WM3 Pro Cycling

WM3 Pro Cycling

Team information
UCI code	WM3
Registered	Netherlands
Founded	2005
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI Women's Team
Bicycles	Colnago (2005–2008) Giant (2009–2016) Ridley (2017–)
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Eric van den Boom
Team manager(s)	Jeroen Blijlevens
Team name history
2005 2006 2007–2008 2009 2010–2011 2012 2012 2013 2014–2016 2017–	DSB Bank DSB Bank–Ballast Nedam DSB–Bank DSB Bank–LTO Nederland Bloeit Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team Rabobank Women Cycling Team Rabobank–Liv Giant Rabo–Liv Women Cycling Team WM3 Pro Cycling[N 1][1]

WM3 Pro Cycling (UCI Code: WM3) is a women's professional cycling team, based in the Netherlands. The title sponsor is WM3 Energie, a Dutch company focused on the sustainability of energy resources. The team's directeur sportif is Jeroen Blijlevens. Riders for WM3 Pro Cycling compete in the UCI Women's WorldTour and other Elite Women's Cycling events throughout the world.

History of WM3 Pro Cycling

2009

2012

The team's first win of the season came in the Ronde van Drenthe where Marianne Vos claimed victory. The teams first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, again being won by Marianne Vos – along with a stage – Annemiek van Vleuten also won the prologue and a stage. Marianne Vos went on to win 5 stages of the 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile, as well as the General classification. Vos followed this by winning the General classification of the Tour Féminin en Limousin. Vos continued her strong run of wins claiming the 2012 Olympic Games road race in London. The final wins for the team came at the Holland Ladies Tour where Vos won the General classification and took two stage wins. Vos later won the 2012 UCI World Championship road race.

2013

Marianne Vos opened the teams account securing victory in the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship. The teams first road win of the season came at the Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo, with Vos claiming victory. Vos went on to win the Ronde van Drenthe and Tour of Flanders. Like the previous season the first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, with Vos winning the General classification, Points classification and taking a stage win. Like the previous year, Annemiek van Vleuten won the opening prologue. Vos continued her winning streak in one day races taking out wins in the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg and Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria. Vos failed to retain her 2013 Giro title, losing to Mara Abbott, but did claim the Points classification and three stages. Vos also claimed overall victory in Trophée d'Or Féminin

2014

The 2014 season marked a different start to the season for the team. Marianne Vos started her road season late, leaving the team to support other riders in the opening races of the year. Lucinda Brand won the team's first General classification of the year at the Energiewacht Tour. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the La Flèche Wallonne Féminine with Anna van der Breggen claiming victory at the Dwars door de Westhoek. van der Breggen then claimed overall victory at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs with Marianne Vos winning the Points classification and Ferrand-Prévot taking both the Mountains and Young rider classification. Vos then claimed overall victory at the inaugural Women's Tour of Britain. The team won further race General classifications with overall victory at the Emakumeen Euskal Bira for Ferrand-Prevot and the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile for Vos. Vos followed this up by winning the inaugural La Course by Le Tour de France.

2015

In January the team scored 1st and 3rd in the UCI World Cyclo-cross championships, with Ferrand-Prevot and Vos respectively. This was the year that saw Marianne Vos in recovery mode taking most of the year off due to injury.^[2][3] In the first European road race of the season, the Omloop het Nieuwsblad, the team rode very strongly. With 30 km to go Anna van der Breggen escaped together with Ellen van Dijk (Boels–Dolmans) from a front group of 15 riders on the Molenberg. The duo extended their advantage over the cobbled sections that followed, holding off the chase group to the line, where Van der Breggen won the two-up sprint.^[4]

In December 2015 Rabobank announced that it would end its sponsorship of professional sport at the end of 2016, forcing the team to find a new sponsor.^[5]

2016

In November 2016 the team announced that it would be known as WM3 Pro Cycling in 2017 signing a five-year sponsorship deal with WM3 Energie a company based in the Netherlands. The team replaces Rabobank Liv, whose sponsorship ceased at the end of 2016.^[6][7]

Marianne Vos will lead the roster that includes Anouska Koster, Kasia Niewiadoma, Valentina Scandolara, Yara Kastelijn, Jeanne Korevaar, Moniek Tenniglo, Rotem Gafinovitz, Anna Plichta, Lauren Kitchen and Riejanne Markus.

2017

Marianne Vos started the year riding in Cyclo-Cross competitions winning eight of the twelve races she entered. She won the 2017 Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships for the sixth time.^[8][9] She placed second at the 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Bieles, Luxembourg on January 28.^[10]

Major results

Olympic, World, Continental & National Champions

Team Ranking

Team roster

Rider Date of birth  Rotem Gafinovitz (ISR) (1992-06-09) 9 June 1992  Yara Kastelijn (NED) (1997-08-09) 9 August 1997  Lauren Kitchen (AUS) (1990-11-21) 21 November 1990  Jeanne Korevaar (NED) (1996-09-24) 24 September 1996  Anouska Koster (NED) (1993-08-20) 20 August 1993  Riejanne Markus (NED) (1994-09-01) 1 September 1994

Rider Date of birth  Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL) (1994-09-29) 29 September 1994  Anna Plichta (POL) (1992-02-10) 10 February 1992  Valentina Scandolara (ITA) (1990-05-01) 1 May 1990  Moniek Tenniglo (NED) (1988-05-02) 2 May 1988  Marianne Vos (NED) (1987-05-13) 13 May 1987

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

1. ↑ "2017 Season - UCI Women's Teams".