WorldTour ranking: 17/17
Win count: 14 (down from 17)
Top riders: Mathias Frank (58), Martin Elmiger (68), Jarlinson Pantano (110)
IAM Cycling's first season in the WorldTour ranks got off to best possible start with Heinrich Haussler claiming the Australian national title in January generating press and buzz around the Swiss team on the eve of the Tour Down Under.
It would prove to a false dawn with Haussler unable to claim another victory although ninth place overall for Colombian climber Jarlinson Pantano in Adelaide gathered the team early points. However they would finish last in the team standings at the end of the year on just 189 points. Top team Movistar accumulated 1619 points by comparison.
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Fourteen wins for the season was down on last year's haul of 17 although with nine riders celebrating victories, there is a spread of talent within the squad and the trick for 2016 will be to get those riders turning one win into two or three.
Mateo Pelucchi picked up the team's first European victories in Spain at the end of January to regain momentum, Matthias Brändle's Tour of Oman stage win suggested the Austrian was ready for a big season having broken the world hour record last October but then three winless months for the team followed.
Martin Elmiger's fifth place at Paris-Roubaix was a highlight of the classics for IAM Cycling but the 37-year-old can't be considered as a genuine favourite for in the future.
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