Kasper Asgreen

Kasper Asgreen (born 8 February 1995) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . 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 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 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
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Classics results timeline
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kolding
Danish male cyclists
Danish Tour de France stage winners
Olympic cyclists for Denmark
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from the Region of Southern Denmark