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The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. The Tour consisted of twenty-one race stages, including an opening prologue, and covered a total distance of . The race was contested by a total of twenty-two teams. All eighteen of the 2012 UCI World Tour's ProTeams were entitled, and obliged, to enter. In April 2012, the organizer of the Tour, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), announced the four UCI Professional Continental teams given wildcard invitations, of which three were French-based (, and ) and one Dutch (). The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster are introduced in front of the media and local dignitaries – took place outside the Prince-Bishops' Palace in Liège, two days before the first stage. The number of riders allowed per squad was nine, resulting in a start list total of 198 riders. From the riders that began the race, 153 crossed the finish line in Paris. The average rider age was 30.17, with 22-year-old Thibaut Pinot () as the youngest rider, and 40-year-old Jens Voigt () as the most senior.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/race/Tour_de_France_2012-statistics )〕 was the youngest team and the oldest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=113093&c=6&statistic=sl_avg_team_age )〕 The riders came from 31 countries; France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Australia all had 12 or more riders in the race.〔 Riders from six countries won at least one stage; British riders won the largest number of stages, a total of seven. Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara () won the prologue and held general classification leader's yellow jersey for the first week.〔 's Bradley Wiggins, second in the prologue, took the leadership of the race on stage seven,〔 the first mountainous stage.〔 He maintained his lead throughout the rest of the race, winning the two longest time trials, and not losing time to his main challengers for the overall title in the mountains. Wiggins's compatriot and teammate Chris Froome placed second, and Italian Vincenzo Nibali () was third. The points classification was won by Nibali's Slovakian teammate, Peter Sagan. 's French rider Thomas Voeckler, winner of two mountain stages, won the mountains classification, and 's American rider Tejay van Garderen, in fifth place overall, won the award for the best young rider. The team classification was won by ,〔 and Chris Anker Sørensen was given the award for the most combative rider.〔 == Teams == ProTeams * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' Professional Continental teams * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' * ''(riders)'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of teams and cyclists in the 2012 Tour de France」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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