The 2012 peloton in numbers

There are 18 UCI Pro Tour teams for 2012 comprising 505 riders. Here you can see the oldest and youngest riders, the average age in the bunch and which nation sends the most riders into the top flight of men’s road cycling.

The oldest riders:

Jens Voigt Radioshack-Nissan 40 Frédéric Guesdon FDJ – Bigmat 40 Christopher Horner Radioshack-Nissan 40 Robbie McEwen Greenedge 39 George Hincapie BMC 38 Stuart O’Grady Greenedge 38 Alexandr Vinokourov Astana 38 Levi Leipheimer Omega Pharma – Quickstep 38 Alessandro Petacchi Lampre-ISD 38 Danilo Hondo Lampre-ISD 38

The youngest riders



Arnaud Demare FDJ-BigMat 20 Michael Hepburn Greenedge 20 Kenny Elissonde FDJ-BigMat 20 Barry Markus Vacansoleil 20 Luke Durbridge Greenedge 20 Marco Haller Katusha 20 Wilco Kelderman Rabobank 20 Jacob Rathe Garmin-Cervélo 20 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck Omega Pharma – Quickstep 20 Moreno Moser Liquigas 21

The average age of a rider in the Pro Tour is 28.2 years.

Average age per team

Lampre – ISD 29.4 Team Saxo Bank 29.4 Radioshack – Nissan 29.1 Astana 28.8 Ag2r La Mondiale 28.6 Katusha 28.6 Garmin-Cervélo 28.4 Greenedge 28.4 BMC Racing Team 28.2 Movistar 28.2 Sky 28.2 Euskaltel – Euskadi 27.9 FDJ – BigMat 27.9 Rabobank 27.8 Omega Pharma – Quickstep 27.6 Vacansoleil – DCM Pro Cycling Team 27.5 Lotto Belisol Team 27.4 Liquigas-Cannondale 26.5

The biggest and smallest nations

Italy 67 Spain 61 France 52 Belgium 51 Netherlands 39 Australia 33 USA 20 Germany 18 Russia 18 Denmark 14 Great Britain 14 Kazakhstan 12 Poland 11 Switzerland 11 New Zealand 6 Slovenia 6 Belarus 5 Canada 5 Colombia 5 Norway 5 Portugal 5 Ukraine 5

Next comes Austria, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia (4); Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden, (3); Argentina, Iran, Japan, South Africa (2). Whilst Brazil, Costa Rica, Croatia, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, Israel, Latvia and Uzbekistan each have one rider.