Liv Racing TeqFind (UCI code: LIV) was a women's professional cycling team, based in the Netherlands. The title sponsor is Liv, a sub-brand of Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer

Giant Bicycles Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (commonly known as Giant) is a Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer, recognized as the world's largest bicycle designer and manufacturer. Giant has manufacturing facilities in Taiwan, the Netherlands, China and Hungary. Th ...

. The team's

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is Eric van den Boom. Riders for Liv Racing compete in the

UCI Women's World Tour The UCI Women's World Tour is the premier annual female elite road cycling tour. , the tour includes 27 events in Europe, Asia and Oceania – with one-day races such as Strade Bianche Donne and Paris–Roubaix Femmes, stage races such as Wo ...

and other Elite Women's Cycling events throughout the world.

History of the team

2009

2012

The team's first win of the season came in the

Ronde van Drenthe Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professiona ...

where

Marianne Vos Marianne Vos (; born 13 May 1987) is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . After winning a junior European and World Championship in road racing, she continued her success in senior c ...

claimed victory. The team's first overall General classification win came at the

Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs The Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs formerly known as the Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs is an international women's road bicycle race held in Garnich, Luxembourg. The race was first held in 2008 as a one-day race. Between 200 ...

, again being won by Vos, along with a stage;

Annemiek van Vleuten Annemiek van Vleuten (; born 8 October 1982) is a retired Dutch professional Bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Van Vleuten is twice a winner of both the UCI Road World Cha ...

also won the prologue and a stage. Vos went on to win five stages of the

2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile The 2012 Giro d'Italia Femminile, or Giro Donne, was the 23rd running of the Giro d'Italia Femminile, the most prestigious stage race on the women's road cycling calendar. It was held over nine stages from 29 June to 7 July 2012, starting in Naples ...

, as well as the General classification. Vos followed this by winning the General classification of the

Tour Féminin en Limousin The Tour Féminin en Limousin is an elite women's road bicycle stage race held in France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include F ...

. Vos continued her strong run of wins claiming the 2012 Olympic Games road race in London. The final wins for the team came at the Holland Ladies Tour where Vos won the General classification and took two stage wins. Vos later won the 2012 UCI World Championship road race.

2013

Marianne Vos opened the team's account securing victory in the 2013 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship. The team's first road win of the season came at the

Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo Ronde van Drenthe () was an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Drenthe, Netherlands and sanctioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union. The women's event was part of the UCI Women's World Tour, and t ...

, with Vos claiming victory. Vos went on to win the Ronde van Drenthe and

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...

. Like the previous season the first overall General classification win came at the Festival Luxembourgeois du cyclisme féminin Elsy Jacobs, with Vos winning the General classification, Points classification and taking a stage win. Like the previous year, Annemiek van Vleuten won the opening prologue. Vos continued her winning streak in one day races taking out wins in the Rabobank 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg and

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. Vos failed to retain her 2013 Giro title, losing to

Mara Abbott Mara Katherine Abbott (born November 14, 1985) is an American former women's bicycle racer. In 2010, Abbott became the first US cyclist ever to win the Giro d'Italia Femminile, one of the Grand Tours of women's bicycle racing. Abbott retired aft ...

, but did claim the Points classification and three stages. Vos also claimed overall victory in

Trophée d'Or Féminin Trophée d'Or Féminin was a women's Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Medit ...

2014

The 2014 season marked a different start to the season for the team. Marianne Vos started her road season late, leaving the team to support other riders in the opening races of the year.

Lucinda Brand Lucinda Brand (born 2 July 1989) is a Dutch Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam in road racing, and UCI Cyclo-cross Pro Team in cyclo-cross. After four years with , in August 2016 announced that B ...

won the team's first General classification of the year at the Energiewacht Tour.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (born 10 February 1992) is a French multi-discipline bicycle racer, who rides for UCI Women's World Tour team Visma–Lease a Bike Ferrand-Prévot has also competed in Mountain Biking and cyclo-cross during her career ...

won the

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with

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claiming victory at the

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. Van der Breggen then claimed overall victory at the

with Vos winning the Points classification and Ferrand-Prévot taking both the Mountains and Young rider classifications. Vos then claimed overall victory at the inaugural Women's Tour in Great Britain. The team won further races at the

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for Ferrand-Prevot and the 2014 Giro d'Italia Femminile for Vos. Vos followed this up by winning the inaugural

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2015

In January the team scored first and third in the UCI World Cyclo-cross championships, with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and

respectively. This was the year that saw Vos in recovery mode taking most of the year off due to injury. In the first European road race of the season, the

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, the team rode very strongly. With to go,

escaped together with

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() from a front group of 15 riders on the ''Molenberg''. The duo extended their advantage over the cobbled sections that followed, holding off the chase group to the line, where van der Breggen won the two-up sprint. In December 2015 Rabobank announced that it would end its sponsorship of professional sport at the end of 2016, forcing the team to find a new sponsor.

2016

In November 2016 the team announced that it would be known as in 2017, signing a five-year sponsorship deal with WM3 Energie, a company based in the Netherlands. The team replaced , whose sponsorship ceased at the end of 2016.

led the roster that included

Anouska Koster Anouska Helena Koster (born 20 August 1993) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Major results ;2011 : 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2014 : 5th Road race, UEC European ...

Katarzyna Niewiadoma Katarzyna "Kasia" Niewiadoma Phinney (; born 29 September 1994) is a Polish bicycle racing, racing cyclist who rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . Among her eighteen professional wins are the Tour de France Femmes in 2024 Tour d ...

Valentina Scandolara Valentina Scandolara (born 1 May 1990) is an Italian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . Career Scandolara was born in Soave. She showed great talent in sports from a very early age, winning three Nationa ...

Yara Kastelijn Yara Kastelijn (born 9 August 1997) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team Credishop–Fristads, and in road cycling for UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2019, she won the elite race at the European ...

, Jeanne Korevaar,

Moniek Tenniglo Moniek Tenniglo (born 2 May 1988) is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Personal life Tenniglo is currently in a relationship with fellow cyclist Marianne Vos, who disclosed their relationshi ...

Rotem Gafinovitz Rotem Gafinovitz (; born 9 June 1992) is an Israeli road cyclist, who rides for Hess Cycling Team. She participated at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships. Through May 2024, she had won six UCI races in her career, and had won the Israeli nat ...

Anna Plichta Anna Plichta (born 10 February 1992) is a Polish former bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for five different teams. She rode at the UCI Road World Championships every year between 2014 UCI Road World Ch ...

Lauren Kitchen Lauren Rollin (born 21 November 1990) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2021. A female road cyclist from New South Wales, Australia, Rollin studied a Bachelor of Planning at the Univer ...

, and

Riejanne Markus Riejanne Ockeloen-Markus (born 1 September 1994) is a Dutch professional bicycle racing, racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's WorldTeam . In 2022, Markus won the Dutch National Road Race Championships. A year late ...

2017

started the year riding in Cyclo-Cross competitions winning eight of the twelve races she entered. She won the 2017 Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championships for the sixth time. She placed second at the

2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships The 2017 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships were the World Championship for cyclo-cross for the season 2016–17. It was held in Belvaux, Bieles in Luxembourg on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 January 2017. The championships featured five events; men' ...

in Bieles, Luxembourg on January 28. In October, the team announced that WaowDeals would join the team as naming-sponsor, with WM3 remaining with the team as a secondary sponsor after agreeing a five-year deal with the team in the winter of 2016.

Team roster

Major wins

National, continental, world and Olympic champions

;2006 :

World Road Race, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2007 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Scratch race), Marianne Vos : Belgian Road Race, Ludivine Henrion ;2008 : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Track (Points race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos : Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht ;2009 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2010 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Marianne Vos : Belgian Road Race, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Loes Gunnewijk ;2011 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

Track Cycling World (Scratch race), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2012 : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Road Race, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Marianne Vos : Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Madison), Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Track (Madison), Roxane Knetemann ;2013 : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : MaillotFra

French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand : Belgian Road, Liesbet De Vocht : MaillotSuiza

Swiss U23 XC, Jolanda Neff : MaillotFra

French U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Belgian Time Trial, Liesbet De Vocht : Jersey rainbow

World U23 XC, Jolanda Neff : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2014 : MaillotFra

French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 XC, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Annemiek van Vleuten : MaillotFra

French Time Trial, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotFra

French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Iris Slappendel : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Sabrina Stultiens : MaillotFra

French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Cyclo-cross, Sabrina Stultiens : MaillotAllemania

German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer ;2015 : MaillotAustralia

Australian Time Trial, Shara Gillow : MaillotFra

French Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotAllemania

German Track (Points race), Anna Knauer : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Time Trial, Anna Van der Breggen : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Lucinda Brand : MaillotFra

French Road Race, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : UEC Champion Jersey

European U23 Road Race, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : MaillotFra

French MTB, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World MTB (XCO), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : Jersey rainbow

World MTB (Team relay XC), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot : MaillotAllemania

German Track (Omnium), Anna Knauer ;2016 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Thalita de Jong : Jersey rainbow

World Cyclo-cross, Thalita de Jong : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Road Race, Anouska Koster : MaillotPolonia

Poland Time Trial, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : MaillotPolonia

Poland Road Race, Katarzyna Niewiadoma : European champion jersey 2016

European Road Race, Anna Van der Breggen : Gold medal olympic

Olympic Road Race, Anna Van der Breggen ;2017 : MaillotHolanda

Dutch Cyclo-cross, Marianne Vos : European champion jersey 2016

European Road Race, Marianne Vos ;2019 : South Africa Road Race, Ashleigh Moolman : African Continental Champion Jersey

Africa Continental Time Trial, Ashleigh Moolman ;2020 : South Africa Time Trial, Ashleigh Moolman ;2021 : Belgian Time Trial, Lotte Kopecky : Belgian Road Race, Lotte Kopecky : MaillotCan

Canadian Time Trial, Alison Jackson : MaillotCan

Canadian Road Race, Alison Jackson : Jersey rainbow

World Track (Points race), Lotte Kopecky : European champion jersey 2016

European Mountainbike (Beachrace), Pauliena Rooijakkers ;2022 : Czech Road Race, Tereza Neumanova

Team Ranking

Notes

References

External links

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