# Kasper Asgreen

Kasper Asgreen (born 8 February 1995) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost. Asgreen won the 2021 Tour of Flanders by defeating Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint finish.

## Early life

Asgreen was born in Kolding in the south of Denmark. He competed in dressage up to the age of 14, before joining Kolding Cycling Club.

## Career

Asgreen signed for Danish Continental cycling team Team Waoo in 2016. In the same year, he finished second in the U23 event at the Danish National Time Trial Championships, as well as finishing second in the senior event. In 2017, he won the U23 time trial at the Danish National Championships, alongside the U23 event at the European Road Championships.
Asgreen signed for World Tour team Quick-Step Floors in April 2018 and began riding with the team in the same month. Following strong performances in his first few races, including at the Scheldeprijs where he helped team-mate Fabio Jakobsen to victory, he was named on the start list of the 2018 Vuelta a España. He was also part of the Quick-Step team which won the Team Time Trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.
In 2019, Asgreen finished second in the Tour of Flanders on his race debut, the only rider to escape a chasing group behind race leader Alberto Bettiol. He also won the second stage of the 2019 Tour of California after accelerating on the final turn from a group containing Tejay Van Garderen and Gianni Moscon, plus a stage at the Deutschland Tour. Later in the year, he won his first title in the Men's Senior event at the Danish National Time Trial Championships.
In March 2020, Asgreen won the Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne race by a margin of three seconds from the peloton, after bridging across to an existing breakaway earlier in the race. He also retained his title at the Danish National Time Trial Championships, as well as the Road Race, accelerating away from Andreas Kron to take victory by nine seconds.
Asgreen began his 2021 season with a victory at the E3 Saxo Bank Classic, attacking with five kilometres to go after having participated in a previous breakaway. A week later, he claimed his first monument win at the 2021 Tour of Flanders, beating race favourite Mathieu van der Poel in a sprint after the pair rode clear together. He also won the Danish National Time Trial for the third consecutive year.
After a 2022 season destroyed by injuries, illness and secondary results, Asgreen was back to winning ways at the Danish National Time Trial Championships in 2023, winning it for the fourth time in five years.
A month later at the 2023 Tour de France, Asgreen won the 18th stage after a 187 km breakaway. Then in the following 19th stage, he placed second, also after a long breakaway, losing to Matej Mohoric by about one inch and thus just barely failing to accomplish the feat of winning two consecutive Tour de France breakaway stages.

## Major results
### 2014

    5th Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2016

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd GP Viborg
    3rd Overall Tour de Berlin
    5th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships

### 2017

    1st Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st GP Viborg
    1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir
    6th Duo Normand (with Niklas Larsen)
    7th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships

### 2018

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Adriatica Ionica Race
    2nd Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
       1st Stage 1
    4th Time trial, National Road Championships
    6th Trofeo Laigueglia

### 2019 (3 pro wins)

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Stage 3 Deutschland Tour
    2nd Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
    2nd Tour of Flanders
    3rd Overall Tour of California
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2

### 2020 (3)

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    9th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

### 2021 (4)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Tour of Flanders
    1st E3 Saxo Bank Classic
    3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    4th Druivenkoers Overijse
    7th Time trial, Olympic Games
    7th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

### 2022

    3rd Strade Bianche
    6th Amstel Gold Race
    10th E3 Saxo Bank Classic

### 2023 (3)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 18 Tour de France
    1st Mountains classification, Volta ao Algarve
    2nd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
    6th Overall Okolo Slovenska
       1st Stage 5
    7th Tour of Flanders

### 2024

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    6th Overall Tour of Belgium
    8th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | 122 | 114 | 64 | DNF | 87 | — |
| Vuelta a España | 134 | — | — | — | — | — | 120 |

### Classics results timeline

| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | 72 | 99 | — | 36 | 16 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | 2 | 13 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 47 |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | 50 | NH | 68 | 44 | DNF | 88 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | — | 35 | 49 | 76 | — | DNF |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | 31 | 1 | 34 | 84 | — | 88 |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | DNF | 25 | 3 | — | 40 |
| E3 Saxo Bank Classic | — | 48 | NH | 1 | 10 | 51 | 77 |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | 11 | — | 32 | 93 | 54 |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 143 | NH | 30 | — | — | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | — | 27 | Not held | Not held | — | — | — |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | 20 | Not held | Not held | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |