Johan van der Velde is a former Dutch cyclist. In the 1980 Tour de France, he won the young rider classification, also placing 12th in the general classification that year. He had been a racing cyclist for only a year. In the 1981 Tour de France, he took first place on the second and 21st stages, finishing 12th overall for the second year. He rode with TI–Raleigh in the Tour de France from 1979 to 1983 and the Panasonic team where he won Stage 5 and wore the Yellow Jersey for two days in the 1986 Tour de France.
Chris Carmichael is a retired professional cyclist and cycling, triathlon and endurance sports coach. He was a member of the 1984 U.S. Olympic Cycling Team, the 7-Eleven Professional Cycling Team (1985–1987), and the Schwinn-Wheaties professional cycling team (1988–1989). He started coaching with the United States Cycling Federation in 1990, was the U.S. Men's Road Cycling team coach for the 1992 Olympic Games and the U.S. Olympic Cycling Team Head Coach for the 1996 Olympic Games.
Gianbattista Baronchelli is an Italian retired professional road racing cyclist (1974–1989). He obtained a total of 94 victories.
Walter Planckaert is a Belgian former professional road racing cyclist. He is the younger brother of Willy Planckaert, the older brother of Eddy Planckaert, and the uncle of Jo Planckaert. He had 74 victories in his professional career. After retiring from riding, he commenced a long career in team management, working for the Panasonic, Novemail–Histor, Palmans, Lotto–Adecco and Chocolade Jacques teams.
Pascal Simon is a retired French road racing cyclist. A native of Mesnil St. Loup, he was a professional cyclist from 1979 to 1991. Pascal was the oldest of four brothers that all became professional cyclists: Régis, Jerôme and François.
Peugeot team was a French professional cycling team that promoted and rode Peugeot racing bikes.
Allan Peiper , is a retired Australian professional cyclist and current pro cycling team manager.
Sven-Åke Nilsson is a Swedish retired road racing cyclist. His sporting career began with CK Ringen Malmö. He was a professional cyclist from 1977 until his retirement in 1984.
Jørgen Marcussen is a former Danish racing cyclist.
IAM Cycling was a Swiss registered UCI WorldTour cycling team. It is managed by former French road race champion Serge Beucherie.
The title sponsor was IAM Independent Asset Management SA, a Swiss investment management company.
Jean Brunier was a French racing cyclist. He won the French national road race title in 1922.
Roland Berland is a French former racing cyclist. He won the French national road race title in 1972 and 1979.
Yvon Madiot is a French former racing cyclist. He won the French national road race title in 1986, going on to finish tenth in that year's Tour de France.
Kari Myyryläinen is a Finnish former professional racing cyclist. He won the Finnish national road race title in 1983, 1985 and 1986. He also competed at the 1984 and 1996 Summer Olympics.
Marie Purvis, now known as Marie Morgan, is an English former racing cyclist who represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. She won the British National Road Race Championships on five occasions.
Lucien Didier is a former Luxembourgian cyclist. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics. He rode in ten Grand Tours between 1978 and 1984, including six Tours de France. In each of his Tour starts he completed the race and helped his team leader to overall victory - Bernard Hinault four times and Laurent Fignon twice. He was the son-in law of racing cyclist Bim Diederich and is the father of racing cyclist Laurent Didier.
Neil Martin is a British former cyclist. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics. He now works as a team manager for under-23 cyclists within Cycling Ireland's High Performance Unit.
Luc Colijn is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist. He rode in the 1981 Tour de France. He currently works as a directeur sportif for Team Flanders–Baloise. He is the grandson of cyclist Achiel Buysse.
Phil Corley is a former British professional road racing cyclist.
Dominique Lecrocq was a French professional racing cyclist. He most notably won Paris–Bourges in 1986 and competed in the 1984 Vuelta a España.
