Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling Belgian Training Camp: Day Two
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is in Ghent, Flanders, for the first training camp of the year, with the aim of welcoming the new riders to the black and orange team, and having some fun, along with the serious business of preparing for the season ahead. Any visit to Belgium runs the risk of falling foul of the weather, and today was to be one of those days. The forecast of a fine morning, with rain in the afternoon, proved to be just the opposite, with the day’s first activity turning into one of the wettest rides of the year. Jolien D’hoore flies...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Presented in Ghent, Thursday 26th
The 2015 Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling team will be presented to the World on Thursday, the 26th of February, in the city of Ghent, the capital of Flemish cycling. The black and orange team is currently spending one week training in the area, with team building activities and specific preparation for the upcoming Omloop Het Nieuwsblad very much on the agenda. The team’s media launch on Thursday will be the biggest event of the year – off the bike for the Wiggle Honda athletes and staff. It’s a major event for all the team’s members, valued...
read moreWiggle Honda Pro Cycling Belgian Training Camp: Day One
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is in Ghent, Flanders, for the first training camp of the year, with the aim of welcoming the new riders to the black and orange team, and having some fun, along with the serious business of preparing for the season ahead. Belgian Champion Jolien D’hoore leads her new Wiggle Honda teammates around her home roads The first order of the day was to welcome Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s latest World Champion, Australian Nettie Edmondson, who struck Gold in both the Team Pursuit and the Omnium at the UCI Track World...
read moreEdmonson takes a second Rainbow Jersey with World Championship Omnium Victory
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Nettie Edmondson won her second rainbow jersey of the 2015 UCI World Track Championships with a stunning victory in the six-race Omnium event. Having already won the World title with Australia in the Team Pursuit, the 23-year-old Adelaidean took the lead in the two-day competition after three of the six events, then utterly dominated the second day of the competition with victory in all three of the remaining races. Edmondson’s final total of 192 points was good enough to give her a massive 16-point cushion over...
read moreWorld Championship and World Record for Nettie Edmondson in Team Pursuit
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Nettie Edmondson won her first ever rainbow jersey at the 2015 UCI World Track Cycling Championships, at the Velodrome National, in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines on the outskirts of Paris. The 22-year-old Adelaidean was part of the Australian Team Pursuit quartet, along with Ashlee Ankudinoff, Amy Cure and Melissa Hoskins, that beat the Great Britain team of Katie Archibald, and former Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling riders Elinor Barker, Joanna Rowsell and Laura Trott. “Unbelievable!” Edmondson said to Cycling Australia...
read moreThree Wiggle Honda athletes to the UCI World Track Cycling Championships
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling will have three riders representing their countries at the 2015 UCI World Track Cycling Championships, which start on Wednesday, February 18th, at the French National Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, to the southwest of Paris. Olympic Bronze Medallist Nettie Edmondson will be part of the Australian Team Pursuit Squad, while both Edmondson and Belgian Jolien D’hoore will ride the Omnium competition. Italian former two-time Road World Champion Giorgia Bronzini will ride the Points Race, the event in which she...
read moreMayuko Hagiwara wins Silver Medal in Asian Championship Time Trial
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Mayuko Hagiwara won the Silver Medal in the Asian Cycling Championships Time Trial at the Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on Saturday. The ten-time Japanese Champion completed the 32.7km course – made up of three laps of a mostly-flat 11km circuit – in a time of 46 minutes, 32 seconds, which was just 30 seconds slower than Gold Medallist Na Ahreum of Korea, but more than a minute clear of Mongolia’s Enkhjargal Tuvshinjargal in third place. “I am a bit disappointed with...
read moreChloe Hosking so close to victory in Tour of Qatar final stage
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking came within less than half a wheel of winning the fourth and final stage of the 2015 Ladies’ Tour of Qatar, between the Sealine Beach Resort and the Doha Corniche, as she was narrowly beaten to the line by Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans). The two riders pulled clear of the rest of the sprinters, with both the stage and the race leader’s Gold Jersey at stake, and crossed the line side by side at the end of the 85km stage. Italian Barbara Guarischi (Velocio-SRAM) led the rest of the peloton home in...
read moreTime bonus hunt moves Chloe Hosking into the Tour of Qatar top three
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking moved herself into the top three overall of the 2015 Ladies’ Tour of Qatar, after successfully hunting time bonuses in the third stage between Souq Waqif and Al Khor Corniche. The Australian took first place at both of the 93km stage’s intermediate sprints to move to within one second of the overall lead, but unfortunately missed out at the finish as she was beaten into fourth place. Lizzie Armitstead (Boels-Dolmans) took the stage, ahead of Shelley Olds (Bigla), with Lucinda Brand (Rabobank-Liv) just...
read moreChloe Hosking fourth in Wind-Shattered Tour of Qatar second stage
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Chloe Hosking took fourth place in the second stage of the 2015 Tour of Qatar, between Al Zubarah Fort and Madinat Al Shamal on the very northern tip of the Qatari Peninsular, as familiar windy conditions returned to the desert race. The Australian was part of a six-rider lead group – along with Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Elisa Longo Borghini – which broke away from a larger group that had escaped at the very beginning of the 112km stage. Ellen van Dijk (Boels-Dolmans) won the stage with a powerful final...
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