Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team

Hagens Berman Axeon added Kasper Anderson as the first signing of the 2022 season. The 2020 Junior European Road Race champion joined Axeon from the Danish Continental team ColoQuick.

The 2023 signing season was one of the team’s biggest and included the 2022 Cyclocross Junior World Champion, Jan Christen.

No stranger to adding champions or Kiwis to its roster, the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team added both in 2022 with the addition of Jack Drage, the 2021 New Zealand U23 Road Race champion. Jack joined Axeon from Groupama-FDJ Equipe continentale.

The now 21-year-old from Decatur, Georgia was the third rider to leave the junior ranks for Axeon in 2020 after a successful beginning at LUX Development Cycling Team. In addition to the general classification win at L’Abitibi in 2019 (where he won stage 1 as well as stage 3’s ITT), he won the Cat 1/2 GC at Tour of the Gila and was 1st place at Tour of the Southern Highlands JR. Garrison earned 4th place finishes at Junior Paris Roubaix and SPIE Internationale Juniorendriedaagse (GC). He is clearly following in the footsteps of brother Ian Garrison (who at the end of 2019 departed for World Tour team Deceuninck–Quick-Step), showing early on that he has great ability in the time trial and placed 3rd at Amateur Nationals.

Arguably, The Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team had no bigger signing for the 2023 season than that of the 2022 junior road race world champion, Emil Herzog. Emil joined the Axeon squad from Team Auto Eder.

Not since Jonny Brown was crowned USA Pro Road Race National Champion in 2018 has a rider on the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team worn the Stars and Stripes champs jersey on the road. That changed for the 2023 season after 2022 U23 Road Race National Champion Cooper Johnson was added to the roster. Cooper joined Axeon from Aevolo Cycling.

After almost a decade of developing some of the best cycling talent from Portugal in the under 23 ranks, the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team added 2022 double junior national champion Antonio Morgado to its 2023 lineup. Antonio joined Axeon from the Bairrada Cycling Team.

Had Dries de Pooter not graduated to the World Tour after the 2022 season, Hagens Berman Axeon would have had two Belgian riders on the team at the same time with the signing of Maxence Place, something that has only happened once in its history (2012- Jasper De Buyst and Jasper Stuyven). Max joined the Axeon squad from AG2R Citroën U19 Team.

In 2022, the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team was excited to announce the addition of Darren Rafferty, nine-time Irish National Champion across four disciplines: road race, time trial, mountain, and cyclo-cross at the end of the 2021 season. Darren joined the Axeon squad from Team31 JollyCycles U19.

The first signing of the 2023 season for the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team that sparked an exciting look at the upcoming season was Artem Schmidt. Artem joined Axeon from the Hot Tubes Development Cycling Team.

The Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team continued its tradition of developing young riders from Portugal and was excited to announce the addition of Gonçalo Tavares to the 2023 roster. Gonçalo joined Axeon from the Bairrada Cycling Team.

Nino de Jong began the transition to joining the Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team on August 24, 2022, when he made his stagiaire debut at Druivenkoers Overijse. Nino joined the team from JEGG-DJR Academy.