Cannondale-Garmin confirmed today that they have signed Hincapie Racing's Toms Skujins, a 24-year-old Latvian who won a stage at the Tour of California this year and led the race for three days, to a two-year deal starting in 2016.
"It's very exciting. It's going to be a very fun two years with the team," Skujins told Cyclingnews while traveling from Cannondale's recent training camp in Aspen to his home in Latvia.
"It's definitely been one of my goals for awhile, and I'm super stoked that it happened with this team at this time. Every year I've wanted to go WorldTour, but I'm happy I had the chance to stay with Hincapie for two years. I wouldn't change that, but it's super exciting to be with the new team."
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Skujins has raced at the Continental level since 2011, spending two years with La Pomme Marseille in France and finishing second in the 2011 U23 Tour of Flanders. He moved to the Latvian Rietumu-Delfin team in 2013 and finished fifth in the U23 World Championship road race that year.
Skujins joined Hincapie the following year and raced with the US team through this season. Skujins found his first success with the team at the 2014 Tour de Beauce in Canada, where he took the overall, two stages, the points jersey, the youth jersey and was second in the mountains classification.
Skujins then went on a tear this season. His first win of the year came in April as part of Hincapie's six-rider team time trial squad at the US national championships. The next month he won stage 3 in California and wore the yellow jersey until Peter Sagan took it from him during the weather-shortened stage 6 time trial.
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