Liv Racing–Xstra

Liv Racing–Xstra

Team presentation before the start of the first stage of the 2019 Boels Ladies Tour
Team information
UCI code	DSB (2005–2008) ARC (2009–2010) NLB (2011) RBW (2012–2016) WM3 (2017) WAD (2018) CCC (2019–2020) LIV (2021–)
Registered	Netherlands (2005–2019, 2021–) Poland (2020)
Founded	2005
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Women's Team (2007–2019) UCI Women's WorldTeam (2020–present)
Bicycles	Colnago (2005–2008) Giant (2009–2016) Ridley (2017–2018) Liv (2019–present)
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager
Team manager(s)	Lars Boom Hugo Brenders
Team name history
2005 2006 2007–2008 2009 2010–2011 2012 2012 2013 2014–2016 2017 2017 2018 2019–2020 2021 2022–	DSB Bank DSB Bank–Ballast Nedam DSB–Bank DSB Bank–LTO Nederland Bloeit Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team Rabobank Women Cycling Team Rabobank–Liv Giant Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team Fortitude Pro Cycling[N 1][1] WM3 Pro Cycling WaowDeals Pro Cycling CCC Liv Team Liv Racing Liv Racing–Xstra

Liv Racing–Xstra (UCI code: LIV) is a women's professional cycling team, based in the Netherlands. The title sponsor is Liv, a sub-brand of Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer Giant Bicycles. The team's directeur sportif is Eric van den Boom. Riders for Liv Racing compete in the UCI Women's World Tour and other Elite Women's Cycling events throughout the world.

History of the team[]

2009[]

2012[]

The team's first win of the season came in the Ronde van Drenthe where Marianne Vos claimed victory. The team's first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, again being won by Vos, along with a stage; Annemiek van Vleuten also won the prologue and a stage. Vos went on to win 5 stages of the 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile, as well as the General classification. Vos followed this by winning the General classification of the Tour Féminin en Limousin. Vos continued her strong run of wins claiming the 2012 Olympic Games road race in London. The final wins for the team came at the Holland Ladies Tour where Vos won the General classification and took two stage wins. Vos later won the 2012 UCI World Championship road race.

2013[]

Marianne Vos opened the team's account securing victory in the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship. The team's first road win of the season came at the Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo, with Vos claiming victory. Vos went on to win the Ronde van Drenthe and Tour of Flanders. Like the previous season the first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, with Vos winning the General classification, Points classification and taking a stage win. Like the previous year, Annemiek van Vleuten won the opening prologue. Vos continued her winning streak in one day races taking out wins in the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg and Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria. Vos failed to retain her 2013 Giro title, losing to Mara Abbott, but did claim the Points classification and three stages. Vos also claimed overall victory in Trophée d'Or Féminin

2014[]

The 2014 season marked a different start to the season for the team. Marianne Vos started her road season late, leaving the team to support other riders in the opening races of the year. Lucinda Brand won the team's first General classification of the year at the Energiewacht Tour. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine with Anna van der Breggen claiming victory at the Dwars door de Westhoek. Van der Breggen then claimed overall victory at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs with Vos winning the Points classification and Ferrand-Prévot taking both the Mountains and Young rider classifications. Vos then claimed overall victory at the inaugural Women's Tour in Great Britain. The team won further races at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira for Ferrand-Prevot and the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile for Vos. Vos followed this up by winning the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France.

2015[]

In January the team scored first and third in the UCI World Cyclo-cross championships, with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Marianne Vos respectively. This was the year that saw Vos in recovery mode taking most of the year off due to injury.^[2][3] In the first European road race of the season, the Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the team rode very strongly. With 30 kilometres (19 miles) to go, Anna van der Breggen escaped together with Ellen van Dijk (Boels–Dolmans) from a front group of 15 riders on the Molenberg. The duo extended their advantage over the cobbled sections that followed, holding off the chase group to the line, where van der Breggen won the two-up sprint.^[4]

In December 2015 Rabobank announced that it would end its sponsorship of professional sport at the end of 2016, forcing the team to find a new sponsor.^[5]

2016[]

In November 2016 the team announced that it would be known as WM3 Pro Cycling in 2017, signing a five-year sponsorship deal with WM3 Energie, a company based in the Netherlands. The team replaced Rabo–Liv, whose sponsorship ceased at the end of 2016.^[6]

Marianne Vos led the roster that included Anouska Koster, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, Valentina Scandolara, Yara Kastelijn, Jeanne Korevaar, Moniek Tenniglo, Rotem Gafinovitz, Anna Plichta, Lauren Kitchen and Riejanne Markus.

2017[]

Marianne Vos started the year riding in Cyclo-Cross competitions winning eight of the twelve races she entered. She won the 2017 Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships for the sixth time.^[7][8] She placed second at the 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Bieles, Luxembourg on January 28.^[9]

In October, the team announced that WaowDeals would join the team as naming-sponsor, with WM3 remaining with the team as a secondary sponsor after agreeing a five-year deal with the team in the winter of 2016.^[10]

Team roster[]

As of 16 February 2021.^[11][12]

Rider Date of birth  Sofia Bertizzolo (ITA) (1997-08-21) 21 August 1997 (age 24)  Valerie Demey (BEL) (1994-01-17) 17 January 1994 (age 28)  Alison Jackson (CAN) (1988-12-14) 14 December 1988 (age 33)  Marta Jaskulska (POL) (2000-03-25) 25 March 2000 (age 21)  Lotte Kopecky (BEL) (1995-11-10) 10 November 1995 (age 26)  Jeanne Korevaar (NED) (1996-09-24) 24 September 1996 (age 25)

Rider Date of birth  Evy Kuijpers (NED) (1995-02-15) 15 February 1995 (age 26)  Ayesha McGowan[N 2] (USA) (1987-04-02) 2 April 1987 (age 34)  Soraya Paladin (ITA) (1993-05-04) 4 May 1993 (age 28)  Pauliena Rooijakkers (NED) (1993-05-12) 12 May 1993 (age 28)  Sabrina Stultiens (NED) (1993-07-08) 8 July 1993 (age 28)

Major wins[]

National, continental, world and Olympic champions[]

Team Ranking[]

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website