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Grand Prix Herning
Grand Prix Herning is a one-day road bicycle race, held in ''Midtjylland'', Denmark. The race is organised by Herning Bicycle Club with both start and goal in Herning. The race is characterised by its gravel paths, which result in multiple punctures for the racers. The many paths and defects makes the race very selective, and it is often won by a solo rider or from a small group. Grand Prix Herning gained prominence with Bjarne Riis's victories in 1996 (the same year that he won Tour de France), 1997 and 1998. For several years the race was run as part of the UCI's calendar, with a fixed spot for the coming spring. It has gained the nickname "A spring day at the heath" (''En Forårsdag på heden'') with the hidden hint to Jørgen Leth's film on Paris–Roubaix, '' A Sunday in Hell'' (''En Forårsdag i Helede''). The race has had multiple economic problems and was not held in 2008. The race was returned in 2009, and was held until another break again in 2012 due to the ''Giro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claus Michael Møller
Claus Michael Møller (born 3 October 1968) is a Danish former professional cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1992 Summer Olympics. He turned professional in 1995 with the Castellblanch team before moving to Milaneza MSS in 2000. He won the overall classification of the Volta a Portugal in 2002, and was a stage winner in the 2001 Vuelta a España. He also won the Subida al Naranco in 2001, and won stages of the Volta a Portugal and the Trofeo Mallorca. His career was marred in the late 1990s by a suspension for doping; as a result he was also banned for life from representing the Danish national team. Major results ''Source:'' ;1990 : 1st Stage 1a Tour de Normandie ;1991 : 6th Overall Tour of Sweden ;1992 : 1st Grand Prix Herning ;1994 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Extremadura : 1st Overall ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Overall ;1995 : 1st : 1st : 1st : 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Extremadura : 2nd Overall Rutas de América : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León ::1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Saxo Bank
Tinkoff () was a Russian-registered professional cycling team from Russia and previously Denmark. It competed in the UCI World Tour. The team was owned by Russian Oleg Tinkov and, from 1999 until March 2015, was managed by former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis. The team was sponsored by the Russian Tinkoff Bank, a credit systems company. Founded in 1998 as home-Jack & Jones, the team started in cycling's second division. In 2000 it moved into the top division, now known as the UCI World Tour. Since 2000, under differing sponsor names (Memory Card-Jack & Jones and CSC-Tiscali), the team rode the Tour de France. It has won the overall classification in all three of the Grand Tours. In the 2008 Tour de France, Carlos Sastre won the general classification, Andy Schleck won the young rider classification, and the team won the overall team classification, and Ivan Basso won the 2006 Giro d'Italia, as well as finishing third and second in the 2004 and 2005 Tour de France. In additi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesper Skibby
Jesper Skibby (born 21 March 1964 in Silkeborg, Denmark) is a retired professional road racing cyclist. He won at least one stage at each of the major tours. He was one of the most popular in Denmark, not only because of his talent, but also because of his wit and his constant banter. He rode for the Dutch TVM from 1989 to 1997, but switched to the Danish team Team home - Jack & Jones in 1998, where he ended his active career in 2000. Professional career He participated in Tour de France 11 times, completed it 8 times, and won stage 5 between Avranches and Évreux in 1993. He is one of the relatively few riders to have won stages in all three major tours (Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España), and the only Dane. In March 1993 Skibby suffered a double fracture of the skull during a crash in the bunch sprint of stage 5 of Tirreno–Adriatico, however he made a remarkable recovery and was back racing later that year. Skibby won the Tour of Holland stage race i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Sørensen
Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cycling commentator and agent. Born in Helsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived since. He was a client of Francesco Conconi and Luigi Cecchini. He goes under the name ''Il Biondo'' due to his blonde hair. He is married to Susanne. Accomplishments Sørensen won such classic one-day races as the Tour of Flanders, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Paris–Brussels, Paris–Tours and Milano–Torino, as well as slightly smaller races like the Coppa Bernocchi (twice), and the Rund um den Henninger Turm or Grand Prix Frankfurt. He has led the UCI Road World Cup on several occasions, finishing third in 1989 and 1991 and second in 1997 after a broken foot kept him from scoring points in the last two World Cup races of the season. Sørensen also won individual stages in the 1994 and 1996 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric Moncassin
Frédéric Moncassin (born 26 September 1968) is a French former road racing cyclist. He turned professional in 1990 and retired in 1999. He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Moncassin was a strong roadman-sprinter known for his tussles with other riders in the last metres of a race. He clashed with Tom Steels and Mario Cipollini among others. He won 30 races and led the Tour de France for a day in 1996. He also came close to winning the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. ''Procycling'' said when he retired: "It was the 1998 Tour that, in hindsight, probably spelt the end for Fred. Under intense pressure to come up with a stage win, he struggled through the first week, only to see the race collapse around him as the Festina Scandal took hold. His unfashionable criticism of Richard Virenque - "he's an asshole and you can quote me," he told the French paper 'La Dépêche' at the time - allied to his own poor form, and his increasingly publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Veggerby
Jens Veggerby (born 20 October 1962) is a retired Danish cyclist. During his professional career that spanned 15 years from 1984 to 1999 he competed in 89 six-day races and won 13 of them: in Copenhagen (1989, 1991, 1993 and 1997), Antwerp (1992 and 1994), Ghent (1992), Stuttgart (1994 and 1996), Herning (1995 and 1997), Berlin (1997) and Bremen (1998). He was also a successful motor-paced cyclist – he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships __FORCETOC__ UCI Track Cycling World Championships in motor-paced racing Motor-paced racing and motor-paced cycling refer to cycling behind a pacer in a car or more usually on a motorcycle. The cyclist (or stayer in this case) follows as close a ... in 1993 and finished in second place in 1992. He also won the European championships in 1990, 1996 and 1997. Since the 2000s Veggerby has run an art gallery in Copenhagen. In April 2011 he was fined 500,000 DKK (ca. 67,000 euro) for smuggling 2 million DKK (ca. 270,000 euro) in Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Virtu Pro–Véloconcept (men's Team)
Team Waoo was a Danish UCI Continental team founded in 2012, and disbanded in 2019. In July 2016 Bjarne Riis and former Saxo Bank CEO Lars Seier announced that they had taken the team over and renamed it Team Virtu Pro-Veloconcept, with the intention of it functioning as the development team for a planned UCI WorldTeam. On 11 September 2017 the team changed its name into Team Virtu Cycling, after a new owner, Jan Bech Andersen, had bought one third of the shares. In July 2018, the name changed again to Team Waoo. Team roster Major wins ;2013 : Course de la Paix U23, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen ;2014 :Stages 4 & 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Rasmus Guldhammer : Hadeland GP, Rasmus Guldhammer : National U23 Time Trial Championships, Søren Kragh Andersen : National Time Trial Championships, Rasmus Quaade ;2015 :Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen : Hadeland GP, Søren Kragh Andersen :Ringerike GP, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen :Stage 5 Flèche du Sud, Asbjà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riwal Platform Cycling Team
Riwal Cycling Team was a Danish UCI Continental cycling team based in Himmerland. Riwal participated in races in many countries around Europe. The team's most popular achievements have been the Danmark Rundt, the Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands and the Okolo Slovenska. The team had 10 full-time riders. Most of the team riders were Danish but also includes Swedish, Dutch and Norwegian members. The team had one sports manager and several freelancers. It was founded in 2009 and merged in 2023 with team Leopard Pro Cycling from Luxemburg, to form Leopard Riwal. Team history About 70 business partners support the Riwal Cycling Team by small and large sponsorships. The end of season 2013 Nikola Aistrup conquered the points in the first days of the Tour of Denmark and later he took second place in the final Post Cup department: The rider, who for years has been one of the backbones at Concordia Forsikring–Riwal has recently signed with the new team, which from 2014 ran under the Riwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Water Cycling
Blue Water Cycling is a Danish road cycling team that was formed in 2009 as a merger between Herning CK and Team Løgstør-Cycling for Health. It is currently a UCI Continental Team, competing on the UCI Europe Tour. For the 2012 season, the team's riders are exclusively Danish. The two most successful members of the team are Rasmus Quaade, who has won Danish national road titles five times (though only once with Blue Water), and Lasse Norman Hansen, who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in the men's omnium and placing fifth in the team pursuit. Major wins ;2012 :Stage 4 Rás Tailteann: Mark Sehested :Stage 7 Rás Tailteann: Lasse Norman Hansen :Men's Omnium Olympic Games, Lasse Norman Hansen ;2013 :GP Herning, Lasse Norman Hansen : Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt U23, Lasse Norman Hansen :Overall Tour de Berlin, Mathias Møller ::Stage 2 (ITT), Lasse Norman Hansen : Danish National Under-23 Time Trial Championships, Lasse Norman Hansen : Dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glud & Marstrand-LRØ
Cult Energy Pro Cycling () was a professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Denmark, that competed in the UCI Continental Circuits. It was established in 2000 under the name of "Cycling Horsens". On September 9, 2014, the team announced they had signed Linus Gerdemann from on a 2-year contract. On October 10, 2014, the team announced they had signed Gustav Larsson on a one-year contract In August 2015, the team seemed to secure its survival after gaining sponsorship from German company Stölting Group, which sponsored the Continental team Stölting in 2015. As a result, the teams planned to join forces, giving the necessary budget to ensure the team could stay in the Professional Continental tier for 2016. However, in December 2015, Cult announced they would exit the sport and no longer be able to fund the team. Stölting then stepped in to fill the funding void, continuing the team under a German license. As a result, the Danish team disbanded. Team roster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Designa Køkken
Team ColoQuick () is a UCI Continental team founded in 2008 and based in Denmark. It participates in UCI Continental Circuits races. Team roster Major wins ;2008 : Rogaland Grand Prix, Michael Tronborg : Prologue, Stages 2, 4 & 10, Tour of Qinghai Lake, Alex Rasmussen : Overall Danmark Rundt, Jakob Fuglsang ;2009 : Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers, Aleksejs Saramotins : Overall Boucle de l'Artois, Sergey Firsanov ::Stage 3 Sergey Firsanov : Stage 4 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Allan Johansen : GP Herning, René Jørgensen : Overall Ringerike GP, Sergey Firsanov ::Stage 2, Sergey Firsanov : Stage 3 Ronde de l'Oise, Aleksejs Saramotins : Stage 4 Ronde de l'Oise, Allan Johansen : Designa Grandprix, Aleksejs Saramotins : Antwerpse Havenpijl, Jens-Erik Madsen : Druivenkoers Overijse, Aleksejs Saramotins : Münsterland Giro, Aleksejs Saramotins ;2010 : Stage 6 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, Michael Reihs : Overall Five Rings of Moscow, Sergey Firsanov ::Stage 2, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
