Kasper Asgreen

Kasper Asgreen
To person
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 ; trial Kuurne – Brussels – Kuurne
	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.