Team Waoo

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Team Waoo
Team information
UCI codeTWA
RegisteredDenmark
Founded2012 (2012)
Disbanded2019
Discipline(s) Road
Status UCI Continental
Team name history
2012–2013
2014–2016
2016
2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
Team Trefor
Team Trefor–Blue Water
Team Virtu Pro–Véloconcept
Team VéloCONCEPT [N 1]
Team Virtu Cycling
Team Waoo

Team Waoo was a Danish UCI Continental team founded in 2012, and disbanded in 2019. [1] [2] In July 2016 Bjarne Riis and former Saxo Bank CEO Lars Seier announced that they had taken the team over and renamed it Team Virtu Pro-Veloconcept, with the intention of it functioning as the development team for a planned UCI WorldTeam. [3] On 11 September 2017 the team changed its name into Team Virtu Cycling, after a new owner, Jan Bech Andersen, had bought one third of the shares. [4] In July 2018, the name changed again to Team Waoo. [5]

Contents

Team roster

As of May 31, 2019. [6]
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Denmark.svg  Michael Carbel  (DNK) (1995-02-07) 7 February 1995 (age 28)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Patrick Clausen  (DNK) (1990-07-02) 2 July 1990 (age 32)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Silas Zacharias Clemmensen  (DNK) (1996-10-25) 25 October 1996 (age 26)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Frederik Nybo Eriksen  (DNK) (2000-03-07) 7 March 2000 (age 22)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Oliver Wulff Frederiksen  (DNK) (2000-10-11) 11 October 2000 (age 22)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Rasmus Guldhammer  (DNK) (1989-03-09) 9 March 1989 (age 33)
RiderDate of birth
Flag of Denmark.svg  Andreas Hyldgaard Jeppesen  (DNK) (1996-07-21) 21 July 1996 (age 26)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Johan Langballe  (DNK) (1999-02-09) 9 February 1999 (age 24)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Mathias Larsen  (DNK) (1999-05-02) 2 May 1999 (age 23)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Martin Mortensen  (DNK) (1984-11-05) 5 November 1984 (age 38)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Jesper Schultz  (DNK) (1996-02-27) 27 February 1996 (age 26)
Flag of Denmark.svg  Frederik Thomsen  (DNK) (2000-10-03) 3 October 2000 (age 22)

Major wins

2013
Course de la Paix U23, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
2014
Stages 4 & 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Rasmus Guldhammer
Hadeland GP, Rasmus Guldhammer
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark National U23 Time Trial Championships, Søren Kragh Andersen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark National Time Trial Championships, Rasmus Quaade
2015
Stage 5 Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
Hadeland GP, Søren Kragh Andersen
Ringerike GP, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
Stage 5 Flèche du Sud, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
Stage 3 Paris–Arras Tour, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
Stage 4 Tour des Fjords, Søren Kragh Andersen
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark National U23 Time Trial Championships, Jonas Gregaard
Prologue & Stage 3 Tour de l'Avenir, Søren Kragh Andersen
2016
Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux, Mads Würtz Schmidt
Stages 2 & 3b, Mads Würtz Schmidt
2017
Stage 3 International Tour of Rhodes, Alexander Kamp
Stage 2 Circuit des Ardennes, Rasmus Guldhammer
Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Alexander Kamp
Stage 4, Alexander Kamp
GP Viborg, Kasper Asgreen
Sundvolden GP, Rasmus Guldhammer
Ringerike GP, Rasmus Guldhammer
2018
Stage 1 Istrian Spring Trophy, Kasper Asgreen
Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher, Asbjørn Kragh Andersen
Eschborn–Frankfurt Under-23, Niklas Larsen
Stage 1 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Alexander Kamp
Sundvolden GP, Alexander Kamp
Stage 5 Tour of Norway, Alexander Kamp
Circuit de Wallonie, Mikkel Frølich Honoré
Lillehammer GP, Alexander Kamp
2019
Stage 7 Tour de Normandie, Johan Langballe

National champions

2014
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark Time Trial, Rasmus Quaade
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark U23 Time Trial, Søren Kragh Andersen
2015
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark U23 Time Trial, Jonas Gregaard
2016
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark U23 Time Trial, Mads Würtz Schmidt
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark U23 Road Race, Mads Würtz Schmidt
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark Track (Kilo), Niklas Larsen
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark Track (Individual pursuit), Niklas Larsen
MaillotDinamarca.svg Denmark Track (Scratch race), Niklas Larsen

Notes

  1. The team competed under the name of Team VéloCONCEPT from January 1 through to September 11 2017.

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