Casper Pedersen
 Pedersen at the 2015 UEC European Track Championships | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Casper Philip Pedersen |
| Born | 15 March 1996 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Soudal–Quick-Step |
| Disciplines |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 2015–2016 | Riwal Platform |
| 2017 | Team Giant–Castelli |
| 2018 | Aqua Blue Sport[1] |
| 2019–2022 | Team Sunweb[2][3][4] |
| 2023– | Soudal–Quick-Step |
| Major wins | |
| One-day races and Classics | |
Medal record | |
Casper Philip Pedersen (born 15 March 1996) is a road and track cyclist from Denmark, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.[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, Team Sunweb 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 Soudal–Quick-Step, and won the Figueira Champions Classic that February.
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 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
- 1st
- 2020 (1)
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 2021
- 6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 2023 (1)
- 1st Figueira Champions Classic
- 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium
- 4th Trofeo Calvia
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | — | 92 | 111 | — | — | DNF |
 Vuelta a España | 103 | — | — | — | 140 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ "2018 rider roster and first races confirmed". Aqua Blue Sport. Aqua Blue Sport Limited. 1 January 2018. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
- ^ "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Team Sunweb". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Riders | Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team". www.soudal-quickstepteam.com. Soudal–Quick-Step.
- ^ "Team pursuit results of 2015 UEC European Track Championships". Tissot timing. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ^ "Ny kontrakt: Dansk cykeltalent skal med på Team Sunwebs sprinttog" [New contract: Danish cycling talent will participate in Team Sunweb's sprints]. DR.dk (in Danish). 12 September 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ^ Ostanek, Daniel (11 October 2020). "Casper Pedersen wins Paris-Tours". CyclingNews. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
External links
[edit]- Casper Pedersen at UCI
- Casper Pedersen at Cycling Archives
- Casper Pedersen at ProCyclingStats
- Casper Pedersen at Cycling Quotient
- Casper Pedersen at CycleBase
