Team DSM () is a Dutch professional cycling team at

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level. The team is managed by

Iwan Spekenbrink Iwan Spekenbrink (born 15 February 1976) is a Dutch cycling manager, who has been the team manager of UCI WorldTeam since the team's creation in 2005. He is also the president of the AIGCP AIGCP (Association International des Groupes Cyclistes Pr ...

History

The team was founded in 2005 under the name "Shimano-Memory Corp", sponsored by Skil and

Shimano , originally and later , is a Japanese multinational manufacturing company for cycling components, fishing tackles and rowing equipment, who also produced golf supplies until 2005 and snowboarding gear until 2008. Named after founder Shozaburo ...

, and was based in the Netherlands. Thanks to aggressive strategies during

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in 2008 and 2009, the team was awarded a

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for the

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, making it their first appearance in a

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. After losing its sponsors at the end of 2011, the team adopted the name "Project 1T4i", standing for "team spirit, inspiration, integrity, improvement and innovation", until a new sponsor was secured. Ahead of the

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on 1 April 2012, the team became Argos-Shimano following the announcement of a three-year naming rights contract with the Argos North Sea Group, an oil company based in the Netherlands. In 2012, the team received their second wildcard invitation to the

2012 Tour de France The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started in the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June and finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. The Tour consisted of 21 stages, inc ...

, along with three French-registered teams: , and . In December 2012 it was announced that the team would compete at the World Tour level for the 2013 season. In September 2014 German shampoo manufacturer Alpecin announced that they would co-sponsor the team alongside Giant for the 2015 season. In December 2014 Sunweb (a Dutch-owned international tour operator) was announced as a new major sponsor of the team, signing a 2-year deal. On 23 January 2016 during training in Spain, six members of the team (

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Max Walscheid Maximilian Richard "Max" Walscheid (born 13 June 1993) is a German cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Walscheid was born in Neuwied. On 23 January 2016, he was one of the six members of who were hit by a car which drove int ...

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and

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) were hit by a car that was driven by an English tourist, who turned the wrong way into on-coming traffic. For a time there was serious concern about some of them not only returning to ride in the 2016 season, but whether or not the accident might end their careers. Fortunately everyone recovered. On the first rest day of the

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, the team announced that Sunweb would become a named sponsor of the team for the 2017 season, and the team would move their registration from the Netherlands to Germany. In 2017, Team Sunweb won its first Grand Tour: the

2017 Giro d'Italia The 2017 Giro d'Italia was the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started on 5 May in Alghero on the island of Sardinia, and ended on 28 May in Milan. The race was won by Tom Dumoulin, who became the ...

with

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. At the

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, the team won four stages and two major jerseys:

won the Mountains classification and Combativity Award while reaching 10th overall, and Michael Matthews won the Points classification. In 2018 the team rode in support of Tom Dumoulin, who finished 2nd in both the Giro d'Italia, as well as the

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. From the 2021 season,

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took over title sponsorship of the team.

Team roster

Major wins

National and world champions

;2005 :

Japan Road Race, Hidenori Nodera ;2008 : MaillotJapón

Japan Road Race, Hidenori Nodera ;2012 : MaillotJapón

Japan Road Race,

Yukihiro Doi is a Japanese former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2018. After graduating from Hosei University, he joined the Shimano Racing team in 2004. After that, Doi mostly raced abroad, finishing second in the Tou ...

;2014 :

Dutch Time Trial,

;2015 :

Austria Time Trial,

Georg Preidler Georg Preidler (born 17 June 1990) is an Austrian cyclist, who is currently suspended from the sport after being implicated in the ''Operation Aderlass'' doping scandal. Career Preidler was born in Graz, Austria. As a junior, he won the national ...

;2016 :

Dutch Time Trial,

;2017 :

Dutch Time Trial,

Austria Time Trial,

Dutch Road Race,

World Team Time Trial : Jersey rainbow chrono

World Time Trial,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Team DSM UCI WorldTeams Cycling teams based in the Netherlands Cycling teams based in Germany Cycling teams established in 2005 Cycling teams established in 2015 2005 establishments in the Netherlands 2015 establishments in Germany