Riwal Cycling Team

Riwal Cycling Team
Team information
UCI code	RIW
Registered	Himmerland, Denmark
Founded	2009
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI Continental (2009–2018, 2021–2023); UCI ProTeam (2019–2020);
Bicycles	Pinarello
Key personnel
General manager	Mogens Tveskov
Team manager(s)	Michael Skelde; Peter-Lee Jefferies;
Team name history
2009; 2010–2012; 2013; 2014; 2015–2017; 2018; 2019–2020; 2020; 2021–2022	Concordia–Vesthimmerland; Concordia Forsikring–Himmerland; Concordia Forsikring–Riwal; Riwal Cycling Team; Riwal Platform Cycling Team; Riwal CeramicSpeed Cycling Team; Riwal–Readynez Cycling Team; Riwal Securitas Cycling Team; Riwal Cycling Team

Riwal Cycling Team was a Danish UCI Continental cycling team based in Himmerland.^[1] Riwal participated in races in many countries around Europe. The team's most popular achievements have been the Danmark Rundt, the Olympia's Tour in the Netherlands and the Okolo Slovenska. The team had 10 full-time riders. Most of the team riders were Danish but also includes Swedish, Dutch and Norwegian members. The team had one sports manager and several freelancers. It was founded in 2009 and merged in 2023 with team Leopard Pro Cycling from Luxemburg, to form Leopard Riwal.^[2]

Team history edit

About 70 business partners support the Riwal Cycling Team by small and large sponsorships. The end of season 2013 Nikola Aistrup conquered the points in the first days of the Tour of Denmark and later he took second place in the final Post Cup department: The rider, who for years has been one of the backbones at Concordia Forsikring–Riwal has recently signed with the new team, which from 2014 ran under the Riwal name.

It was announced on 22 August 2020 that security company Securitas would step up as a co-name sponsor for the rest of the 2020 season.^[3]

Due to funding issues, the team decided it would return to being a UCI Continental team in 2021 to ensure its survival, after a two-year stint as a UCI ProTeam.^[4]

Team roster edit

As of 15 February 2022.^[5]

	Rider	Date of birth
Loïc Bettendorff (LUX)		(2001-04-28) 28 April 2001 (age 22)
Mathias Bregnhøj (DEN)		(1995-11-11) 11 November 1995 (age 28)
Martijn Budding (NED)		(1995-08-31) 31 August 1995 (age 28)
Jacob Eriksson (SWE)		(1999-10-01) 1 October 1999 (age 24)
Lucas Eriksson (SWE)		(1996-04-10) 10 April 1996 (age 27)
Christoffer Lisson (DEN)		(1995-11-28) 28 November 1995 (age 28)

	Rider	Date of birth
Morten Aalling Nørtoft (DEN)		(2002-09-05) 5 September 2002 (age 21)
Elmar Reinders (NED)		(1992-03-14) 14 March 1992 (age 32)
Alexander Salby (DEN)		(1998-06-04) 4 June 1998 (age 25)
Kasper Viberg Søgaard (DEN)		(2001-09-12) 12 September 2001 (age 22)
Emil Vinjebo (DEN)		(1994-03-24) 24 March 1994 (age 30)
Søren Vosgerau (DEN)		(2000-03-16) 16 March 2000 (age 24)