Team Virtu Cycling Women Explained

Team Virtu Cycling Women
Code:	BMS (2015–2016) TVW (2017) TVC (2017–2019)
Registered:	Denmark
Founded:	2015
Disbanded:	2019
Discipline:	Road
Status:	National (2015) UCI Women (2016–2019)
Bicycles:	Storck
Website:	http://www.teamveloconcept.dk/team-veloconcept-women/
Teammanager:	Bo Handberg Madsen Allan Porsmose Carmen Small Shani Bloch
Season:	2015–2016 2017 2017–2019
Oldname:	Team BMS BIRN Team VéloCONCEPT Women Team Virtu Cycling Women

Team Virtu Cycling Women was a UCI Women's cycling team based in Denmark,^[1] ^[2] that competed between 2015 and 2019.^[3]

Team history

In November 2016 it was announced that Bjarne Riis and Lars Seier (Riis-Seier Project) took over the women's team BMS BIRN and the men's team, with the latter being renamed Team VéloCONCEPT and the former becoming Team VéloCONCEPT Women for the 2017 season.^[4] After the addition of a new investor into the team in September 2017, Brøndby IF football team chairman Jan Beck Andersen, the cycling team's name changed to Team Virtu Cycling.^[5]

Major wins

2016

Overall Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Youth classification, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Stages 1 & 5, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Mountains classification Ladies Tour of Norway, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

2017

Combativity classification, Stage 4 Holland Ladies Tour, Pernille Mathiesen

2018

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Christina Siggaard

Sprints classification Emakumeen Euskal Bira, Katarzyna Pawłowska

2019

Omloop van het Hageland, Marta Bastianelli

Women's WorldTour Ronde van Drenthe, Marta Bastianelli

Tour of Flanders, Marta Bastianelli

Stage 2 Healthy Ageing Tour, Mieke Kröger

Overall Gracia–Orlová, Marta Bastianelli

Stages 1 & 3, Marta Bastianelli

Stages 2a (ITT) & 4 Gracia–Orlová, Mieke Kröger

Stage 2b Gracia–Orlová, Rachel Neylan

Sprints classification Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Barbara Guarischi

Stage 1, Barbara Guarischi

Stage 2, Marta Bastianelli

Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda WestSweden Road Race, Marta Bastianelli

Stage 4 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Anouska Koster

Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Marta Bastianelli

National and continental champions

2016

Denmark Time Trial, Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Denmark Junior Time Trial, Simone Eg

2017

Israel Time Trial, Shani Bloch-Davidov

USA Time Trial, Amber Neben

Denmark Road Race, Camilla Møllebro

Sweden Road Race, Sara Penton

European U23 Time Trial, Pernille Mathiesen

European U23 Road Race, Pernille Mathiesen

2019

Denmark Time Trial, Louise Norman Hansen

Italy Road Race, Marta Bastianelli

Notes and References

Web site: Team BMS BIRN.
Web site: BMS BIRN.
News: Alex. Ballinger. Team Virtu Cycling women's team will fold at the end of the season. Cycling Weekly. TI Media. 25 June 2019. 7 March 2021.
Web site: Riis-Seier Project overtager kontinentalhold og kvindehold. Johannesen. Jesper. 3 November 2016. Feltet.dk. da. 5 November 2016.
News: Kiersgaard Espersen. Morten. Brøndby-rigmand kaster millioner i Riis-hold. 11 September 2017. Ekstra Bladet. 11 September 2017.