On the eve of the eve of Le Tour 2020, the race organisers have posted a provisional list of starters. Reserve riders are also named on LeTour.fr but below are 22 teams and their selection of eight. 
Since 2018 there have been eight-man teams for cycling’s Grand Tours, one less than had been the tradition for a long time. In 2020, there is expected to be a peloton of 176 riders: eight each from the 22 teams that will contest the race from Nice to Paris from 29 August to 20 September.
Below is the list as published by the Tour de France organisers recently. Of course, it should be noted that changes can take place up until Saturday morning, just before the start of the opening stage.
There’s good and bad news for parochial Australian cycling fans: two of the nominated team leaders are Aussies, Richie Porte who is chasing “a good GC result” with Trek-Segafredo and the winner of three stages last year, Caleb Ewan, who is part of the Lotto-Soudal team.
The bad news is that there are only two Australians listed as starters in the Tour de France of 2020!
We have to go back to 2001 and 2000 for the previous Tours in which there were only two Australians. Twenty years ago, when the Grand Départ of Le Tour 2000 was in Futuroscope, the only Aussies in the peloton were Stuart O’Grady and Robbie McEwen. The next year, at the start in Dunkirk in 2001, our only representatives were O’Grady and Bradley McGee.
Of the 31 Australians racing for teams that will contest the Tour, Porte and Ewan are the only two to be named as starters in 2020. Three others have been listed as reserves: Jai Hindley for Team Sunweb, Alex Edmondson for Mitchelton-Scott and Simon Clarke for EF Pro Cycling.
New Zealand boasts more confirmed starters than Australia, with George Bennett racing for Jumbo-Visma, and Jack Bauer and Sam Bewley named on the Mitchelton-Scott Tour roster.
We await confirmation of the race numbers for each rider, when the leader is traditionally denoted by the ‘dossard’ ending with ‘1’, and the others listed in alphabetic order.
Here are the eight riders named on each of the 22 teams that will contest Le Tour in 2020.
Ineos Grenadiers
- Egan Bernal (COL)
- Andrey Amador (CRC)
- Richard Carapaz (ECU)
- Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP)
- Michal Kwiatkowski (POL)
- Luke Rowe (GBR)
- Pavel Sivakov (RUS)
- Dylan van Baarle (NED)
Team Jumbo-Visma
- Primož Roglic (SLO)
- George Bennett (NZL)
- Tom Dumoulin (NED)
- Robert Gesink (NED)
- Amund Grøndahl Jansen (NOR)
- Sepp Kuss (USA)
- Tony Martin (GER)
- Wout van Aert (BEL)
Bora-Hansgrohe
- Peter Sagan (SVK)
- Emanuel Buchmann (GER)
- Felix Grosschartner (AUT)
- Lennard Kämna (GER)
- Gregor Mühlberger (AUT)
- Daniel Oss (ITA)
- Lukas Pöstlberger (AUT)
- Maximilian Schachmann (GER)
Ag2R La Mondiale
- Romain Bardet (FRA)
- Mikael Cherel (FRA)
- Benoit Cosnefroy (FRA)
- Pierre Latour (FRA)
- Oliver Naesen (BEL)
- Nans Peters (FRA)
- Clement Venturini (FRA)
- Alexis Vuillermoz (FRA)
Deceuninck-Quickstep
- Julian Alaphilippe (FRA)
- Kasper Asgreen (DEN)
- Sam Bennett (IRL)
- Tim Declercq (BEL)
- Dries Devenyns (BEL)
- Bob Jungels (LUX)
- Michael Mørkøv (DEN)
- Zdenek Štybar (CZE)
Groupama-FDJ
- Thibaut Pinot (FRA)
- William Bonnet (FRA)
- David Gaudu (FRA)
- Stefan Küng (SUI)
- Matthieu Ladagnous (FRA)
- Valentin Madouas (FRA)
- Rudy Molard (FRA)
- Sébastien Reichenbach (SUI)
Bahrain-McLaren
- Mikel Landa (ESP)
- Pello Bilbao (ESP)
- Damiano Caruso (ITA)
- Sonny Colbrelli (ITA)
- Marco Haller (AUT)
- Matej Mohoric (SLO)
- Wouter Poels (NED)
- Rafael Valls Ferri (ESP)
EF Pro Cycling
- Rigoberto Uran (COL)
- Alberto Bettiol (ITA)
- Hugh John Carthy (USA)
- Sergio Andres Higuita (COL)
- Jens Keukeleire (BEL)
- Daniel Felipe Martinez (COL)
- Neilson Powless (USA)
- Tejay van Garderen (USA)
Team Arkea-Samsic
- Nairo Quintana (COL)
- Winner Andrew Anacona (COL)
- Warren Barguil (FRA)
- Maxime Bouet (FRA)
- Dayer Quintana (COL)
- Diego Rosa (ITA)
- Clément Russo (FRA)
- Connor Swift (GBR)
Movistar Team
- Alejandro Valverde (ESP)
- Dario Cataldo (ITA)
- Imanol Erviti (ESP)
- Enric Mas (ESP)
- Nelson Oliveira (POR)
- Antonio Pedrero (ESP)
- Marc Soler (ESP)
- Carlos Verona (ESP)
Trek-Segafredo
- Richie Porte (AUS)
- Niklas Eg (DEN)
- Kenny Elissonde (FRA)
- Bauke Mollema (NED)
- Mads Pedersen (DEN)
- Toms Skujins (LAT)
- Jasper Stuyven (BEL)
- Edward Theuns (BEL)
CCC Team
- Greg Van Avermaet (BEL)
- Alessandro De Marchi (ITA)
- Simon Geschke (GER)
- Jan Hirt (CZE)
- Jonas Koch (GER)
- Michael Schär (SUI)
- Matteo Trentin (ITA)
- Ilnur Zakarin (RUS)
Cofidis
- Guillaume Martin (FRA)
- Simone Consonni (ITA)
- Nicolas Edet (FRA)
- Jesus Herrada (ESP)
- Christophe Laporte (FRA)
- Anthony Perez (FRA)
- Pierre Luc Perichon (FRA)
- Elia Viviani (ITA)
UAE Team Emirates
- Tadej Pogacar (SLO)
- Fabio Aru (ITA)
- David De La Cruz (ESP)
- Davide Formolo (ITA)
- Alexander Kristoff (NOR)
- Vegard Stake Laengen (NOR)
- Marco Marcato (ITA)
- Jan Polanc (SLO)
Astana Pro Team
- Miguel Angel Lopez (ESP)
- Omar Fraile (ESP)
- Hugo Houle (CAN)
- Gorka Izagirre Insausti (ESP)
- Ion Izaguirre Insausti (ESP)
- Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ)
- Luis León Sanchez (ESP)
- Harold Alfonso Tejada Canacue (COL)
Lotto-Soudal
- Caleb Ewan (AUS)
- Steff Cras (BEL)
- Jasper De Buyst (BEL)
- Thomas De Gendt (BEL)
- John Degenkolb (GER)
- Frederik Frison (BEL)
- Philippe Gilbert (BEL)
- Roger Kluge (GER)
Mitchelton-Scott
- Adam Yates (GBR)
- Jack Bauer (NZL)
- Sam Bewley (NZL)
- Esteban Chaves (COL)
- Daryl Impey (RSA)
- Chris Juul Jensen (DEN)
- Luka Mezgec (SLO)
- Mikel Nieve (ESP)
Israel Start-Up Nation
- Dan Martin (IRL)
- André Greipel (GER)
- Ben Hermans (BEL)
- Hugo Hofstetter (FRA)
- Krists Neilands (LAT)
- Guy Niv (ISR)
- Nils Politt (GER)
- Tom van Asbroeck (BEL)
Total Direct Energie
- Lilian Calmejane (FRA)
- Niccolò Bonifazio (ITA)
- Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA)
- Jerome Cousin (FRA)
- Fabien Grellier (FRA)
- Romain Sicard (FRA)
- Geoffrey Soupe (FRA)
- Anthony Turgis (FRA)
NTT Pro Cycling Team
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR)
- Ryan Gibbons (RSA)
- Michael Gogl (AUT)
- Michael Valgren (DEN)
- Roman Kreuziger (CZE)
- Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA)
- Domenico Pozzovivo (ITA)
- Maximilian Walscheid (GER)
Team Sunweb
- Tiesj Benoot (BEL)
- Cees Bol (BEL)
- Nikias Arndt (GER)
- Marc Hirschi (SUI)
- Søren Kragh Andersen (DEN)
- Joris Nieuwenhuis (NED)
- Casper Phillip Pedersen (DEN)
- Nicolas Roche (IRL)
B&B Hotels – Vital Concept
- Pierre Rolland (FRA)
- Cyril Barthe (FRA)
- Maxime Chevalier (FRA)
- Bryan Coquard (FRA)
- Jens Debusschere (BEL)
- Cyril Gautier (FRA)
- Quentin Pacher (FRA)
- Kevin Reza (FRA)
