Joker Icopal

Joker Icopal
Team information
UCI code TJI
Registered Norway
Founded 2005 (2005)
Discipline Road
Status Continental
Key personnel
General manager Birger Hungerholdt
Team manager(s) Gino van Oudehove
Team name history
2005–2007
2008–2010
2011–2013
2014–2016
2016
2017–
Maxbo–Bianchi
Joker–Bianchi
Joker–Merida
Team Joker
Team Joker–Byggtorget
Joker Icopal

Joker Icopal (UCI team code: TJI) is a UCI Continental cycling team based in Norway. [1] The team is managed by Birger Hungerholdt with assistance from directeur sportifs Gino van Oudehove and Anders Linnestad. The team has had well known ryders, including Alexander Kristoff who rode for the team from 2007-2009,[2] and Edvald Boasson Hagen who joined the team in 2006 Maxbo–Bianchi and in his first season in the continental circuits he took eight wins including three stages of the Tour de l'Avenir.[3]

Team roster

Rider Date of birth
 Vegard Breen (NOR) (1990-02-08) 8 February 1990
 Ole Forfang (NOR) (1995-03-22) 22 March 1995
 Tobias Foss (NOR) (1997-05-25) 25 May 1997
 Carl Fredrik Hagen (NOR) (1991-09-26) 26 September 1991
 Kristoffer Halvorsen (NOR) (1996-04-13) 13 April 1996
 Markus Hoelgaard (NOR) (1994-10-04) 4 October 1994
Rider Date of birth
 Bjørn Tore Hoem (NOR) (1991-04-12) 12 April 1991
 Iver Knotten (NOR) (1998-12-17) 17 December 1998
 Anders Skaarseth (NOR) (1995-05-07) 7 May 1995
 Kristoffer Skjerping (NOR) (1993-05-04) 4 May 1993
 Adrian Aas Stien (NOR) (1992-10-28) 28 October 1992
 Rasmus Fossum Tiller (NOR) (1996-07-28) 28 July 1996

Major results

2006
1st  Norway Road Race Championships, Lars Petter Nordhaug
1st Stage 4 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stages 1 & 5 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st GP Möbel Alvisse, Gabriel Rasch
1st Stage 3 Flèche du Sud, Christopher Myhre
1st Overall Ringerike GP, Gabriel Rasch
1st Stage 3, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Scandinavian Open Road Race, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stages 2, 5 & 7 Tour de l'Avenir, Edvald Boasson Hagen
2007
1st  Norway Time Trial Championships, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st  Norway Road Race Championships, Alexander Kristoff
1st Overall Istrian Spring Trophy, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Prologue, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, Gabriel Rasch
1st Stage 3, Gabriel Rasch
1st Stages 1 & 6 Tour de Bretagne, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Overall Ringerike GP, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Overall Paris–Corrèze, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stages 1 & 2, Edvald Boasson Hagen
1st Stage 4 Tour of Ireland, Edvald Boasson Hagen
2008
1st Stage 7 Tour de Bretagne, Frederik Wilmann
1st Stage 2 Olympia's Tour, Joachim Bohler
1st Stage 3 Ringerike GP, Joachim Bohler
1st Stage 4 Ringerike GP, Alexander Kristoff
2009
1st Porec Trophy, Ole Haavardsholm
1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie, Lars Petter Nordhaug
1st Stage 3 Ringerike GP, Alexander Kristoff
1st Stage 4 Ringerike GP, Sondre Sortveit
1st Stage 5 Ringerike GP, Stian Remme
1st Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Frederik Wilmann
1st Overall Mi-Août Bretonne, Frederik Wilmann
1st Stage 3 Tour of Ireland, Lars Petter Nordhaug
2010
1st Overall Ringerike GP, Christer Rake
1st Stage 4, Christer Rake
2011
1st Rogaland GP, Frederik Wilmann
1st Stage 5 Tour of Norway, Christer Rake
1st Stage 2 Tour of China, Adrian Gjolberg
2012
1st  Norway Time Trial Championships, Reidar Borgersen
2013
1st Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes, Team time trial
1st Ringerike GP, Reidar Borgersen
1st Overall Ronde de l'Oise, Vegard Breen
1st Gooikse Pijl, Vegard Bugge
2014
1st  Norway Time Trial Championships, Reidar Borgersen
1st Arno Wallaard Memorial, Edvin Wilson
1st Overall Okolo Jiznich Cech, Reidar Borgersen
1st Stage 2 (ITT), Reidar Borgersen
1st Duo Normand, Reidar Borgersen & Truls Korsaeth
2015
1st Stage 3 Tour de Normandie, Daniel Hoelgaard
1st Stage 3 Tour de Normandie, Bjørn Hoem
1st Stage 1 Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, Adrian Stien
1st Stage 5 Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, Daniel Hoelgaard
1st Stage 3 Ronde de l'Oise, Vegard Stake Laengen
1st Overall Tour Alsace, Vegard Stake Laengen
1st Stage 1, Bjørn Hoem
1st Stage 3, Vegard Stake Laengen
2016
1st Overall Tour de Gironde, Amund Grøndahl
1st Stage 1, Truls Engen Korsaeth
1st Stage 2, Amund Grøndahl
1st Stage 3, Adrian Aas Stien
1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues, Kristoffer Halvorsen
1st Stages 3b & 4 Olympia's Tour, Kristoffer Halvorsen
1st UCI U23 World Road Race Championships, Kristoffer Halvorsen
2017
1st Handzame Classic, Kristoffer Halvorsen
1st Stage 1 Circuit des Ardennes International, Markus Hoelgaard
1st  Norway Road Race Championships, Rasmus Tiller
1st Stage 1 Tour Alsace, Markus Hoelgaard
1st Stage 3 Tour Alsace, Carl Fredrik Hagen

National Champions

2006
Norway Road Race Championships, Lars Petter Nordhaug
2007
Norway Time Trial Championships, Edvald Boasson Hagen
Norway Race Championships, Alexander Kristoff
2012
Norway Time Trial Championships, Reidar Borgersen
2014
Norway Time Trial Championships, Reidar Borgersen
2017
Norway Road Race Championships, Rasmus Tiller

References

  1. Alpers, Henrik (2014-10-28). "Stake Laengen tilbake til Norge – Skal sykle med gamle kjente i 2015" (in Norwegian). Landevei.no. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  2. Fredagsvik, Jarle (2014-10-28). "Team Joker har 2015-stallen klar" (in Norwegian). Procycling.no. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  3. "Cruising into the ProTour, Norwegian style". www.cyclingnews.com. 24 August 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
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