Kasper Asgreen
To person | |
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Date of birth | February 8, 1995 |
nation | Denmark |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Time trial, classic specialist |
height | 192 cm |
Racing weight | 75 kg |
To the team | |
Current team | Deceuninck-Quick-Step |
function | driver |
Most important successes | |
World Champion 2018 - team time |
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Last updated: March 2, 2020 |
Kasper Asgreen (born February 8, 1995 in Kolding ) is a Danish cyclist .
Career
In 2017 Asgreen won his first competition on the international calendar with the one-day race GP Viborg , the U23 European Championship in the individual time trial and a stage of the UCI Nations' Cup U23 - Tour de l'Avenir stage race .
Asgreen joined the UCI WorldTeam Quick-Step Floors in April 2018 . With this team he won the overall ranking of the three-day team competition Hammer Sportzone Limburg . He later drove the Vuelta a España 2018 and finished his first Grand Tour in 124th overall. At the UCI Road World Championships in 2018 , he was part of his Quick-Step team for the team time trial and became world champion with this team.
In 2019, Asgren came second at the Monument des Radsports Tour of Flanders , after driving 50 kilometers from the finish as a watchdog in a breakaway group and escaping from the group of favorites behind the solo winner Alberto Bettiol .
With the successful breakaway attempt at the UCI ProSeries competition Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne in March 2020, Asgren was able to achieve his most important individual victory to date.
successes
- 2016
- Mountain classification Paris-Arras Tour
- 2017
- GP Viborg
- Danish Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
- European Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
- a stage Tour de l'Avenir
- 2018
- one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
- Overall rating Hammer Sportzone Limburg
- Team time trial Adriatica Ionic Race
- World champion - team time trial
- 2019
- a stage and points scoring California tour
- Danish champion - individual time trial
- European Championship - Individual Time Trial
- a stage Germany tour
- 2020
- Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne
- Danish champion - road race
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - |
Tour de France | - | 122 |
Vuelta a España | 134 | - |
Teams
- 2015 MLP Team Bergstrasse
- 2016 Team TreFor
- 2017 Team Veloconcept
- 2018 Team Virtu Cycling (until March 31st) / Quick-Step Floors (from April 1st)
- 2019 Deceuninck-Quick-Step
- 2020 Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Web links
- Kasper Asgreen in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Asgreen turns the Deceuninck hierarchy upside down in Oudenaarde. In: radsport-news.com. April 8, 2019, accessed July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Asgreen duped the sprinters and won in Kuurne as a soloist. In: radsport-news.com. March 1, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Asgreen, Kasper |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1995 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolding |