Men's Road Race Starting List: 207 Riding for the Rainbow

Mark Cavendish will be wearing the number one dossard as he looks to defend his title. Cavendish is unlikely to go back to back with Belgian Phillipe Gilbert the number one favourite. Cavendish has said the course is too hard for a sprinter such as himself and a select group will most likely arrive at the finish together. That group looks like containing Gilbert, Simon Gerrans (Australia), Alejandro Valverde (Spain), Peter Sagan (Slovakia), Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) and a dark horse or two. Spain and Belgium have the strongest teams for the Road Race but Australia and Italy have the class to spring a surprise. For the smaller nations, it will be hard to work against 9 man teams but there is always the possibility of a two or three man team benefiting from trade team allegiances or simply being opportunistic at the right time.

The race looks to be a classic and being raced on the roads that it is, the winner will be worthy addition to the list of Rainbow jersey winners.

Full starting list below

1 Mark Cavendish (Great Britain)
2 Stephen Cummings (Great Britain)
3 Alex Dowsett (Great Britain)
4 Christopher Froome (Great Britain)
5 Luke Rowe (Great Britain)
6 Ian Stannard (Great Britain)
7 Ben Swift (Great Britain)
8 Jonathan Tiernan-Locke (Great Britain)
9 Bradley Wiggins (Great Britain)
10 Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spain)
11 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spain)
12 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spain)
13 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spain)
14 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spain)
15 Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spain)
16 Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spain)
17 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spain)
18 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spain)
19 Dario Cataldo (Italy)
20 Oscar Gatto (Italy)
21 Marco Marcato (Italy)
22 Moreno Moser (Italy)
23 Vincenzo Nibali (Italy)
24 Rinaldo Nocentini (Italy)
25 Luca Paolini (Italy)
26 Matteo Trentin (Italy)
27 Diego Ulissi (Italy)
28 Tom Boonen (Belgium)
29 Kevin De Weert (Belgium)
30 Dries Devenyns (Belgium)
31 Philippe Gilbert (Belgium)
32 Bjorn Leukemans (Belgium)
33 Gianni Meersman (Belgium)
34 Jurgen Roelandts (Belgium)
35 Greg Van Avermaet (Belgium)
36 Johan Vansummeren (Belgium)
37 Simon Clarke (Australia)
38 Allan Davis (Australia)
39 Simon Gerrans (Australia)
40 Adam Hansen (Australia)
41 Heinrich Haussler (Australia)
42 Michael Matthews (Australia)
43 Richie Porte (Australia)
44 Wesley Sulzberger (Australia)
45 David Tanner (Australia)
46 Lars Boom (Netherlands)
47 Koen De Kort (Netherlands)
48 Robert Gesink (Netherlands)
49 Karsten Kroon (Netherlands)
50 Bertjan Lindeman (Netherlands)
51 Bauke Mollema (Netherlands)
52 Tom Jelte Slagter (Netherlands)
53 Laurens Ten Dam (Netherlands)
54 Niki Terpstra (Netherlands)
55 Brent Bookwalter (United States of America)
56 Matthew Busche (United States of America)
57 Timothy Duggan (United States of America)
58 Lucas Euser (United States of America)
59 Christopher Horner (United States of America)
60 Alex Howes (United States of America)
61 Taylor Phinney (United States of America)
62 Andrew Talansky (United States of America)
63 Tejay van Garderen (United States of America)
64 Andre Fernando S. Martins Cardoso (Portugal)
65 Rui Costa (Portugal)
66 Sergio Paulinho (Portugal)
67 Bruno Pires (Portugal)
68 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Norway)
69 Lars Petter Nordhaug (Norway)
70 Gabriel Rasch (Norway)
71 Maxime Bouet (France)
72 Sylvain Chavanel (France)
73 Jerome Coppel (France)
74 Mickael Delage (France)
75 Tony Gallopin (France)
76 Vincent Jerome (France)
77 Jeremy Roy (France)
78 Arthur Vichot (France)
79 Thomas Voeckler (France)
80 Matej Jurco (Slovakia)
81 Maros Kovac (Slovakia)
82 Juraj Sagan (Slovakia)
83 Peter Sagan (Slovakia)
84 Martin Velits (Slovakia)
85 Peter Velits (Slovakia)
86 Marcus Burghardt (Germany)
87 John Degenkolb (Germany)
88 Johannes Frohlinger (Germany)
89 Simon Geschke (Germany)
90 Christian Knees (Germany)
91 Paul Martens (Germany)
92 Fabian Wegmann (Germany)
93 Michael Albasini (Switzerland)
94 Mathias Frank (Switzerland)
95 Steve Morabito (Switzerland)
96 Gregory Rast (Switzerland)
97 Michael Schär (Switzerland)
98 Oliver Zaugg (Switzerland)
99 Winner Anacona Gomez (Colombia)
100 Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez (Colombia)
101 Fabio Andres Duarte Arevalo (Colombia)
102 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Colombia)
103 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Colombia)
104 Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez (Colombia)
105 Rigoberto Uran Uran (Colombia)
106 Ryder Hesjedal (Canada)
107 Francois Parisien (Canada)
108 Svein Tuft (Canada)
109 David Veilleux (Canada)
110 Grega Bole (Slovenia)
111 Borut Bozic (Slovenia)
112 Janez Brajkovic (Slovenia)
113 Jure Kocjan (Slovenia)
114 Kristijan Koren (Slovenia)
115 Marko Kump (Slovenia)
116 Luka Mezgec (Slovenia)
117 Sergey Firsanov (Russian Federation)
118 Vladimir Gusev (Russian Federation)
119 Vladimir Isaichev (Russian Federation)
120 Alexandr Kolobnev (Russian Federation)
121 Yury Trofimov (Russian Federation)
122 Eduard Vorganov (Russian Federation)
123 Michal Golas (Poland)
124 Tomasz Marczynski (Poland)
125 Jaroslaw Marycz (Poland)
126 Jacek Morajko (Poland)
127 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Poland)
128 Marek Rutkiewicz (Poland)
129 Jorge Martin Montenegro (Argentina)
130 Enzo Moyano (Argentina)
131 Mauricio Muller (Argentina)
132 Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Argentina)
133 Jacques Janse Van Rensburg (South Africa)
134 Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (South Africa)
135 Jay Robert Thomson (South Africa)
136 Yukiya Arashiro (Japan)
137 Fumiyuki Beppu (Japan)
138 Yukihiro Doi (Japan)
139 Shinichi Fukushima (Japan)
140 Yusuke Hatanaka (Japan)
141 Takashi Miyazawa (Japan)
142 Tomas Aurelio Gil Martinez (Venezuela)
143 Jonathan Monsalve (Venezuela)
144 Carlos Jose Ochoa (Venezuela)
145 Vitaliy Buts (Ukraine)
146 Andriy Grivko (Ukraine)
147 Denys Kostyuk (Ukraine)
148 Dmytro Krivtsov (Ukraine)
149 Oleksandr Polivoda (Ukraine)
150 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukraine)
151 Rafael Andriato (Brazil)
152 Jan Barta (Czech Republic)
153 Milan Kadlec (Czech Republic)
154 Leopold Konig (Czech Republic)
155 Stanislav Kozubek (Czech Republic)
156 Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic)
157 Frantisek Rabon (Czech Republic)
158 Zdenek Stybar (Czech Republic)
159 Matthias Brandle (Austria)
160 Stefan Denifl (Austria)
161 Daniel Schorn (Austria)
162 Assan Bazayev (Kazakhstan)
163 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kazakhstan)
164 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kazakhstan)
165 Hichem Chaabane (Algeria)
166 Julian Dean (New Zealand)
167 Hayden Roulston (New Zealand)
168 Jesse Sergent (New Zealand)
169 Matti Breschel (Denmark)
170 Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark)
171 Chris Anker Sorensen (Denmark)
172 Ignatas Konovalovas (Lithuania)
173 Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania)
174 Evaldas Siskevicius (Lithuania)
175 Sea Keong Loh (Malaysia)
176 Amir Rusli (Malaysia)
177 Aleksejs Saramotins (Latvia)
178 Gatis Smukulis (Latvia)
179 Tanel Kangert (Estonia)
180 Rene Mandri (Estonia)
181 Rein Taaramae (Estonia)
182 Ying Hon Yeung (Hong Kong, China)
183 Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff (Sweden)
184 Gustav Larsson (Sweden)
185 Thomas Lovkvist (Sweden)
186 Kristijan Durasek (Croatia)
187 Vladimir Miholjevic (Croatia)
188 Radoslav Rogina (Croatia)
189 Laurent Didier (Luxembourg)
190 Jean-Pierre Drucker (Luxembourg)
191 Ben Gastauer (Luxembourg)
192 Nebojsa Jovanovic (Serbia)
193 Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (Costa Rica)
194 Carlos Oyarzun (Chile)
195 Peter Kusztor (Hungary)
196 Alexandr Pliuschin (Republic of Moldova)
197 Vasil Kiryienka (Belarus)
198 Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Belarus)
199 Siarhei Papok (Belarus)
200 Daniel Martin (Ireland)
201 Ronan McLaughlin (Ireland)
202 Nicolas Roche (Ireland)
203 Elchin Asadov (Azerbaijan)
204 Georgi Petrov Georgiev (Bulgaria)
205 Martin Grashev (Bulgaria)
206 Stefan Histrov (Bulgaria)
207 Fabricio Ferrari Barcelo (Uruguay)