WiV SunGod
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| Team information | |
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| UCI code | DHB |
| Registered | United Kingdom |
| Founded | 2017 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
| Status | UCI Continental |
| Bicycles | Canyon |
| Website | Team home page |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Tim Elverson[1] |
| Team name history | |
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021– | Bike Channel–Canyon Canyon Eisberg Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes Canyon dhb p/b Soreen Canyon dhb SunGod |
WiV SunGod is a British UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2017 by sports director Tim Elverson.[2]
Team history[]
The team formed as Bike Channel–Canyon in 2017. On 1 January 2018 the team announced that Eisberg had stepped up their sponsorship in order to allow the team to function after Bike Channel went into administration.[3]
The team have enjoyed two hugely successful seasons. Some of the highlights of their 2018 campaign include: Harry Tanfield winning stage one of the Tour de Yorkshire, which led to him being signed by World Tour team Team Katusha–Alpecin. The team won the overall title in the Tour Series the UK's premier circuit racing championship. Charlie Tanfield became a world champion in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships team pursuit and won a gold medal in the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games. He was also crowned British under-23 time trial champion on the road. Ryan Christensen, Max Stedman and Charlie Tanfield were selected to race at the under-23 UCI Road World Championships in Austria, the latter in the time trial. At the Tour of Britain, the team recorded three top-10 stage finishes, Max Stedman was 20th in the general classification and Alex Paton won the Eisberg sprints jersey.
2019 was another successful year for the team with multiple podiums in the UK and Europe. Some highlights included winning the Tour Series overall title for a second year running, a top 10 in the Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Britain, as well as the Eisberg sprints jersey at the Tour of Britain for the second time.
In December 2020, Elverson announced that the team had acquired sponsorship from British sunglasses maker SunGod and that the team name for the 2021 racing season would become Canyon dhb SunGod.[4]
Team roster[]
- As of 6 February 2021.[5]
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Major results[]
- 2017
- Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
- Stage 1, Harry Tanfield
- Stage 2, Max Stedman
- 2018
- Stage 1 Tour de Yorkshire, Harry Tanfield
- Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
- Stage 2, Max Stedman
- Eisberg Sprints Jersey Winner Tour of Britain,
- 2019
- Arno Wallaard Memorial, Alexandar Richardson
- Stage 3 Tour de la Mirabelle, Daniel Pearson
- Stage 4 Tour de la Mirabelle, Alexandar Richardson
- Sprints classification Tour of Britain, Rory Townsend
- Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Fuzhou, Rory Townsend
- 2020
- Tour of Antalya, Max Stedman
- 2021
- Stage 1 Tour de la Mirabelle, Rory Townsend
- 2022
- Stage 1b Olympia's Tour, Matthew Gibson
- Stage 4 Olympia's Tour,
National, continental, world and Olympic champions[]
- 2018
British U23 Time Trial, Charlie Tanfield
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships Charlie Tanfield- Commonwealth Games
Individual pursuit Charlie Tanfield
References[]
- ^ "Bike Channel and Canyon join forces for British-registered Continental team". cyclingnews.com. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ "Bike Channel–Canyon". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ "Eisberg step up as headline partner". January 2018.
- ^ Bonville-Ginn, Tim (1 December 2020). "'I'm fully expecting to put 2020 behind us': Canyon-dhb announce new title sponsor for 2021". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "Canyon dhb SunGod". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
External links[]
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