Liv Racing TeqFind (UCI code: LIV) is a women's professional cycling team, based in the Netherlands. The title sponsor is Liv, a sub-brand of Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer

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. The team's

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is Eric van den Boom. Riders for Liv Racing compete in the

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and other Elite Women's Cycling events throughout the world.

History of the team

2009

2012

The team's first win of the season came in the

Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. Since 1998 there is also a women's event, kn ...

where

Marianne Vos Marianne Vos (; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . After winning a junior European and World Championship in road racing, she continued her success in senior cycling by becomin ...

claimed victory. The team's first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, again being won by Vos, along with a stage;

Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI ...

also won the prologue and a stage. Vos went on to win 5 stages of the 2012

Giro d'Italia Femminile The is an annual elite women's road bicycle racing stage race. It was rebranded from 2013-2020 as the Giro Rosa, having been branded the Giro Donne until 2012 and again in 2021. It has been considered the most prestigious stage race in women's roa ...

, as well as the General classification. Vos followed this by winning the General classification of the

Tour Féminin en Limousin The Tour Féminin en Limousin is an elite women's road bicycle stage race held in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territ ...

. 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 team's account securing victory in the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship. The team's first road win of the season came at the

Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo Ronde van Drenthe ( en, Tour of Drenthe) is an elite List of men's road bicycle races, men's and List of women's road bicycle races, women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Ro ...

, with Vos claiming victory. Vos went on to win the Ronde van Drenthe and

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and organi ...

. 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 Mara Katherine Abbott (born November 14, 1985) is a US former professional women's bicycle racer. In 2010, Abbott became the first US cyclist ever to win the Giro Donne, one of the Grand Tours of women's bicycle racing. Abbott retired after the ...

, but did claim the Points classification and three stages. Vos also claimed overall victory in

Trophée d'Or Féminin Trophée d'Or Féminin was a women's European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in France. The race was discontinued in 2016. Overall winners Jerseys As of the 2016 edition: : is worn by the overall leader of the race : is worn by the lea ...

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 Lucinda Brand (born 2 July 1989) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam in road racing, and UCI Cyclo-cross Pro Team in cyclo-cross. After four years with , in August 2016 announced that Brand had signed a two-year dea ...

won the team's first General classification of the year at the Energiewacht Tour.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Elite Mountain Bike team BMC MTB Racing in cross-country cycling. and has signed for Ineos Grenadiers for 2023. Ferrand-Prévot has al ...

won the

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine La Flèche Wallonne Féminine is a professional women's bicycle road race held each year in Wallonia, Belgium, in April. It is part of the UCI Women's World Tour, cycling's season-long competition of top-tier races, in which it is the third-olde ...

with

Anna van der Breggen Anna van der Breggen (born 18 April 1990) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for Team Flexpoint, , and . She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics ...

claiming victory at the

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. Van der Breggen then claimed overall victory at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs with Vos winning the Points classification and Ferrand-Prévot taking both the Mountains and Young rider classifications. Vos then claimed overall victory at the inaugural Women's Tour in Great Britain. The team won further races at the

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for Ferrand-Prevot and the 2014

for Vos. Vos followed this up by winning the inaugural

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2015

In January the team scored first and third in the UCI World Cyclo-cross championships, with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and

respectively. This was the year that saw Vos in recovery mode taking most of the year off due to injury. In the first European road race of the season, the

Omloop het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ...

, the team rode very strongly. With to go,

escaped together with

Ellen van Dijk Eleonora Maria "Ellen" van Dijk (; born 11 February 1987) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Besides road cycling she was also a track cyclist until 2012. Van Dijk is known as a time ...

() 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. 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.

2016

In November 2016 the team announced that it would be known as in 2017, signing a five-year sponsorship deal with WM3 Energie, a company based in the Netherlands. The team replaced , whose sponsorship ceased at the end of 2016.

led the roster that included

Anouska Koster Anouska Helena Koster (born 20 August 1993) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Major results ;2011 : 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2014 : 5th Road race, UEC Eu ...

Katarzyna Niewiadoma Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma (born 29 September 1994) is a Polish racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her wins are the Amstel Gold Race, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the stage race The Women's Tour. She is a former nati ...

Valentina Scandolara Valentina Scandolara (born 1 May 1990) is an Italian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's Continental Team . Career Scandolara was born in Soave, Veneto, Soave. She showed great talent in sports from a very e ...

Yara Kastelijn Yara Kastelijn (born 9 August 1997) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team Credishop–Fristads, and in road cycling for UCI Women's Continental Team . In 2019, she won the elite race at the Eu ...

Jeanne Korevaar Jeanne Korevaar (born 24 September 1996) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She is the younger sister of the cyclist Merijn Korevaar. Major results ;2018 : 1st Stage 2 Belgium Tour : 1st Y ...

Moniek Tenniglo Moniek Tenniglo (born 2 May 1988) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Major results ;2015 : 3rd Road race, South Holland Provincial Road Championships : 9th Marianne Vos Classic : 10th G ...

Rotem Gafinovitz , nickname = , birth_date = , birth_place = Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel , death_date = , death_place = , height = , weight = , currentteam = , discipline = Road , role = Rider , ride ...

Anna Plichta Anna Plichta (born 10 February 1992) is a Polish former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for five different teams. She rode at the UCI Road World Championships every year between 2014 and 2020, and also represented Po ...

Lauren Kitchen Lauren Rollin (born 21 November 1990) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2021. A female road cyclist from New South Wales, Australia, Rollin studied a Bachelor of Planning at the Unive ...

and

Riejanne Markus Riejanne Markus (born 1 September 1994) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . In 2022, Markus won the Dutch National Road Race Championships. She is the older sister of SD Worx rider Femk ...

2017

started the year riding in Cyclo-Cross competitions winning eight of the twelve races she entered. She won the 2017

Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships The Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships were first held in 1963 and have been held annually since then by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union The Royal Dutch Cycling Union or KNWU (in Dutch: ''Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie'') is the nati ...

for the sixth time. She placed second at the

2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships The 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2016–17. It was held in Bieles in Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemb ...

in Bieles, Luxembourg on January 28. In October, the team announced that WaowDeals would join the team as naming-sponsor, with WM3 remaining with the team as a secondary sponsor after agreeing a five-year deal with the team in the winter of 2016.

Team roster

Major wins

National, continental, world and Olympic champions

;2006 :

World Road Race, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2007 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Scratch race), Marianne Vos : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Road Race, Ludivine Henrion ;2008 : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht ;2009 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2010 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Marianne Vos : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Road Race, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Loes Gunnewijk ;2011 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

Track Cycling World (Scratch race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2012 : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Road Race, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Marianne Vos : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Madison), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Madison), Roxane Knetemann ;2013 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotFra

French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Road, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotSuiza

Swiss U23 XC, Jolanda Neff : MaillotFra

French U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht : Jersey rainbow

World U23 XC, Jolanda Neff : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2014 : MaillotFra

French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Annemiek van Vleuten : MaillotFra

French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotFra

French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Iris Slappendel : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Sabrina Stultiens : MaillotFra

French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Cyclo-cross, Sabrina Stultiens : MaillotAlemania

German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer ;2015 : MaillotAustralia

Australian Time Trial, Shara Gillow : MaillotFra

French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotAlemania

German Track (Points race), Anna Knauer : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Anna Van der Breggen : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand : MaillotFra

French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : MaillotFra

French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World MTB (XCO), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World MTB (Team relay XC), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotAlemania

German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer ;2016 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Thalita de Jong : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Thalita de Jong : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Anouska Koster : MaillotPolonia

Poland Time Trial, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : MaillotPolonia

Poland Road Race, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : European champion jersey 2016

European Road Race, Anna Van der Breggen : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Road Race, Anna Van der Breggen ;2017 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : European champion jersey 2016

European Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2019 : MaillotSudáfrica

South Africa Road Race, Ashleigh Moolman : African Continental Champion Jersey

Africa Continental Time Trial, Ashleigh Moolman ;2020 : MaillotSudáfrica

South Africa Time Trial, Ashleigh Moolman ;2021 : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Time Trial, Lotte Kopecky : MaillotBélgica

Belgian Road Race, Lotte Kopecky : MaillotCan

Canadian Time Trial, Alison Jackson : MaillotCan

Canadian Road Race, Alison Jackson : Jersey rainbow

World Track (Points race), Lotte Kopecky : European champion jersey 2016

European Mountainbike (Beachrace), Pauliena Rooijakkers ;2022 : MaillotRepúblicaCheca

Czech Road Race, Tereza Neumanova

Team Ranking

Notes

References

External links

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