JUMBO VISMA

The Jumbo-Visma cycling team (formerly known as Kwantum, Superconfex, Buckler, Wordperfect, Novell, Rabobank, Blanco,...

The Jumbo-Visma cycling team (formerly known as Kwantum, Superconfex, Buckler, Wordperfect, Novell, Rabobank, Blanco, Belkin and LottoNL-Jumbo) is a Dutch professional road cycling team established in 1996 with World Team status Tower. From 1996 to 2012, its main sponsor was the Dutch bancassurance institution Rabobank, which also financed a continental team. Following Rabobank's withdrawal, it is called Blanco, awaiting a new sponsor. Between June 29, 2013 and December 31, 2014, the team was called Belkin and changed secondary sponsors several times. In 2015, together with the supermarket chain Jumbo, the Dutch National Lottery sponsored the team which was renamed Lotto NL-Jumbo. In 2019, it took on its current name: Team Jumbo-Visma. The team is led by Richard Plugge. During its decades of activity, notable riders have raced with the team jersey, including Frans Maassen, Jean-Paul van Poppel, Edwig Van Hooydonck, Rolf Sørensen, Michael Boogerd, Erik Dekker, Oscar Freire, Michael Rasmussen , Thomas Dekker, Denis Menchov, Robert Gesink, Bauke Mollema, Steven Kruijswijk, Tom Dumoulin and Primož Roglič. She has two Tours of Spain (Menchov in 2007, Roglič in 2019) and a Tour of Italy (Menchov in 2009), two victories in the team classification of the World Cup (1999 and 2001), and a in the individual classification in 2001, by Erik Dekker. Rabobank has won several classics including the Tour of Flanders (Adrie van der Poel in 1986, Edwig Van Hooydonck in 1989 and 1991, Rolf Sørensen in 1997), Milan-San Remo (Freire in 2004, 2007 and 2010) and the Amstel Gold Race (Boogerd in 1999 and Erik Dekker in 2001). During the 2021 season, the team scored 43 successes and fell to third place in the world rankings. As in previous seasons, Wout van Aert and Primož Roglič, second and third respectively in the world rankings, provide the bulk of the team's results. If Roglič's year was marked by bad luck - crashes cost him victory in Paris-Nice and forced him to retire early in the Tour de France - but he still finished the campaign as a Olympic champion in the time trial and with a third victory in the Tour of Spain in as many appearances.