Suunto-supported professional cycling team HTC Columbia have notched up early season victories across Europe and North America.
Austrian Bernhard Eisel won the first of the Spring Classic races, the Gent-Wevelgem, outsprinting his five other breakaway companions at the end of the 219km event.
Eisel, who like the rest of the team train with SRM compatible Suunto t6c heart rate monitors, said it was the biggest win of his career and that before this year’s March 28 running he “never liked this race.”
Sprint star Mark Cavendish (GBR) won a stage at Spain’s Tour of Catalunya in March, while Michael Rogers won the overall classification at the Tour of Andalusia at the end of February.
Meanwhile German Ina-Yoko Teutenberg has been racking up triumphs for the women’s team, winning a stage and overall classification at the three-day San Dimas, USA race held on March 19-21.
She repeated the feat at the Redlands Bicycle Classic in California the following week where American rider Evelyn Stevens topped up the tally with victory on the final stage.
Both the men and women’s teams will spend much of April racing in Belgium, the Netherlands and France as they tackle the remainder of the tough Spring Classics section of the season.
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