Casper Philip Pedersen (born 15 March 1996) is a road and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

from Denmark, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2015 he competed at the

2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18� ...

in the men's omnium. He won the bronze medal in the team pursuit at the

2015 UEC European Track Championships The 2015 UEC European Track Championships was the sixth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland, between 14 and 18 October. The Event was organised by ...

in Grenchen, Switzerland. In September 2018 announced that Pedersen would join them on a three-year deal from 2019, initially with a role as a domestique in the Flanders classics and the team's sprint train. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the

2019 Vuelta a España The 2019 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain, Andorra and France between 24 August and 15 September 2019. The race was the 74th edition of the Vuelta a España and is the final Grand Tour of t ...

. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the

2020 Tour de France The 2020 Tour de France was the 107th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. Originally scheduled to start on 27 June 2020, it was postponed until 29 August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in F ...

Major results

Road

;2014 : 2nd Paris–Roubaix Juniors ;2015 : 3rd Scandinavian Race Uppsala ;2016 : 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 7th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23 ;2017 : 1st European champion jersey 2016

Road race, UEC European Under-23 Championships : 1st

GP Horsens The GP Horsens is an annual one day cycling race held near Horsens, Denmark. It was previously part of the UCI Europe Tour, as a category 1.2 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world's governing body in the sport of bicycle racing, cl ...

: 1st Stage 2 Flèche du Sud : 2nd Fyen Rundt : 2nd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23 : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 3rd Overall Danmark Rundt ::1st Stage 1 : 10th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites ;2018 : 5th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

::1st

Young rider classification ;2020 : 1st

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m, ...

;2021 : 6th Overall

Okolo Slovenska Okolo Slovenska ( en, Tour of Slovakia; french: Tour de Slovaquie) is an annual road cycling stage race in Slovakia. Founded in 1954, since 2017 it has been rated as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is a stage race that usually includes ...

;2023 : 1st Figueira Champions Classic : 3rd Overall Tour of Belgium : 4th Trofeo Calvia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Track

;2013 : 3rd Bronze medal blank

Omnium, UCI World Junior Championships ;2014 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Omnium, UCI World Junior Championships : 3rd Team pursuit,

UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale: * UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004) * UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015) * UCI Mountain Bike World Cup * UCI Track Cycling World Cup ...

, London ;2015 : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Team pursuit, UEC European Championships ;2016 : 2nd Team pursuit,

, Hong Kong ;2017 :

::1st Team pursuit, Cali ::2nd Madison (with Julius Johansen), Los Angeles ::2nd Team pursuit, Manchester : 2nd Silver medal europe

Madison (with Niklas Larsen), UEC European Championships

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pedersen, Casper Philip 1996 births Danish male cyclists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Danish track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Denmark Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Copenhagen