Team Saxo Bank / 2008 season

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Team and achievements of the CSC-Saxo Bank team in the 2008 season.

successes

Successes in the ProTour

date run driver
14th June FranceFrance6th stage Dauphiné Libéré DenmarkDenmark Chris Anker Sørensen
20th June SwitzerlandSwitzerland7th stage Tour de Suisse SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
June 22 SwitzerlandSwitzerland9th stage Tour de Suisse SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
September 14th PolandPoland1st stage Tour of Poland DenmarkDenmark CSC-Saxo Bank
September 19th PolandPoland6th stage Tour of Poland GermanyGermany Jens Voigt
14.-20. September PolandPoland Overall ranking Tour of Poland GermanyGermany Jens Voigt

Successes in the Continental Circuits

date run driver
January 23 ArgentinaArgentina1st stage Tour de San Luis ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
January 27th ArgentinaArgentina5th stage Tour de San Luis ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
February 17th United StatesUnited StatesPrologue Tour of California SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
February 18 United StatesUnited States1st stage Tour of California ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
2nd March SpainSpain Clásica de Almería ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
6th March SpainSpain3rd stage Murcia tour ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
8th of March ItalyItaly Monte Paschi Eroica SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
March 16 ItalyItaly5th stage Tirreno-Adriatico SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
12-18 March ItalyItaly Overall ranking Tirreno-Adriatico SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
March 22 ItalyItaly Milan-San Remo SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
25th March SpainSpain2nd stage Vuelta a Castilla y León NetherlandsNetherlands Karsten Kroon
March 29 BelgiumBelgium Flanders E3 Prize NorwayNorway Kurt Asle Arvesen
29-30 March FranceFrance Overall evaluation Critérium International GermanyGermany Jens Voigt
April 22 United StatesUnited States2nd stage Tour de Georgia ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
1st of May GermanyGermany Around the Henninger Tower NetherlandsNetherlands Karsten Kroon
May 21 DenmarkDenmark Grand Prix Copenhagen Classic DenmarkDenmark Allan Johansen
May 29th ItalyItaly17th stage of the Giro d'Italia GermanyGermany Jens Voigt
June 4th LuxembourgLuxembourgPrologue Tour of Luxembourg SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
June 5th LuxembourgLuxembourg1st stage Tour of Luxembourg ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
8th June United StatesUnited States Commerce Bank International Championship DenmarkDenmark Matti Breschel
18th of June NetherlandsNetherlands1st stage of Ster Elektrotoer DenmarkDenmark Matti Breschel
25th June SwitzerlandSwitzerland Swiss time trial champions SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fabian Cancellara
June 26th DenmarkDenmark Danish time trial champion DenmarkDenmark Lars Ytting Bak
June 27th LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg champions road race LuxembourgLuxembourg Frank Schleck
June 29th NorwayNorway Norwegian champion road race NorwayNorway Kurt Asle Arvesen
June 29th DenmarkDenmark Danish champion road race DenmarkDenmark Nicki Sørensen
8th of July AustriaAustria2nd stage tour of Austria DenmarkDenmark Chris Anker Sørensen
16th of July FranceFrance11th stage Tour de France NorwayNorway Kurt Asle Arvesen
July 23 FranceFrance17th stage Tour de France SpainSpain Carlos Sastre
5th - 27th July FranceFrance Overall ranking Tour de France SpainSpain Carlos Sastre
July 27th GermanyGermany5th stage Saxony Tour NetherlandsNetherlands Karsten Kroon
July 31 DenmarkDenmark2nd stage Tour of Denmark DenmarkDenmark Matti Breschel
August 1st DenmarkDenmark3rd stage Tour of Denmark DenmarkDenmark Matti Breschel
August 2nd DenmarkDenmark4b. Stage Denmark Tour SwedenSweden Gustav Erik Larsson
3rd August DenmarkDenmark5th stage Tour of Denmark ArgentinaArgentina Juan José Haedo
September 8th United KingdomUnited Kingdom2nd stage Tour of Britain AustraliaAustralia Matthew Goss
21st September SpainSpain21st stage Vuelta a España DenmarkDenmark Matti Breschel
October 12th AustraliaAustraliaPrologue Herald Sun Tour AustraliaAustralia Matthew Goss
October 13th AustraliaAustralia1st stage Herald Sun Tour AustraliaAustralia Matthew Goss
October 14th AustraliaAustralia2nd stage Herald Sun Tour AustraliaAustralia Stuart O'Grady
October 17th AustraliaAustralia5th stage Herald Sun Tour AustraliaAustralia Stuart O'Grady
12-18 October AustraliaAustralia Overall ranking Herald Sun Tour AustraliaAustralia Stuart O'Grady

team

Additions Disposals

Accesses Team 2007 Departures Team 2008
Jason McCartney Discovery Channel Christian Vandevelde Slipstream Chipotle
Jurgen Van Goolen Discovery Channel David Zabriskie Slipstream Chipotle
Bradley McGee Française des Jeux Luke Roberts Kuota-Senges
Gustav Larsson Unibet.com Martin Pedersen Team GLS
André Steensen (from May 2008) Glud & Marstrand Horsens Lars Michaelsen End of career
Let Bøchman Glud & Marstrand Horsens Allan Johansen (until May 2008) Designa Køkken
Bobby Julich (until September 9th) End of career

team

Surname birthday nationality
Kurt Asle Arvesen February 9, 1975 NorwayNorway Norway
Lars Bak January 16, 1980 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Michael Blaudzun April 30, 1973 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Let Bøchman June 13, 1983 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Matti Breschel August 31, 1984 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Fabian Cancellara March 18, 1981 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Iñigo Cuesta 3rd June 1969 SpainSpain Spain
Matthew Goss 5th November 1986 AustraliaAustralia Australia
Juan José Haedo January 26, 1981 ArgentinaArgentina Argentina
Volodymyr Hustov February 15, 1977 UkraineUkraine Ukraine
Allan Johansen July 14, 1971 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Kasper Klostergård May 22, 1983 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Alexander Kolobnew May 4th 1981 RussiaRussia Russia
Karsten Kroon January 29, 1976 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Gustav Larsson 20th September 1980 SwedenSweden Sweden
Marcus Ljungqvist October 26, 1974 SwedenSweden Sweden
Lund is different February 14, 1985 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Jason McCartney 3rd September 1973 United StatesUnited States United States
Bradley McGee February 24, 1976 AustraliaAustralia Australia
Stuart O'Grady August 6, 1973 AustraliaAustralia Australia
Carlos Sastre April 22, 1975 SpainSpain Spain
Andy Schleck June 10, 1985 LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
Frank Schleck April 15, 1980 LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
Chris Anker Sørensen 5th September 1984 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Nicki Sørensen May 14, 1975 DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Jurgen Van Goolen November 28, 1980 BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Jens Voigt 17th September 1971 GermanyGermany Germany
Trainees nationality
Jonathan Bellis United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Jakob Fuglsang DenmarkDenmark Denmark

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