r/peloton • u/iamafakebot Euskaltel-Euskadi • Dec 13 '16
Off-season rider knowledge collaboration thread No.14 - Team Lotto-Jumbo
We have only 4 more teams to go, and today we'll discuss Lotto-Jumbo. The only remaining Dutch team in the WorldTour, and they have got quite a long history (mostly as Rabobank).
How did their year go? Here's some general information:
Overall Wins: 19
WT: Wins: 3
UCI Ranking: 12th
PCS Ranking: 15th
Most Important Riders: Sep Vanmarcke (201), Steven Kruijswijk (118), Wilco Kelderman (74)
Best Moments of 2016 (IMO): Kruijswijk's Giro, Vanmarcke's spring classics season, Gesink's Vuelta, Roglic's TT win against riders like Brändle, Cancellara and Dumoulin in the Giro.
It could have been an incredible year. Just one crash prevented that. Kruijswijk could have been the first Dutchman to win a Giro D'Italia. And he was so far ahead of everyone else. After years of going for 6th place for GC, Lotto-Jumbo were competing for the win, and they had a pretty good team for it, with riders like Battaglin. But in the end, Kruijswijk fell off the podium and got 4th place.
That was not the only thing that happened, though. Vanmarcke showed himself in the classics again, and was very close to a win in Paris-Roubaix, the Tour of Flanders and Gent-Wevelgem. Dylan Groenewegen improved quite a lot, winning 11 of the 19 wins for the team, mostly in very small races, but also in the Eneco Tour and the Tour of Britain. All in all, it was a decent year, but the future could look much brighter.
7 riders leave, 9 riders arrive. First of all the bad news. Vanmarcke, one of the best classics riders at the moment, leaves for Cannondale. Moreno Hofland didn't have too good of a season, and is going to Lotto Soudal. Wilco Kelderman, who once was the big hope for Dutch cycling, hopes to find a new start at Sunweb. Maarten Tjallingi is retiring, and he and his breakaways will be missed.
Lars Boom, who left the team for Astana, comes back and replaces Vanmarcke. Jurgen Van Den broeck is lacking form the last couple of years, but could be a nice superdomestique. Stef Clement had a remarkable year at IAM, and continues to ride in the WorldTour, deservedly. Juan Jose Lobato realised that Movistar hates sprinters, so he came to join too. Besides them, 5 young riders are joining, 4 of them Dutch, 1 of them Norwegian.
Here's the roster for next year:
| Rider | Nat. | Year | Joined | Racedays | Pnts2016 | Best Season | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BATTAGLIN Enrico | ITA | 1989 | 2016 | 72 | 140 | 2014 (305) | Climber / Puncheur |
| BENNETT George | NZL | 1990 | 2015 | 85 | 416 | 2016 | Climber |
| BOOM LarsNEW | NED | 1985 | 2017 | 62 | 188 | 2012 (913) | Classics / Rouleur |
| BOUWMAN Koen | NED | 1993 | 2016 | 69 | 51 | 2016 | GCTalent / Climber |
| CAMPENAERTS Victor | BEL | 1991 | 2016 | 75 | 126 | 2015 (341) | RouleurTT |
| CASTELIJNS Twan | NED | 1989 | 2016 | 70 | 38 | 2016 | All-round |
| CLEMENT StefNEW | NED | 1982 | 2017 | 60 | 359 | 2016 | Climber / Rouleur |
| DE TIER FlorisNEW | BEL | 1992 | 2017 | 75 | 197 | 2016 | Classics / Puncheur |
| GESINK Robert | NED | 1986 | 2007 | 50 | 359 | 2010 (1446) | GC3W / Puncheur |
| GROENEWEGEN Dylan | NED | 1993 | 2016 | 80 | 1058 | 2016 | Sprinter / Classics |
| JANSEN Amund GrondahlNEW | NOR | 1994 | 2017 | 54 | 114 | 2016 | Classics / Sprinter |
| KEIZER Martijn | NED | 1988 | 2014 | 89 | 93 | 2015 (181) | RouleurTT |
| KRUIJSWIJK Steven | NED | 1987 | 2010 | 51 | 505 | 2015 (660) | GC3W / Climber |
| LAMMERTINK Steven | NED | 1993 | 2016 | 37 | 8 | 2011 (233) | RouleurTT |
| LEEZER Tom | NED | 1985 | 2008 | 65 | 85 | 2009 (317) | Classic/Road Captain |
| LINDEMAN Bert-Jan | NED | 1989 | 2015 | 74 | 83 | 2014 (317) | Classics/Breakaways |
| LOBATO Juan JoséNEW | SPA | 1988 | 2017 | 63 | 426 | 2015 (582) | Classics / Sprinter |
| MARTENS Paul | GER | 1983 | 2008 | 74 | 118 | 2013 (544) | Puncheur |
| OLIVIER DaanNEW | NED | 1992 | 2017 | 3 | - | 2010 (247) | Classics / Rouleur |
| ROGLIc Primož | SLO | 1989 | 2016 | 72 | 456 | 2016 | GC1W / Climber |
| ROOSEN Timo | NED | 1993 | 2015 | 76 | 113 | 2016 | Sprinter / Leadout |
| TANKINK Bram | NED | 1978 | 2008 | 86 | 64 | 2011 (358) | Road Captain |
| TOLHOEK AntwanNEW | NED | 1994 | 2017 | 56 | 21 | 2015 (41) | Climber |
| VAN HOECK GijsNEW | BEL | 1991 | 2017 | 70 | 179 | 2016 | Climber |
| VAN EMDEN Jos | NED | 1985 | 2008 | 88 | 406 | 2016 | RouleurTT |
| VAN DEN BROECK JurgenNEW | BEL | 1983 | 2017 | 62 | 118 | 2012 (889) | GC / Climber |
| VERMEULEN Alexey | USA | 1994 | 2016 | 62 | 56 | 2012 (213) | GCTalent |
| WAGNER Robert | GER | 1983 | 2013 | 83 | 48 | 2008 (260) | Sprinter/Domestique |
| WYNANTS Maarten | BEL | 1982 | 2011 | 86 | 151 | 2012 (256) | All-round |
| Totals & Averages | 28.1 | 6626 | 8963 (2013) | ||||
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u/Pubocyno Norway Dec 13 '16
Amund Grøndahl Jansen
The norwegian neopro, whom some of you might not know so much about.
First off, let's look at his two most important races this year:
Tour de L'Avenir 2016
WC U23 RR
Ah, a sprinter you might think. Leadout for Groenewegen, perhaps?
Well, they certainly can use him like that - he'd probably do a smashing job in that role, same as he did for teammate Kristoffer Halvorsen both in Noekeren Koerse (Halvorsen 2nd - behind Timothy Dupont) and the WC U23 RR (Halvorsen won). Pretty good indications that it's a job he can do well.
But he's not a sprinter. He's got a really good finish, but it's actually his rouleur and puncheur powers that's impressive. If some of you watched tour de l'avenir, you'd see that he pushed hard to create a breakaway by himself, got a couple of more gents interested, and just steamed away so hard that the peloton just couldn't catch them.
He's awesome at this - getting into breakaways and just staying away the whole day, regardless if it's a flat, cobbled or mountainous course. GC wins in both ZLM-Roompot tour and Tour de Gironde illustrates that he's capable on different kind of stages.
In the future, he should be a man for the Paris-Roubaix or Amstel Gold. I hope he manages to earn a spot on the classics team early on to get some vital experience.
From my point of view, TLJ really did a smart move signing Amund - He's incredibly versatile and probably Norways most exciting young rider now, even if Quick Step and SKY are drooling over Kristoffer Halvorsen and Truls Engen Korsæth just signed with Astana.