Cylance Pro Cycling (women's team) explained

Cylance Pro Cycling
Code:	CPC
Registered:	United States
Disbanded:	2018
Generalmanager:	Manel Lacambra
Discipline:	Road
Status:	UCI Women's Team
Season:	2016–2018
Oldname:	Cylance Pro Cycling
Kitimage:	Cylance kit.png

Cylance Pro Cycling was a professional women's cycling team based in the United States of America that started competing in elite women's road bicycle racing events, such as the UCI Women's World Tour, in 2016. The team's major sponsor, Cylance, was a high-tech computer security firm, and the team was owned by Inspire Sports whose founder, Omer Kem, previously managed BMW p/b Happy Tooth Dental and Bissell Pro Cycling.^[1] The team disbanded at the end of the 2018 season.

Team history

In preparation for their first season, the team signed Shelley Olds, Rossella Ratto, and Valentina Scandolara as headline riders. The team also signed Krista Doebel-Hickok, Alison Tetrick, Erica Zaveta, Sheyla Gutiérrez, Doris Schweizer, and Kathryn Bertine.

Team roster

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Major wins

2016

Winston Salem Cycling Classic, Rossella Ratto

2017

Stages 2 & 4 Santos Women's Tour, Kirsten Wild

Stage 7 Giro d'Italia Femminile, Sheyla Gutiérrez

Stage 2 Holland Ladies Tour Kirsten Wild

Rochester Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

Thompson Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

Baltimore I Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

Baltimore II Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

Covington Cyclo-cross, Kaitlin Antonneau

2018

Points classification Tour of Chongming Island, Giorgia Bronzini

Stage 1, Giorgia Bronzini

Overall Tour of Zhoushan Island, Sheyla Gutiérrez

Points classification, Sheyla Gutiérrez

Overall Panorama Guizhou International Women's Road Cycling Race, Sheyla Gutiérrez

Stage 1, Sheyla Gutiérrez

Stage 2 Madrid Challenge by la Vuelta, Giorgia Bronzini

National, continental and world champions

2016

Switzerland Time Trial, Doris Schweizer

Switzerland Road Race, Doris Schweizer

European U23 Track (Scratch race), Rachele Barbieri

2017

World Track Championships (Scratch race), Rachele Barbieri

Spain Road Race, Sheyla Gutiérrez

European Track (Elimination race), Kirsten Wild

Netherlands Track Championships (Madison), Kirsten Wild

Netherlands Track Championships (Omnium), Kirsten Wild

Netherlands Track Championships (Scratch race), Kirsten Wild

2018

Serbia Time Trial, Jelena Erić

Serbia Road Race, Jelena Erić

Israel Road Race, Omer Shapira

Notes and References

Web site: New women's team Cylance taking aim at inaugural WorldTour – Cyclingnews.com.
Web site: Cylance Pro Cycling . ProCyclingStats . 29 May 2018.