Riwal Securitas Cycling Team

Riwal Cycling Team is a Danish UCI Professional Continental cycling team based in Himmerland.[2] Riwal participates in races in many countries around Europe. The team's most popular achievements have been the Danmark Rundt, the Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands and the Okolo Slovenska.

Riwal Cycling Team
Team information
UCI codeRIW
RegisteredHimmerland, Denmark
Founded2009 (2009)
Discipline(s)Road
Status
BicyclesPinarello
Key personnel
General managerMogens Kristensen
Team manager(s)Michael Blaudzun[1]
Team name history
2009
2010–2012
2013
2014
2015–2017
2018
2019–Aug 2020
Aug 2020–Dec 2020
2021–
Concordia–Vesthimmerland
Concordia Forsikring–Himmerland
Concordia Forsikring–Riwal
Riwal Cycling Team
Riwal Platform Cycling Team
Riwal CeramicSpeed Cycling Team
Riwal–Readynez Cycling Team
Riwal Securitas Cycling Team
Riwal Cycling Team

The team has 20 full-time riders. Most of the team riders are Danish but also includes Swedish and Norwegian members. The team has one sports manager and several freelancers.

About 70 business partners support the Riwal Cycling Team by small and large sponsorships. The end of season 2013 Nikola Aistrup conquered the points in the first days of the Tour of Denmark and later he took second place in the final Post Cup department: The rider, who for years has been one of the backbones at Concordia Forsikring–Riwal has recently signed with the new team, which from 2014 ran under the Riwal name.

It was announced on 22 August 2020 that security company Securitas would step up as a co-name sponsor for the rest of the 2020 season.[3]

Due to funding issues, the team decided it would return to being a UCI Continental team in 2021 to ensure its survival, after a two-year stint as a UCI ProTeam.[4]

Team roster

As of 9 January 2020.[5]
Rider Date of birth
 Kristian Aasvold (NOR) (1995-05-30) 30 May 1995
 Martijn Budding (NED) (1995-08-31) 31 August 1995
 Arvid de Kleijn (NED) (1994-03-21) 21 March 1994
 Sondre Holst Enger (NOR) (1993-12-17) 17 December 1993
 Lucas Eriksson (SWE) (1996-04-10) 10 April 1996
 Piotr Havik (NED) (1994-07-07) 7 July 1994
 August Jensen (NOR) (1991-08-29) 29 August 1991
 Tobias Kongstad (DNK) (1996-09-14) 14 September 1996
 Andreas Kron (DNK) (1998-06-01) 1 June 1998
 Christoffer Lisson (DNK) (1995-11-28) 28 November 1995
Rider Date of birth
 Sindre Lunke (NOR) (1993-04-17) 17 April 1993
 Kim Magnusson (SWE) (1992-08-31) 31 August 1992
 Rasmus Quaade (DNK) (1990-01-07) 7 January 1990
 Elmar Reinders (NED) (1992-03-14) 14 March 1992
 Jesper Schultz (DNK) (1996-02-27) 27 February 1996
 James Shaw (GBR) (1996-06-13) 13 June 1996
 Nick van der Lijke (NED) (1991-09-23) 23 September 1991
 Torkil Veyhe (DNK) (1990-01-09) 9 January 1990
 Emil Vinjebo (DNK) (1994-03-24) 24 March 1994
 Rasmus Bøgh Wallin (DNK) (1996-01-02) 2 January 1996

Major wins

References

  1. "Stab". Riwalcyclingteam.dk. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  2. "Team Concordia Forsikring-Himmerland Website". Team Concordia Forsikring-Himmerland. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  3. Bønding, Emil Walther (22 August 2020). "Securitas effectively steps in as name sponsor in 2020". Riwal Securitas. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  4. "Riwal Securitas give up on fight to continue as a ProTeam". CyclingNews. 12 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. "Riwal Readynez Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 9 January 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
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