2021 Tour de France Teams and their full list of riders
The 2021 Tour de France Grand Depart is set to kick off from Brest in Brittany on 26 June. The 108th edition of the major cycling event will see around 23 teams and 184 riders battle it out in the French terrain
They will be vying to win various general classification awards and the top rider will leave with the famous yellow jersey.
The 2020 Tour de France champion, Tadej Pogacar, will be looking to defend his title against fellow countryman, Primož Roglic of Team Jumbo-Visma, and veteran cyclist, Geraint Thomas of Team INEOS Grenadiers.
There are 21 stages in the Tour de France with seven flat stages, five hilly stages, six mountain stages, and two individual time trials.
The Tour de France started in 1903 to increase the sales of the newspaper, L’Auto. Tour de France is one of the three Grand Tours and has been held annually since 1903 except during the two World Wars.
2021 Tour de France Teams and their full Squads
INEOS GRENADIERS: Geraint Thomas, Richard Carapaz, Richie Porte, Tao Geoghgan Hart, Michal Kwiatkowski, Jonathan Castroviejo, Luke Rowe and Dylan van Baarle.
JUMBO-VISMA: Primož Roglic, Wout van Aert, Steven Kruijswijk, Sepp Kuss, Jonas Vingegaard, Robert Gesink, Tony Martin and Mike Teunissen.
TEAM EMIRATES: Tadej Pogacar, Rafal Majka, Marc Hirschi, Alexander Kristoff, Davide Formolo, Jan Polanc and Ivo Oliveira.
MOVISTAR: Ángel Miguel López, Enric Mas, Alejandro Valverde, Marc Soler, Iván García, Imanol Erviti, Carlos Verona and Jorge Arcas.
AG2R CITROËN: Ben O’Connor, Greg van Avermaet, Benoît Cosnefroy, Aurélien, Oliver Naesen, Nans Peters, Michael Schär and Dorian Godon.
TEAM ARKÉA-SAMSIC: Nairo Quintana, Nacer Bouhanni, Warren Barguil, Connor Swift, Dan McLay, Anthony Delaplace, Élie Gesbert and Clément Russo.
ASTANA-PREMIER TECH: Jakob Fuglsang, Omar Fraile, Alexey Lutsenko, Ion Izagirre, Stefan de Bod, Alex Aranburu, Hugo Houle and Dmitriy Gruzdev.
BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS: Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao, Wout Poels, Jack Haig, Sonny Colbrelli, Dylan Teuns, Matej Mohoric and Fred Wright.
B&B HOTELS – VITAL CONCEPT: Bryan Coquard, Pierre Rolland, Cyril Barthe, Cyril Gautier, Quentin Pacher, Maxime Chevalier, Franck Bonnamour and Cyril Lemoine.
BIKEEXCHANGE: Simon Yates, Michael Matthews, Grøndahl Jansen Amund, Lucas Hamilton, Robert Stannard, Esteban Chaves, Chris Juul-Jensen and Luka Mezgec.
BORA-HANSGROHE: Emanuel Buchmann, Wilco Kelderman, Patrick Konrad, Daniel Oss, Lukas Pöstlberger, Nils Politt, Peter Sagan and Ide Schelling.
COFIDIS SOLUTIONS CRÉDITS: Guillaume Martin, Anthony Perez, Christophe Laporte, Jesus Herrada, Pierre-Luc Perichon and Simon Geschke.
DECEUNINCK – QUICK-STEP: Julian Alaphilippe, Mark Cavendish, Kasper Asgreen, Yves Lampaert, Tim Declercq, Michael Mørkøw, Davide Ballerini and Tim Declercq.
DSM: Tiesj Benoot, Cees Bol and Søren Kragh Andersen.
EF EDUCATION-NIPPO: Rigoberto Urán, Michael Valgren, Sergio Higuita, Neilson Powless, Magnus Cort and Stefan Bissegger.
GROUPAMA-FDJ: Arnaud Démare, David Gaudu, Valentin Madouas, Ramon Sinkeldam, Rudy Molard, Jacapo Guarnieri, Ignatas Konovalovas and Bruno Armirail.
INTERMARCHÉ-WANTY GOBERT MATÉRIAUX: Louis Meintjes, Danny van Poppel, Loïc Vliegan and Jan Bakelants.
ISRAEL START-UP NATION: Chris Froome, Michael Woods, André Greipel, Rick Zabel, Dan Martin, Reto Hollenstein, Guillaume Boivin and Omer Goldstein.
LOTTO-SOUDAL: Caleb Ewan, Philippe Gilbert, Tosh van der Sande, Harry Sweeny, Thomas de Gendt, Roger Kluge, Jasper de Buyst and Brent van Moer.
QHUBEKA-ASSOS: Michael Gogl, Victor Campenaerts, Fabio Aru, Sergio Henao, Nic Dlamini, Max Walscheid, Sean Bennett and Simon Clarke.
TOTALENERGIES: Edvald Boasson Hagen, Julien Simon, Pierre Latour, Fabien Doubey, Anthony Turgis, Victor de la Parte, Jérémy Cabot and Rodríguez Cristián.
TREK-SEGAFREDO: Mads Pedersen, Vincenzo Nibali, Bauke Mollema and Jasper Stuyven.