Team Rupelcleaning–Champion Lubricants

Team Rupelcleaning–Champion Lubricants is a Belgian-based, Irish-registered women's road cycling team that was founded in 2018. In its first season in 2019, the team won the Belgian Cup.[2] Following the 2020 season,[3] that was extensively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the team announced their intention to become a UCI Women's Continental Team for the 2021 season.[4]

Team Rupelcleaning–Champion Lubricants
Team information
UCI codeILB (2019–2020)
RUP (2021–)
RegisteredIreland
Founded2018 (2018)
Discipline(s)Road
StatusNational (2019–2020)
UCI Women's Continental Team (2021–)
Team name history
2019–2020
2021–
Illi-Bikes Cycling Team
Team Rupelcleaning–Champion Lubricants[1]

Team roster
As of 30 January 2021.[5]
Rider Date of birth
 Isabelle Beckers (BEL) (1983-03-04) 4 March 1983
 Svenja Betz (GER) (1995-09-15) 15 September 1995
 Verena Eberhardt (AUT) (1994-12-06) 6 December 1994
 Lara Gillespie (IRL) (2001-04-21) 21 April 2001
 Mia Griffin (IRL) (1998-12-30) 30 December 1998
 Antonia Gröndahl (FIN) (1995-05-25) 25 May 1995
 Gabriella Homer (IRL) (2000-09-10) 10 September 2000
 Amber Lacompte (BEL) (2000-01-01) 1 January 2000
Rider Date of birth
 Ditte Lenseclaes (BEL) (1999-06-22) 22 June 1999
 Lucy Mayrhofer (GER) (2002-09-20) 20 September 2002
 Kelly Murphy (IRL) (1989-11-03) 3 November 1989
 Maja Perinović (CRO) (1999-09-24) 24 September 1999
 Trine Schmidt (DEN) (1988-06-03) 3 June 1988
 Aline Seitz (SUI) (1997-02-17) 17 February 1997
 Alice Sharpe (IRL) (1994-05-03) 3 May 1994
 Sara Van de Vel (BEL) (1994-08-06) 6 August 1994

References
  1. Fruyt, Hans (16 December 2020). "Illi-Bikes CT wordt Team Rupelcleaning-Champion Lubricants en wil het Vlaamse voorjaar rijden" [Illi-Bikes CT becomes Team Rupelcleaning-Champion Lubricants and wants to ride in the Flemish spring]. Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). DPG Media. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  2. Ilegems, Ken (18 October 2020). "Big news!". Illi-Bikes. WordPress. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. https://cqranking.com/women/asp/gen/team.asp?year=2020&teamcode=ILB
  4. Gachet, Nicolas (18 October 2020). "Illi-Bikes va monter en Continentale" [Illi-Bikes will go up to Continental]. Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  5. "Team Rupelcleaning - Champion Lubricants". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 30 January 2021.


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