IBCT (cycling team)

IBCT
Team information
UCI codeILB (2019–2020)
RUP (2021)
IBC (2022–)
RegisteredIreland
Founded2018 (2018)
Discipline(s)Road
StatusNational (2019–2020)
UCI Women's Continental Team (2021–)
Team name history
2019–2020
2021
2022
Illi-Bikes Cycling Team
Team Rupelcleaning–Champion Lubricants[1]
IBCT

IBCT is a Belgian-based, Irish-registered women's road cycling team that was founded in 2018. In its first season in 2019, the team won the Belgian Cup.[2] Following the 2020 season,[3] that was extensively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the team announced their intention to become a UCI Women's Continental Team for the 2021 season.[4]

  1. ^ Fruyt, Hans (16 December 2020). "Illi-Bikes CT wordt Team Rupelcleaning-Champion Lubricants en wil het Vlaamse voorjaar rijden" [Illi-Bikes CT becomes Team Rupelcleaning-Champion Lubricants and wants to ride in the Flemish spring]. Het Laatste Nieuws (in Dutch). DPG Media. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  2. ^ Ilegems, Ken (18 October 2020). "Big news!". Illi-Bikes. WordPress. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. ^ "CQ Ranking - Illi-Bikes Cycling Team - 2020".
  4. ^ Gachet, Nicolas (18 October 2020). "Illi-Bikes va monter en Continentale" [Illi-Bikes will go up to Continental]. Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 22 December 2020.