Team: Wiggle Honda
UCI Ranking: 3rd (up from 7th in 2014)
Win Count: 35 (Up from 16 in 2014)
Top Riders: Jolien D’hoore (ranked 3rd, 13 wins), Elisa Longo Borghini (5th, 5 wins) Giorgia Bronzini (21st, 4 wins)
In listing their 2015 achievements on their website, Wiggle Honda proclaim themselves as the “Number One Team in the World”.
Strictly speaking, they’re wrong, but in a sense they’re right. If you’re looking for official UCI rankings, you’ll find the team down in third, behind Rabo Liv and Boels Dolmans. That said, they won the most races by a considerable margin -9 more than Boels and 11 more than Rabo Liv.
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It’s a similar story on an individual level; Jolien D’hoore was the most prolific rider of 2015 with 13 wins, yet she sits behind Anna Van der Breggen (Rabo Liv) and Lizzie Armitstead (Boels) on the UCI rankings.
That’s not going to stop the team, created in 2013, from reveling in its most successful season to date, where last year’s win tally was more than doubled.
D’hoore’s decision to commit herself fully to the road for the first time in her career was a big driver of the success, with the 25-year-old winning two rounds of the World Cup (Ronde van Drenthe and Open de Suède Vårgårda), stages at the Women’s Tour and Boels Rental Ladies’ Tour, the overall at the BeNE Ladies’ Tour, and another Belgian national road race title.
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