Kasper Asgreen

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Kasper Asgreen
Asgreen, Nice. Paris–Nice 2023.
Personal information
Full nameKasper Asgreen
Born (1995-02-08) 8 February 1995 (age 29)
Kolding, Denmark
Height1.92 m (6 ft 3+12 in)[1]
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamSoudal–Quick-Step
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
Amateur team
2014Odder CK
Professional teams
2015MLP Team Bergstraße
2016–2018Team TreFor
2018–Quick-Step Floors[2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2023)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2020)
National Time Trial Championships
(2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)
Tour of Flanders (2021)
E3 Saxo Bank Classic (2021)
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2020)
Medal record
Representing  Denmark
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Innsbruck Team time trial
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2019 Alkmaar Elite time trial

Kasper Asgreen (born 8 February 1995) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.[3] Asgreen won the 2021 Tour of Flanders by defeating Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint finish.

Early life[edit]

Asgreen was born in Kolding in the south of Denmark. He competed in dressage up to the age of 14,[4][5] before joining Kolding Cycling Club.[4]

Career[edit]

Asgreen signed for Danish Continental cycling team Team Waoo in 2016. In the same year, he finished second in the U23 event at the Danish National Time Trial Championships, as well as finishing second in the senior event.[6] In 2017, he won the U23 time trial at the Danish National Championships, alongside the U23 event at the European Road Championships.[6]

Asgreen signed for World Tour team Quick-Step Floors in April 2018 and began riding with the team in the same month.[5] Following strong performances in his first few races, including at the Scheldeprijs where he helped team-mate Fabio Jakobsen to victory,[7] he was named on the start list of the 2018 Vuelta a España.[5] He was also part of the Quick-Step team which won the Team Time Trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[8]

In 2019, Asgreen finished second in the Tour of Flanders on his race debut, the only rider to escape a chasing group behind race leader Alberto Bettiol.[4] He also won the second stage of the 2019 Tour of California after accelerating on the final turn from a group containing Tejay Van Garderen and Gianni Moscon,[9] plus a stage at the Deutschland Tour.[10] Later in the year, he won his first title in the Men's Senior event at the Danish National Time Trial Championships.[11]

In March 2020, Asgreen won the Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne race by a margin of three seconds from the peloton, after bridging across to an existing breakaway earlier in the race.[12] He also retained his title at the Danish National Time Trial Championships,[11] as well as the Road Race, accelerating away from Andreas Kron to take victory by nine seconds.[13]

Asgreen began his 2021 season with a victory at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic, attacking with five kilometres to go after having participated in a previous breakaway.[14] A week later, he claimed his first monument win at the 2021 Tour of Flanders, beating race favourite Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint after the pair rode clear together.[15] He also won the Danish National Time Trial for the third consecutive year.[11]

Asgreen at the 2022 Volta ao Algarve

After a 2022 season destroyed by injuries, illness and secondary results, Asgreen was back to winning ways at the Danish National Time Trial Championships in 2023, winning it for the fourth time in five years. [16]

A month later at the 2023 Tour de France, Asgreen won the 18th stage after a 187 km breakaway. [17] Then in the following 19th stage, he placed second, also after a long breakaway, losing to Matej Mohoric by about one inch and thus just barely failing to accomplish the feat of winning two consecutive Tour de France breakaway stages.

Major results[edit]

2014
5th Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
2016
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd GP Viborg
3rd Overall Tour de Berlin
5th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
2017
1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st GP Viborg
1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir
6th Duo Normand (with Niklas Larsen)
7th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
2018
1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Adriatica Ionica Race
2nd Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
1st Stage 1
4th Time trial, National Road Championships
6th Trofeo Laigueglia
2019 (3 pro wins)
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
2nd Road race
1st Stage 3 Deutschland Tour
2nd Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
2nd Tour of Flanders
3rd Overall Tour of California
1st Points classification
1st Stage 2
2020 (3)
National Road Championships
1st Road race
1st Time trial
1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
9th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
2021 (4)
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Tour of Flanders
1st E3 Saxo Bank Classic
3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
4th Druivenkoers Overijse
7th Time trial, Olympic Games
7th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
2022
3rd Strade Bianche
6th Amstel Gold Race
10th E3 Saxo Bank Classic
2023 (3)
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Stage 18 Tour de France
1st Mountains classification, Volta ao Algarve
2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
1st Stage 5
7th Tour of Flanders

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]

Grand Tour 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia
A yellow jersey Tour de France 122 114 64 DNF 87
A red jersey Vuelta a España 134

Classics results timeline[edit]

Monument 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Milan–San Remo 72 99 36 16
Tour of Flanders 2 13 1 23 7
Paris–Roubaix 50 NH 68 44 DNF
Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Giro di Lombardia DNF
Classic 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 35 49 76 DNF
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 31 1 34 84 88
Strade Bianche DNF 25 3 40
E3 BinckBank Classic 48 NH 1 10 51 77
Gent–Wevelgem 11 32 93 54
Dwars door Vlaanderen 143 NH 30
Amstel Gold Race 6
Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 27 Not held
Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 20
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Kasper Asgreen, Deceuninck - Quick-Step Cycling team". Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ^ Ryan, Barry (31 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Deceuninck-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Deceuninck - Quick-Step". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "Kasper Asgreen - The Rider". ProCycling. Future PLC. October 2021. pp. 37–44.
  5. ^ a b c Ryan, Barry (6 November 2019). "Rising star Kasper Asgreen 'not scared' of taking on big name rivals". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Kasper Asgreen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  7. ^ Robertshaw, Henry (4 April 2018). "Fabio Jakobsen sprints to victory at end of chaotic edition of Scheldeprijs". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  8. ^ Ostanek, Daniel (23 September 2018). "World Championships: Quick-Step Floors win men's team time trial". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Kasper Asgreen fires up in final moments to seize stage two victory in California". Eurosport. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Asgreen wins stage 3 at Deutschland Tour". Cyclingnews. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  11. ^ a b c Marshall-Bell, Chris (17 June 2021). "Kasper Asgreen wins Danish time trial crown yet again as Chloe Dygert scoops American title". Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  12. ^ Ballinger, Alex (March 2020). "Unstoppable Kasper Asgreen scores solo glory in Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2020". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  13. ^ "Asgreen and Bystrøm take Danish and Norwegian men's road race titles". Cyclingnews. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  14. ^ Weislo, Laura (26 March 2021). "Kasper Asgreen wins E3 Saxo Bank Classic". Cyclingnews. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  15. ^ Skelton, Jack (4 April 2021). "Tour of Flanders: Kasper Asgreen wins men's race, Annemiek van Vleuten takes second women's title". BBC Sport. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  16. ^ "Mesteren er tilbage på DM-tronen - TV 2". 22 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Asgreen vinder – snyder sprinterne - TV 2". 20 July 2023.

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