Champion System

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Champion System

Team information

UCI code

CSS

Based

China

Founded

2010

Discipline

Road

Status

UCI Professional Continental

Bicycles

Fuji

Website

Team home page

Key personnel

Directeur sportif

Tim Meeusen

Team name history

2010
2011–

CKT TMIT-Champion System
Champion System

Jersey

Champion System Pro Cycling Team (UCI Team Code: CSS) is a UCI Professional Continental cycling team founded in 2010. It is based in China and it participates in UCI Professional Continental and UCI World Tour races.^[1] In an interview in October 2013 the team's general manager Ed Beamon announced that the team would disband at the end of the season due to its main sponsor withdrawing their support.^[2]

Team roster

As of 8 July 2013.^[3]

	Rider	Date of birth
Clinton Avery (NZL)		(1987-12-03) 3 December 1987
Zachary Bell (CAN)		(1982-11-14) 14 November 1982
Chad Beyer (USA)		(1986-08-15) 15 August 1986
Matt Brammeier (IRL)		(1985-06-07) 7 June 1985
Chris Butler (USA)		(1988-02-16) 16 February 1988
Feng Chun-kai (TPE)		(1988-11-02) 2 November 1988
Matthias Friedemann (GER)		(1984-08-17) 17 August 1984
Gregor Gazvoda (SLO)		(1981-10-15) 15 October 1981
Jang Chan-Jae (KOR)		(1989-01-06) 6 January 1989
Jiao Pengda (CHN)		(1986-02-13) 13 February 1986
Craig Lewis (USA)		(1985-01-10) 10 January 1985

	Rider	Date of birth
Liu Biao (CHN)		(1988-03-15) 15 March 1988
Ryota Nishizono (JPN)		(1987-09-01) 1 September 1987
Mart Ojavee (EST)		(1981-11-09) 9 November 1981
Muhamad Othman (MAS)		(1991-04-29) 29 April 1991
Ryan Roth (CAN)		(1983-01-10) 10 January 1983
Fabian Schnaidt (GER)		(1990-10-27) 27 October 1990
Tang Wang Yip (HKG)		(1984-06-05) 5 June 1984
Bobbie Traksel (NED)		(1981-11-03) 3 November 1981
Wu Kin San (HKG)		(1985-05-04) 4 May 1985
Xu Gang (CHN)		(1984-01-28) 28 January 1984

Major results

2011: 1st Stage 4 Tour de Korea, Jaan Kirsipuu; 1st Jurmala GP, Jaan Kirsipuu; 1st Estonia Road Race Championships, Mart Ojavee; 1st Stage 4 Tour of Hainan, Deon Locke
2012: 1st Prologue (ITT) Tour of Japan, Will Clarke; 1st Stage 2 Tour de Beauce, Craig Lewis
2013: 1st Stage 4 Tour de Taiwan, Zachary Bell; 1st Stage 6 Tour de Korea, Zachary Bell; 1st Canada Road Race Championships, Zachary Bell; 1st Ireland Road Race Championships, Matt Brammeier; 1st Taiwan Road Race Championships, Feng Chun-kai; 1st Taiwan Time Trial Championships, Feng Chun-kai

References

↑ "Champion System reveals 2012 team kit and sponsor list". Velonation.com. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
↑ Stokes, Shane (3 October 2013). "Ed Beamon Interview: Why Champion System is folding and what happens next". VeloNation. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
↑ "Champion System Pro Cycling Team (CSS) - CHN". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

External links

Official website

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See also	UCI World Tour 2014 UCI World Tour 2013–14 UCI Africa Tour 2013–14 UCI America Tour 2013–14 UCI Asia Tour 2014 UCI Europe Tour 2014 UCI Oceania Tour

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