WM3 Pro Cycling
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Team information | |
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UCI code | RBW |
Registered | Netherlands |
Founded | 2005 |
Discipline | Road |
Status | UCI Women's Team |
Bicycles |
Colnago (2005–2008) Giant (2009–2016) Ridley (2017–) |
Website | Team home page |
Key personnel | |
General manager | Eric van den Boom |
Team manager(s) | Koos Moerenhout |
Team name history | |
2005 2006 2007–2008 2009 2010–2011 2012 2012 2013 2014–2016 2017 2017– |
DSB Bank DSB Bank–Ballast Nedam DSB–Bank DSB Bank–LTO Nederland Bloeit Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team Rabobank Women Cycling Team Rabobank–Liv Giant Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team Fortitude Pro Cycling[N 1] WM3 Pro Cycling[1] |
WM3 Pro Cycling (UCI Code: RBW) is a women's professional cycling team, based in the Netherlands. The team is sponsored by Rabobank and Giant Bicycles through its women's brand Liv.
Riders for Rabobank Women compete in the UCI Women's WorldTour and other elite women's events throughout the world.
History
2009
2012
The team's first win of the season came in the Ronde van Drenthe where Marianne Vos claimed victory. The teams first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, again being won by Marianne Vos – along with a stage – Annemiek van Vleuten also won the prologue and a stage. Marianne Vos went on to win 5 stages of the 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile, as well as the General classification. Vos followed this by winning the General classification of the Tour Féminin en Limousin. Vos continued her strong run of wins claiming the 2012 Olympic Games road race in London. The final wins for the team came at the Holland Ladies Tour where Vos won the General classification and took two stage wins. Vos later won the 2012 UCI World Championship road race.
2013
Marianne Vos opened the teams account securing victory in the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship. The teams first road win of the season came at the Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo, with Vos claiming victory. Vos went on to win the Ronde van Drenthe and Tour of Flanders. Like the previous season the first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, with Vos winning the General classification, Points classification and taking a stage win. Like the previous year, Annemiek van Vleuten won the opening prologue. Vos continued her winning streak in one day races taking out wins in the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg and Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria. Vos failed to retain her 2013 Giro title, losing to Mara Abbott, but did claim the Points classification and three stages. Vos also claimed overall victory in Trophée d'Or Féminin
2014
The 2014 season marked a different start to the season for the team. Marianne Vos started her road season late, leaving the team to support other riders in the opening races of the year. Lucinda Brand won the team's first General classification of the year at the Energiewacht Tour. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine with Anna van der Breggen claiming victory at the Dwars door de Westhoek. van der Breggen then claimed overall victory at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs with Marianne Vos winning the Points classification and Ferrand-Prévot taking both the Mountains and Young rider classification. Vos then claimed overall victory at the inaugural Women's Tour of Britain. The team won further race General classifications with overall victory at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira for Ferrand-Prevot and the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile for Vos. Vos followed this up by winning the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France.
Riders in
On 29 August, Moniek Tenniglo joined the team.[2] On September 13 Thalita de Jong, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Roxane Knetemann, Anna Knauer and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot signed contract extensions.[3] On October 9 the team signed Shara Gillow and on October 20 Anouska Koster joined the team. On November 13 Jeanne Korevaar joined the team.[4]
Riders out
On March 1, Sanne van Paassen left the team to join Boels–Dolmans.[5] In September 2014, the team announced that the Annemiek van Vleuten would leave the team and join the Bigla Cycling Team for the 2015 and 2016 seasons.[6]
2015
In January the team scored 1st and 3rd in the UCI World Cyclo-cross championships, with Ferrand-Prevot and Vos respectively.[7] In the first European road race of the season, the Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the team rode very strongly. With 30 km to go Anna van der Breggen escaped together with Ellen van Dijk (Boels–Dolmans) from a front group of 15 riders on the Molenberg. The duo extended their advantage over the cobbled sections that followed, holding off the chase group to the line, where Van der Breggen won the two-up sprint.[8]
In December 2015 Rabobank announced that it would end its sponsorship of professional sport at the end of 2016, forcing the team to find a new sponsor.[9]
2016
In September 2016 the team announced that it would be known as Fortitude Pro Cycling in 2017. At the same time the team confirmed its 11-rider roster for 2017, including six riders who were part of the Rabo-Liv squad in 2016 - Marianne Vos, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Yara Kastelijn, Jeanne Korevaar, Anouska Koster and Moniek Tenniglo. The remainder of the squad consists of new signings Rotem Gafinovitz, Anna Plichta, Lauren Kitchen, Valentina Scandolara and Riejanne Markus. Among the riders leaving the team are Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Anna van der Breggen, Lucinda Brand, Thalita de Jong, Shara Gillow and Roxane Knetemann.[9]
Major results
Olympic, World, Continental & National Champions
- 2006
World Road Race, Marianne Vos
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos
European U23 Road Race, Marianne Vos
- 2007
Dutch Track (Points race), Marianne Vos
Dutch Track (Scratch race), Marianne Vos
Belgian Road Race, Ludivine Henrion
- 2008
Olympic Track (Points race), Marianne Vos
World Track (Points race), Marianne Vos
Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos
Belgian Time Trial, Liesbeth de Vocht
- 2009
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos
- 2010
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
Dutch Time Trial, Marianne Vos
Belgian Road Race, Liesbeth de Vocht
Dutch Road Race, Loes Gunnewijk
- 2011
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
Track Cycling World Champion (Scratch race), Marianne Vos
Dutch National Cyclo-cross Champion, Marianne Vos
Dutch National Time Trial Championships, Marianne Vos
Dutch National Road Championship, Marianne Vos
- 2012
Olympic Road Race, Marianne Vos
World Road Race, Marianne Vos
Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht
Dutch Track Champion (Madison), Marianne Vos & Roxane Knetemann
- 2013
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand
Belgian Road, Liesbet De Vocht
Swiss U23 XC, Jolanda Neff
French U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht
World U23 XC, Jolanda Neff
World Road Race, Marianne Vos
- 2014
French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
European U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Dutch Time Trial, Annemiek van Vleuten
French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Dutch Road Race, Iris Slappendel
European U23 Road Race, Sabrina Stultiens
French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
World Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
European U23 Cyclo-cross, Sabrina Stultiens
German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer
- 2015
Australian Time Trial, Shara Gillow
French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos
World Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
German Track (Points race), Anna Knauer
Dutch Time Trial, Anna Van der Breggen
Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand
French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
European U23 Road Race, Katarzyna Niewiadoma
French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
World MTB (XCO), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
World MTB (Team relay XC), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot
German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer
- 2016
Dutch National Cyclo-cross, Thalita De Jong
Dutch National Road Race, Anouska Koster
Poland Time Trial, Katarzyna Niewiadoma
Olympic Road Race, Anna Van der Breggen
Team Ranking
Season | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Women's World Cup | – | – | – | 2nd (394 ₧) | 3rd (488 ₧) | 1st (686 ₧) | 1st (606 ₧) | 1st (682 ₧) | 1st (1515 ₧) | 1st (1204 ₧) |
UCI Women's Ranking | – | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd (1,528.35 ₧) | 2nd (2,099.5 ₧) | 1st (2,594 ₧) | 2nd (1,948.75 ₧) | 1st (2,879 ₧) | 1st (3,422.75 ₧) | 1st (3,120.5 ₧) |
Team roster
2016
As of 1 January 2016. Ages as of 1 January 2016.[10]
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- ↑ This was the place-holder name the team used before the team signed their five-year sponsorship deal with WM3 Energie
Notes
References
- ↑ "Fortitude adds title sponsor to become WM3 Pro Cycling". Cyclingnews. 4 November 2016.
- ↑ "Moniek Tenniglo".
- ↑ "Cycling Transfers 2017 - - Team Information - By: CyclingFever.com".
- ↑ Cycling News. "Gallery: Marianne Vos and Rabo Liv head into season with confidence". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "Sanne van Paassen".
- ↑ Cycling News. "Van Vleuten leaves Vos for Bigla Cycling Team". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ Kirsten Frattini. "Women's news shorts: Hosking and Kirchmann ready for Qatar, Matrix signs Trott". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "Anna van der Breggen bests Ellen van Dijk in European opener". cyclingtips.com.au. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
- 1 2 Frattini, Kirsten (29 September 2016). "Vos heads new Fortitude Pro Cycling women's team in 2017". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ↑ "UCI Women's teams". UCI.ch. Retrieved 12 March 2016.