Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team
Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team
A Legacy Based on Talent
Le talent brut ne suffit pas. Les aptitudes naturelles de tout cycliste doivent être cultivées et développées dans la bonne direction. Et lorsque se présente l’occasion de performer, l’athlète doit pouvoir compter sur le soutien de son équipe.
Et c’est justement là qu’excelle le Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team : il offre aux jeunes cyclistes le cadre idéal pour développer leurs aptitudes naturelles. Le Team prend la progression des athlètes très au sérieux — et force est de constater que sa démarche porte ses fruits.
14 ans, 100 cyclistes, 41 contrats de WorldTour : la réussite en héritage
Fondé en 2009 par Axel Merckx (fils d’Eddy Merckx), le Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team est sans doute la meilleure équipe de développement au monde aujourd’hui. Avec plus de 41 contrats de WorldTour au compteur, la liste des anciens de l’équipe est impressionnante. On y retrouve les noms de cyclistes de premier plan, tels qu’Eddie Dunbar, Neilson Powless, Tao Geoghegan Hart et Joao Almeida.
Un engagement en faveur de l’avenir
La performance résulte de l’interaction complexe de plusieurs composants. Et l’un des plus déterminants de ces composants réside, bien entendu, dans la capacité du vélo à performer au plus haut niveau.
Le Hagens Berman Axeon Cycling Team enfourchera notre vélo le plus légers et le plus rapides, le Teammachine SLR.
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.
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.
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