Trek-Segafredo

This article deals with the men's cycling team Trek-Segafredo , for the women's cycling team of the same name, see here .

Trek-Segafredo
Team data
UCI code	TFS
nationality	United States
License	UCI WorldTeam
operator	Trek Factory Racing
First season	2011
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Trek Bicycle Corporation
General manager	Luca Guercilena
Sportl. ladder	Steven de Jongh
Name story
Years	Surname
2011 2012 2013 2014–2015 2016–	Leopard Trek (LEO) RadioShack-Nissan (RNT) RadioShack Leopard (RLT) Trek Factory Racing (TFR) Trek-Segafredo (TFS)
Website
www.treksegafredo.com/

Trek-Segafredo is an American cycling team that started its first season in the UCI WorldTour in 2011 under the name Leopard Trek with a Luxembourg license . The team is based in Deinze, Belgium .

history

founding

The team, initially only known as the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project , was officially presented on January 6, 2011 after six months of development. The world association Union Cycliste Internationale immediately classified the team as the strongest road cycling team in the world and awarded a license as a UCI ProTeam with a Luxembourg license.

It was named after the newly founded operating company Leopard SA of the Luxembourg sports patron and real estate broker Flavio Becca , who u. a. has already supported the national first division soccer team F91 Dudelange . The US company Trek , which it claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of bicycles , acted as co-name sponsor . Other important sponsors in 2011 were the German automobile manufacturer and vehicle sponsor of the Mercedes-Benz team , the Luxembourg energy supply company Enovos and the Scandinavian clothing manufacturer and team supplier Craft .

The team's manager was the Dane Brian Nygaard , who was formerly the spokesman for the Bjarne-Riis-Team Saxo-Bank and from there not only recruited most of the drivers, but also the sports director, his compatriot Kim Andersen . The captains of the team were the two Luxembourg brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck ; In addition, the then time trial world champion and classic specialist , the Swiss Fabian Cancellara , could be won. In addition to these three drivers, there were four more drivers from the Riis Saxo-Bank team, including the Australian Stuart O'Grady and the German Jens Voigt . Other important commitments are the two German drivers Linus Gerdemann and Fabian Wegmann , who moved to Luxembourg from the lost Team Milram . The Luxembourgish Continental Team Differdange-Magic-SportFood.de was to serve as the junior team .

Merger and renaming

The team was merged with the US team RadioShack for the 2012 season and started under the name RadioShack-Nissan in 2012 , while the Leopard-Trek Continental Team , which was designated as the junior team, was called the Leopard-Trek Continental Team , essentially taking over the name of the ProTeam. The team structures remained in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . The team also retained its Luxembourg nationality. Most of the previous drivers stayed with the team, including top drivers Andy and Fränk Schleck, as well as Fabian Cancellara. The new General Manager was the Belgian Johan Bruyneel , who previously held this position at Team RadioShack.

The operator of the former American team RadioShack , Capital Sports and Entertainment , withdrew from the organization of the ProTeam and the sponsors support the Luxembourg team, which is still managed by Leopard SA , but takes on the name of the new sponsors. RadioShack team manager Johan Bruyneel remained in office and Lance Armstrong was also involved in the new team with Livestrong ; the marketing department remained in Austin , Texas . Two Continental teams were to serve as the farm team : the newly founded Luxembourgish Leopard-Trek Continental Team and the American Bontrager Livestrong Team .

In the course of the investigation by the USADA against Lance Armstrong for alleged systematic doping in US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team also serious allegations against Johan Bruyneel were raised, who was then leader of this team. At the end of October 2012, the team operator therefore decided to part with Bruyneel and instead to entrust the Italian Luca Guercilena , who had previously been the team’s sporting director, with the role of general manager.

At the end of the 2012 season, Nissan , the second name sponsor of the merged team, announced that it would no longer support the team.

Takeover by Trek

After the name sponsor RadioShack announced in the course of 2013 that it would stop funding the team at the end of the year, Flavio Becca sold the team and the license to the bike outfitter Trek Bicycle Corporation , which registered the team with the UCI in 2014 with an American license. At the beginning of the 2016 season, the Italian coffee products company Segafredo Zanetti became the team's second name sponsor for a period of three years.

Benjamin King (l.) And George Bennett (r.), Tour of Austria 2013

2020 season

Success in the UCI WorldTour

date	run	winner
January 23	3rd stage Tour Down Under	Richie Porte
21-26 January	Overall Tour Down Under	Richie Porte
February 29th	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	Jasper Stuyven
6th of August	2nd stage Tour of Poland	Mads Pedersen

Success in the UCI Continental Circuits

date	run	Cat .	winner
January 30th	Trofeo Felanitx-Ses Salines-Campos-Porreres	1.1	Matteo Moschetti
February 2nd	Trofeo Palma	1.1	Matteo Moschetti
February 23	3rd stage Tour du Haut-Var	2.1	Julien Bernard

National road cycling champions

date	run	driver
20th of August	Luxembourg Championship - Individual Time Trial (U23)	Michel Ries

team

Team roster
Surname	Date of birth	country	Previous team
Julien Bernard	March 17, 1992	France	SCO Dijon (2015)
Gianluca Brambilla	August 22, 1987	Italy	Quick-Step Floors (2017)
Giulio Ciccone	December 20, 1994	Italy	Bardiani CSF (2018)
William Clarke	April 11, 1985	Australia	EF Education First-Drapac (2018)
Nicola Conci	January 5, 1997	Italy	Zalf Euromobil Désirée Fior (2017)
Koen de Kort	September 8, 1982	Netherlands	Giant-Alpecin (2016)
Niklas Eg	January 6, 1995	Denmark	Virtu Cycling (2017)
Kenny Elissonde	July 22, 1991	France	Ineos (2019)
Alexander Kamp	December 14, 1993	Denmark	Riwal Readynez (2019)
Alex Kirsch	June 12, 1992	Luxembourg	WB-Aqua Protect-Veranclassic (2018)
Emīls Liepiņš	October 22, 1992	Latvia	Wallonie Bruxelles (2019)
Juan Pedro López	July 31, 1997	Spain
Bauke Mollema	November 26, 1986	Netherlands	Team Jumbo-Visma (2014)
Jacopo Mosca	August 29, 1993	Italy
Matteo Moschetti	August 14, 1996	Italy	Polartec-Kometa (2018)
Ryan Mullen	August 7, 1994	Ireland	Cannondale-Drapac (2017)
Antonio Nibali	September 23, 1992	Italy	Bahrain-Merida (2019)
Vincenzo Nibali	November 14, 1984	Italy	Bahrain-Merida (2019)
Mads Pedersen	December 18, 1995	Denmark	Stölting Service Group (2016)
Richie Porte	January 30, 1985	Australia	BMC Racing Team (2018)
Charlie Quaterman	September 6, 1998	United Kingdom	Leopard Pro Cycling (2018)
Kiel Reijnen	June 1, 1986	United States	United Healthcare (2015)
Michel Ries	March 11, 1998	Luxembourg	Kometa (2019)
Quinn Simmons	May 8, 2001	United States
Tom's Skujiņš	June 15, 1991	Latvia	Cannondale-Drapac (2017)
Jasper Stuyven	April 17, 1992	Belgium	Bontrager (2013)
Edward Theuns	April 30, 1991	Belgium	Sunweb (2018)
Pieter Weening (Jun 5 - Dec 31)	April 5th 1981	Netherlands	Roompot-Charles (2019)
Source: UCI

Placements in UCI rankings

UCI WorldTour

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2011	3.	Frank Schleck (10.)
2012	12.	Fabian Cancellara (37th)
2013	4th	Fabian Cancellara (7th)
2014	13.	Fabian Cancellara (11th)
2015	13.	Bauke Mollema (22.)
2016	9.	Fabian Cancellara (22.)
2017	5.	Alberto Contador (10.)
2018	13.	Jasper Stuyven (19th)

UCI world rankings

season	Team ranking	Driver ranking
2019	10.	Bauke Mollema (11.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RTL.lu from January 6, 2011: Presentatioun Team Leopard-Trek: Quasi en national project.
2. ↑ UCI press release of November 2, 2011: Registration of UCI ProTeams and UCI Professional Continental Teams for the 2011 Season ( Memento of the original of November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English France) 
3. ↑ Velochrono.fr of October 15, 2010 (French)
4. ↑ tageblatt.lu from November 1, 2011: Continental team is called Leopard-Trek ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Wort.lu article from September 5, 2011: Leopard-Trek becomes RadioShack-Nissan-Trek  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Isabel Best in Procycling December 2011 (German edition): Flavio Becca, page 58
7. ↑ Wort.lu article from September 6, 2011: Bruyneel confirmed as head of the Schleck team  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ cyclingnews.com of October 19, 2012: RadioShack-Nissan choose Guercilena to replace Bruyneel
9. ↑ cyclingnews.com of December 21, 2012: Nissan confirm immediate split with RadioShack
10. ↑ Trek to take over WorldTour license from Becca in 2014 . In: Cycling News , Future Publishing Limited, June 26, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2014. 
11. ↑ Segafredo joins Trek Factory Racing as co-title sponsor. cyclingnews.com, December 16, 2015, accessed December 16, 2015 . 

Web links

Commons : Trek-Segafredo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Trek-Segafredo in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Trek-Segafredo in the UCI database