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UAE Team Emirates () is an Emirati
road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and ...
team. The team competes at UCI WorldTeam level and has done so since the UCI World Tour was formed as the top category of road cycling in 2005. However the team was temporarily suspended from the ProTour in 2010, missing one ProTour event.


Transition from an Italian-based team


Chinese involvement

In August 2016 the team (then called Lampre-Mérida) confirmed that its WorldTeam licence was being transferred from CGS Cycling to Chinese company TJ Sport Consultation, with the team becoming the first Chinese WorldTour team from 2017. Former team manager
Mauro Gianetti Mauro Gianetti (born 16 March 1964 in Lugano) is a Swiss former professional road cyclist and later directeur sportif. Gianetti was employed as team manager for the cycling team throughout its existence between 2004 and 2011. Several riders h ...
was announced as the co-ordinator for the project. In an interview with ''
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'' the following month, Saronni confirmed that he and CGS Cycling would continue to manage the team on TJ Sport's behalf, and that the team's bicycles would be supplied by Colnago. He indicated that the project was being co-ordinated by the Chinese government via TJ Sport with involvement from a number of Chinese companies including
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, and that its aim was to develop Chinese cycling and riders. However, when the UCI awarded 17 WorldTour licences to teams in November, it announced that TJ Sport's application was "under review" by its Licensing Commission. According to Saronni, the reason for the delay was that the head of the TJ Sport project, Li Zhiqiang, had fallen seriously ill, which prevented funding for the project from being confirmed.


Emirati rescue

As a result, the team looked elsewhere for sponsorship, securing funding from the United Arab Emirates and changing its name to UAE Abu Dhabi. The UCI confirmed the team's WorldTour licence on 20 December. In February 2017, the team announced that airline Emirates had signed on with the team as a naming-rights sponsor. The team was subsequently known as UAE Team Emirates. In June 2017, two days before the
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the team announced it would also be sponsored by the First Abu Dhabi Bank, an amalgamation of the First Gulf Bank and the
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, with their logo being added to the chest and side of the team's jersey.


Team roster


Major wins


National, continental, and world champions

;1999 : Belgian Road Race, Ludo Dierckxsens ;2000 : South African Time Trial, Robbie Hunter : Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks ;2001 : Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks ;2002 : Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks : Latvian Road Race, Raivis Belohvoščiks ;2005 : Austrian Road Race, Gerrit Glomser ;2006 : Italian Time Trial, Marzio Bruseghin ;2007 : Slovenian Road Race, Tadej Valjavec ;2008 : World Road Race, Alessandro Ballan ;2011 : Slovenian Road Race, Grega Bole : Ukrainian Road Race,
Oleksandr Kvachuk Oleksandr Kvachuk ( uk, Олександр Квачук; born 23 July 1983 in Poltava) is a Ukrainian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2014 for the , , and squads. Major results ;2001 : UCI Junior Road World Cha ...
: Ukrainian Time Trial,
Oleksandr Kvachuk Oleksandr Kvachuk ( uk, Олександр Квачук; born 23 July 1983 in Poltava) is a Ukrainian former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2014 for the , , and squads. Major results ;2001 : UCI Junior Road World Cha ...
: Italian Time Trial, Adriano Malori ;2014 : Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira : Portuguese Road Race, Nelson Oliveira ;2015 : Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira : Ethiopian Road Race,
Tsgabu Grmay Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay ( ti, ጽጋቡ ገብረማርያም ግርማይ; born 25 August 1991) is an Ethiopian professional road cyclist from Tigray, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a three time national road race champion, six time nat ...
: Ethiopian Time Trial,
Tsgabu Grmay Tsgabu Gebremaryam Grmay ( ti, ጽጋቡ ገብረማርያም ግርማይ; born 25 August 1991) is an Ethiopian professional road cyclist from Tigray, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a three time national road race champion, six time nat ...
: Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa : Slovenian Road Race,
Luka Pibernik Luka Pibernik (born 23 October 1993) is a Slovenian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2020, for the , and teams. During his professional career, Pibernik took three victories – two wins at the Slovenian Nat ...
: Taiwanese Road Race, Feng Chun-kai : Taiwanese Time Trial, Feng Chun-kai ;2017 : UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza : UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza : Slovenian Time Trial,
Jan Polanc Jan Polanc (born 6 May 1992) is a Slovenian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a two time Giro d'Italia stage winner. Major results ;2009 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::3rd Time trial : 10 ...
: European Track (Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna ;2018 : World Track ( Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna : UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza : UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza : Norwegian Road Race,
Vegard Stake Laengen Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In August 2015 confirmed tha ...
;2019 : UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza : UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza : Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar ;2020 : Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar : Portuguese Time Trial, Ivo Oliveira : Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa : Norwegian Road Race,
Sven Erik Bystrøm Sven Erik Bystrøm (born 21 January 1992, in Haugesund) is a Norwegian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He was the 2014 Under-23 World Road Race Champion. He signed with the Continental level in 2012. He signed for ...
: European Track (Individual pursuit), Ivo Oliveira ;2021 : African Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons : UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza : UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza : African Road Race, Ryan Gibbons : South Africa Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons ;2022 : UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza : UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza : Swiss Time Trial,
Joel Suter Joel Suter (born 7 July 1998) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . At the 2020 Tour du Limousin, he took the lead after finishing second to Fernando Gaviria on stage 2, but lost it the following day. However, he had another ...


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:UAE Team Emirates UCI WorldTeams Cycling teams based in Italy Cycling teams based in the United Arab Emirates Cycling teams established in 1991 1991 establishments in Italy Cycling teams established in 2017 2017 establishments in the United Arab Emirates