UAE Team Emirates explained

UAE Team Emirates
Code:UAD
Registered:Italy (1999–2016)
UAE (2017–present)
Discipline:Road
Bicycles:Colnago
Components:Shimano, Enve
Website:http://www.uaeteamemirates.com/
Status:UCI WorldTeam
Generalmanager:Mauro Gianetti
Teammanager:Matxin Fernandez
Current:2024 UAE Team Emirates season

UAE Team Emirates is an Emirati road bicycle racing team. The team competes at UCI WorldTeam level and has done so since the UCI World Tour was formed as the top category of road cycling in 2005.

History

The team was temporarily suspended from the ProTour in 2010, missing one ProTour event.[1]

Transition from an Italian-based team

Chinese involvement

In August 2016 the team (then called Lampre-Merida) confirmed that its WorldTeam licence was being transferred from CGS Cycling to Chinese company TJ Sport Consultation, with the team becoming the first Chinese WorldTour team from 2017. Former team manager Mauro Gianetti was announced as the co-ordinator for the project.[2]

In an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport the following month, Saronni confirmed that he and CGS Cycling would continue to manage the team on TJ Sport's behalf, and that the team's bicycles would be supplied by Colnago. He indicated that the project was being co-ordinated by the Chinese government via TJ Sport with involvement from a number of Chinese companies including Alibaba, and that its aim was to develop Chinese cycling and riders.[3]

When the UCI awarded 17 WorldTour licences to teams in November, it announced that TJ Sport's application was "under review" by its Licensing Commission.[4] According to Saronni, the reason for the delay was that the head of the TJ Sport project, Li Zhiqiang, had fallen seriously ill, which prevented funding for the project from being confirmed.

Emirati rescue

As a result, the team looked elsewhere for sponsorship, securing funding from the United Arab Emirates and changing its name to UAE Abu Dhabi. The UCI confirmed the team's WorldTour licence on 20 December.[5] In February 2017, the team announced that airline Emirates had signed on with the team as a naming-rights sponsor. The team was subsequently known as UAE Team Emirates.[6]

In June 2017, two days before the 2017 Tour de France the team announced it would also be sponsored by the First Abu Dhabi Bank, an amalgamation of the First Gulf Bank and the National Bank of Abu Dhabi, with their logo being added to the chest and side of the team's jersey.[7]

Major wins

See main article: List of wins by Colnago–Lampre and its successors.

National, continental, and world champions

1999
  • Belgian Road Race, Ludo Dierckxsens
    2000
  • South African Time Trial, Robbie Hunter
  • Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks
    2001
  • Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks
    2002
  • Latvian Time Trial, Raivis Belohvoščiks
  • Latvian Road Race, Raivis Belohvoščiks
    2005
  • Austrian Road Race, Gerrit Glomser
    2006
  • Italian Time Trial, Marzio Bruseghin
    2007
  • Slovenian Road Race, Tadej Valjavec
    2008
  • World Road Race, Alessandro Ballan
    2011
  • Slovenian Road Race, Grega Bole
  • Ukrainian Road Race, Oleksandr Kvachuk
  • Ukrainian Time Trial, Oleksandr Kvachuk
  • Italian Time Trial, Adriano Malori
    2014
  • Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira
  • Portuguese Road Race, Nelson Oliveira
    2015
  • Portuguese Time Trial, Nelson Oliveira
  • Ethiopian Road Race, Tsgabu Grmay
  • Ethiopian Time Trial, Tsgabu Grmay
  • Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa
  • Slovenian Road Race, Luka Pibernik
  • Taiwanese Road Race, Feng Chun-kai
  • Taiwanese Time Trial, Feng Chun-kai
    2017
  • UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
  • UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
  • Slovenian Time Trial, Jan Polanc
  • European Track (Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna
    2018
  • World Track (Individual pursuit), Filippo Ganna
  • UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
  • UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
  • Norwegian Road Race, Vegard Stake Laengen
    2019
  • UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
  • UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
  • Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar
    2020
  • Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar
  • Portuguese Time Trial, Ivo Oliveira
  • Portuguese Road Race, Rui Costa
  • Norwegian Road Race, Sven Erik Bystrøm
  • European Track (Individual pursuit), Ivo Oliveira
    2021
  • African Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons
  • UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
  • UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
  • African Road Race, Ryan Gibbons
  • South Africa Time Trial, Ryan Gibbons
    2022
  • UAE Road Race, Yousif Mirza
  • UAE Time Trial, Yousif Mirza
  • Swiss Time Trial, Joel Suter Portuguese Road Race, João Almeida
    2023
  • Australian Time Trial, Jay Vine
  • Slovenian Time Trial, Tadej Pogačar
  • Slovenian Road Race, Tadej Pogačar
  • American Time Trial, Brandon McNulty
  • Portuguese Time Trial, João Almeida
    Swiss Road Race, Marc Hirschi 2024
  • American Time Trial, Brandon McNulty
  • Austrian Time Trial, Felix Großschartner
  • Belgian Time Trial, Tim Wellens
  • German Time Trial, Nils Politt
  • Portuguese Time Trial, António Morgado
  • Slovenian Road Race, Domen Novak

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Lampre granted temporary ProTour license - Cyclingnews.com. cyclingnews.com. 26 January 2010. 1 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100401225212/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lampre-granted-temporary-protour-license. live.
    2. Web site: TJ Sport Consultation to take over Lampre-Merida's WorldTour licence . . 26 August 2016 . . 3 September 2016 . 2 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160902222607/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tj-sport-consultation-to-take-over-lampre-meridas-worldtour-licence/ . live .
    3. Web site: Saronni reveals details of the new Chinese WorldTour team . Farrand . Stephen . 3 September 2016 . . 3 September 2016 . 4 September 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160904114940/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/saronni-reveals-details-of-the-new-chinese-worldtour-team/ . live .
    4. Web site: New sponsor set to save TJ Sport team after problems with Chinese backers . Farrand . Stephen . 13 December 2016 . . 26 December 2016 . 28 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161228150324/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/new-sponsor-set-to-save-tj-sport-team-after-problems-with-chinese-backers/ . live .
    5. Web site: Saronni reveals how he secured UAE Abu Dhabi's WorldTour licence . . 26 December 2016 . . 26 December 2016 . 11 January 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190111231225/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/saronni-reveals-how-he-secured-uae-abu-dhabis-worldtour-licence/ . live .
    6. Web site: Fly Emirates to sponsor UAE Abu Dhabi team - Cyclingnews.com. cyclingnews.com. 21 February 2017. 22 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170222111512/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fly-emirates-to-sponsor-uae-abu-dhabi-team/. live.
    7. Web site: UAE Team Emirates brings on new sponsor ahead of Tour de France - Cyclingnews.com. cyclingnews.com. 29 June 2017. 2 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170702180131/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/uae-team-emirates-brings-on-new-sponsor-ahead-of-tour-de-france/#disqus_thread. live.

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