Radioshack Nissan Trek Pro Cycling Team
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RadioShack-Nissan-Trek Professional Cycling Team is a cycling team is a professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Luxembourg. The team were formerly known as Leopard Trek
. For the 2012 season, the team will be renamed Radioshack Nissan Trek Pro Cycling Team, following a merger with US based Team RadioShack
. Johan Bruyneel
along with several riders from Team RadioShack
will make their move to the new team.
Leopard Trek
Leopard Trek is a professional road bicycle racing team licensed in Luxembourg and led by the brothers Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck, with Brian Nygaard and Kim Andersen as team managers. The Schleck brothers were under contract with the Danish team Saxo Bank managed by Bjarne Riis through the end...
. For the 2012 season, the team will be renamed Radioshack Nissan Trek Pro Cycling Team, following a merger with US based Team RadioShack
Team RadioShack
Team RadioShack is a professional road bicycle racing team, with RadioShack as the title sponsor, the creation of which was announced on July 23, 2009. Lance Armstrong co-owns and leads the team, which plans to race in the Grand Tours and the UCI ProTour, as well as running and triathlon events...
. Johan Bruyneel
Johan Bruyneel
Johan Bruyneel is a former road bicycle racer in professional cycling and a directeur sportif for UCI ProTour team . Retiring from racing in 1998, he became director of , a US-based UCI ProTour cycling team...
along with several riders from Team RadioShack
Team RadioShack
Team RadioShack is a professional road bicycle racing team, with RadioShack as the title sponsor, the creation of which was announced on July 23, 2009. Lance Armstrong co-owns and leads the team, which plans to race in the Grand Tours and the UCI ProTour, as well as running and triathlon events...
will make their move to the new team.
Team roster
Name | Born | Nationality | Team 2011 |
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Daniele Bennati | 24-09-1980 | ||
Matthew Busche Matthew Busche Matthew Busche is an American professional cyclist for Team RadioShack. In 2009, he gained notoriety for his rapid rise from a Wisconsin-based amateur team to Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack within the course of one season... |
09-05-1985 | ||
Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara Fabian Cancellara is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . A time trial specialist, he is a four-time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist... |
18-03-1981 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Laurent Didier Laurent Didier Laurent Didier is a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer. Laurent has been riding for the Danish Team Designa Køkken in the 2009 season after being with the Team Saxo Bank as a stagiare in late 2008... |
19-07-1984 | Saxo Bank-Sungard | |
Jakob Fuglsang Jakob Fuglsang Jakob Diemer Fuglsang is a Danish professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam . Before turning professional for Team Saxo Bank, he was a mountain biker racing for Team Cannondale-Vredestein. He has won the U23 World Cup... |
22-03-1985 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Tony Gallopin Tony Gallopin Tony Gallopin is a French professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team .-Palmares:2010*... |
24-05-1988 | Cofidis Cofidis Cofidis is a French company, one of the Otto Group's financial services providers.Founded in 1982 by 3 Suisses International in cooperation with Cetelem, Cofidis specializes in the consumer credit business of the 3 Suisses Group.... |
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Ben Hermans Ben Hermans Ben Hermans is a Belgian professional cyclist who rides for UCI ProTour team . He was born in Hasselt and turned pro in 2009.Ben is one of two Belgians who rode for Team RadioShack in 2010. From 2012, he will be riding for Leopard Trek.... |
08-06-1986 | ||
Chris Horner Chris Horner Christopher Horner is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . A native and current resident of Bend, Oregon, Horner dominated the American road racing scene by winning the points standings in the 2002, 2003 and 2004 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar.-PAA-NutraFig... |
23-10-1971 | ||
Markel Irízar Markel Irizar Markel Irizar Aranburu is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . Like team founder Lance Armstrong, Irizar is a testicular cancer survivor.- Palmares :2002... |
05-02-1980 | ||
Benjamin King | 22-03-1989 | ||
Andreas Kloden Andreas Klöden Andreas Klöden is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and second place in the 2004 Tour de France and 2006 Tour de France... |
22-06-1975 | ||
Gianni Meersman Gianni Meersman Gianni Meersman is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team . After stage 3 of the Tour de Georgia, Meersman was forced to abandon the race due to a severe case of patella tendinitis... |
05-12-1985 | Française des Jeux Française des Jeux FDJ is a French cycling team, named for its title sponsor, the French national lottery. Sponsorship of the team began in 1997. The team was named FDJeux.com in 2003 and 2004, then renamed Française des Jeux, supposedly to avoid bad luck, until July 2010, when the name was simplified to its... |
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Maxime Monfort | 14-01-1983 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Nélson Oliveira Nélson Oliveira Nélson Miguel Castro Oliveira is a Portuguese footballer who plays for S.L. Benfica as a striker.-Club career:Born in Barcelos, Oliveira finished his youth career at S.L. Benfica, having arrived at age 15 from Sporting de Braga, being a prolific scorer for both clubs. He made his first team debut... |
06-03-1989 | ||
Joost Posthuma Joost Posthuma Joost Posthuma is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. He rides on the UCI ProTour for the professional cycling team... |
08-03-1981 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Grégory Rast Grégory Rast Grégory Rast is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . He will ride for from 2012.- Palmares :20022004... |
17-01-1980 | ||
Andy Schleck Andy Schleck Andy Raymond Schleck is a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team . He is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, who also rides for . Their father Johny Schleck rode the Tour de France and Vuelta a España between 1965 and 1974... |
| 10-06-1985 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Fränk Schleck Fränk Schleck Fränk René Schleck is a Luxembourgish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . At the start of 2005, Schleck was joined by his younger brother Andy on , and they split the 2005 national championships between them, with Fränk winning the road race and Andy winning the time trial... |
15-04-1980 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Jesse Sergent Jesse Sergent Jesse Sergent is a New Zealand racing cyclist for .At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Sergent won the bronze medal as part of the New Zealand team in team pursuit, together with Sam Bewley, Hayden Roulston, and Marc Ryan.... |
08-07-1988 | ||
Jens Voigt Jens Voigt Jens Voigt is a German professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam . Voigt is known for his propensity to attack, and for his positive racing attitude. He is capable of repeated attacking, holding a high tempo, and breaking away from the peloton... |
17-09-1971 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Robert Wagner Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner is an American actor of stage, screen, and television.A veteran of many films in the 1950s and 1960s, Wagner gained prominence in three American television series that spanned three decades: It Takes a Thief , Switch , and Hart to Hart... |
17-04-1983 | Team Leopard-Trek | |
Haimar Zubeldia Haimar Zubeldia Haimar Zubeldia Agirre is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist who rides for on the UCI ProTour.... |
01-04-1977 |