Specialized–lululemon

Team Specialized-lululemon

Team information
UCI code	SLU
Based	United States
Founded	2003 (2003)
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI Women's Team
Bicycles	2003–2008 Giant 2009–2011 Scott 2012– Specialized
Key personnel
General manager	Kristy Scrymgeour
Directeur sportif	Ronny Lauke Jens Zemke
Team name history
2003 2004–2007 2007–2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013–	Team T-Mobile Team T-Mobile Women Team High Road Women Team Columbia Women Team Columbia-High Road Women Team Columbia-HTC Women Team HTC-Columbia Women HTC-Highroad Women Team Specialized-lululemon Specialized-lululemon
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Specialized–lululemon (UCI Code: SLU) is a professional cycling team based in the United States that competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events. The title sponsors are Specialized Bicycle Components and lululemon athletica, a Canadian sports clothing company.

Before 2012, the team was owned by Bob Stapleton's High Road Sports and was known in 2011 as HTC-Highroad Women. Following HTC's withdrawal of sponsorship and the failure to find a replacement sponsor, a new company, Velocio Sports, directed by High Road's former Marketing and Communications officer Kristy Scrymgeour, was set up to own the team, but most of the riders and other staff remained the same. High Road also operated an elite men's professional team known most recently as HTC-Highroad, which disbanded.^[1][2]

Prior to 2008, the team was named T-Mobile Women. Columbia Sportswear were a title sponsor from July 2008 until the end of 2010.

Major Results

World, Continental & National Champions

Ellen van Dijk won the time trial at the 2009 European Road Championships

Team roster

As of 1 January 2014. Ages as of 1 January 2014.^[3]

Rider Date of birth  Chantal Blaak (NED) (1989-10-22)October 22, 1989 (aged 24)  Lisa Brennauer (GER) (1988-06-08)June 8, 1988 (aged 25)  Karol-Ann Canuel (CAN) (1988-04-18)April 18, 1988 (aged 25)  Tiffany Cromwell (AUS) (1988-07-06)July 6, 1988 (aged 25)  Elise Delzenne (FRA) (1989-01-28)January 28, 1989 (aged 24)  Loren Rowney (AUS) (1988-10-14)October 14, 1988 (aged 25)

Rider Date of birth  Carmen Small (USA) (1980-04-20)April 20, 1980 (aged 33)  Ally Stacher (USA) (1987-06-08)June 8, 1987 (aged 26)  Evelyn Stevens (USA) (1983-05-09)May 9, 1983 (aged 30)  Tayler Wiles (USA) (1989-07-20)July 20, 1989 (aged 24)  Trixi Worrack (GER) (1981-09-28)September 28, 1981 (aged 32)

Team Gallery

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  Ellen van Dijk showing her gold medal after the women's team time trial at the 2013 World Championships.

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  The team after winning the world title in the team time trial at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.

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  Team Specialized–lululemon on the podium after winning Stage 2 in the 2012 BrainWash Ladies Tour.

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  Team presentation before stage 5 of the 2013 Boels Rental Ladies Tour.

See also

• List of Team Specialized–lululemon riders

References

1. ↑ "Team Specialized lululemon resurrects High Road women's team". Cycling News. 4 October 2011. 
2. ↑ Atkins, Ben (3 October 2011). "HTC-Highroad women’s team to become Team Specialized lululemon". velonation.com. 
3. ↑ "UCI Women's Teams SPECIALIZED - LULULEMON (SLU) - USA". UCI. Retrieved 2 January 2014. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Team HTC-Columbia.

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• Official website

v t e UCI Road World Champions – Women's team time trial National teams 1987: Soviet Union (Kibardina, Jakovleva, Poliakova, Pogovitchaikova) 1988: Italy (Bandini, Bonanomi, Canins, Galli) 1989: Soviet Union (Kibardina, Poliakova, Zilporytė, Melekhina) 1990: Netherlands (Van Moorsel, Knol, Westland, Schop) 1991: France (Clignet, Gendron, Odin, Marsal) 1992: United States (Stephenson, Golay, Bolland, Bankaitis-Davis) 1993–1994: Russia (Sokolova, Bubnenkova, Polkhanova, Koliaseva) Trade teams 2012: Team Specialized–lululemon (Van Dijk, Becker, Neben, Stevens, Teutenberg, Worrack) 2013: Specialized–lululemon (Van Dijk, Brennauer, Stevens, Small, Colclough, Worrack)