Team Sunweb

This article deals with the cycling team in men's cycling, to be distinguished from the women's cycling team of the same name .

Team Sunweb
Team data
UCI code	SUN
nationality	Germany
License	UCI WorldTeam
operator	SMS Cycling BV
First season	2005
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Cervélo
General manager	Ivan Spekenbrink
Sportl. ladder	Rudie Kemna
Name story
Years	Surname
1999 2000 2001 2002–2003 2004 2005 2006–2011 January – March 2012 April 2012–2013 2014 2015–2016 2017–	Batavus-Bankgiroloterij-Big Star Batavus-Bankgiroloterij-Big Star-Unigarant Batavus-Bankgiroloterij Bankgiroloterij-Batavus Bankgiroloterij Shimano-Memory Corp Skil-Shimano Project 1t4i Team Argos-Shimano Team Giant-Shimano Team Giant-Alpecin Team Sunweb
Team photo
Website
www.teamsunweb.com

Team picture 2014 at the Quatre jours de Dunkerque

The team Sunweb is a German cycling team based in the Dutch town of Deventer , which as a UCI World Team is licensed.

organization

The team was created in 2005 through the merger of the Japanese Shimano team with the Dutch bank giroloterij team . It was initially called Shimano-Memory Corp and is based in Deventer . Until the 2014 season, the team drove with a Dutch license.

The team is a member of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible (MPCC for short; German movement for credible cycling). Until 2010, this team also included a track cycling team.

On September 28, 2011, the manager Iwan Spekenbrink announced that the tool manufacturer Skil would end its commitment as the team's name sponsor, which it began in 2006, at the end of 2011. On March 30, 2012, the team announced the oil and gas company Argos Energies as the new main sponsor, who committed a budget for the next three years. Until then, the team had driven the first races of the 2012 season under the name Project 1t4i (Team Spirit, Inspiration, Integrity, Improvement, Innovation). With the new sponsor, the team applied for a ProTeam license for the UCI World Tour 2012 , but, as the 21st team in a ranking list, failed to meet the athletic qualification criteria. The team was granted a World Tour license for the 2013 to 2016 seasons.

After Argos announced that it would phase out its support for the team, the team should be supported by another main sponsor from 2014 onwards. When the latter also withdrew at the end of 2013, the team's new bike outfitter, Giant , took over the name sponsorship.

At the beginning of the 2015 season, the Bielefeld cosmetics producer Dr. Wolff Group Shimano as the second main sponsor. The team was renamed Team Giant-Alpecin in accordance with the Alpecin brand and received a German license.

The project also includes a women's cycling team that was registered as the UCI Women's Team under the name Skil 1t4i in 2012 , was now called Skil-Argos and in the 2014 seasons had the same name as the men's team. In 2015 the team was named Liv-Plantur .

In 2014, the project also included a junior team that was founded under the name Development Team Giant-Shimano . This team was hired at the end of the 2014 season after the operating company decided to no longer use a junior team for scouting , but rather through “talent days”.

In January 2016, the Germans John Degenkolb and Max Walscheid , the French Warren Barguil , the Dutch Ramon Sinkeldam , the American Chad Haga and the Swede Fredrik Ludvigsson were hit by a car at the training camp in the Spanish province of Alicante . The accident was caused by a 73-year-old British woman who drove on the wrong side of her SUV. Some of the drivers suffered very serious injuries.

The tour operator Sunweb became the new name sponsor in 2017 . In the same year the Sunweb Development Team was founded as a farm team and registered as the UCI Continental Team .

At the end of April 2018, it was announced that, in contrast to the limited-term sponsorship contracts most commonly found in cycling , Sunweb had switched to supporting the team on an unlimited basis with two years' notice at the end of the season.

reception

The team, then called Team Argos-Shimano , is honored in the documentary film Neue Helden - im Herzen der Tour (Nieuwe Helden - In het Hart van de Tour / Clean Spirit - In the Heart of the Tour) by the Dutch filmmaker Dirk Jan Roeleven . The film, which was shot during the Tour de France 2013 , mainly shows the sprinters Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb as well as their helper Tom Veelers , who fell badly in the finish sprint of the 10th stage after contact with Mark Cavendish . The documentation also deals with the goal mentioned by the team management of being successful without doping .

2020 season

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date	run	driver
March 11	4th stage Paris-Nice ( EZF )	Søren Kragh Andersen
March 13th	6th stage Paris-Nice	Tiesj Benoot

Success in the UCI ProSeries

date	run	driver
21st of February	3rd stage Algarve tour	Cees Bol

Success in the UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat.	driver
February 5th	1st stage Herald Sun Tour	2.1	Alberto Dainese
February 6th	2nd stage Herald Sun Tour	2.1	Jai Hindley
February 8	4th stage Herald Sun Tour	2.1	Jai Hindley
5th-9th February	Overall ranking Herald Sun Tour	2.1	Jai Hindley

team

Team roster
Surname	Date of birth	country	Previous team
Thymen Arensman (Jul 1 - Dec 31)	4th December 1999	Netherlands
Nikias Arndt	November 18, 1991	Germany	LKT Team Brandenburg (2012)
Tiesj Benoot	March 11, 1994	Belgium	Lotto-Soudal (2019)
Cees Bol	July 27, 1995	Netherlands
Alberto Dainese	March 25, 1998	Italy	SEG Racing Academy (2019)
Nico Denz	February 15, 1994	Germany	AG2R La Mondiale (2019)
Mark Donovan	April 3, 1999	United Kingdom	Team Wiggins Le Col (2019)
Nils Eekhoff	January 23, 1998	Netherlands
Felix Gall	February 27, 1998	Austria	Development Team Sunweb (2019)
Chad Haga	August 26, 1988	United States
Chris Hamilton	May 18, 1995	Australia
Jai Hindley	May 5, 1996	Australia	Mitchelton Scott (2017)
Max Kanter	October 22, 1997	Germany
Marc Hirschi	August 24, 1998	Switzerland	Development Team Sunweb (2018)
Wilco Kelderman	March 25, 1991	Netherlands	LottoNL-Jumbo (2016)
Asbjørn Kragh Andersen	April 9, 1992	Denmark	Waoo (2018)
Søren Kragh Andersen	August 10, 1994	Denmark	Trefor-Blue Water (2015)
Michael Matthews	September 26, 1990	Australia	Mitchelton-Scott (2016)
Joris Nieuwenhuis	February 11, 1996	Netherlands	Development Team Sunweb (2018)
Sam Oomen	August 15, 1995	Netherlands	Rabobank Development (2015)
Casper Pedersen	March 15, 1996	Denmark	Aqua Blue Sport (2018)
Robert Power	May 11, 1995	Australia	Mitchelton-Scott (2018)
Nicolas Roche	3rd July 1984	Ireland	BMC Racing Team (2018)
Martin Salmon	October 29, 1997	Germany
Michael Storer	February 28, 1997	Australia
Florian Stork	April 27, 1997	Germany
Jasha Sütterlin	4th November 1992	Germany	Movistar (2019)
Martijn Tusveld	September 9, 1993	Netherlands	Roompot-Nederlandse Loterij (2017)
Ilan Van Wilder	May 14, 2000	Belgium
Source: UCI

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI America Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2009	-	-
2010	-	-
2011	37.	Kenny van Hummel (319.)
2012	29	Roger Kluge (186th)

UCI Asia Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	12.	Hidenori Nodera (12th)
2006	2.	Maarten Tjallingii (5.)
2007	6th	Hidenori Nodera (10.)
2008	3.	Hidenori Nodera (16.)
2009	18th	Tom Veelers (54th)
2010	47.	Jin Long (228.)
2011	11.	Kenny van Hummel (19.)
2012	18th	Tom Veelers (34th)

UCI Europe Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2005	44.	Stefan Schumacher (5th)
2006	16.	Aart Vierhouten (28th)
2007	13.	Paul Martens (40th)
2008	34.	Robert Wagner (53.)
2009	6th	Kenny van Hummel (2nd)
2010	10.	Kenny van Hummel (16.)
2011	2.	Marcel Kittel (4th)
2012	2.	John Degenkolb (1st)

UCI Oceania Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2009	21st	Mitchell Docker (61st)
2010	-	-
2011	-	-
2012	8th.	Marcel Kittel (13.)

UCI World Calendar

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2009	26th	Jonathan Hivert (118.)
2010	31.	Dominique Cornu (156.)

UCI World Tour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2013	16.	John Degenkolb (41.)
2014	8th.	John Degenkolb (13th)
2015	10.	John Degenkolb (12.)
2016	16.	Tom Dumoulin (27.)
2017	4th	Tom Dumoulin (3rd)
2018	9.	Michael Matthews (7.)

UCI World Ranking

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2019	15th	Michael Matthews (33.)

Web links

Commons : Team Sunweb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Team Sunweb in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Team Sunweb in the UCI database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ velonation.com of March 8, 2012: GreenEdge joins MPCC, movement wants international sanctioning body introduced
2. ↑ Oil company Argos new sponsor for Project 1t4i. Retrieved March 31, 2012 . 
3. ↑ velonation.com of September 28, 2011: 1t4i Team to be created from outgoing Skil-Shimano
4. ↑ rad-net of October 5, 2011: UCI publishes list of WorldTour applicants for 2012
5. ↑ uci.ch of October 25, 2011: Registration of 2012 Teams - evaluation of sporting criterion
6. ↑ For the procedure and criteria of licensing and registration, see here .
7. ^ Registration of UCI ProTeams for the 2013 season. uci.ch, October 12, 2012, archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2012 (English). 
8. ↑ radsport-news.com from January 14, 2014: Giant-Shimano will celebrate its victories in black and white in the future
9. ↑ ^{a b} Alpecin brings WorldTour team to Germany. radsport-news.com, December 4, 2014, accessed January 2, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Alpecin wants to bring cycling back into the German focus. radsport-news.com, December 5, 2014, accessed January 2, 2015 . 
11. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 12, 2011: Skil women's team is strengthened for 2012
12. ↑ radsport-news.com from October 9, 2013: Jens Lang takes over the sporting management-Argos-Shimano founds a youth team
13. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 4, 2014: Giant-Shimano is hiring development team again
14. ^ Head-on collision with a car - Degenkolb and Walscheid: Further treatment in Germany. radsport-news.com, January 24, 2016, accessed May 8, 2016 . 
15. ↑ 73-year-old British woman was probably on the wrong side of the road - Giant Alpecin accident: car driver released from police custody. radsport-news.com, January 25, 2016, accessed May 8, 2016 . 
16. ↑ German Sunweb racing team competes with three teams in 2017. radsport-news.com, January 5, 2017, accessed January 11, 2017 . 
17. ↑ Sunweb secure long-term future with indefinite sponsorship agreement. In: cyclingnews.com. April 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Sunweb converts sponsorship contract into "unlimited". In: radsport-news.com. April 30, 2018, accessed May 30, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Clean Spirit. Retrieved August 3, 2015 .