Casper Pedersen Explained
| Casper Pedersen |
| Fullname: | Casper Philip Pedersen |
| Birth Date: | 15 March 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Height: | 1.86 m |
| Weight: | 74 kg |
| Role: | Rider |
| Proyears1: | 2015–2016 |
| Proyears2: | 2017 |
| Proyears3: | 2018 |
| Proteam3: | [1] |
| Proyears4: | 2019–2022 |
| Proteam4: | [2] [3] [4] |
| Proyears5: | 2023– |
| Majorwins: | One-day races and Classics Paris–Tours (2020)
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| Show-Medals: | no |
Casper Philip Pedersen (born 15 March 1996) is a road and track cyclist from Denmark, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .[5]
In 2015, he competed at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the men's omnium. He won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships in Grenchen, Switzerland.[6] In September 2018, announced that Pedersen would join them on a three-year deal from 2019, initially with a role as a domestique in the Flanders classics and the team's sprint train.[7] In 2020, he won his first race with the team at Paris–Tours in a two-man sprint with Benoît Cosnefroy.[8] In 2023, he moved to, and won the Figueira Champions Classic that February.
Major results
Road
- 2014
2nd Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 2015
3rd Scandinavian Race Uppsala
- 2016
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
- 2017 (1 pro win)
1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships
1st GP Horsens
1st Stage 2 Flèche du Sud
2nd Fyen Rundt
2nd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
3rd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
1st Stage 1
10th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 2018
5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Young rider classification
- 2020 (1)
1st Paris–Tours
- 2021
6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 2023 (1)
1st Figueira Champions Classic
3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
4th Trofeo CalviaGrand Tour general classification results timeline
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Track
- 2013
3rd Omnium, UCI World Junior Championships
- 2014
1st Omnium, UCI World Junior Championships
3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, London
- 2015
3rd Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
- 2016
2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup, Hong Kong
- 2017
UCI World Cup
1st Team pursuit, Cali
2nd Madison, Los Angeles (with Julius Johansen)
2nd Team pursuit, Manchester
2nd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Niklas Larsen)Notes and References
- Web site: 2018 rider roster and first races confirmed. 1 January 2018. 5 January 2018. . Aqua Blue Sport Limited. https://web.archive.org/web/20180105233644/http://www.aquabluesport.com/blog/2018-team-first-races.html. 5 January 2018. dead.
- News: Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. 5 January 2019.
- Web site: Team Sunweb. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 3 January 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200103143329/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/13995/1000596/260. 3 January 2020.
- Web site: Team DSM. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 2 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210102003957/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15245/1000596/279. 2 January 2021.
- Web site: . Riders Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team . www.soudal-quickstepteam.com . en.
- Web site: Team pursuit results of 2015 UEC European Track Championships. 1 October 2015. Tissot timing.
- Web site: Ny kontrakt: Dansk cykeltalent skal med på Team Sunwebs sprinttog. 12 September 2018 . . Danish . New contract: Danish cycling talent will participate in Team Sunweb's sprints. 26 December 2018.
- Web site: Casper Pedersen wins Paris-Tours. Daniel. Ostanek. CyclingNews. 11 October 2020. 11 October 2020.
