Efapel Cycling

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Efapel Cycling
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Team information
UCI codeEFL
RegisteredPortugal
Founded2022 (2022)
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Continental
Bicycles Orbea
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager José Azevedo
Team manager(s)Hélder Miranda
Team name history
2022–
Efapel Cycling

Efapel Cycling ( UCI team code:EFL) is a Portuguese UCI Continental cycling team established in 2022. [1]

Contents

Team roster

As of 12 February 2024. [2]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Portugal.svg  Tiago Antunes  (POR) (1997-04-09) 9 April 1997 (age 26)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Henrique Casimiro  (POR) (1986-04-22) 22 April 1986 (age 37)
Flag of Portugal.svg  António Ferreira  (POR) (2000-04-03) 3 April 2000 (age 23)
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Abner González  (PUR) (2000-10-09) 9 October 2000 (age 23)
White flag of surrender.svg  Aleksandr Grigorev [lower-alpha 1]  (blank) (1992-03-21) 21 March 1992 (age 31)
White flag of surrender.svg  Viacheslav Ivanov  (blank) (2002-08-01) 1 August 2002 (age 21)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Colombia.svg  Santiago Mesa  (COL) (1997-11-11) 11 November 1997 (age 26)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Pedro Pinto  (POR) (2000-11-05) 5 November 2000 (age 23)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Pedro Pinto  (POR) (2004-06-23) 23 June 2004 (age 19)
Flag of Portugal.svg  Joaquim Silva  (POR) (1992-03-19) 19 March 1992 (age 31)
Flag of the United States.svg  Keegan Swirbul  (USA) (1995-09-02) 2 September 1995 (age 28)
  1. As of 1 March 2022, the UCI announced that cyclists from Russia and Belarus would no longer compete under the name or flag of those respective countries due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [3]

Major wins

2022
Prologue Troféu Joaquim Agostinho, Tiago Antunes

National & World champions

2022
MaillotPortugal.PNG Portugal U23 Time Trial, Pedro Andrade

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References

  1. "Efapel Cycling". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  2. "Efapel Cycling". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale . Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  3. "The UCI takes strong measures in the face of the situation in Ukraine" (Press release). UCI. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.