The predecessor of Giant Cycling Team in 2009:

China Wansheng Continental Cycling Team is the first Chinese man’s team. In the past 9 years, Giant Cycling Team has committed to create more opportunities for Chinese athletes. This spirit has attracted numerous elites in China. They have on behalf of Giant Cycling Team participated in races at home and abroad. Their efforts help Chinese riders climb a new ladder.

Team Delko Marseille Provence KTM has got an history in cycling up to 1974. 

Based on core values of development of young talents, courage, team spirit, innovation, the project has grown slowly into an international project, now in Continental Pro. 

Supported mainly by the chain store of garages Delko, KTM bike brands, the city of Marseille and the land Provence Côte d'Azur, our team is proud to participate again to Tour of Hainan 2018 (we won the 2014 edition)!

We look forward to race in Tour of Hainan to meet our Chinese fans and to win like we used to do in our Asian races, a very important part of our program.

We have won this year 8 races.

Thanks a lot for the organisation of your great event on this beautiful part of the world!

Mitchelton-BikeExchange is a Chinese registered UCI Continental cycling team competing as one of 35 Asian teams on the UCI Continental Circuit of international races including the Asia Tour.

An important element of the team is their involvement and commitment to expanding and improving cycling in China through working with Chinese coaches and the panel of the Chinese National Road Team in selecting some of the best young Chinese racing talent in China like current national champion Niu Yikui and teammates Jiang Zhi Hui and Sun Xiaolong.

 With the goal of providing them with a world class network of support within the GreenEDGE cycling set up the team provides the riders with a platform to improve not only their racing abilities, but also language and cultural skills as they work towards the target of becoming one of the top three teams on the Asian continental circuit.

The desire to create a legacy of cycling in China and work together with the Chinese Cycling Community to aid the development of Chinese athletes to achieve Olympic qualification and set them on the path to success at also the Chinese Games and Asian Games, is tied intrinsically with the main aim of developing a world class structure of support to nurture Chinese cycling talent.

The NIPPO Vini Fantini Europa Ovini is the first Italian-Japanese pro cycling team. Born in 2015 with the aim to grow up Italian and Japanese young talents looking forward to Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.  The young talents of the team are leaded by experienced and strong riders such as Damiano Cunego and Marco Canola. The team is  strongly international with management, staff and riders Italian & Japanese, riding in 4 continents and 26 countries during all the season. The team wants to promote a new cycling, based on a stron Ethic Code, with a management based on maximum transparency, very strong ethics, new professional figures and new ways of communicating. 

NINGXIA SPORTS LOTTERY LIVALL CYCLING TEAM is an intercontinental team that established quiet early in China in 2014. We won the first stage of 2018 Tour of Qinghai Lake. With an aim to cultivate outstanding professional riders, we have signed up with 16 riders from 7 countries in 2018. We will participate in 12 UCI professional races, namely, Tour of Qinghai Lake, Tour of Xingtai, Tour of China, Tour of Hainan. Hope you enjoy our performance!

Team Novo Nordisk is a global all-diabetes sports team of cyclists spearheaded by the world’s first all-diabetes professional cycling team. The team’s mission is to inspire, educate and empower everyone affected by diabetes.

Team Novo Nordisk is part of the Changing Diabetes® initiative, Novo Nordisk’s global commitment to improving conditions for the more than 437 million people living with diabetes today, and those at risk of developing diabetes.

The Team Novo Nordisk goal

When diagnosed with diabetes, many people think they will not be able to live life the way they had hoped. The Team Novo Nordisk athletes are people with diabetes who have a talent and a strong desire to not let their condition stop them from following their dreams and competing at the top level.

The athletes work hard to manage their diabetes. Through their experiences and life stories they hope to inspire, educate and empower others by showing what may be possible.

Team Novo Nordisk in action

2018 marks the sixth season the all-diabetes men’s professional cycling team is racing on the International Cycling Union (UCI) Professional Continental Tour, which is taking them to numerous countries around the world in Europe, USA, the Middle East and Asia as they continue

racing to change diabetes.

The 2017 season saw Team Novo Nordisk earn 15 top 10 finishes including top five results at GP de Saguenay and the Finnish National Championship Road Race. Throughout the season, Team Novo Nordisk stepped on the podium for multiple jersey honors. Neo-pro sprinter Mehdi Benhamouda (FRA) wore the best young rider jersey at the Tour d’Azerbaidjan, Stephen Clancy (IRL) received the fan favorite jersey following the opening stage of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and Fabio Calabria (AUS) earned the most aggressive rider jersey on the final stage of the Colorado Classic. 

Off the bike, Team Novo Nordisk riders meet thousands of people every year who are inspired by their message and empowered by their actions at races spanning the globe. The team also engages regularly with its millions of fans on social media. 

The road to Team Novo Nordisk: two journeys, one goal

In December 2012, Novo Nordisk and Phil Southerland, co-founder and CEO of Team Novo Nordisk, partnered to create Team Novo Nordisk, based on a shared goal to inspire, educate and empower people around the world affected by diabetes.

This unique partnership is the result of two inspirational journeys:

• In 1982, at seven months old, Phil was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. His- mother was told he was unlikely to live past 25.Around the same time, Novo Nordisk - already a pioneer in the

treatment of diabetes - marketed its first insulin that was identical to human insulin.

• From an early age, Phil’s effective management of diabetes included riding his bike. At college he motivated friend and fellow cyclist with diabetes, Joe Eldridge, to improve his diabetes control in a similar way. This inspired Phil to spread diabetes awareness to a larger audience, and in 2005 he formed a cycling team that included athletes both with and without diabetes. In 2007, this team went on to win the 3,000-mile tag-team Race Across America.

• In 2005 - the same year as Phil formed the team - Novo Nordisk launched the Changing Diabetes® programme, which aims to ensure better outcomes for more patients, by creating more opportunities to live well with diabetes.

• As Phil travelled around the world, he witnessed the Novo Nordisk interest in supporting the diabetes community. This was an immediate shared goal, as was the desire to empower people with diabetes, and show that living with diabetes shouldn’t stop you from pursuing your dreams.

• Based on these shared goals, Team Novo Nordisk was created in December 2012.

Qinghai Tianyoude Cycling Team has numerous excellent riders including the champion Jonathan, best Asia rider Zhang Zhishan and new athlete Li Zisen in 2017 Tour of Qinghai Lake. In 2008 when we became the continental team that China initially registered in UCI, we have cultivated many outstanding riders with great achievements in cycling races at home and abroad.

In recent two years, our team has applied the spirit of reform to the development of cycling race. In 2017 Tour of Qinghai Lake, our rider Jonathan under the help of team members got the yellow jersey for eight consecutive stages which is the symbolic of race leader and finally won the championship. His performance represents that Chinese cycling team has made a breakthrough in the history of that race. In 2018, we have participated in some professional races and our new riders have accumulated precious experience in the meanwhile. In 2018 Tour of Qinghai Lake, our young rider Li Zisen got the blue jersey for the previous two stages which stands for the best Asia athlete. The rest of team members also left no stone unturned to win the race. We are committed to get better achievements in the future!

Introduction

Team                    SWISS CYCLING NATIONALTEAM

Coach / Sports director      Danilo Hondo

Partner                  Corner Card (Bank)

Garage HP Schmid-BMW

JESPER

ASSOS

BOSCH

CERVELO

DT SWISS

Goridan BANZER        Nationalrace Steinmaur (Sui) 3rd

Stefan BISSEGGER       2018   Sibiu Cycling Tour stage 4th       

Fabian LIENHARD       2017   Tour de Vendée 3rd

Gino MÄDER           2017    Piccolo Giro di Lombardia 3rd

Dylan PAGE            2017   Vuelta Cicilsta a La Rioja (Esp) 6th

                     2017    Volta ao Alentejo Stage (Esp) 3rd

                     2016    Trofeo Playa de Palma (Esp) 3rd

                     2016    Le Tour de Langkawi Stage 3rd

Simon PELLAUD        2016    stage National Championships Switzerland - ITT 3rd

Joab SCHNEITER 

Justin PAROZ           2017 2. U23 Swiss Championships TT

2017 Winner Mountain Classification Tour of South Bohemia

Frank PASCHE          2018   Tour of Mevlana（GC）4th

Our sport project was born in 2009 when Angelo Citracca, team manager of the team with the headquarters on the top of San Baronto hill, decided to bring one of the most winning Under 23 team in the category Professional. Eight long years full of joy and pain but with many emotions, same feelings that brought back in the peloton two historical italian brands, Wilier Triestina and Selle Italia, that became leaders in the world.

112 years of history for Wilier Triestina, 121 for Selle Italia, two anniversaries to don’t forget as unforgettable was our participation to the 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia with the team involved for the 8th time in these last 9 years to show the importance of a project that every year works with the young talents of italian and international cycling.

The results are getting better year after year and that’s how the team managed to win for two times in the last four years the Italian Cup achieving most victories than any other italian team in the last 48 months.

In 2018 we will face new challenges with a roster that will be leaded by two symbolic men of the italian cycling, Filippo Pozzato and Jakub Mareczko.

About Israeli Cycling Academy: 

Israel Cycling Academy was founded in December 2014 in Jerusa-lem as Israel’s  first professional cycling team, with a clear vision to help Israeli cycling and to  bring young cyclists, especially Israe-lis, to the top levels of the sport. The 2017  season was the team’s first in the Pro Continental ranks and in 2018 the team raced  in its first Grand tour-The Historic Giro D’italia-which started in Jeru-salem. The  team has recorded dozens of wins in UCI races all over the world and it carries 24  riders from 16 different nationalities. ICA sees its role beyond cycling. All its rider  were nominated as Ambassadors Of peace by the Shimon Peres centre of peace. Its the only team in cycling that carries the symbolic of peace - A pigeon with an olive  branch - on its Jerseys.