NTT Pro Cycling Team
NTT Pro Cycling Team | |
Team data | |
UCI code | NTT |
nationality | South Africa |
License | UCI WorldTeam |
operator | Ryder Cycling |
First season | 2008 |
discipline | Street |
Wheel manufacturer | BMC |
staff | |
General manager | Douglas Ryder |
Team manager | Bjarne Riis |
Sportl. ladder |
Lars Michaelsen Alex Sans Vega |
Name story | |
Years | Surname |
2008 2009 2010 2011–2015 2016–2019 2020- |
Team MTN MTN Cycling MTN Energade MTN Qhubeka Team Dimension Data NTT Pro Cycling Team |
Team photo | |
Website | |
africasteam.com |
The NTT Pro Cycling Team is a South African cycling team based in Johannesburg .
Organization and profile
The team was founded in 2008 as the Continental Team and took part in the UCI Continental Circuits . She initially drove most of the races in Africa .
For the 2013 season, the team, then still under the name MTN Qhubeka , was the first African team to be licensed as a Professional Continental Team and was thus able to compete in races of the UCI WorldTour upon invitation . On March 17, 2013, the team with Gerald Ciolek won their first World Tour race with the spring classic Milan – Sanremo . In 2014 it was also the first African team to take part in the Vuelta a España and finally in 2015 as the first African team to take part in the Tour de France .
Until 2015, the namesake were the main sponsor Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), a South African company in the field of business communications, and the volunteer organization Qhubeka ( Nguni , German for advancing ), which is supported by MTN and gives children in rural communities bicycles to help them cope with everyday life which is also a joint project of both sponsors. In 2016 the IT service provider Dimension Data took over the sponsorship and the team received a license as a UCI WorldTeam from the World Cycling Association . In addition, the UCI Continental Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka has been in existence since 2016 .
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone became the name sponsor for the 2020 season . At the beginning of the season it was announced that the Virtu Cycling Group , which operated the Virtu Cycling team from 2016 to 2018 , had acquired a third of the shares in team operator Ryder Cycling from General Manager Douglas Ryder . The 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis , one of the shareholders of the Virtu Cycling Group , became the new team manager.
2020 season
Success in the UCI WorldTour
date | run | driver |
---|---|---|
January 25th | 5th stage Tour Down Under | Giacomo Nizzolo |
9th March | 2nd stage Paris-Nice | Giacomo Nizzolo |
Success in the UCI ProSeries
date | run | driver |
---|---|---|
February 9 | 3rd stage Tour de Langkawi | Max Walscheid |
14th of February | 8th stage Tour de Langkawi | Max Walscheid |
Success in the UCI Continental Circuits
date | run | Cat. | driver |
---|---|---|---|
February 8 | 4th stage of the Étoile de Bessèges | 2.1 | Ben O'Connor |
National road cycling champions
date | run | driver |
---|---|---|
February 9 | South African Championship - Road Race | Ryan Gibbons |
August 23 | Italian Championship - Road Racing | Giacomo Nizzolo |
team
Team roster | |||
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Surname | Date of birth | country | Previous team |
Carlos Barbero | April 29, 1991 | Spain | Movistar (2019) |
Samuele Battistella | November 14, 1998 | Italy | Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2019) |
Edvald Boasson Hagen | May 17, 1987 | Norway | Sky (2014) |
Victor Campenaerts | October 28, 1991 | Belgium | Lotto-Soudal (2019) |
Stefan de Bod | November 17, 1996 | South Africa | Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2018) |
Nicholas Dlamini | August 12, 1995 | South Africa | Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2017) |
Benjamin Dyball | April 20, 1989 | Australia | Team Sapura Cycling (2019) |
Enrico Gasparotto | March 22, 1982 | Switzerland | Bahrain-Merida (2018) |
Amanuel Gebreigzab here | 17th August 1994 | Eritrea | |
Ryan Gibbons | August 13, 1994 | South Africa | Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2016) |
Michael Gogl | 4th November 1993 | Austria | Trek-Segafredo (2019) |
Shotaro Iribe | August 1, 1989 | Japan | Shimano Racing Team (2019) |
Reinardt Janse van Rensburg | 3rd February 1989 | South Africa | Giant-Shimano (2014) |
Ben King | March 22, 1989 | United States | Cannondale-Drapac (2016) |
Roman Kreuziger | May 6, 1986 | Czech Republic | Mitchelton-Scott (2018) |
Gino Mäder | 4th January 1997 | Switzerland | IAM Excelsior (2018) |
Louis Meintjes | February 21, 1992 | South Africa | UAE Team Emirates (2017) |
Giacomo Nizzolo | January 30, 1989 | Italy | Trek-Segafredo (2018) |
Ben O'Connor | November 25, 1995 | Australia | Avanti IsoWhey Sports (2016) |
Matteo Sobrero | May 14, 1997 | Italy | Dimension Data for Qhubeka (2019) |
Andreas Stokbro | 4th August 1997 | Denmark | Riwal Readynez (2019) |
Dylan Sunderland | February 26, 1996 | Australia | BridgeLane (2019) |
Jay Robert Thomson | April 12, 1986 | South Africa | United Healthcare (2012) |
Rasmus Fossum Tiller | July 28, 1996 | Norway | Joker Icopal (2018) |
Michael Valgren | February 7, 1992 | Denmark | Astana (2018) |
Max Walscheid | June 13, 1993 | Germany | Sunweb (2019) |
Danilo Wyss | August 26, 1985 | Switzerland | BMC Racing Team (2018) |
Domenico Pozzovivo | November 30, 1982 | Italy | Bahrain-Merida (2019) |
Michael Carbel Svendgaard | February 7, 1995 | Denmark | Waoo (2019) |
Source: UCI |
Placements in UCI rankings
UCI Africa Tour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2008 | 1. | Nicholas White (1st) |
2009 | 2. | Jay Robert Thomson (4th) |
2010 | 1. | Ian McLeod (2nd) |
2011 | 4th | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (13th) |
2012 | 1. | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (3rd) |
2013 | 1. | Jay Robert Thomson (7th) |
2014 | 1. | Louis Meintjes (7.) |
2015 | 3. | Louis Meintjes (16.) |
UCI America Tour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2008 - 2012 | - | - |
2013 | 36. | Kristian Sbaragli (293.) |
2014 | - | - |
2015 | 17th | Natnael Berhane (88.) |
UCI Asia Tour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2008 | 52. | Ian McLeod (207.) |
2009 | 15th | Christoff van Heerden (17th) |
2010 | 52. | Jacobus Venter (268.) |
2011 | 32. | Dennis van Niekerk (82nd) |
2012 | 25th | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (22.) |
2013 | 16. | Tsgabu Grmay (27.) |
2014 | 17th | Merhawi kudu (39.) |
2015 | 16. | Youcef Reguigui (10th) |
UCI Europe Tour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2008 | 117. | Kevin Evans (1077.) |
2009 - 2011 | - | - |
2012 | 39. | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (10th) |
2013 | 21st | Gerald Ciolek (10.) |
2014 | 27. | Kristian Sbaragli (57.) |
2015 | 11. | Edvald Boasson Hagen (4th) |
UCI Oceania Tour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2008 - 2011 | - | - |
2012 | 6th | Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (7th) |
2013 - 2014 | - | - |
2015 | 9. | Tyler Farrar (26.) |
UCI WorldTour
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2016 | 18th | Mark Cavendish (67.) |
2017 | 18th | Nathan Haas (50.) |
2018 | 18th | Edvald Boasson Hagen (76.) |
season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
---|---|---|
2019 | 22nd | Michael Valgren (80th) |
Web links
- Official website
- NTT Pro Cycling Team in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- NTT Pro Cycling Team in the UCI database
Individual evidence
- ↑ cyclingnews.com from September 16, 2012: MTN-Qhubeka to become Africa's first Pro Continental team
- ↑ radsport-news.com from December 6, 2012: MTN-Qhubeka dreams of the tour and the Giro
- ↑ radsport-news.com of March 17th, 2013: Ciolek wins 14th Milan – Sanremo
- ^ Team MTN-Qhubeka to make Vuelta history. Super Sport, April 2, 2014, accessed March 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b WorldTour license for Dimension Data. radsport-news.com, November 25, 2015, accessed December 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Zemke: "The South Africans identify with the team". radsport-news.com, November 21, 2011, accessed December 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Dimension Data For Qhubeka 2016. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Dimension Data for Qhubeka 2017. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Riis becomes the new team manager at NTT Pro Cycling. In: radsport-news.com. January 8, 2010, accessed January 8, 2020 .