Canyon dhb SunGod

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Canyon dhb SunGod
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Team information
UCI codeDHB
RegisteredUnited Kingdom
Founded2017
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Continental
Bicycles Canyon
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General managerTim Elverson [1]
Team name history
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021–
Bike Channel–Canyon
Canyon Eisberg
Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
Canyon dhb p/b Soreen
Canyon dhb SunGod

Canyon dhb SunGod is a British UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2017 by sports director Tim Elverson. [2]

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Team history

The team formed as Bike Channel–Canyon in 2017. On 1 January 2018 the team announced that Eisberg had stepped up their sponsorship in order to allow the team to function after Bike Channel went into administration. [3]

The team have enjoyed two hugely successful seasons. Some of the highlights of their 2018 campaign include: Harry Tanfield winning stage one of the Tour de Yorkshire, which led to him being signed by World Tour team Team Katusha–Alpecin. The team won the overall title in the Tour Series the UK's premier circuit racing championship. Charlie Tanfield became a world champion in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships team pursuit and won a gold medal in the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games. He was also crowned British under-23 time trial champion on the road. Ryan Christensen, Max Stedman and Charlie Tanfield were selected to race at the under-23 UCI Road World Championships in Austria, the latter in the time trial. At the Tour of Britain, the team recorded three top-10 stage finishes, Max Stedman was 20th in the general classification and Alex Paton won the Eisberg sprints jersey.

2019 was another successful year for the team with multiple podiums in the UK and Europe. Some highlights included winning the Tour Series overall title for a second year running, a top 10 in the Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Britain, as well as the Eisberg sprints jersey at the Tour of Britain for the second time.

In December 2020, Elverson announced that the team had acquired sponsorship from British sunglasses maker SunGod and that the team name for the 2021 racing season would become Canyon dhb SunGod. [4]

Team roster

As of 6 February 2021. [5]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Matthew Bostock  (GBR) (1997-07-16) 16 July 1997 (age 24)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jim Brown  (GBR) (2000-10-02) 2 October 2000 (age 20)
Flag of New Zealand.svg  Ryan Christensen  (NZL) (1996-09-12) 12 September 1996 (age 24)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Damien Clayton  (GBR) (1992-07-30) 30 July 1992 (age 29)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Brenton Jones  (AUS) (1991-12-12) 12 December 1991 (age 29)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Callum Macleod  (GBR) (2000-03-08) 8 March 2000 (age 21)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Euan Macleod  (GBR) (2002-07-29) 29 July 2002 (age 19)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Thomas Mein  (GBR) (1999-01-12) 12 January 1999 (age 22)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Jacob Scott  (GBR) (1995-06-14) 14 June 1995 (age 26)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Robert Scott  (GBR) (1998-07-24) 24 July 1998 (age 23)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Max Stedman  (GBR) (1996-03-22) 22 March 1996 (age 25)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Charlie Tanfield  (GBR) (1996-11-17) 17 November 1996 (age 24)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Andy Tennant  (GBR) (1987-03-09) 9 March 1987 (age 34)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Rory Townsend  (GBR) (1995-06-30) 30 June 1995 (age 26)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Dan Tulett  (GBR) (1999-07-03) 3 July 1999 (age 22)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Oliver Wood  (GBR) (1995-11-26) 26 November 1995 (age 25)
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Reece Wood  (GBR) (1998-05-28) 28 May 1998 (age 23)

Major results

2017
Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
Stage 1, Harry Tanfield
Stage 2, Max Stedman
2018
Stage 1 Tour de Yorkshire, Harry Tanfield
Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
Stage 2, Max Stedman
Eisberg Sprints Jersey Winner Tour of Britain, Alex Paton
2019
Arno Wallaard Memorial, Alexandar Richardson
Stage 3 Tour de la Mirabelle, Daniel Pearson
Stage 4 Tour de la Mirabelle, Alexandar Richardson
Sprints classification Tour of Britain, Rory Townsend
Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Fuzhou, Rory Townsend
2020
Tour of Antalya, Max Stedman
2021
Stage 1 Tour de la Mirabelle, Rory Townsend

National, continental, world and Olympic champions

2018
MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British U23 Time Trial, Charlie Tanfield
Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships Charlie Tanfield
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal blank.svg Individual pursuit Charlie Tanfield

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References

  1. "Bike Channel and Canyon join forces for British-registered Continental team". cyclingnews.com . 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. "Bike Channel–Canyon". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  3. "Eisberg step up as headline partner". January 2018.
  4. Bonville-Ginn, Tim (1 December 2020). "'I'm fully expecting to put 2020 behind us': Canyon-dhb announce new title sponsor for 2021". Cycling Weekly . TI Media . Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. "Canyon dhb SunGod". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.