The Silence-Lotto team will start the Tour de France 2009 in Monaco on July 4 with the following riders.

• Cadel Evans (Aus)
• Thomas Dekker (Ned)
• Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel)
• Johan Vansummeren (Bel)
• Greg Van Avermaet (Bel)
• Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel)
• Mickaël Delage (Fra)
• Matthew Lloyd (Aus)
• Sebastian Lang (Ger)

Reserves are Roy Sentjens and Charles Wegelius.

The team will be led by team manager Marc Sergeant and sports directors Herman Frison, Hendrik Redant and Roberto Damiani.