Meet the 2009 Garmin- Slipstream Pro Cycling Team!
Garmin-Slipstream Pro Cycling Team officially announced the 2009 roster today during the team presentation in Boulder, Colorado. For the first time, the team will hit the ProTour circuit with an impressive 29-man squad that includes Olympic, world and national champions.
Most of the 2008 team remains, including stars Christian Vande Velde, David Millar and US national time trial champion David Zabriskie. New to the team is Olympic and world champion Bradley Wiggins, a British track star. World track champion in the 4K individual pursuit, team pursuit (world record) and the madison, Wiggins also won Olympic gold medals in the 4K individual pursuit and the team pursuit in Beijing this summer.
Impressive Canadians talents Svein Tuft and Christian Meier join the team for 2009. Despite an unfortunate flat, Tuft managed to take the silver medal in the 2008 world time trial championships in Varese, Italy. Current Canadian national road champion, Meier has been riding for the team as a hard-working stagiaire for the last few months.
Dutch rider Hans Dekkers joins the team as a talented sprinter. After coming back from an early season knee injury, Dekkers beat Tom Boonen to win the Nationale Sluitingprijs this October. The youngest additions to the team are 20-year-old Australian rider Cameron Meyer and 21-year-old Dutch rider Ricardo van der Velde, both considered up-and-coming all around riders.
Meet Garmin-Slipstream!
Magnus Backstedt, Sweden
Blake Caldwell, USA
Steven Cozza, USA
Tom Danielson, USA
Julian Dean, New Zealand
Hans Dekkers, Holland
Jason Donald, USA
Timmy Duggan, USA
Huub Duyn, Holland
Lucas Euser, USA
Tyler Farrar, USA
Mike Friedman, USA
Will Frischkorn, USA
Ryder Hesjedal, Canada
Trent Lowe, Australia
Martijn Maaskant, Holland
Dan Martin, Ireland
Christian Meier, Canada
Cameron Meyer, Australia
David Millar, United Kingdom
Danny Pate, USA
Kilian Patour, France
Tom Peterson, USA
Chris Sutton, Australia
Svein Tuft, Canada
Ricardo van der Velde, Holland
Christian Vande Velde, USA
Bradley Wiggins, United Kingdom
David Zabriskie, USA
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met ‘em saturday at the Boulder Theatre. Chaos is pumped for 2009!
I am so pumped for this season!!! I can’t wait to hear all about your great success!! Even in the hard times I can’t wait to cheer you all on and help keep you going! Good luck and thank you for having so many come back for the 09′ season!
Ricardo van der Velde. (Dutch spelling: lowercase van/der except when last name is used on its own: Van der Velde.)
Fantastic group of riders… of people… of heroes. I can’t wait for the season to begin. My boy and I will be watching every race. Can’t wait till you roll through our little town of Santa Cruz!
On your mission to be winners. Please do not forget you are heroes. Winners are good for a night of celebration. Heroes fill the spirits of little boys and old men with visions.
Brillaint to see Bradley on the team, giving us ex-pats even more to cheer about!
I was at the presentation in Boulder on Saturday and had the best time. All of the guys were gracious, friendly and totally accessible. I will never miss another one of these events. It was so much fun.
I’m so excited for the upcoming season to see how Garmin does. Good Luck to all the riders!
I heard there were some great videos from the team presention….any chance we’ll see them here?
Can’t wait to see what you guys do in 2009! Love cheering you all on. Oh, and loved David Millars sense of style at the team presentation, amazing socks!
Congrats to the team – very fine presentation (as far as we could watch it here in good ol´Europe!)!! Especially the clothing was nice to see
Also congrats to Bradley Wiggins – you were so funny up there! Can´t wait for the new season – it´s gonna be HUGE.
But btw…what happened to Pat McCarty?
I believe this article incorrectly identifies Dave Z as the reigning USA Cycling “road” champion. I thought Tyler Hamilton won the latest road championship and Dave was the reigning time trial champion. Am I mistaken?
Oops! Good catch Paul. Thanks!
I am 7 years old. I came from Aspen with my dad to the Boulder theater. I am going to ride for Garmin one day. It was fun…Noah