Casper Pedersen

Casper Pedersen
Personal information
Full nameCasper Philip Pedersen
Born (1996-03-15) 15 March 1996 (age 29)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current teamSoudal–Quick-Step
Disciplines
RoleRider
Professional teams
2015–2016Riwal Platform
2017Team Giant–Castelli
2018Aqua Blue Sport[1]
2019–2022Team Sunweb[2][3][4]
2023–Soudal–Quick-Step
Major wins
One-day races and Classics Paris–Tours (2020)

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

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Road

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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 Calvia 2025 3rd Road race, National Championships 4th E3 Saxo Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Giro d'Italia
Tour de France 92 111 DNF
Vuelta a España 103 140
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Track

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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

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Team Sunweb confirm 2019 men's and women's rosters". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 23 November 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Team Sunweb". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Riders | Soudal Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team". soudal-quickstepteam.com. Soudal–Quick-Step.
  6. ^ "Team pursuit results of 2015 UEC European Track Championships". Tissot timing. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ Ostanek, Daniel (11 October 2020). "Casper Pedersen wins Paris-Tours". CyclingNews. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
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