Edmondson and Hosking go one-two in Santos Tour Criterium Stage
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Nettie Edmondson and Chloe Hosking finished the second, criterium stage of the Santos Women’s Tour in first and second places in an exciting 40-minute race around Rymill Park, in downtown Adelaide, South Australia. Double Track World Champion Edmondson was expertly led into the finishing straight by Hosking, who managed to hold off the attentions of Lizzie Williams (Orica-AIS) on the line. “I’ve had quite a few thirds here, and I’ve actually finished third to Chloe and Rochelle [Gilmore, Wiggle High5 Procycling Team...
read moreDani King takes third place in Santos Women’s Tour opener
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s Dani King took third place in the opening stage of the Santos Women’s Tour in Mount Torrens, just west of Adelaide, South Australia. The 2012 Olympic Champion was part of a group of five riders that escaped the peloton in the last of five laps of the rolling 19km circuit, and was only just beaten by American sprinter Shelley Olds (Cylance) in the dash for second, after the stage had been taken by a late surge from Australian time trial champion Katrin Garfoot (Orica-AIS). Local rider, Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling’s...
read moreWiggle High5 ready to kick off 2016 at Santos Women’s Tour
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling is ready to get the 2016 UCI road season started at the Santos Women’s Tour in Adelaide, South Australia, this weekend. The second edition of the four-day stage race has been elevated to a 2.2 ranking in the UCI Women’s Elite calendar, and will be run concurrently with parts of the men’s WorldTour race, the Santos Tour Down Under. The black and orange team’s three Australians will be present on the start line, as double World Champion Nettie Edmondson takes a break from her track preparations to join Peta Mullens and...
read moreWiggle Honda Becomes Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling In 2016!
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling becomes Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling for 2016 as the team’s long-standing nutrition partner High5 steps up its commitment to the team to become co-sponsor. Wiggle, the world’s leading online cycling and tri-sports retailer, returns to support the team for a fourth season, which will begin the year at Number One in the International Cycling Union (UCI) rankings. As co-sponsor since 2012, Honda has been an important supporter of the team from its inception, and will continue its association with Wiggle High5; supporting the...
read moreD’hoore sweeps Belgian Track Champs; Cordon-Ragot wins in the mud
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling’s Jolien D’hoore took a clean sweep of titles in the Belgian Individual Track Championships at the Vlaamse Wielercentrum Eddy Merckx, in Ghent, East Flanders, this weekend, taking a total of four driekleur jerseys. Meanwhile, in Brittany, western France, National Time Trial Champion Audrey Cordon-Ragot has been riding her new Colnago Prestige cyclocross bike to victory in the mud of her home region. “I’m very pleased with my racing this past weekend,” D’hoore said. “It’s always good for the confidence to...
read moreMara Abbott completes Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling line up for 2016
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is delighted to announce that the team’s 2016 roster will be completed by Mara Abbott, who has renewed her contract for a second year. The former US National Champion, and two-time Giro d’Italia winner came close to taking a third victory in women’s cycling’s Grand Tour in 2015, and this will be her main focus in the coming season. “I am really grateful to have the opportunity to stay with the team and honoured to be able to say that I was a part of such a successful year,” Abbott said. “It is pretty special that so...
read moreTwo more years at Wiggle Honda for Spanish Champion Anna Sanchis
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is happy to announce that Anna Sanchis will be part of the team for another two years. The Spanish Champion has been with the black and orange squad since 2014 and, despite suffering bad luck with illness and injury, has shown herself to be one of the classiest riders in the women’s peloton. “I’m very excited to stay on the Wiggle Honda team for the next two years,” Sanchis said. “I feel our team is like a family and for me it’s the best environment to arrive at my goals. “I especially want to thank our...
read moreChloe Hosking and Peta Mullens renew with Wiggle Honda in 2016
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is delighted to confirm that both Chloe Hosking and Peta Mullens will be part of the black and orange squad in 2016. The two Australians were important parts of the team this year, in very different ways, and both will be supported in the coming year as they continue to aim for entirely different targets. “I’m really happy to re-sign with Wiggle Honda for 2016,” Hosking said. “2015 has been a fantastic season for the team and I was really happy to have been a part of what was the team’s most successful...
read moreChampion System is new race and casual apparel supplier for Wiggle Honda
December 10, 2015 – Hong Kong, Champion System announced today their official race and casual apparel partnership with the Wiggle Honda Women’s Professional Cycling Team, the most successful woman’s cycling team in 2015. Champion System will supply the team with their full race clothing requirements, utilising their premium women’s specific cycling range. Sister brand, Ligne 8 will supply after race clothing providing a premium, stylish fashion brand, for the first time. “Champion System are proud and honored to be working...
read moreNettie Edmondson renews with Wiggle Honda as she targets the Track in Rio 2016
Wiggle Honda Pro Cycling is proud to announce that double Track World Champion Annette Edmondson will remain part of the black and orange squad as she aims for Gold in the velodrome of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The 23-year-old from Adelaide, South Australia proudly showed off her rainbow bands in this weekend’s Track World Cup, in Cambridge, New Zealand, where she took a Gold Medal as part of the Australian Team Pursuit squad, and a Silver Medal in the Omnium, ahead of Belgian Champion teammate Jolien D’hoore. “I’m very excited to be...
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