Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling
Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling (UCI team code: WHT) was a British professional cycling team based in Belgium, which competed in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events, such as the UCI Women's Road World Cup. The team closed at the end of 2018.
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| Team information | ||
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| UCI code | WHT | |
| Registered | Great Britain[1] | |
| Founded | 2012 | |
| Disbanded | 2018 | |
| Discipline(s) | Road | |
| Status | UCI Women's Team | |
| Bicycles | Colnago | |
| Key personnel | ||
| General manager | Rochelle Gilmore | |
| Team manager(s) | Allan Davis Kim Palmer | |
| Team name history | ||
2013–2015 2016–2018 | Wiggle–Honda Wiggle High5 Pro Cycling | |
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The team was the idea of the manager and rider Rochelle Gilmore,[2][3] and was formed with backing from the Bradley Wiggins Foundation and British Cycling.[2] The two main sponsors of the team are Wiggle and High5.[2]
Team History
2013
On 3 March the team achieved its first ever victory when Emily Collins won the Omloop van het Hageland one day race in Belgium. Collins Shelley Olds (Team TIBCO) and Emma Johansson (Orica-AIS) in a final sprint. On 18 May the team earned its first overall General classification win at the Tour of Zhoushan Island in China where Giorgia Bronzini took overall victory from the Hitec Products UCK pairing of Elisa Longo Borghini and Cecilie Gotaas Johnsen by 14 seconds and 1 minute 6 seconds respectively.[4] The team's second overall victory came at the 2013 La Route de France, where Linda Villumsen won stage 7 and in doing so took overall victory from Emma Johansson by 5 minutes 52 seconds.[5] The race will be remembered for the record breaking efforts of Bronzini who won six consecutive stages (1 – 6) breaking the all-time record for consecutive stage wins in a women’s stage racing and meaning that the team won all 7 road stages.[6] The team finished the season 5th in the UCI Rankings (1060 points) and 7th in the Women's World Cup rankings (166 points).[7]
On 23 August 2013 it was announced that reigning Swedish national road race champion, Emilia Fahlin, would be joining the team for the 2014 season.[8] Also joining the team for the 2014 season are Peta Mullens [9] and current Spanish National Time Trial champion, Anna Sanchis.[10] The team have also signed Joanne Tralaggan for the remainder of 2013.[11]
On 24 August 2013 it was announced that Lauren Kitchen would be leaving the team, joining Hitec Products UCK for the 2014 season.[12] Simon Cope left after Wiggle Honda's inaugural season to direct continental team Madison Genesis in 2014.
2014
The team took a total of 16 wins in 2014.[13]
On 3 July 2014 it was announced that the co-founder of Le Tour Entier, Kathryn Bertine, had been signed by the team to ride La Course by Le Tour de France.[14] On 15 October Jessica Mundy signed with the team with immediate effect[15] On 5 November 2014 the team announced the signing of Rebecca Wiasak for the remainder of 2014.[16]
On 30 September 2014 it was announced that Elisa Longo Borghini would join the team for 2015[17] with Dani King signing a contract extension. On 7 October the team announced the signing of, two-time Giro Rosa champion, Mara Abbott and Anna Christian for the 2015 season.[18] On the 10th of October, the team announced Team TIBCO–To The Top director Egon van Kessel would be taking on the role of the team's DS for 2015.[19] On 13 October 2014 Audrey Cordon and Jolien D'Hoore joined the team and on 22 October Annette Edmondson joined the team.[20] On 25 October 2014 the team announced the signing of current British National Criterium Champion, Eileen Roe with immediate effect and in time to compete in the Australian Criterium season.[21] On 27 October 2014 the team announced the signing of Chloe Hosking on a one-year contract with Emilia Fahlin signing an extension.[22] On 4 November 2014 Anna Sanchis and Amy Roberts signed one-year extensions.[23] On 6 November 2014, Wiggle Honda announced that Mayuko Hagiwara also extended her contract.[24] On 10 November 2014 Giorgia Bronzini signed a contract extension with the team for 2015.[25] On 4 December 2014 the team announced they had signed Georgia Baker for the remainder of 2014.[26]
On 8 September 2014 it was announced that Laura Trott would leave the team and join Matrix Fitness Pro Cycling and on 9 September 2014 it was reported that Linda Villumsen will leave the team to join the UnitedHealthcare Women's Team for the 2015 season.[27] On 30 September it was reported that Elinor Barker would leave to join Matrix Fitness–Vulpine with Joanna Rowsell leaving for Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International and on 1 October 2014 it was announced that Charlotte Becker would be leaving for Team Hitec Products.[28] On 30 October Beatrice Bartelloni left the team, joining Ale Cipollini for the 2015 season. On 23 November 2014 Anna Bianca Schnitzmeier retired. On 16 December 2014 Emily Collins announced she would leave the team via Twitter.[29]
2015
On 2 January Chloe Hosking scored the team's first win of the 2015 season by taking Stage 1 of the Bay Classic Series – this also marked Hoskings first victory since joining the team.[30] Hosking would then go onto the claim the overall win in the race, with Bronzini taking another stage win for the team. The team's next win came at the Omloop van het Hageland where current Belgian national champion and new signing – Jolien D'Hoore claimed her first win and the team's first on European soil. The team would then go onto an enjoy a rich run of results, with D'Hoore winning Boels Rental Ronde van Drenthe,[31] Bronzini claiming Acht van Westerveld,[32] new signing Audrey Cordon winning Cholet Pays de Loire Dames[33] and another new signing Elisa Longo Borghini winning the Tour of Flanders.[34] In April, D'Hoore went on to win the first stage of the Energiewacht Tour.[35]
Less than 24 hours after claiming the 2015 Australian National Road Race championship, the team announced they had re-signed Peta Mullens for the 2015 season.[36]
The team took a total of 35 wins in 2015, more than any other women's cycling team that year.[13] In August 2015, it was announced that Emma Johansson would join the team on a two-year deal for the 2016 season.[37] On 1 September 2015 the team announced that Amy Pieters would be joining them for the 2016 season,[38] followed shortly afterwards by the news that Lucy Garner was signed as well.[39]
2016
Donna Rae-Szalinski replaced Egon van Kessel as directeur sportif at Wiggle High5 mid-season through 2016, Donna coming in from directing Rochelle Gilmore's Australian NRS team High5 Dream Team.[40]
2017
At the end of 2017 the team saw large changes in the team members. Of the fifteen rider roster, three riders retiring Claudia Lichtenberg, Emma Johansson, and Anna Sanchis; and an additional four riders transferring out to other teams Giorgia Bronzini, Jolien D'Hoore, Mayuko Hagiwara, and Amy Roberts, as well as assistant directeur sportif Martin Vestby. Wiggle High5 would sign on eight new riders for 2018; Katie Archibald, Rachele Barbieri, Elinor Barker, Lisa Brennauer, Martina Ritter, Macey Stewart, Kirsten Wild, and Eri Yonamine.
2018
Wiggle High5 started 2018 with the one of the largest UCI Women's rosters, with eight returning riders and eight new signings. In between the end of the Australian summer races in January and the start of the European spring races at the end of February, it was revealed the team had terminated the employment of their head directeur sportif Donna Rae-Szalinski. Leaving the team also was technical director and then incoming DS Alex Greenfield, head mechanic Tim Haverals, and remaining soigneur Laura Weislo. The team brought in Allan Davis who had started working with new UCI Continental men's team Brisbane Continental Cycling Team in 2018, as Wiggle High 5's DS while legal proceedings are underway with Rae-Szalinski.[41][42] Ahead of taking her first duty at the Tour of Chongming Island at the end of April, the team announced Kim Palmer as incoming assistant directeur sportif; who like former DS Rae-Szalinski had led the now disbanded High5 Dream Team, and various Australian national team squads.[43][44]
With Cycling Australia pulling support for national development teams that were usually where Amy Gillett Foundation Cycling Scholarship recipients would race with, near the end of April it was announced that Grace Brown was selected as the 2018 scholarship holder and would start racing overseas with Wiggle High5 starting with the mid-May Tour of California.[45]
On 25 July 2018, Rochelle Gilmore announced that the team would not run in 2019 in an announcement video on their YouTube channel.[46][47]
The first departure of the team was Grace Brown, returning after her Amy Gillett Scholarship period to race domestically with Team Holden Gusto. As the largest UCI Women's team, and with the team shutting down by the end of the year, the first rider announcing their new team for 2019 was Elisa Longo Borghini.[48] Later in August, Hitec Products–Birk Sport announced Lucy Garner would be switching teams from Wiggle High5.[49] Then a week later, WNT–Rotor Pro Cycling announced both Kirsten Wild and Lisa Brennauer would join in 2019 on two year contracts.[50][51] In early September, FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope announced Emilia Fahlin would join the team for 2019.[52]
Team roster
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Major wins
- 2013
- Omloop van het Hageland, Emily Collins
- Classica Citta di Padova, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 1 GP Elsy Jacobs, Giorgia Bronzini
- Knokke-Heist - Bredene, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 2 Tour of Chongming Island, Giorgia Bronzini
- Championnat de Wallonie, Mayuko Hagiwara
- Moergestel Criterium, Lauren Kitchen
- Elveden Estate Cycle Race, Laura Trott
- Stage 1, Giorgia Bronzini
- Milk Race, Dani King
- Stage 2 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Giorgia Bronzini
- RideLondon GP, Laura Trott
- Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 7, Linda Villumsen
- Prologue, Linda Villumsen
- Stages 1, 3 & 6, Giorgia Bronzini
- International Belgian Open (3 km Time Trial), Joanna Rowsell
- Stage 1 Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Giorgia Bronzini
- Revolution series Manchester (Points race), Dani King
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Manchester (Team Pursuit) , Dani King, Joanna Rowsell, Laura Trott & Elinor Barker
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Manchester (Individual pursuit), Joanna Rowsell
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Manchester (Omnium), Laura Trott
- Copa Internacional de Pista (Scratch Race), Beatrice Bartelloni
- Overall NSW Grand Prix, Charlotte Becker
- Round 1, Lauren Kitchen
- Round 2, Peta Mullens
- Stan Siejka Classic, Lauren Kitchen
- 2014
- Teams classification
- Stages 1, 3 & 4, Giorgia Bronzini
- Unley Criterium, Peta Mullens
- Grand Prix de Dottignies, Giorgia Bronzini
- Wallonia Cup #3 (XCO), Peta Mullens
- Memorial Stefano e Diego Trovò, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 3 Tour of Chongming Island, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 1, Charlotte Becker
- Stage 3, Giorgia Bronzini
- Matrix Fitness GP Series – Redditch, Amy Roberts
- Hillingdon GP, Amy Roberts
- Overall Holme Valley Wheelers 2-day Stage race, Joanna Rowsell
- Stages 1 & 3, Laura Trott
- Prologue, Stages 1 & 2, Laura Trott
- Stage 2 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Giorgia Bronzini
- Fenioux Track Championships (Omnium), Laura Trott
- Fiorenzuola d Arda (Points race), Giorgia Bronzini
- Commonwealth Games Track Championships (Individual pursuit), Joanna Rowsell
- Commonwealth Games Track Championships (Points race), Laura Trott
- RideLondon Grand Prix, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 3 La Route de France, Giorgia Bronzini
- Combaitivity award Stage 2, Charlotte Becker
- Combaitivity award Stage 5, Charlotte Becker
- Stage 1, 4 & 6, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 2 (ITT), Linda Villumsen
- Caribbean Time Trial Championships, Kathryn Bertine
- Revolution Series Omnium (Round 1), Laura Trott
- Melbourne Kermesse, Peta Mullens
- Gent Track Championships, (Scratch race), Giorgia Bronzini
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup – Guadalajara, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker & Amy Roberts
- UCI Track Cycling World Cup – London, Laura Trott, Elinor Barker & Joanna Rowsell
- 2015
- Stage 1, Chloe Hosking
- Stage 4, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 3, Giorgia Bronzini
- Teams classification Ladies Tour of Qatar
- Omloop van het Hageland, Jolien D'Hoore
- Acht van Westerveld, Giorgia Bronzini
- Boels Rental Ronde van Drenthe, Jolien D'Hoore
- Cholet Pays de Loire Dames, Audrey Cordon
- Tour of Flanders, Elisa Longo Borghini
- Stage 1 Energiewacht Tour, Jolien D'Hoore
- Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg, Chloe Hosking
- La Classique Morbihan, Chloe Hosking
- Stage 2 Aviva Women's Tour, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stage 6, Mayuko Hagiwara
- Stage 9, Mara Abbott
- Team classification
- Stages 1, 2a (ITT) & 2b, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stage 3 Tour de Bretagne Féminin, Mayuko Hagiwara
- Stages 2 & 6, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stages 3 & 5, Elisa Longo Borghini
- Crescent Women World Cup Vargarda, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stages 1 & 2 Boels Rental Ladies Tour, Jolien D'Hoore
- 2016
- Stage 4 Ladies Tour of Qatar, Chloe Hosking
- Stage 2, Annette Edmondson
- Asian Cycling Championships - Time Trial, Mayuko Hagiwara
- Dwars door Vlaanderen, Amy Pieters
- Stages 1 & 2, Emma Johansson
- Stage 3, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stages 1 & 5, Mara Abbott
- Flanders Diamond Tour, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stages 1 & 8, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 3, Chloe Hosking
- Stage 5, Mara Abbott
- Stages 1, 3 & 4 (ITT), Jolien D'Hoore
- Prologue La Route de France, Amy Pieters
- Stage 3 La Route de France, Chloe Hosking
- Madrid Challenge By La Vuelta, Jolien D'Hoore
- 2017
- Omloop van het Hageland, Jolien D'Hoore
- Strade Bianche, Elisa Longo Borghini
- Pajot Hills Classic, Annette Edmondson
- Grand Prix de Dottignies, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stages 2 & 3, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stage 4 Tour of California, Giorgia Bronzini
- Stage 5, Jolien D'Hoore
- Stage 4, Jolien D'Hoore
- Prologue BeNe Ladies Tour, Annette Edmondson
- Stage 1 Ladies Tour of Norway, Jolien D'Hoore
- Prologue & Stage 2 Lotto Belisol Belgium Tour, Jolien D'Hoore
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- Chrono des Nations, Audrey Cordon
- 2018
- Stage 1 Santos Women's Tour, Annette Edmondson
- Towards Zero Race Melbourne, Annette Edmondson
- Stage 3a, Kirsten Wild
- Commonwealth Games
- Stage 3, Kirsten Wild
- Stage 1, Kirsten Wild
- Stage 4 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lisa Brennauer
- Stage 2 Giro Rosa, Kirsten Wild
- Team classification BeNe Ladies Tour
- Prologue, Katie Archibald
- Prudential RideLondon Classique, Kirsten Wild
- Stage 2, Elisa Longo Borghini
Team Ranking
| Season | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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| Women's World Cup | 7th (166 Pts) | 8th (310 Pts) | 2nd (1071 Pts) | Did not exist | |
| UCI Women's Ranking | 5th (1060 Pts) | 7th (1252 Pts) | 3rd (2735 Pts) | 3rd (3196 Pts) | 6th (2287 Pts) |
| Women's World Tour | Did not exist | 2nd (2245 pts) | 3rd (1824 Pts) | ||
National, continental and world champions
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
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