WT 2015: Leeftijd per ploeg en aantal renners

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There are 474 riders from 41 nations registered with the 17 UCI World Tour teams for 2015.

The average age of a rider is 28 years and 3 months. The oldest rider is the 40 year-old Matteo Tosatto (Tinkoff-Saxo) who is pictured above and just seven years younger than his boss Oleg Tinkov. Lampre-Merida’s Colombian neo-pro Eduardo Estrada is the youngest pro, aged 19.

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Outside of the top-25 we have Belarus with three, Ukraine, Sweden, Lithuania, Latvia, Estona, Croatia and China with two while there’s one rider from Taiwan, South Africa, Japan, Finland, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Brazil and Argentina.

Despite the ejection of Europcar from the World Tour France remains the top nation for pros in the World Tour, just ahead of Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain. Domination for cycling’s traditional nations? Yes but look at the 28 riders from Australia. However if you think the Aussies are closing the gap, think twice as two years ago there were 35 Aussie pros in the World Tour.