Tour de France 2023 team guide: Start list, star riders for Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, Ineos and all 22 teams

Twenty-two teams of eight riders have descended upon Bilbao for the grand depart of the 2023 Tour de France – including 18 WorldTour outfits and four UCI ProTeams. Once again, the Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates squads of race favourites Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar stand head and shoulders above the rest, while there is a Tour debut for Norwegian minnows Uno-X Pro Cycling.

All teams and riders will take part in the official presentation on Thursday ahead of Saturday’s opening stage – a lumpy 182km ride around the Basque hills to and from Bilbao. The intriguing opening stage is one of seven stand-out stages to feature in our Tour de France stage guide.

Ad In the second of our pre-race previews we look at the start list of the 2023 race and run through the star riders, memorable moments, racing style and tour goals of each of the 22 participating teams. In the spirit of gentle ribaldry, we also ask which French thing each team most resembles.

Tour de France'I would go full on from Day 1' – Gilbert thinks Jumbo should attack Pogacar earlyAN HOUR AGO Tour de France stage guide as Pogacar and Vingegaard chase yellow *Riders with an asterisk after their name are 25 or younger and qualify for the best young riders competition. UCI WorldTeams AG2R CITROEN Ben O’Connor Oliver Naisen Benoit Cosnefroy Nans Peters Felix Gall* Aurelien Paret-Peintre Stan Dewulf Clement Berthet* Star rider: Ben O’Connor Memorable Moment: It's hard to overlook Bob Jungel’s win in Chatel last year, although Peters’ solo success in Loudenvielle in 2020 was special.

Racing Style: Keep on rolling the dice and hope to throw a six. Tour Goals: O’Connor to return to the top five after his problems last year; a stage win in the mountains for in-form