AT85 Pro Cycling

AT85 Pro Cycling was a British UCI Continental cycling team founded in 2017 by sports director Tim Elverson.[2] The team folded on 17 March 2023.[3]

AT85 Pro Cycling
Team information
UCI codeRDW
RegisteredUnited Kingdom
Founded2017
Disbanded2023
Discipline(s)Road
StatusUCI Continental
BicyclesCanyon
WebsiteTeam home page
Key personnel
General managerTim Elverson[1]
Team name history
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
Bike Channel–Canyon
Canyon Eisberg
Canyon dhb p/b Bloor Homes
Canyon dhb p/b Soreen
Canyon dhb SunGod
WiV SunGod
AT85 Pro Cycling

Team History

The team formed as Bike Channel–Canyon in 2017. The team recorded three wins during its inaugural season, all at the Tour of Quanzhou Bay. Stage 1 was won by Harry Tanfield, with Rory Townsend taking the lead in the minor classifications.[4] Max Stedman won stage 2 of the race taking the lead on the Queen stage, he held the lead at the end of the following stage to win the race overall.[5]

On 1 January 2018, the team announced that Eisberg had stepped up its sponsorship to allow the team to function after Bike Channel went into administration.[6]

The team has enjoyed two hugely successful seasons. Some of the highlights of their 2018 campaign include Harry Tanfield winning stage one of the Tour de Yorkshire, which led to him being signed by World Tour team Team Katusha–Alpecin. The team won the overall title in the Tour Series, the UK's premier circuit racing championship. Charlie Tanfield became a world champion in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships team pursuit and won a gold medal in the individual pursuit at the Commonwealth Games. He was also crowned British under-23-time trial champion on the road. Ryan Christensen, Max Stedman, and Charlie Tanfield were selected to race at the under-23 UCI Road World Championships in Austria, the latter in the time trial. At the Tour of Britain, the team recorded three top-10 stage finishes, Max Stedman was 20th in the general classification, and Alex Paton won the Eisberg sprints jersey.

2019 was another successful year for the team with multiple UK and European podiums. Some highlights included winning the Tour Series overall title for a second year running, a top 10 in the Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Britain, as well as the Eisberg sprints jersey at the Tour of Britain for the second time.

In December 2020, Elverson announced that the team had acquired sponsorship from British sunglasses maker SunGod and that the team's name for the 2021 racing season would become Canyon dhb SunGod.[7]

Team roster
As of 14 July 2022.[8]
Rider Date of birth
 Toby Barnes (GBR) (2001-12-21) 21 December 2001
 Matthew Bostock (GBR) (1997-07-16) 16 July 1997
 Jim Brown (GBR) (2000-10-02) 2 October 2000
 Damien Clayton (GBR) (1992-07-30) 30 July 1992
 Matthew Gibson (GBR) (1996-09-02) 2 September 1996
 Gruffudd Lewis (GBR) (1987-11-11) 11 November 1987
 Euan Macleod (GBR) (2002-07-29) 29 July 2002
 Ben Perry (CAN) (1994-03-07) 7 March 1994
Rider Date of birth
 Jacob Scott (GBR) (1995-06-14) 14 June 1995
 Robert Scott (GBR) (1998-07-24) 24 July 1998
 Matthew Teggart (IRE) (1996-01-08) 8 January 1996
 Rory Townsend (GBR) (1995-06-30) 30 June 1995
 Josh Whitehead (GBR) (2000-06-01) 1 June 2000
 Oliver Wood (GBR) (1995-11-26) 26 November 1995
 Reece Wood (GBR) (1998-05-28) 28 May 1998

Major results
2017
Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
Stage 1, Harry Tanfield
Stage 2, Max Stedman
2018
Stage 1 Tour de Yorkshire, Harry Tanfield
Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay, Max Stedman
Stage 2, Max Stedman
Eisberg Sprints Jersey Winner Tour of Britain, Alex Paton
2019
Arno Wallaard Memorial, Alexandar Richardson
Stage 3 Tour de la Mirabelle, Daniel Pearson
Stage 4 Tour de la Mirabelle, Alexandar Richardson
Sprints classification Tour of Britain, Rory Townsend
Stages 2 & 4 Tour of Fuzhou, Rory Townsend
2020
Tour of Antalya, Max Stedman
2021
Stage 1 Tour de la Mirabelle, Rory Townsend
2022
Stage 1b Olympia's Tour, Matthew Gibson
Stage 4 Olympia's Tour, Jim Brown
Overall Tour de la Mirabelle, Robert Scott
Stage 3, Robert Scott
Stage 4, Matthew Bostock
Paris–Troyes, Robert Scott
 Ireland National Road Race Championships, Rory Townsend

National, continental, world, and Olympic champions
2018
British U23 Time Trial, Charlie Tanfield
Team pursuit, UCI Track World Championships Charlie Tanfield
Commonwealth Games
Individual pursuit Charlie Tanfield

References
  1. "Bike Channel and Canyon join forces for British-registered Continental team". cyclingnews.com. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. "Bike Channel–Canyon". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  3. Tom Thewlis (17 March 2023). "Long-standing British team AT85 Pro Cycling collapses". cyclingweekly.com. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  4. "British cyclist wins opening stage at Tour of Quanzhou Bay". www.xinhuanet.com. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  5. "British cyclist grabs the leader jersey on queen stage of Tour of Quanzhou Bayn". www.xinhuanet.com. 3 December 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  6. "Eisberg step up as headline partner". January 2018.
  7. Bonville-Ginn, Tim (1 December 2020). "'I'm fully expecting to put 2020 behind us': Canyon-dhb announce new title sponsor for 2021". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  8. "Canyon dhb SunGod". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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