Feminine Cycling Team

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Feminine Cycling Team
Team information
UCI code FCT
Registered Germany
Founded 2015 (2015)
Discipline Road
Status UCI Women's Team
Bicycles Fuji
Team name history
2015–Feminine Cycling Team

Feminine Cycling Team (UCI code FCT) is a professional women's cycling team, based in Germany, [1] which is scheduled to compete in elite road bicycle racing events such as the UCI Women's Road World Cup in 2015.

Cycling team organizational unit consisting of cyclists and carers

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Germany Federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.

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Team history

2014

Riders in

On December 1, 2014, the team signed Sophie Lacher, Corine Van der Zijden, Annabell Oschger, Jacqueline Dietrich, Desiree Eherler and Jacqueline Hahn (Bigla Cycling Team). On December 2, the team signed Lotte Van Hoek. The following day the team signed Stéphanie Borchers and Carolin Happke. [2]

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Major wins

2015
Montreux Criterium, Desiree Eherler

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References

  1. "Feminine Cycling Team 2015". Procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
  2. "Cycling Transfers 2016 - - Team Information - By: CyclingFever.com". Women.cyclingfever.com. Retrieved 2015-02-18.