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2024 La Flèche Wallonne
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The 2024 La Flèche Wallonne was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 17 April from the Belgian city of Charleroi to the municipality of Huy. It was the 88th edition of La Flèche Wallonne and the 18th event of the 2024 UCI World Tour. Teams All eighteen UCI WorldTeams and seven UCI ProTeams took part in the race. Only 44 riders finished the race out of 174 who started. was the only team to have all seven riders complete the race. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * UCI ProTeams * * * * * * * Result References External links 2024 La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 UCI World Tour
The 2024 UCI World Tour was a series of races that included thirty-five road bicycle racing, road cycling events throughout the 2024 in men's road cycling, 2024 cycling season. The tour started with the 2024 Tour Down Under, Tour Down Under on 16 January, and concluded with the 2024 Tour of Guangxi, Tour of Guangxi on 20 October. Events Teams The eighteen UCI WorldTeam, WorldTeams were automatically invited to compete in events, with the top two UCI ProTeams listed on the 2023 UCI World Ranking ( and ) also invited automatically. Other teams were invited by the organisers of each race. UCI WorldTeams * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Notes References External links * {{2024 in road cycling 2024 UCI World Tour, UCI World Tour 2024 in men's road cycling, World Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclingnews
Cyclingnews.com is a website providing coverage of cycle racing—including road, track, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel—as well as bike-related reviews and buying advice. Since 2019, the site is owned by British publishing company Future. The site has been called "the world leader in cycling sport coverage" by industry publication ''Bicycle Retailer''. History In 1995 Australian Bill Mitchell, a keen cyclist and professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, created the website titled "Bill’s Cycling Racing Results and News" after finding there was a need for fast-breaking news and race results in English-speaking countries. In 1999 Sydney-based publishing company Knapp Communications purchased the website from Mitchell, and in July 2007 they sold it to British publisher Future plc for £2.2m. In July 2014 it was bought by Immediate Media Company, with sister website BikeRadar and sister magazines '' Cycling Plus'', '' Mountain Biking UK'', and '' Procycling' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillaume Martin
Guillaume Martin (born 9 June 1993) is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. While not necessarily considered a pre-race favourite for overall victory in the general classification, Martin finished just outside the top 20 in 2017 and 2018 and just outside the top 10 in 2019. In 2021 he placed 8th in the Tour and 9th in La Vuelta a España. Cofidis (2020–present) Having ridden for since the start of the 2016 season, Martin joined ahead of the 2020 season. In August, Martin finished third overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné. He then rode in the Tour de France, in which he held third place overall from stages seven to twelve, before ultimately finishing eleventh overall. In October, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España. Having lost over ten minutes across the first three stages, Martin formed part of the breakaway on three consecutive stages, taking the mountains c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiesj Benoot
Tiesj Benoot (born 11 March 1994) is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Lotto–Soudal (2015–19) Benoot turned professional with the Belgian UCI World Tour team in 2015, after riding for the outfit in 2013 and 2014, and riding some races as a stagiaire in autumn 2014. Benoot made an instant impact in the professional ranks by placing fifth in his first Tour of Flanders. Later in the season he showed his abilities in stage races, finishing second overall behind Greg Van Avermaet at the 2015 Tour of Belgium. He also claimed three top-10 finishes in stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Benoot showed climbing ability at the 2017 Critérium du Dauphiné, where he finished 12th overall. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. Benoot finished 20th overall in his first Grand Tour. Benoot won his first professional race in March 2018, soloing to victory in the UCI World Tour's Strade Bianche in torrential rain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorian Godon
Dorian Godon (born 25 May 1996) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career After riding as a stagiaire the previous season, Godon turned professional with UCI WorldTeam in 2017. He took his first professional win the year after, taking the prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne. He repeated this result the year after, after having moved teams to . In 2019, he also entered his first Grand Tour: the Vuelta a España, where he placed third on stage six. The following year, he won Paris–Camembert and again competed in the Vuelta. Godon took three victories in 2021, taking the Tour du Doubs and defending his title at Paris–Camembert. In the process, he captured the overall title for the French Road Cycling Cup, and also competed in his first Tour de France. In April 2023, he took the biggest win of his career, winning the Brabantse Pijl in a two-man sprint against Ben Healy, becoming the fifth Frenchman to win in the race. In October, he won another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romain Grégoire
Romain Grégoire (born 21 January 2003) is a French road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Grégoire had a successful junior career, being crowned both the national and European junior road race champion. He also won the silver medal in the road race at the 2021 UCI World Junior Championships. He also competed in cyclo-cross until 2022, winning the 2022 national under-23 championships. In 2022, Grégoire joined UCI Continental team for his first year in the under-23 category. He took six UCI victories that season, including the Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs, the G.P. Palio del Recioto, the Flèche Ardennaise and a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir. The following season, he was promoted to the World Tour squad, taking five professional wins, including the overall wins of the Four Days of Dunkirk and the Tour du Limousin. he also finished eighth in his first UCI WorldTour event: Strade Bianche. In August, he entered his first Grand Tour: the Vuelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Halland Johannessen
Tobias Halland Johannessen (born 23 August 1999) is a Norwegian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Along with his twin brother Anders, Tobias raced in mountain biking, cyclo-cross and road cycling, before deciding to focus primarily on road racing. Knee injuries had kept him from competing in much of the truncated 2020 season. In July 2021 he named to the Norwegian team to compete in the road race event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Career Johannessen began cycling alongside his brother Anders as a means of getting to school. He initially focussed on cyclo-cross and mountain biking before switching his focus to road racing, signing with the Uno-X development team for the 2021 season. In June 2021, Johannessen finished second in the General Classification of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, as well as finishing second on two individual stages. In August 2021, Johannessen won the Tour de l'Avenir after finishing first on consecutive summit finishes on Stages 7 and 8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santiago Buitrago
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez (born 26 September 1999) is a Colombian road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Buitrago has won two stages at the Giro d'Italia. Career Santiago Buitrago's first UCI rated result is at the Colombian Junior time trial championships where he finished fourth. Bahrain–McLaren (2020–present) 2020–2021 Buitrago joined UCI WorldTeam on a two-year contract after impressing the team by finishing sixth at the Giro della Valle d'Aosta in 2019. His first race with the team was at the 2020 Tour Down Under where he finished second in the youth classification 15 seconds behind Pavel Sivakov. The last race of the 2020 season was the Vuelta a España, his first Grand tour, he would finish in 53rd. In 2021 he finished tenth overall at the Tour de Hongrie after a strong tenth in the Queen-stage. He then won the mountains classification at the Settimana Ciclistica Italiana after being in the break and attacking over the climbs of the day. Buitrago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît Cosnefroy
Benoît Cosnefroy (; born 17 October 1995 in Cherbourg) is a French cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Junior and amateur years Cosnefroy was born into a family passionate about cycling. His grandfather was the organizer of a race in the English Channel, while his father often took him to see bike races during his youth. He first started competing at the age of 8 with the Union Concorde Bricquebetaise.. In 2011, he joined the Pôle Espoir de Caen, where he stayed for three years. He took his first victory at the age of 16 in the Prix Louis-Cosnefroy, a race held as a tribute to his great-great-grandfather Louis Cosnefroy.. However, during his years in the junior category, Cosnefroy saw little success. In 2014, he moved up to the under-23 category, joining team Bricquebec Cotentin. The following year he joined , the development team of after hitchhiking along the nine-hour drive to apply. This year, he achieved modest success in amateur and under-23 races. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Plc
Future plc is a British publishing company. It was started in 1985 by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1985–2012 The company was founded by Chris Anderson (entrepreneur), Chris Anderson as Future Publishing in Somerton, Somerset, England, with the sole magazine ''Amstrad Action'' in 1985. An early innovation was the inclusion of free software on magazine covers. It acquired GP Publications and established what would become Future US in 1994. Anderson sold the company to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, for £142 million. The company was Initial public offering, floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1999. Anderson left the company in 2001. In 2004, the company was accused of corruption when it published positive reviews for the video game ''Driver 3'' in two of its owned magazines, ''Xbox World'' and ''PSM3, PSM2''. 2012–2015 Futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI Professional Continental
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania) are ranked below the UCI World Tour The UCI WorldTour is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon perfor .... UCI Africa Tour Winners There is a rolling ranking for individuals and countries (the total of the top eight ranked riders of the nation), for which points can be won in all UCI road events, regardless of where the races take place. Prior to 2019 there was also a team ranking, and in all three categories points were earned in continental races of category HC or below (1.1 and 2.1 or below from 2020) that took place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Williams (cyclist)
Stephen "Stevie" Williams (born 6 June 1996) is a Welsh professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . His career wins include overall victories in the 2021 CRO Race, 2023 Arctic Race of Norway, the 2024 Tour Down Under and the one-day Ardennes classic La Flèche Wallonne in 2024. Career After racing for and as an amateur, he joined as a stagiaire in August 2018 and became a full member of the team in 2019. Williams' pro career was put on hold for 18 months when he suffered a serious knee problem, undergoing surgery to remove the small fabella bone from his left knee in November 2019. Along with Mark Cavendish, he had planned to join for the 2023 season but the team collapsed before the season began. He later accepted an offer for 2023 from on a one-year contract, and remained with the team for 2024. Race wins Williams made his breakthrough in the 2018 Ronde de l'Isard, an under-23 event in France. Williams dominated the four-stage race, winning the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
