The list of teams and cyclists in the 2007 Tour de France contains the professional road bicycle racers who competed at the 2007 Tour de France from July 7 to July 29, 2007. [1] Of the 20 UCI ProTour teams, Unibet.Com was not allowed to participate because their gambling sponsor conflicts with the law in France. Of the non-ProTour teams, the organisation invited Agritubel and Barloworld. [2]
In the weeks before the start, many rumours and speculations were heard about which riders would or would not be selected for the race.
No. | Name | Nationality | Team | Age | Pos. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11 | Óscar Pereiro | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 29 | 10 |
12 | David Arroyo | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 27 | 13 |
13 | Vicente García Acosta | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 34 | 91 |
14 | Iván Gutiérrez | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 28 | 22 |
15 | Vladimir Karpets | Russia | Caisse d'Epargne | 26 | 14 |
16 | Francisco Pérez Sanchez | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 23 | 72 |
17 | Nicolas Portal | France | Caisse d'Epargne | 28 | 57 |
18 | Alejandro Valverde | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 27 | 6 |
19 | Xabier Zandio | Spain | Caisse d'Epargne | 30 | DNF-4 |
21 | Michael Rogers | Australia | T-Mobile Team | 27 | DNF-8 |
22 | Marcus Burghardt | Germany | T-Mobile Team | 24 | 127 |
23 | Mark Cavendish | Great Britain | T-Mobile Team | 22 | DNF-8 |
24 | Bernhard Eisel | Austria | T-Mobile Team | 26 | 121 |
25 | Linus Gerdemann | Germany | T-Mobile Team | 24 | 36 |
26 | Bert Grabsch | Germany | T-Mobile Team | 32 | 105 |
27 | Kim Kirchen | Luxembourg | T-Mobile Team | 29 | 7 |
28 | Axel Merckx | Belgium | T-Mobile Team | 34 | 62 |
29 | Patrik Sinkewitz | Germany | T-Mobile Team | 26 | DNS-9 |
31 | Carlos Sastre | Spain | Team CSC | 32 | 4 |
32 | Kurt Asle Arvesen | Norway | Team CSC | 32 | 67 |
33 | Fabian Cancellara | Switzerland | Team CSC | 26 | 100 |
34 | Íñigo Cuesta | Spain | Team CSC | 38 | 51 |
35 | Stuart O'Grady | Australia | Team CSC | 33 | DNF-8 |
36 | Fränk Schleck | Luxembourg | Team CSC | 27 | 17 |
37 | Christian Vande Velde | United States | Team CSC | 31 | 25 |
38 | Jens Voigt | Germany | Team CSC | 35 | 28 |
39 | David Zabriskie | United States | Team CSC | 28 | DSQ-11 |
41 | Cadel Evans | Australia | Predictor–Lotto | 30 | 2 |
42 | Mario Aerts | Belgium | Predictor–Lotto | 32 | 70 |
43 | Dario Cioni | Italy | Predictor–Lotto | 32 | 56 |
44 | Chris Horner | United States | Predictor–Lotto | 35 | 15 |
45 | Leif Hoste | Belgium | Predictor–Lotto | 29 | 110 |
46 | Robbie McEwen | Australia | Predictor–Lotto | 35 | DSQ-8 |
47 | Fred Rodriguez | United States | Predictor–Lotto | 33 | DNF-15 |
48 | Johan Vansummeren | Belgium | Predictor–Lotto | 26 | 63 |
49 | Wim Vansevenant | Belgium | Predictor–Lotto | 35 | 141 |
51 | Denis Menchov | Russia | Rabobank | 29 | DNF-17 |
52 | Michael Boogerd | Netherlands | Rabobank | 35 | 12 |
53 | Bram de Groot | Netherlands | Rabobank | 32 | 134 |
54 | Thomas Dekker | Netherlands | Rabobank | 22 | 35 |
55 | Juan Antonio Flecha | Spain | Rabobank | 29 | 85 |
56 | Óscar Freire | Spain | Rabobank | 31 | DNS-7 |
57 | Grischa Niermann | Germany | Rabobank | 32 | 86 |
58 | Michael Rasmussen | Denmark | Rabobank | 33 | DNS-17 |
59 | Pieter Weening | Netherlands | Rabobank | 26 | 128 |
61 | Christophe Moreau | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 36 | 37 |
62 | José Luis Arrieta | Spain | AG2R Prévoyance | 36 | 52 |
63 | Sylvain Calzati | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 28 | DNF-11 |
64 | Cyril Dessel | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 32 | DNF-15 |
65 | Martin Elmiger | Switzerland | AG2R Prévoyance | 28 | 74 |
66 | John Gadret | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 28 | 54 |
67 | Simon Gerrans | Australia | AG2R Prévoyance | 27 | 94 |
68 | Stéphane Goubert | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 37 | 27 |
69 | Ludovic Turpin | France | AG2R Prévoyance | 32 | 44 |
71 | Haimar Zubeldia | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 28 | 5 |
72 | Igor Antón | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 24 | DNF-11 |
73 | Mikel Astarloza | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 27 | 9 |
74 | Jorge Azanza | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 25 | 82 |
75 | Iñaki Isasi | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 30 | 90 |
76 | Iñigo Landaluze | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 30 | 43 |
77 | Rubén Pérez | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 25 | 50 |
78 | Amets Txurruka | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 24 | 23 |
79 | Gorka Verdugo | Spain | Euskaltel–Euskadi | 28 | 48 |
81 | Alessandro Ballan | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 27 | 88 |
82 | Daniele Bennati | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 26 | 75 |
83 | Paolo Bossoni | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 31 | 95 |
84 | Marzio Bruseghin | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 33 | 41 |
85 | Claudio Corioni | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 24 | 126 |
86 | Danilo Napolitano | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 26 | DSQ-8 |
87 | Daniele Righi | Italy | Lampre–Fondital | 31 | 96 |
88 | Tadej Valjavec | Slovenia | Lampre–Fondital | 30 | 19 |
89 | Patxi Vila | Spain | Lampre–Fondital | 31 | 29 |
91 | Stefan Schumacher | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 25 | 87 |
92 | Robert Förster | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 29 | 135 |
93 | Markus Fothen | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 25 | 34 |
94 | Heinrich Haussler | Australia | Team Gerolsteiner | 23 | 129 |
95 | Bernhard Kohl | Austria | Team Gerolsteiner | 25 | 31 |
96 | Sven Krauss | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 24 | 137 |
97 | Ronny Scholz | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 29 | 81 |
98 | Fabian Wegmann | Germany | Team Gerolsteiner | 27 | 60 |
99 | Peter Wrolich | Austria | Team Gerolsteiner | 33 | 133 |
101 | Thor Hushovd | Norway | Crédit Agricole | 29 | 139 |
102 | William Bonnet | France | Crédit Agricole | 25 | 109 |
103 | Alexander Bocharov | Russia | Crédit Agricole | 32 | 33 |
104 | Anthony Charteau | France | Crédit Agricole | 27 | 136 |
105 | Julian Dean | New Zealand | Crédit Agricole | 32 | 107 |
106 | Dmitry Fofonov | Kazakhstan | Crédit Agricole | 30 | 26 |
107 | Patrice Halgand | France | Crédit Agricole | 33 | 30 |
108 | Sebastien Hinault | France | Crédit Agricole | 33 | 132 |
109 | Christophe Le Mével | France | Crédit Agricole | 26 | DNF-15 |
111 | Levi Leipheimer | United States | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 33 | 3 |
112 | Alberto Contador | Spain | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 24 | 1 |
113 | Vladimir Gusev | Russia | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 25 | 38 |
114 | George Hincapie | United States | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 34 | 24 |
115 | Egoi Martínez | Spain | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 29 | 61 |
116 | Benjamín Noval | Spain | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 26 | 115 |
117 | Sérgio Paulinho | Portugal | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 27 | 65 |
118 | Yaroslav Popovych | Ukraine | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 27 | 8 |
119 | Tomas Vaitkus | Lithuania | Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team | 25 | DNS-3 |
121 | Pierrick Fédrigo | France | Bouygues Télécom | 28 | 84 |
122 | Stef Clement | Netherlands | Bouygues Télécom | 24 | DSQ-12 |
123 | Xavier Florencio | Spain | Bouygues Télécom | 27 | 46 |
124 | Anthony Geslin | France | Bouygues Télécom | 27 | 98 |
125 | Laurent Lefèvre | France | Bouygues Télécom | 31 | 58 |
126 | Jérôme Pineau | France | Bouygues Télécom | 27 | 68 |
127 | Matthieu Sprick | France | Bouygues Télécom | 25 | DNF-16 |
128 | Johann Tschopp | Switzerland | Bouygues Télécom | 25 | 93 |
129 | Thomas Voeckler | France | Bouygues Télécom | 28 | 66 |
131 | Juan Miguel Mercado | Spain | Agritubel | 28 | 80 |
132 | Freddy Bichot | France | Agritubel | 27 | 102 |
133 | Moisés Dueñas | Spain | Agritubel | 26 | 39 |
134 | Romain Feillu | France | Agritubel | 23 | DNF-8 |
135 | Eduardo Gonzalo | Spain | Agritubel | 23 | DNF-1 |
136 | Cédric Herve | France | Agritubel | 27 | DSQ-8 |
137 | Nicolas Jalabert | France | Agritubel | 34 | 114 |
138 | Benoît Salmon | France | Agritubel | 33 | 125 |
139 | Nicolas Vogondy | France | Agritubel | 29 | 92 |
141 | Sylvain Chavanel | France | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 28 | DNS-17 |
142 | Stéphane Augé | France | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 32 | DNS-17 |
143 | Geoffroy Lequatre | France | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 26 | DNS-6 |
144 | Cristian Moreni | Italy | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 34 | DNS-17 |
145 | Nick Nuyens | Belgium | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 27 | DNS-17 |
146 | Iván Parra | Colombia | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 31 | DNF-8 |
147 | Staf Scheirlinckx | Belgium | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 28 | DNS-17 |
148 | Rik Verbrugghe | Belgium | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 32 | DNS-17 |
149 | Bradley Wiggins | Great Britain | Cofidis, Le Crédit par Téléphone | 27 | DNS-17 |
151 | Filippo Pozzato | Italy | Liquigas | 25 | DNS-15 |
152 | Michael Albasini | Switzerland | Liquigas | 26 | 59 |
153 | Manuel Beltrán | Spain | Liquigas | 36 | 18 |
154 | Kjell Carlström | Finland | Liquigas | 30 | 76 |
155 | Murilo Fischer | Brazil | Liquigas | 28 | 101 |
156 | Aleksandr Kuschynski | Belarus | Liquigas | 27 | 89 |
157 | Manuel Quinziato | Italy | Liquigas | 27 | 113 |
158 | Charlie Wegelius | Great Britain | Liquigas | 29 | 45 |
159 | Frederik Willems | Belgium | Liquigas | 27 | 73 |
161 | Sandy Casar | France | Française des Jeux | 28 | 71 |
162 | Sébastien Chavanel | France | Française des Jeux | 26 | 130 |
163 | Mickaël Delage | France | Française des Jeux | 21 | 117 |
164 | Rémy Di Gregorio | France | Française des Jeux | 21 | DNS-5 |
165 | Philippe Gilbert | Belgium | Française des Jeux | 25 | DNS-15 |
166 | Lilian Jégou | France | Française des Jeux | 31 | 97 |
167 | Mathieu Ladagnous | France | Française des Jeux | 22 | 112 |
168 | Thomas Lövkvist | Sweden | Française des Jeux | 23 | 64 |
169 | Benoît Vaugrenard | France | Française des Jeux | 25 | 83 |
171 | Tom Boonen | Belgium | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 26 | 119 |
172 | Carlos Barredo | Spain | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 26 | 42 |
173 | Steven de Jongh | Netherlands | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 33 | 123 |
174 | Juan Manuel Gárate | Spain | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 31 | 21 |
175 | Sébastien Rosseler | Belgium | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 25 | 104 |
176 | Gert Steegmans | Belgium | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 26 | 138 |
177 | Bram Tankink | Netherlands | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 28 | 40 |
178 | Matteo Tosatto | Italy | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 33 | 108 |
179 | Cedric Vasseur | France | Quick-Step–Innergetic | 36 | 55 |
181 | Erik Zabel | Germany | Team Milram | 37 | 79 |
182 | Alessandro Cortinovis | Italy | Team Milram | 29 | 122 |
183 | Ralf Grabsch | Germany | Team Milram | 34 | 116 |
184 | Andriy Hryvko | Ukraine | Team Milram | 23 | 78 |
185 | Christian Knees | Germany | Team Milram | 26 | 47 |
186 | Brett Lancaster | Australia | Team Milram | 27 | DNF-5 |
187 | Alberto Ongarato | Italy | Team Milram | 31 | DNF-12 |
188 | Enrico Poitschke | Germany | Team Milram | 37 | 131 |
189 | Marcel Sieberg | Germany | Team Milram | 25 | 120 |
191 | Alexander Vinokourov | Kazakhstan | Astana Team | 33 | DNS-16 |
192 | Antonio Colom | Spain | Astana Team | 29 | DNS-16 |
193 | Maxim Iglinsky | Kazakhstan | Astana Team | 26 | DNS-16 |
194 | Sergei Ivanov | Russia | Astana Team | 32 | DNS-16 |
195 | Andrey Kashechkin | Kazakhstan | Astana Team | 27 | DNS-16 |
196 | Andreas Klöden | Germany | Astana Team | 32 | DNS-16 |
197 | Daniel Navarro Garcia | Spain | Astana Team | 23 | DNS-16 |
198 | Grégory Rast | Switzerland | Astana Team | 27 | DNS-16 |
199 | Paolo Savoldelli | Italy | Astana Team | 34 | DNS-16 |
201 | David Millar | Great Britain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 30 | 69 |
202 | Iker Camaño | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 28 | 53 |
203 | David Canada | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 32 | 103 |
204 | Juan José Cobo | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 26 | 20 |
205 | David de la Fuente | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 26 | 49 |
206 | Rubén Lobato | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 28 | DNS-7 |
207 | Iban Mayo | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 29 | 16 |
208 | Christophe Rinero | France | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 33 | 77 |
209 | Francisco Ventoso | Spain | Saunier Duval–Prodir | 25 | DNS-14 |
211 | Alexander Efimkin | Russia | Barloworld | 25 | 99 |
212 | Félix Cárdenas | Colombia | Barloworld | 34 | 106 |
213 | Giampaolo Cheula | Italy | Barloworld | 28 | 111 |
214 | Enrico Degano | Italy | Barloworld | 31 | DNF-7 |
215 | Geraint Thomas | Great Britain | Barloworld | 21 | 140 |
216 | Robert Hunter | South Africa | Barloworld | 30 | 118 |
217 | Paolo Longo Borghini | Italy | Barloworld | 26 | 124 |
218 | Kanstantsin Sivtsov | Belarus | Barloworld | 24 | 32 |
219 | Mauricio Soler | Colombia | Barloworld | 24 | 11 |
Astana Qazaqstan Team is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year, 2007. Following a major doping scandal involving Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov, team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season. The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel, former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team. Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve, although Astana in this period was very successful.
Gilberto Simoni is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, most recently for Lampre–Farnese Vini. Simoni is twice winner of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. Simoni might have won a third Giro, but in 2002 he tested positive for cocaine and was withdrawn from the race by his Saeco team – he was later cleared of any doping violation by the Italian Cycling Federation. Aside from this incident in 2002 he finished on the podium in every other Giro between 1999 and 2006.
The 2005 Tour de France was the 92nd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Fromentine with an individual time trial on 2 July and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a mountainous stage to Briançon. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on 24 July.
The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between the 1st and the 23rd of July. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of Floyd Landis. Due to the United States Anti-Doping Agency announcing on August 24, 2012, that they had disqualified Lance Armstrong, a former teammate of Landis, from all of his results since August 1, 1998, including his seven Tour de France titles from 1999 to 2005, this is also the first Tour to have an overall winner since 1998. By terms of margin of victory the 2006 Tour was the 3rd closest of all time.
The 2005 ProTour was the first year of the newly introduced UCI ProTour system, in which the ProTour teams are guaranteed, and obliged to, participate in the series of ProTour races. In certain ways the ProTour replaced the UCI Road World Cup series of one-day races, which in 2004 was won by one-day specialist Paolo Bettini for the third time in a row. The beginning of the ProTour saw difficult negotiations with the organizers of the Grand Tours, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Strasbourg with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 11 occurred on 13 July with a mountainous stage to Val d'Aran in Spain. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on 23 July.
The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Strasbourg with a prologue individual time trial on 1 July and Stage 12 occurred on 14 July with a hilly stage from Bagnères-de-Luchon. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on 23 July.
The 2006 edition of the men's UCI Road World Championships Road Race took place on September 24, 2006, in the Austrian city of Salzburg. Reigning Olympic champion and Italian Paolo Bettini captured the gold medal and the rainbow jersey as the 2006 World Cycling Champion. The 36-year-old German sprinter Erik Zabel took the silver medal and UCI ProTour winner Alejandro Valverde of Spain captured third place for the bronze medal. A total of 136 cyclists actually finished the race, with Slovakia's Roman Broniš in last place.
The 2007 Giro d'Italia was the 90th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place from 12 May to 3 June 2007. The race began in Sardinia and finished in Milan, and featured five mountain top finishes, of which one was an individual time trial. The race also visited France and Austria in three stages.
The 2007 Vuelta a España, the 62nd edition of the cycle race, took place from 1 September until 23 September 2007. For the first time in a decade, the race started in the region of Galicia, at Vigo, home to Óscar Pereiro, with a flat stage. It was also an unusual Vuelta because the first summit finish came already on the fourth day of racing, with a stage ending atop the famed Lagos de Covadonga. The race was won by Denis Menchov, who also won the Mountains competition and the combined classification, and finished second in the points competition.
These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2007 Tour de France, with the Prologue on 7 July, Stage 1 on 8 July, and Stage 10 on 18 July.
These are the profiles for the individual stages in the 2008 Tour de France, with Stage 12 on 17 July, and Stage 21 on 27 July.
The 2009 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended in October with the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited to and obliged to attend every UCI ProTour event, and were invited to every event in the inaugural UCI World Calendar as well.
The 2007 season for the Astana cycling team was its first, though the team's sponsors in the Kazakhstani government had entered the sport the year before backing the dissolved Liberty Seguros team. That same team was known as "Astana" for part of the season, including the 2006 Vuelta a España, but as the UCI license previously held by Manolo Saiz transferred to new ownership, headquartered in a new nation, it is considered a new team from 2007 onward. The team's manager for the 2007 season was former Tour de Suisse organizer Marc Biver, who had never before managed a cycling team at any level.
Stage 12 of the 2007 Giro d'Italia took place on 24 May; the race concluded on 3 June. The second half of the Giro began with a challenging mountain stage that finished outside Italy, the first of three stages in this Giro that did so. This stage resulted in the race lead transferring from Andrea Noè to his teammate and team leader Danilo Di Luca, who did not relinquish this lead and finished the race as its champion.