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Champion System Pro Cycling Team Rider Craig Lewis discusses his first team training camp in his new blog on Cyclingnews.com
Check it out! http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/craig-lewis
The Champion System Pro Cycling Team announced their roster for February’s Tour de Langkawi!
Check out this Velo Nation article:
Manan, Adiq and Kirispuu heading Champion System team in Tour de Langkawi
Big article on Wu Kin San and Champion System team in the South China Morning Post today!
Whole Athlete-Specialized Team
Congratulations to the Whole Athlete-Specialized Team on being named Mountain Bike Club of the Year by USA Cycling. Champion System is a proud sponsor of the team.
https://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=7277
Check it out! Champion System in Judd Apatow's upcoming film "This is Forty" featuring Paul Rudd
Team Champion System rider Luke Keough dominates!
Team Champion System rider Luke Keough dominated the men’s elite race at the Cycle-Smart International Cyclo-Cross race winning on Saturday and Sunday. Congrats Luke! Check out this great video interview with him:
Champion System athletes take the podium at Sunday's UCI ranked Boulder Cup Cycocross Race
Champion System sponsored athlete Ben Berden (Team Ops-Ale) won Sunday’s UCI ranked Boulder Cup Cyclocross race. Champion System sponsored athlete Tim Johnson (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) rounded out the podium in 3rd place. Nice job guys!
Champion System Pro Cycling Team Rider Deon Locke Wins Stage 4 at the Tour of Hainan
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For more photos, please visit http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-hainan-2011/stage-4/results
Will Clarke leaves Leopard Trek for Champion System
Champion System Pro Cycling Team and China’s first UCI Pro Continental team has signed Australia’s Will Clarke and Aaron Kemps plus the New Zealander Clinton Avery.
Champion System Cannondale Pro Cycling Team finishes up season strong!
Scott Fredrick took silver at Master Worlds this year in Brazil. Cannondale had a great season in total and won two series overall in the southeast. Congrats to all on the team on a job well done!
Sky Christopherson wins silver at the 2011 UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championships!
At the 2011 UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester, England, Sky Christopherson won silver in the 1000m. Check out Sky in his custom Champion System speedsuit! And of course a big congrats to him! Earlier this past August, Sky broke the world record in the 200m 35+. His time was 10.4 seconds.
Champion System Athletes Dominant at the 2012 Grand Prix of Gloucester
Champion System Athlete Helen Wyman won both days in the elite women's field while Christian Heule won day 1. In total, 5 of the top 10 places on Saturday were wearing Champion System and 4 out of 5 on Sunday. Check out the images below and visit www.cyclingnews.com for much more.
Michael Keough (Champion System) busy today by three of his sons, all of which race for Champion System.
Christian Heule outsprints Jeremy Powers for the win on day 1.
Champion System athlete Barry Wicks hops a barrier.
Champion System Athlete Adam Myerson drills it.
Champion System Athlete and former Belgian National champion Ben Berden finished third on Sunday.
Champion System UCI Pro Continental Team Featured on Cyclingnews.com!
Check out the full article here.
Champion System Sweeps the Podium at Univest!
Jesse Anthony of Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth dominated the Univest Grand Prix Doylestown Criterium in Pennsylvania Sunday, winning the race, the sprinters jersey, and the overall weekend title after attacking, staying away for multiple laps, and taking the sprint out of a decimated field.
Anthony outsprinted Champion System athletes Jackie Simes (Jamis/Sutter Home) and Robin Carpenter (BikeReg.com) for the win on a slightly uphill finishing straight. Great job Jesse!
Champion System Athlete Vera Gerasimek Wins the US Women's 10-12 Criterium National Championship!
Vera Gerasimek, a member of the Lehigh Valley-based Young Medalists/Team Rothrock cycling team, is the new national criterium champion in the women’s 10-12 age group. Gerasimek, 12, of Transfer, Pa., was one of 16 Young Medalists/Team Rothrock riders to compete in the USA Cycling Junior Road National Championships held June 22-26 in Augusta, Ga. For 14 of those riders, it was their first time in national competition.
Champion System Pro Cycling Team rider Jaan Kirsipuu 3rd place at Base Camp International Criterium!
Read the full story here:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/base-camp-intl-p-b-verizon-wireless-ne/results
Champion System Pro Cycling Team rider Joris Boillat scored the team's first U.S. win at the Hills of Somerset Road Race!
The Champion System Pro Cycling Team scored it’s first U.S. win in the first U.S. raced they raced in. Swiss rider Joris Boillat attacked from the winning four rider breakaway with 1 kilometer to for impressive solo win at the Hills of Somerset Road Race in New Jersey. Also in the breakaway was Team Champion System Hong Kong rider Kin San Wu who finished fourth. On Memorial Day, Team Champion System competed at the 68th Annual Tour of Somerville (an NRC event) where Team Champion System riders Matthias Friedemann and Kin San Wu made the winning breakaway with Matthias Friedemann capturing fifth place.
Champion System featured in issue of Velonews!
Read full article below.
Champion System sponsored athlete Jamie Driscoll (Jamis-Sutter Home) wins "Most Courageous Rider" at Stage 2 of the Tour of California!
Champion System sponsored athlete Jamie Driscoll (Jamis-Sutter Home) won the Most Courageous Leader Jersey at Stage 2 of the Tour of California. Driscoll entered into a four-rider breakaway approximately 16 km into the stage and was caught as the peloton entered onto the three short finishing circuits in Sacramento. His efforts were rewarded with the most courageous rider jersey, given each stage to a rider who displays determination, perseverance and inspiration.
Champion System Pro Cycling Team Rider Jaan Kirsipuu Wins Stage 4 of Tour of Korea!
Today brings fantastic news to the Team Champion System camp in the shape of a superb victory in today’s stage 4 of the Tour of Korea by Jaan Kirspuu.
The veteran Estonian sprinter had been somewhat handicapped by poor early season training opportunities during the heavily snow cursed winter in Northern Europe, but has gradually bitten his bar tape and suffered and ridden through the early season gaining form with every race.
Two days earlier the former Tour de France yellow jersey holder had come close to his first victory of the season by taking a 3rd place finish on a stage, but today he christened the team’s victory card by taking the first ever Team Champion System UCI ranked win, and given his rise to form we hope it won’t be long before he adds to the tally for the 2011 season.
Covering some 137-kilometers between Gungsan and Dangjin today’s parcours was relatively flat, and Jaan was able to take advantage of the controlling riding of the Tabriz Petrochemical Team and the conflicting lead-outs of the strong Korean teams, who have been fighting for home victories between their different teams. Unfortunately the team lost Australian rider Chris Williams in a scuffle with a guardrail.
Tomorrow’s stage follows a similar game plan, with rolling terrain for most of the way. In theory this should be a perfect stage for an experienced sprinter like Kirsipuu, as it comes just before a hilly stage and a rest day. You can be fairly sure that TPT will again be forced to control things, while the long climb the following day will be playing heavily on the mind of many riders, and could well open up opportunities for small break away groups, and force the Korean sprinters into chase down mode.
See the video here http://youtu.be/_O1f3xVtmbA
Also check out the race report on cyclingnews.com
BMX Ace Steven Wong Jumps to the Road
In a surprise flip of disciplines Asian Games BMX Champion Steven Wong has switched start gate and signed up to ride for the Team Champion System Continental road racing team.
To some this will seen like something of a huge leap, but those who know the young Hong Kong based rider will also know that he has been training, and even occasionally racing on the road for some time now, and spent the early part of this year training with his new team-mates in Thailand.
Although the demands and duration of international stage racing are far more endurance based than those of BMX racing the switch is hardly un-known in bike racing; multiple Tour de France Points Champion Robbie McEwen is just one BMX’er who has made a huge mark on the road scene.
With contracts and licenses now in order Steven will make his debut with the team in next weeks Tour of Hellas (Tour of Greece), where he’ll be hoping to cut his teethe in the sprints, learning his craft from the inside.
We’ll catch up with Steven soon, but meantime stay tuned as the team have a busy schedule during May!
Champion System's Mart Ojavee Heads Home From Taiwan in Green
Although this year’s Tour of Taiwan started out on the wrong foot for Team Champion System (when they lost Australian team rider Deon Locke in a pre-race crash), things soon turned on their toes, thanks to a superbly consistent display of riding by the Hong Kong based team. This perseverance ultimately earned them the overall green jersey of the race’s point’s classification; a prize only narrowly overshadowed by the yellow jersey its self. This year’s race fielded a strong international line up of teams; including the Champion System sponsored Tabriz Petrochemical Team from Iran, whose start rider Mehdi Sohrabi had proven near unbeatable so far this year, and entering the race with 9 UCI ranked wins already this season was marked as the world’s most victorious rider of the current race season. Thus Sohrabi started as a clear favourite in this tour, the latest UCI Asia Tour race.
The race kicked of in Taipei with a 2 kilometre prologue time trail, which was won by young Australian Adam Phelan of the Drapac team, who ultimately went on to “double-end” the race by winning today’s closing road stage into Taipei.
Second on that opening pre-cursor was Champion System’s Mart Ojavee, who has also been of great form so far this year, and who was beaten by just a fraction of a second to the race’s first yellow jersey, hence narrowly missing out on the teams first UCI ranked victory of the year.
As the race hit the open road chilling winds and rains blew in, which made the racing tough and tactical; this well suits CS’s European riders, who are used to battling against the harsh conditions of their native northern Europe.
Playing their tactical cards well lead to Ojavee taking the green jersey of the race’s points leader, although with several mountain stages sandwiched into the middle of the ten-day race hopes of keeping the jersey until the end were slim, especially when the race for the GC became a battle between Sohrabi, his team-mate Markus Eibegger and Giant’s David McCann.
With “green points” scattered all along the race route, as well as on the finish line, CS worked hard to ensure Ojavee consolidated his lead at every opportunity, which he duly did, and even increased with a string of fine stage finishes too.
This was enough to make sure that he finished the race in green, just a few points ahead of team-mate and fellow Estonian Jaan Kirsipuu, who took several top six stage finishes on his way to 4th overall in the points competition. The racing in Taiwan went right down to the final wire, with the race’s overall lead changing hands on the ultimate 3-kilometre climb to the finish at Yangminshan, where Sohrabi lost contact with the leaders, re-opening the door for his Austrian team-mate Eibegger to fend off McCann to take the final GC in the race. The team were due to start the Tour of Thailand this week, but at the last minute things fell through, so the Tour of Korea will be the next Asia Tour race, which starts in just over 2 weeks.
Hong Kong's Kwok Ho Ting Wins Gold in the Men's Track World Championship Scratch Race
Read the full report here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-track-world-championships-2011-cm/mens-scratch-race/results.
Champion System Pro Team Takes the Sprinter's Jersey in Stage 3 of the Tour of Taiwan!
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Champion System Pro Team Rider Matthias Friedemann Finishes 3rd at Koeln-Shuld-Frechen!
Champion System Athlete Ho Ting Kwok Takes Gold at Manchester Track World Cup Men's Scratch Omnium!
Read the full story here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci-track-world-cup-iv-cdm/day-2/results.
Champion System Customer Cannibal Velo's Jersey Featured In This Month's "Jersey of the Month" In Bicycling Magazine
Australian Jack Bobridge breaks the individual pursuit world record in a Champion System speedsuit!
When Jack Bobridge blazed to a time of 4:10.534 in the individual pursuit at the Australian Track Championships on Wednesday, he not only demolished the best time ever recorded in a 'standard position' by nearly three seconds, he bested one of the legendary world records in track cycling held by Chris Boardman for nearly 15 years.
Read the full article on cyclingnews.com
Champion System - Red Zone Junoir Cycling Team Rider Andrew Dillman Finishes Top American at the Junior World Cyclocross Championship!
Andrew Dillman, 16, of Fairdale, finished 21st at the World Cyclocross Championships in Sankt Wendel, Germany January 29th. His finish positioned him as the first American junior, aged 17-18, to finish from the United States. Drew was chosen to represent the United States by USA Cycling, the cycling governing body in Colorado Sprigs, Colorado and was only one of three young men chosen in this age category.
Drew is a long-standing member of the Red Zone Cycling Junior Development Team of Louisville, Kentucky and is a junior at Pleasure Ridge Park High School where he is part of the medical magnet program. His being named to the U.S. World Championship squad came on the heels of his 3rd place podium finish at the U.S. National Cyclocross Championships in Bend, Oregon in December and finishes at World Cup events in Europe in December and January.
Drew proved himself one of the strongest juniors representing the United States while in Belgium at EuroCrossCamp over the Christmas holidays, finishing the top American at the Grote Prijs Sven Nys Race, Zolder World Cup and the GVA Azencross Race, as well as, 4th at the B race in Beernem. He also finished the top American junior on January 20th in his World’s tune-up race in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Team Champion System Attacks First Race In Style With 100K Breakaway In Tour of Langkawi
Champion System Continental Team rider Deon Locke pulls through in 2-man 100k breakaway that would land him in 3rd place overall after stage 2.
Follow Team Champion System at the 2011 Tour of Langkawi at http://www.ltdl.com
Champion System Announces the Formation of Champion System UCI Continental Team!
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Champion System, a leader in custom technical apparel, is proud to announce the debut of a new professional cycling team. The team is registered as a UCI Continental Team in Hong Kong.
The 16 member team consists of riders from six different nations (Hong Kong, Estonia, Germany, Austria, Australia and Switzerland). The captain of the team is cycling veteran Jaan Kirsipuu, a former stage winner in the Tour de France as well as a former wearer of both the overall yellow leader jersey as well as the green sprint leader jersey. In 1998 and 1999 he was the number one ranked professional cyclist based on his total UCI victories. With a lightning fast sprint, even at the age 41, this seasoned pro will not only be counted on to win races but also as a mentor to the younger riders. In 2010 the Estonian sprinter was 3rd at the National Road Championships. In addition, Jaan appeared on the podium in prestigious stage races such as the Tour of China and the Tour of Thailand.
One of the primary goals of the team is to allow Asia’s top cyclists to compete in Europe at the highest level of the sport. Until now opportunities for Asian racers to compete in Europe have been rare. Team Champion System will now pave the way.
The team will be competing on Champion System frames, a new division of Champion System. Scott Kaylin, co-founder of Champion System, stated “We opted against any of the title sponsorship offers we received and instead decided to form a new company to produce Champion System frames. All the profits will go towards maintaining and growing our own pro team and hopefully additional Champion System teams. This puts us in a position of not worrying about finding sponsors every few years to keep the team going.
The team will make their racing debut at Tour de Langkawi, January 23-February 1.
Read Feature Article on VeloNews.com!
Team Max Gear / Champion System Wins the 2011 Revolution 32 Track Series!
The January edition of Revolution 32 saw a sold-out National Cycling Centre enjoy a night of packed track racing, as the Revolution championship heated up.
Maxgear Racing were awarded the Team Prize after their dominant performances throughout the season. Their young squad were consistent throughout and were aptly rewarded with the Revolution Season Championship.
Two More Champion System National Cross Champions!
Congratulations to Helen Wyman (Kona-FSA) and Stijn Huys (Champion System=LBS) on their victories at the National Cyclo-Cross Championships. Helen won the Elite Women’s Race at the British National Cyclo-Cross Championships and Stijn won the Elite Men Without Contract race at the Belgium National Cyclo-Cross Championships.
Congratulations to Champion System AthleteRyan Trebon on his second place finish at the US Cyclocross National Championship!
Champion System Athlete Wong Kam-Po Wins Gold in the Asia Games Road Race
Team HK's Wong Kam-Po became the winningest road cyclist in Asian Games history when he won his third individual road-race title yesterday, becoming the only rider to successfully defend the title.
Champion System Athlete Steven Wong Wins Gold Again in the 2010 Asian Games BMX Event!
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This is Steven's 5th consecutive gold medal at the games. Now that's domination. Great job Steven!
Check out the teaser video below
Team MaxGear / Champion System Wins Saturday's Round at the Revolution Track Series
Team MaxGear / Champion System took second in the first round and won Saturday's round at the prestigious Revolution Track Series against a world-class field containing riders from the likes of Team Sky professional cycling team. Keep up the good work guys!
Champion System Cyclocross Team Rider Nick Keough Wins Whitmore Landscape Super Cross Cup
Champion System Athlete Helen Wyman Featured on CyclingNews.com
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After a six year drought, Helen doubles up in Belgium
I've won races all over Europe before and even in America, but a cyclo-cross victory in Belgium had always eluded me. It’s never bothered me as I see every race I take part in as part of my apprenticeship in the sport and I've always been confident my time will come. Belgian cyclo-cross is the school of hard knocks where you are always racing the world’s best riders, generally on some of the most challenging courses you can imagine.
Champion System Athlete Sarah Lee Wai-sze wins gold in the 16th Asian Games!
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Track Cyclingst Sarah Lee Wai-sze gave Hong Kong a perfect start to the 16th Asian Games, breaking the Asian record and beating defending champion Guo Shuang of China to win th women's 500-meter time trial at the Guangzhou velodrome. Great Job Sarah!
Champion System Athlete Christian Heule Second place at C1 Cyclocross in Nommay, France
Champion System Athlete Cheung King Lok Takes Silver in the Men's Individual Pursuit Final.
Champion System CycloCross Rider Luke keough Leads the USGP Cyclocross U-23 Series
Check him out in his custom Champion System leader's skinsuit. Great job Luke!
Champion System Athlete Nick Keough featured in interview on podiuminsight.com!
Two years ago, a then 19-year old Nick Keough won the U23 overall at the 2008 Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross and seemed to be poised to take the world by storm. Then, the second-oldest of the five New England Keough brothers was challenged by crashes, injuries, an illness and bad luck.
Fast forward to now, where the now 21-year old who rides for Champion System p/b Keough Cyclocross is once again leading the Verge New England Championship Cyclo-Cross Series presented by Cycle-Smart.
Champion System Sweeps the Podium at the CycleSmart Invitational Cyclocross Race!
Team Champion System cyclocross rider Luke Keough won yesterday’s Cycle-Smart Invitational UCI race. Luke’s brother and fellow Team CS rider Nick Keough was 3rd. 2nd was Italy’s Luca Damiani who also races in a CS kit.
To see all the great pics go to: http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/the-cycle-smart-international-1-c2/elite-men/photos
Champion System Athlete Helen Wyman Wins Koppenburgcross!
British champion Helen Wyman (Kona) grabbed the biggest win of her career in the Koppenbergcross on Monday afternoon. The 29-year-old dealt best with the mud on the famous helling and held off the young Belgian champion Sanne Cant (BKCP-Powerplus) in an exciting mudfight. The battle for third place was won by Sanne van Paassen (Brainwash) ahead of her Dutch compatriot Daphny van den Brand (ZZPR.nl). Van Paassen remains in the lead in the general classification of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy.
Champion System Athlete Steven Wong Wins His 5th Straight Asian Championship Title!
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Champion System Sponsored Athletes Dominate Across the Country in This Weekend's Cross Races!
Big weekend just finished for CS Cyclo-Cross Riders in UCI Races around the country.
2nd place Ryan Trebon (left) and 3rd Christian Heule (right) in Washington state:
Champion System Cyclocross riders 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the Verge New England Series race in Vermont.
One of our sponsored teams (Cyfac-Champion System) was 2nd and 3rd in a UCI race in Baltimore
Team Mountain Khakis Pro Cycling Team takes the overall victory in the USA Crits Series... Again!
For the second straight year Team Mountain Khakis has secured victory in the USA CRITS National Series by winning the individual and team competitions. This year Isaac also added the U25 title to the teams’ accolades. The team competition was a formality as the team blew away any contenders. In the end there were 4 riders in the top 6 overall and the points differences became staggering.
Champion System Athlete Luke Keough Wins the Nittany Lion Cyclocross Race!
Cyclo-Cross season has officially begun and Team Champion System started the season right with a victory at the Nittany Lion Cyclocross Race (Pennsylvania), round 1 of the 2010 MAC Series. Luke Keough (Champion System) outsprinted Adam Myerson (Cycle-Smart) with Swiss rider Valentin Scherz (Cyfac/Champion System) taking third. Congrats Luke!
Champion System Athlete Jesse Anthony Victorious at Fesningsrittet after powerful team effort!
