EF Pro Cycling

EF Pro Cycling
Team data
UCI code	EF1
nationality	United States
License	UCI WorldTeam
operator	Slipstream Sports Inc.
First season	2003
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Cannondale
General manager	Jonathan Vaughters
Sportl. ladder	Charles Wegelius Juan Manuel Gárate Fabrizio Guidi Andreas Klier Tom Southam Ken Vermarcke
Name story
Years	Surname
2003 2004–2006 2007–2008 2008 2009 2010 2011 01 / 2012–06 / 2012 07 / 2012–2014 2015 01 / 2016–06 / 2016 07 / 2016–12 / 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020	5280 / Subaru TIAA – CREF Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle Garmin-Chipotle Presented by H3O Garmin-Slipstream Garmin-Transitions Team Garmin-Cervélo Garmin-Barracuda Garmin-Sharp Team Cannondale-Garmin Cannondale Pro Cycling Team Cannondale Drapac Pro Cycling Team Cannondale Drapac Professional Cycling Team EF Education First-Drapac powered by Cannondale EF Education First EF Pro Cycling
Team photo
Website
www.efprocycling.com

EF Pro Cycling is an American cycling team based in Boulder .

organization

The team is operated by the US company Slipstream Sports . Jonathan Vaughters formed the team together in 2003 as a Junior Development Team. The main sponsor was initially the 5280 magazine from Denver . In the following year TIAA-CREF became a sponsor. As of 2005, the team was licensed as a Continental Team , which mainly participated in the UCI America Tour . 5280 and TIAA-CREF also supported the young drivers of the racing team in the following years. In terms of sponsorship, she replaced the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant chain . For the 2007 season, the team was renamed Slipstream Chipotle and drove with a license as a Professional Continental Team .

Shortly before the start of the Tour de France in June 2008, a new sponsor was presented with the manufacturer of GPS receivers Garmin . From then on, the team started under the name Garmin-Slipstream presented by H3O . As of the 2009 season, the team started with a ProTeam license. For the 2011 season, the former Garmin-Transitions team merged with the Cervélo TestTeam to form the Garmin-Cervélo team . In 2012, the team called itself Garmin-Barracuda as the new name sponsor after the IT security company Barracuda Networks joined . The previous name sponsor, Cervélo , continued to equip the team with bikes. In 2013 and 2014, electronics company Sharp was the second name sponsor.

After the bike manufacturer Cannondale ended its involvement with the Italian Cannondale team at the end of the 2014 season , it became the name sponsor and supplier of the team and one of the main shareholders of the operating company Slipstream Sports . In anticipation of the merger with the Australian Professional Continental Team in 2017 Drapac Professional Cycling , the investment fund operator Drapac Capital Partners became the second name sponsor with the start of the Tour de France 2016 . The Australian team took on the role of the “ farm team ” of the WorldTeam under the name Drapac-Pat's Veg .

In addition to the ProTeam, Slipstream Sports also ran the Chipotle Development Team as a farm team in 2011 and 2012 with the status of UCI Continental Team and in 2011 a UCI Women's Team , also called " Garmin-Cervélo ", and in 2012 with the Dutch team AA Drink -leontien.nl was merged.

In 2018 was EF Education , a provider of educational and travel services, new title sponsor, who is also the majority shareholder of the operating company Slipstream Sports Inc took over. Since then, the team has dedicated itself to long-distance races and races on gravel roads in addition to classic road cycling.

The team is a member of the movement for credible cycling . The driver Tom Danielson tested positive for synthetic testosterone in the A-sample on July 9, 2015 . It was the first positive doping test from a Slipstream driver since the team was founded.

2020 season

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date	run	driver
12-16 August	Overall ranking Critérium du Dauphiné	Daniel Felipe Martínez

Success in the UCI ProSeries

date	run	driver
1st March	La Drôme Classic	Simon Clarke

Success in the UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat.	driver
February 6th	2nd stage Étoile de Bessèges	2.1	Magnus Cort
February 9	5th stage Étoile de Bessèges ( EZF )	2.1	Alberto Bettiol
February 11th	1st stage Tour Colombia ( MZF )	2.1	EF Pro Cycling
14th of February	4th stage Tour Colombia	2.1	Sergio Higuita
February 16	6th stage Tour Colombia	2.1	Daniel Felipe Martínez
11-16 February	Overall ranking Tour Colombia	2.1	Sergio Higuita

National road cycling champions

date	run	winner
January 30th	Colombian Championship - Individual Time Trial	Daniel Felipe Martínez
February 2nd	Colombian Championship - Road Racing	Sergio Higuita

team

Team roster
Surname	Date of birth	country	Previous team
Sean Bennett	March 31, 1996	United States
Alberto Bettiol	October 29, 1993	Italy	BMC Racing Team (2018)
Stefan Bissegger (1 Aug - 31 Dec)	September 13, 1998	Switzerland	Swiss Racing Academy (2019)
Jonathan Caicedo	April 28, 1993	Ecuador	Medellin (2018)
Hugh Carthy	July 9, 1994	United Kingdom	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (2016)
Simon Clarke	July 18, 1986	Australia	Orica-GreenEDGE (2015)
Magnus Cort Nielsen	January 16, 1993	Denmark	Astana (2019)
Lawson Craddock	February 20, 1992	United States	Giant-Alpecin (2015)
Mitchell Docker	2nd October 1986	Australia	Orica-Scott (2017)
Ruben Guerreiro	July 6, 1994	Portugal	Katusha-Alpecin (2019)
Kristoffer Halvorsen	April 13, 1996	Norway	Ineos (2019)
Sergio Higuita	August 1, 1997	Colombia
Moreno Hofland	August 31, 1991	Netherlands	Lotto-Soudal (2018)
Alex Howes	January 1, 1988	United States	Chipotle Development (2011)
Tanel Kangert	March 11, 1987	Estonia	Astana (2018)
Jens Keukeleire	November 23, 1988	Belgium	Lotto-Soudal (2019)
Sebastian Langeveld	17th January 1985	Netherlands	Orica-GreenEDGE (2013)
Daniel Felipe Martínez	April 25, 1996	Colombia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia (2017)
Lachlan Morton	2nd January 1992	Australia	Dimension Data (2018)
Logan Owen	March 25, 1995	United States	Axeon-Hagens Berman (2017)
Neilson Powless	September 3, 1996	United States	Jumbo Visma (2019)
Jonas Rutsch	January 24, 1998	Germany	Team Lotto Core House (2019)
Thomas Scully	January 14, 1990	New Zealand	Drapac Professional Cycling (2016)
Rigoberto Urán	January 26, 1987	Colombia	Etixx-Quick Step (2015)
Julius van den Berg	October 23, 1996	Netherlands
Tejay van Garderen	August 12, 1988	United States	BMC Racing Team (2018)
Sep Vanmarcke	July 27, 1988	Belgium	LottoNL-Jumbo (2016)
Luis Villalobos (Jan 1 - Apr 30)	June 26, 1998	Mexico	EF Education First Pro Cycling (2019)
James Whelan	July 11, 1996	Australia
Michael Woods	October 12, 1986	Canada	Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies (2015)
Source: UCI

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI America Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	15th	Timothy Duggan (122nd)
2006	7th	Danny Godfather (19.)
2007	5.	William Frischkorn (19.)
2008	1.	Christian Vande Velde (3rd)

UCI Europe Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	81.	William Frischkorn (362.)
2006	80.	Danny Godfather (283.)
2007	95.	William Frischkorn (571.)
2008	14th	Daniel Martin (41.)

UCI Oceania Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2008	5.	Julian Dean (10.)

UCI World Calendar

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2009	11.	Tyler Farrar (18th)
2010	7th	Tyler Farrar (8th)

UCI World Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2011	8th.	Daniel Martin (8.)
2012	9.	Ryder Hesjedal (13th)
2013	8th.	Daniel Martin (6.)
2014	11.	Daniel Martin (9.)
2015	16.	Ryder Hesjedal (46.)
2016	8th.	Alberto Bettiol (20th)
2017	10.	Rigoberto Urán (20th)
2018	16.	Rigoberto Urán (42nd)

UCI World Ranking

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2019	11.	Michael Woods (23rd)

Web links

Commons : Cannondale Pro Cycling Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• EF Education First in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• EF Pro Cycling in the UCI database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Slipstream Sports Signs Garmin as Title Sponsor. ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: slipstreamsports.com , accessed June 23, 2008 
2. ↑ Barracuda snaps to Garmin. In: radsport-news.com , January 11, 2012
3. ↑ Vaughters Confirms Merger - Garmin and Cannondale Merge. In: radsport-news.com. August 20, 2014, accessed August 21, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Slipstream deny Cannondale is ending sponsorship. In: cyclingnews.com. June 2, 2017, accessed June 3, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Cannondale to merge with Drapac for 2017. In: cyclingnews.com. June 30, 2016, accessed July 2, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Chipotle Development team releases riders. In: cyclingnews.com , November 27, 2012
7. ↑ Eight UCI Continental teams in USA for 2013. In: cyclingnews.com , December 20, 2012
8. ↑ Garmin women rescued with AA Drink-Leontien.nl partnership. In: cyclingnews.com , January 27, 2012
9. ↑ Slipstream Sports partners with AA Drink / Leontien.nl for women's team. ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Slipstream sports press release from January 27, 2012 
10. ↑ Spencer Martin: Under new ownership: How will EF Education First impact Cannondale-Drapac? - CyclingTips. In: cyclingtips.com. November 7, 2017, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
11. ^ Edward Pickering: L'equipe, c'est moi . In: Procycling , German edition . October, 2019, p. 44 ff .
12. ↑ Cycling News: EF Education First ready to race off the beaten path at Dirty Kanza -. In: cyclingnews.com. May 26, 2019, accessed October 9, 2019 . 
13. ^ GreenEdge joins MPCC, movement wants international sanctioning body introduced. In: velonation.com , March 8, 2012
14. ↑ Danielson tested positive for synthetic testosterone. In: radsport-News.com. August 3, 2015, accessed August 6, 2015 . 
15. ^ Commentary: Vaughters and unintended consequences. In: velonews.com. August 6, 2015, accessed on August 6, 2015 .