As of next July 1, The Tour de France, which will be 120 years old and will be held in the Basque Country. This three-week edition will begin here and Last year’s winner, Jonas Vingegaard, starts as the main favorite for the championship.

Teams, drivers and favorites of the Tour de France 2023

Next July 29, on the streets of Bilbao 22 teams will experience the staging mostly French participants, along with the eight involved cyclists. 18 of the teams are part of the UCI World Team, 2 by full rights and 2 by invitation.

  • AG2R Citroën Team (France): Sten Dewulf, Clément Berthet, Felix Gall, Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Ben O’Connor, Benoit Cosnefroy, Oliver Naesen and Nans Peters.
  • Alpecin-Deceunink (Belgium): Silvan Dillier, Michael Gogl, Quinten Hermans, Soren Kragh Andersen, Jasper Philipsen, Jonas Rickaert, Ramon Sinkeldam and Mathieu van der Poel.
  • Team Astana Kazakhstan (Kazakhstan): Alexey Lutsenko, Yevgeniy Fedorov, Mark Cavendish, Cees Bol, David De La Cruz, Luis León Sánchez, Gianni Moscon and Harold Tejada.
  • Bahrain-Muzaffar (Bahrain): Nickias Arndt, Phil Bauhaus, Pello Bilbao, Jack Haig, Mikel Landa, Matej Mohoric, Wout Poels and Fred Wright.
  • Bora-Hansgrohe (Germany): Jai Hindley, Emanuel Buchmann, Marco Haller, Bob Jungels, Patrick Konrad, Jordi Meeus, Nils Politt, Danny Van Poppel.
  • Cofidis (France): Guillaume Martin, Ion Izagirre, Victor Lafay, Bryan Coquard, Axel Zingle, Alexis Renard, Anthony Perez and Simon Geschke.
  • EF Education-Easy Post (US): Andrey Amador, Alberto Bettiol, Richard Carapaz, Esteban Chaves, Magnus Cort, Neilson Powless, Rigoberto Uran and James Shaw.
  • Groupama-FDJ (France): David Gaudu, Kevin Geniets, Stefan Küng, Valentin Madouas, Thibaut Pinot, Olivier Le Gac, Quentin Pacher and Lars Van der Berg.
  • Ineos-Grenadiers (UK): Egan Bernal, Jonathan Castroviejo, Omar Fraile, Michal Kwiatkowski, Daniel Martinez, Tom Pidcock, Carlos Rodriguez and Ben Turner.
  • Intermarché-Circuns-Wanty (Belgium): Biniam Girmay, Louis Meintjes, Adrien Petit, Rui Alberto Faria, Lilian Calmejane, Dion Smith, Mike Teunissen and Georg Zimmermann.
  • Israel-Premier Tech (Israel)*: Michael Woods, Dylan Teuns, Guillaume Boivin, Simon Clarke, Hugo Houle, Krists Neilands, Corbin Strong and Nick Schultz.
  • Jumbo Visma (Netherlands): Jonas Vingegaard, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman, Sepp Kuss, Christophe Laporte, Wout van Aert, Nathan van Hooydonck and Dylan van Baarle.
  • Lotto DSTNY (Belgium): Caleb Ewan, Victor Campenaerts, Jasper de Buyst, Pascal Eenkhoorn, Frederik Frison, Jacopo Guarnieri, Maxim Van Gils and Florian Vermeersch.
  • Movistar Team (Spain): Enric Mas, Matteo Jorgenson, Nelson Oliveira, Antonio Pedrero, Ruben Guerreiro, Gregor Mühlberger, Gorka Izagirre and Álex Aranburu.
  • Soudal Quick-Step (Belgium): To approve.
  • Team Arkea-Samsic (France): Warren Barguil, Jenthe Biermans, Clément Champoussin, Anthony Delaplace, Simon Guglielmi, Matis Louvel, Luca Mozzato and Laurent Pichon.
  • Team DSM (Netherlands): Romain Bardet, Matthews Dinham, John Degenkolb, Alex Edmondson, Nils Eekhoff, Chris Hamilton, Kevin Vermaerke and Sam Welsford.
  • Team Jayco AlUla (Australia): Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen, Lawson Craddock, Luke Drubridge, Chris Harper, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Luka Mezgec and Elmar Reinders.
  • Total Energies (France): Peter Sagan, Daniel Oss, Anthony Turgis, Edvald Boasson-Hagen, Pierre Latour, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Steff Cras and Valentin Ferron.
  • Trek-Segafredo (USA): Tony Gallopin, Giulio Ciccone, Quinn Simmons, Juan Pedro Lopez, Jasper Stuyven, Mads Pedersen, Mattias Skjelmose and Alex Kirsch.
  • UAE Team Emirates (United Arab Emirates): Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Großschartner, Vegard Stake Laengen, Rafal Majka, Tadej Pogacar, Marc Soler, Matteo Trentin and Adam Yates.
  • Uno-X Pro Cycling Kit (Norway)*: Alexander Kristoff, Tobias Halland Johannessen, Jonas Abrahamsen, Anthon Charming, Jonas Gregaard, Rasmus Tillier, Torstein Traaen and Soren Waerenskjold.

*Invited teams.

Danish Jonas Vingegaarddefending champion and main favorite and Belgian no van aert neededThe last national time trial champion leads a mighty Jumbo Visma. Tadej PogacarHe will lead UAE Team Emirates, champions in 2020 and 2021 as well as a contender for the title. They come out as serious candidates from behind Mikel Landa, Enric Mas, David Gaudu, Egan Bernal and Carlos Rodríguezamong others.