Denk’s road to glor y
A timeline of Ralph Denk’s pro team development
2005
Former Bavarian mountain bike champion Ralph Denk starts a mountain bike team. Giant Racing enjoy a couple of seasons of success.
2007
Founds project for young road talent. Previously called Quest Ralphdenkteam the under team continues to this day as Team Grenkeauto Eder.
2010
Creates senior squad Team Netapp that enters at Continental level. Austrian Daniel Schorn records their first victory winning Stage of the Tour de Normandie.
2013
Team Netapp and Britishbased Endura Racing merge to form Netappendura.
2014
Netappendura debut at Tour de France. They’ll have to wait three years for their first Tour stage victory taken by Peter Sagan. Kitchen appliance specialist Bora announces on the eve of the Tour it will take over headline sponsorship from.
2017
Shower manufacturer Hansgrohe takes on joint headline sponsorship helping the team secure Sagan from the remnants of Tinkoffsaxo. The Slovak takes wins including the World Championships. Ireland’s Sam Bennett adds a further nine victories to the team’s season tally of.
2018
Sagan wins the points jersey at the Tour which he’ll retain the following year. He also records the team’s biggest victory to date at Parisroubaix.
2019
Borahansgrohe rack up wins to finish the season ranked second. To this day it’s their highest tally. Emanuel Buchmann surprises all with fourth at the Tour.
2021
Wilco Kelderman’s fifth at the Tour plus Felix Grosschartner’s th at the Vuelta a España highlights an increasing focus on the Grand Tours.
2022
Australia’s Jai Hindley wins the team’s first GC title with victory at the Giro d’italia. Aleksandr Vlasov’s fifth in France signals their full transition to a GC team.
2024
Red Bull acquires % of the team. Primož Roglic will lead their strongest assault yet on the Tour de France.