The Optum Pro Cycling men are bringing their 2015 season to a close at the top of the UCI America Tour, which encompasses the top UCI races in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first time Optum has led the season-long series and caps off a year that director Jonas Carney said has been the most successful in the team’s history.
“Finishing our season as the number one team in the Western Hemisphere is pretty cool, and it validates our efforts this year,” Carney said.
“We don’t have many ways to measure the season as a whole against our rivals, but the UCI America’s Tour includes all of the most important races in North America, so it’s a pretty good gauge. We didn’t chase points in South America, Central America or the Caribbean, and every one of our points came from racing in the US and Canada. It indicates that this was our best season yet.”
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Although the team is brining its season to an and at the top of the rankings, the 2015 America Tour will continue with four more races in Latin America, concluding on Christmas Day with at the Vuelta Ciclista Internacional a Costa Rica.
Optum currently leads Carrefour-Funvic by 88 points and Hincapie Racing by 89. Hincapie’s Toms Skujins of Latvia leads the individual rankings ahead of Byron Guama (Team Ecuador), Optum’s Michael Woods, Argentina’s Dainiel Diaz (Carrefour-Funvic) and Spaniard Oscar Sevilla (EPM-UNE).
Woods earned the lion’s share of Optum’s team points this season after winning stage at the Tour of Utah and leading the race for a day. Woods, who signed with Cannondale-Garmin for 2016, started his first year with Optum with a win in Portugal.
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