquigas (Italy)

Sports director: Stefano Zanatta

No. Surname nationality Remarks
61 Filippo Pozzato ItalyItaly Italy 67th overall
62 Manuel Beltran SpainSpain Spain Suspension before the start of the 8th stage after doping suspicion (A sample positive for EPO )
63 Francesco Chicchi ItalyItaly Italy Disqualification after the 16th stage , the time limit is exceeded
64 Murilo Fischer BrazilBrazil Brazil 76th overall
65 Roman Kreuziger Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 13th overall
66 Alyaksandr Kuschynski Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 128th overall
67 Vincenzo Nibali ItalyItaly Italy White jersey: 13th - 16th stage ; 20th overall
68 Manuel Quinziato ItalyItaly Italy 130th overall
69 Frederik Willems BelgiumBelgium Belgium 113th overall

Lampre-Fondital (Italy)

Sporting director: Maurizio Piovani

No. Surname nationality Remarks
71 Damiano Cunego ItalyItaly Italy Task before the start of the 19th stage (fall injuries from the previous day)
72 Alessandro Ballan ItalyItaly Italy 94th overall
73 Matteo Bono ItalyItaly Italy 117th overall
74 Marzio Bruseghin ItalyItaly Italy 27th overall
75 Marco Marzano ItalyItaly Italy 92nd overall
76 Massimiliano Mori ItalyItaly Italy 140th overall
77 Daniele Righi ItalyItaly Italy 127th overall
78 Sylwester Szmyd PolandPoland Poland 26th overall
79 Paolo Tiralongo ItalyItaly Italy 49th overall

Crédit Agricole (France)

Sports director: Serge Beucherie

No. Surname nationality Remarks
81 Thor Hushovd NorwayNorway Norway winner: 2nd stage ; Green jersey: 6th stage ; 99th overall
82 William Bonnet FranceFrance France 102nd overall
83 Alexander Bocharov RussiaRussia Russia 18th overall
84 Jimmy Engoulvent FranceFrance France 138th overall
85 Dmitri Fofonov KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 19th overall
86 Simon Gerrans AustraliaAustralia Australia winner: 15th stage ; 79th overall
87 Christophe Le Mével FranceFrance France 40th overall
88 Rémi Pauriol FranceFrance France 80th overall
89 Mark Renshaw AustraliaAustralia Australia Task during the 15th stage

Quick Step-Innergetic (Belgium)

Sports director: Wilfried Peeters

No. Surname nationality Remarks
91 Stijn Devolder BelgiumBelgium Belgium Task during the 15th stage
92 Carlos Barredo SpainSpain Spain 89th overall
93 Matteo Carrara ItalyItaly Italy 36th overall
94 Steven de Jongh NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 125th overall
95 Mauro Facci ItalyItaly Italy Task during the 7th stage (illness)
96 Sébastien Rosseler BelgiumBelgium Belgium 98th overall
97 Gert Steegmans BelgiumBelgium Belgium winner: 21st stage ; 111th overall
98 Matteo Tosatto ItalyItaly Italy 96th overall
99 Jurgen Van De Walle BelgiumBelgium Belgium 78th overall

ag2r La Mondiale (France)

Sporting director: Vincent Lavenu

No. Surname nationality Remarks
101 Cyril Dessel FranceFrance France winner: 16th stage ; 28th overall
102 José Luis Arrieta SpainSpain Spain 72nd overall
103 Hubert Dupont FranceFrance France 55th overall
104 Vladimir Yefimkin RussiaRussia Russia 11th overall
105 Martin Elmiger SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 71st overall
106 John Gadret FranceFrance France Task during the 7th stage
107 Stéphane Goubert FranceFrance France 21st overall
108 Christophe Riblon FranceFrance France 137th overall
109 Tadej Valjavec SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia Tenth overall

Team Gerolsteiner (Germany)

Sports director: Hans-Michael Holczer

No. Surname nationality Remarks
111 Stefan Schumacher GermanyGermany Germany winner: 4th & 20th stage ; Yellow jersey: 5th & 6th stage ; Most combative driver: 17th stage ; 25th overall
112 Robert Forster GermanyGermany Germany 116th overall
113 Markus Fothen GermanyGermany Germany 33rd overall
114 Heinrich Haussler GermanyGermany Germany 126th overall
115 Bernhard Kohl AustriaAustria Austria Mountain jersey: 16th - 21st stage ; Winner of the mountain classification ; Third overall
116 Sven Krauss GermanyGermany Germany 143rd overall
117 Sebastian Lang GermanyGermany Germany Mountain jersey: 13th - 15th stage ; Most combative driver: 10th stage ; 75th overall
118 Ronny Scholz GermanyGermany Germany 93rd overall
119 Fabian Wegmann GermanyGermany Germany Disqualification after the 19th stage , exceeding the time limit

Agritubel (France)

Sports director: Denis Leproux

No. Surname nationality Remarks
121 Christophe Moreau FranceFrance France Task during the 7th stage (back pain)
122 Freddy Bichot FranceFrance France 135th overall
123 Jimmy Casper FranceFrance France Disqualification after the 17th stage , exceeding the time limit
124 Romain Feillu FranceFrance France Yellow jersey: 4th stage ; White jersey: 4th stage ; Disqualification after the 19th stage , exceeding the time limit
125 Eduardo Gonzalo SpainSpain Spain 39th overall
126 Nicolas Jalabert FranceFrance France Task during the 14th stage , fall in the refreshment zone
127 David Le Lay FranceFrance France 81st overall
128 Geoffroy Lequatre FranceFrance France 85th overall
129 Nicolas Vogondy FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 6th & 21st stage ; 64th overall

Rabobank (Netherlands)

Sports director: Erik Breukink

No. Surname nationality Remarks
131 Denis Menshov RussiaRussia Russia Fourth overall
132 Juan Antonio Flecha SpainSpain Spain Disqualification after the 19th stage , exceeding the time limit
133 Óscar Freire SpainSpain Spain winner: 14th stage ; Green jersey: 9th , 11th - 21st stage ; Sprint winner ; 70th overall
134 Sebastian Langeveld NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 131st overall ranking
135 Koos Moerenhout NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 34th overall
136 Joost Posthuma NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 69th overall
137 Bram Tankink NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 60th overall
138 Laurens ten Dam NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 22nd overall
139 Pieter Weening NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 63rd overall

Bouygues Télécom (France)

Sporting director: Jean-François Rodriguez

No. Surname nationality Remarks
141 Pierrick Fédrigo FranceFrance France 32nd overall
142 Stef Clement NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 90th overall
143 Xavier Florencio SpainSpain Spain 101st overall
144 Laurent Lefèvre FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 9th stage ; 86th overall
145 Jérôme Pineau FranceFrance France 38th overall
146 Matthieu Sprick FranceFrance France 142nd overall
147 Yuri Trofimov RussiaRussia Russia Task during the 10th stage
148 Johann Tschopp SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 54th overall
149 Thomas Voeckler FranceFrance France Mountain jersey: 2nd - 6th stage ; 97th overall

Team Milram (Germany)

Sporting director: Vittorio Algeri

No. Surname nationality Remarks
151 Erik Zabel GermanyGermany Germany 43rd overall
152 Ralf Grabsch GermanyGermany Germany 123rd overall
153 Christian Knees GermanyGermany Germany 29th overall
154 Brett Lancaster AustraliaAustralia Australia 129th overall
155 Martin Muller GermanyGermany Germany 105th overall
156 Björn Schröder GermanyGermany Germany 100th overall
157 Niki Terpstra NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Most combative driver: 14th stage ; 136th overall
158 Peter Velits SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia Most combative driver: 18th stage ; 58th overall
159 Marco Velo ItalyItaly Italy 44th overall

Française des Jeux (France)

Sports director: Marc Madiot

No. Surname nationality Remarks
161 Sandy Casar FranceFrance France 14th overall
162 Sébastien Chavanel FranceFrance France Task during the 16th stage
163 Rémy Di Gregorio FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 11th stage ; 59th overall
164 Arnaud Gérard FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 13th stage ; 132nd overall
165 Philippe Gilbert BelgiumBelgium Belgium 112th overall
166 Lilian Jégou FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 2nd stage ; Task during the 7th stage (collision with a tree, broken wrist)
167 Yoann Le Boulanger FranceFrance France 74th overall
168 Jérémy Roy FranceFrance France 121st overall
169 Benoît Vaugrenard FranceFrance France 82nd overall

Saunier Duval-Scott (Spain)

Sporting director: Joxean Fernandez

No. Surname nationality Remarks
171 Riccardo Riccò ItalyItaly Italy winner: 6th & 9th stage ; Mountain jersey: 11th stage ; White jersey: 2nd , 3rd , 11th stage , suspension before 12th stage after doping suspicion (A-sample tested positive for EPO)
172 Rubens Bertogliati SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Task before the start of the 12th stage
173 Juan José Cobo SpainSpain Spain Task before the start of the 12th stage
174 David de la Fuente SpainSpain Spain Mountain jersey: 8th - 10th stage ; Task before the start of the 12th stage
175 Jesús Del Nero SpainSpain Spain Task before the start of the 12th stage
176 Ángel Gómez SpainSpain Spain Task during the 3rd stage , fall
177 Josep Jufré SpainSpain Spain Task before the start of the 12th stage
178 Aurélien Passeron FranceFrance France Failed to start the 6th stage (consequences of a fall in the 5th stage , collision with a spectator)
179 Leonardo Piepoli ItalyItaly Italy winner: 10th stage ; Task before the start of the 12th stage
Team ranking: 11th stage

After Riccardo Riccò EPO doping was proven, the team no longer started the 12th stage.

Équipe Cofidis (France)

Sports director: Francis van Londersele

No. Surname nationality Remarks
181 Sylvain Chavanel FranceFrance France winner: 19th stage ; Mountain jersey: 7th stage ; Most combative driver: 3rd , 7th & 20th stage ; Winner in the ranking of the most combative driver ; 61st overall
182 Stéphane Augé FranceFrance France 139th overall
183 Florent Brard FranceFrance France 119th overall
184 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle FranceFrance France Task during the 1st stage , fracture of the left wrist after falling in the refreshment zone
185 Samuel Dumoulin FranceFrance France winner: 3rd stage ; 114th overall
186 Leonardo Duque ColombiaColombia Colombia 53rd overall
187 Amael Moinard FranceFrance France Most combative driver: 12th stage ; 15th overall
188 David Moncoutié FranceFrance France 42nd overall
189 Maxime Monfort BelgiumBelgium Belgium 23rd overall

Garmin Chipotle (USA)

Sporting Director: Matthew White

No. Surname nationality Remarks
191 Christian Vande Velde United StatesUnited States United States Fifth overall
192 Magnus Backstedt SwedenSweden Sweden Disqualification after the 7th stage , exceeding the time limit
193 Julian Dean New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand 110th overall
194 William Frischkorn United StatesUnited States United States Most combative driver: 4th stage ; 133rd overall
195 Ryder Hesjedal CanadaCanada Canada 47th overall
196 Trent Lowe AustraliaAustralia Australia 77th overall
197 Martijn Maaskant NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 134th overall
198 David Millar United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 68th overall
199 Danny godfather United StatesUnited States United States 95th overall
Team ranking: 4th - 7th stage

Individual evidence

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