Team Jayco–AlUla (men's team)

Team Jayco–AlUla
	The team at the 2022 Rund um Köln
Team information
Registered	Australia
Founded	2011
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles	Scott (2011–2020); Bianchi (2021); Giant (2022–)
Components	Shimano
Website	Team home page
Team name history
2012	GreenEDGE Cycling (GEC)
2012–2016	Orica–GreenEDGE (OGE)
2016	Orica–BikeExchange (OBE)
2017	Orica–Scott (ORS)
2018–2020	Mitchelton–Scott (MTS)
2021	Team BikeExchange (BEX)
2022	Team BikeExchange–Jayco (BEX)
2023–	Team Jayco–AlUla (JAY)
	Current season

Team Jayco–AlUla (UCI team code: JAY) is an Australian professional road race cycling team. Launched in January 2011, it competes at UCI WorldTeam level. The team was formed under the management of Andrew Ryan and Shayne Bannan, with Neil Stephens and Matt White^[1] as Sporting Directors.^[2] The team rides Giant bicycles, and wear Giordana Cycling clothing and Scott eyewear.^[3]

The team has financial backing from Australian businessman Gerry Ryan^[4] who owns Jayco.^[5] The current (2023-24) co-sponsor is the Saudi Arabian city of al-Ula.

The team has a women's team and supports its riders competing in track cycling.^[6] In 2017 a development team, Mitchelton–BikeExchange was established.^[7]

In June 2016, ahead of the 2016 Tour de France the team announced BikeExchange, an Australian cycling retailer, was stepping up as a title sponsor of the team.^[8] Team owner Gerry Ryan had previously sought to secure further sponsorship after Orica announced it would stop sponsoring the team after the 2017 season.^[9] From 2018 until 2020, the team was known as Mitchelton–Scott, with Ryan's Mitchelton Wines as a major sponsor.^[10]

History

Formation

The team was launched as 'GreenEDGE Cycling' on 17 January 2011 in Adelaide, South Australia, and signed a full complement of 30 riders. On 6 December 2011, the team was admitted by the UCI to the 2012 and 2013 World Tour seasons.^[11]^[12]

Orica, a multinational company that provides chemicals and explosives for the mining industry, was GreenEDGE's title sponsor.^[13] The team attracted Scott Sports^[14] as a bicycle supplier and Santini Maglificio Sportivo as suppliers of apparel.^[3]

2012

In January 2012, GreenEDGE made its debut in the Bay Classic Series in Victoria, Australia. Allan Davis won the men's classification racing for GreenEDGE's second team in the race, Mitchelton Wines/Lowe Farms, while Melissa Hoskins won the women's event.^[15] The following week Simon Gerrans won the Australian National Road Race Championships in Buninyong. He was one of 16 GreenEDGE riders in the race. Luke Durbridge won the time trial title ahead of GreenEDGE team-mate Cameron Meyer.^[16]^[17]^[18]

At the end of January, Gerrans won the Tour Down Under, picking up victory for GreenEDGE in its first World Tour event.^[19] The team won their first major European race in the team time trial of Tirreno–Adriatico^[20] following a near miss from Gerrans during Paris–Nice.^[21] GreenEDGE then won their first monument when, again, Simon Gerrans won Milan–San Remo in a 3 up sprint after following the key move over the top of the final climb.^[22]

2013

Going into the 2013 season, Orica–GreenEDGE started at the Bay Classic Series in Victoria, Australia. Luke Durbridge won stage 2 and Mitchell Docker won the third and final stage. Defending Champion in the Women's Event Melissa Hoskins defended her title and picked up her first win in stage 3 of the Women's event.

With the defending champions in the Men's and Women's Time Trial and Road Race in the Australian National Road Race Championships Orica–GreenEDGE had high expectations to meet. Luke Durbridge went out and won the Time Trial on day one. Cameron Meyer followed that up with a solo break in the criterium. With the defending champion Simon Gerrans the favourite in the road race they were set for a clean sweep.

Luke Durbridge was part of an early break in the first few kilometers. As the race progressed the other riders of the break dropped off. Luke Durbridge rode the final lap and a half solo to win by over 1 minute. New signing for 2013 Michael Matthews sprinted home to make it a one-two and a clean sweep of the Nationals.

Orica–GreenEDGE had a very successful start to the 2013 Tour de France. After avoiding much of the carnage of the first two stages, Simon Gerrans won the 3rd stage. The next day, in the team time trial, Orica–GreenEDGE took out the stage by beating Omega Pharma–Quick-Step by 0.75 of a second. In the process, Gerrans took possession of the yellow jersey as the new race leader and held it for 2 days, then gave it up to teammate Daryl Impey for an additional two days.

2014

The team started the 2014 with success, tasting overall victory at the inaugural round of the 2014 UCI World Tour, the Tour Down Under – courtesy of Simon Gerrans. New recruit Adam Yates secured his first classification win with the young riders classification at the Tour de San Luis. Simon Clarke took the second overall victory, winning the Herald Sun Tour. In the remainder of the spring season, the team won a smattering of victories at the Tour of the Basque Country, Tour de Romandie, and Tour of Turkey. The team's most notable wins of the spring again came courtesy of Gerrans, who took victory at Liège–Bastogne–Liège. Adam Yates continued his good early season form, winning the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey, his first pro GC victory.

Entering the first Grand Tour of the year, the Giro d'Italia, the team targeted the stage win in the Team Time Trial and stage victories with Michael Matthews, who took victory on stage 6 into Montecassino. Pieter Weening took a surprise victory into Sestola on stage 9.

The team again took a smattering of stage wins as the season progressed through the summer, notching victories at the Tour de Suisse, Tour of Slovenia, GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano and Giro di Toscana. As the season entered the second half, Matthews took a stage at the Vuelta a España, while Daryl Impey claimed the overall win in the Tour of Alberta. Gerrans won in the two Canadian one-day World Tour races: Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal. The team's final victory came from Michael Albasini, at Tre Valli Varesine.

2015

2016

2017

2018

Doping

On 28 April 2016, Simon Yates returned an adverse analytical finding for Terbutaline. Yates had been prescribed the drug to treat asthma, but a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) request had not been filed. The team attributed this to an administrative error. The team took full responsibility for this error, emphasising that Yates had no fault in the occurrence.^[23]^[24]

Media

The team is known for their online videos created by Dan Jones. Their channel has been successful due to their series "Backstage Pass" which gives viewers an insight into the team and the personalities in it. As of July 2016, Dan had made over 400 episodes of Backstage Pass.^[25] The channel had series such as "Bike Riders Can't Cook" and "Sunrise to Sunset" which showed fans a day in the life of a rider or staff member.

The total hits on the channel is currently over 16.5 million. One of the most successful videos so far was the team's version of Call Me Maybe by singer Carly Rae Jepsen. It has had over 1 million hits on YouTube and was used by Eurosport to introduce the coverage of the 16th stage of the 2012 Vuelta a España.

Neal Rogers from Velo News labelled the video "Possibly the single best PR move I've seen from a pro cycling team in years!"^[26]

In 2013, they made a tribute video of AC/DC's famous song "You Shook Me All Night Long", though they were forced to remove it from their official channel after a complaint from the rights holders.

In 2014 Dan Jones created #SKYvOGE, a series where both Orica–GreenEDGE and Team Sky took part in a series of challenges off the bike which was also featured on Eurosport's cycling coverage of the 2014 Paris–Nice.

Team roster

As of 5 January 2024.^[27]

	Rider	Date of birth
Welay Berhe (ETH)		(2001-10-22) 22 October 2001 (age 22)
Lawson Craddock (USA)		(1992-02-20) 20 February 1992 (age 32)
Alessandro De Marchi (ITA)		(1986-05-19) 19 May 1986 (age 38)
Davide De Pretto (ITA)		(2002-04-19) 19 April 2002 (age 22)
Eddie Dunbar (IRE)		(1996-09-01) 1 September 1996 (age 27)
Luke Durbridge (AUS)		(1991-04-09) 9 April 1991 (age 33)
Felix Engelhardt (GER)		(2000-08-19) 19 August 2000 (age 23)
Caleb Ewan (AUS)		(1994-07-11) 11 July 1994 (age 30)
Anders Foldager (DEN)		(2001-07-27) 27 July 2001 (age 23)
Dylan Groenewegen (NED)		(1993-06-21) 21 June 1993 (age 31)
Lucas Hamilton (AUS)		(1996-02-12) 12 February 1996 (age 28)
Chris Harper (AUS)		(1994-11-23) 23 November 1994 (age 29)
Michael Hepburn (AUS)		(1991-08-17) 17 August 1991 (age 32)
Amund Grøndahl Jansen (NOR)		(1994-02-11) 11 February 1994 (age 30)
Christopher Juul-Jensen (DEN)		(1989-07-06) 6 July 1989 (age 35)

	Rider	Date of birth
Jan Maas (NED)		(1996-02-19) 19 February 1996 (age 28)
Michael Matthews (AUS)		(1990-09-26) 26 September 1990 (age 33)
Luka Mezgec (SLO)		(1988-06-27) 27 June 1988 (age 36)
Kelland O'Brien (AUS)		(1998-05-22) 22 May 1998 (age 26)
Jesús David Peña (COL)		(2000-05-08) 8 May 2000 (age 24)
Luke Plapp (AUS)		(2000-12-25) 25 December 2000 (age 23)
Rudy Porter (AUS)		(2000-12-15) 15 December 2000 (age 23)
Blake Quick (AUS)		(2000-02-26) 26 February 2000 (age 24)
Elmar Reinders (NED)		(1992-03-14) 14 March 1992 (age 32)
Mauro Schmid (SUI)		(1999-12-04) 4 December 1999 (age 24)
Callum Scotson (AUS)		(1996-08-10) 10 August 1996 (age 27)
Campbell Stewart (NZL)		(1998-05-12) 12 May 1998 (age 26)
Max Walscheid (GER)		(1993-06-13) 13 June 1993 (age 31)
Simon Yates (GBR)		(1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 (age 31)
Filippo Zana (ITA)		(1999-03-18) 18 March 1999 (age 25)

Major wins

National, continental & world champions

2012: Australian Road Race Simon Gerrans; Australian Time Trial Luke Durbridge; Canadian Time Trial Svein Tuft; Eritrean Road Race Daniel Teklehaymanot; Eritrean Time Trial Daniel Teklehaymanot; African Time Trial Daniel Teklehaymanot
2013: Australian Road Race Luke Durbridge; Australian Time Trial Luke Durbridge; Australian Criterium, Cameron Meyer; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Oceania Road Race Cameron Meyer; Lithuanian Road Race Tomas Vaitkus; African Time Trial Daniel Teklehaymanot
2014: Australian Time Trial Michael Hepburn; Australian Road Race Simon Gerrans; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Oceania Road Race Luke Durbridge; Canadian Time Trial Svein Tuft; Canadian Road Race Svein Tuft
2015: South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Oceania Time Trial Michael Hepburn
2016: Australian Criterium, Caleb Ewan; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Hong Kong Time Trial, Cheung King Lok; Hong Kong Road Race, Cheung King Lok
2017: Australian Criterium, Caleb Ewan; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Chinese Time Trial, Cheung King Lok; Slovenian Road Race Luka Mezgec; Canadian Time Trial Svein Tuft; Slovenian Cross Country Mountainbike Luka Mezgec; Slovenian Cyclo-cross Luka Mezgec
2018: Australian Criterium, Caleb Ewan; Australian Road Race Alexander Edmondson; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; South African Road Race Daryl Impey; World Track (Points race), Cameron Meyer; Canadian Time Trial Svein Tuft; European Road Race Matteo Trentin
2019: Australian Time Trial Luke Durbridge; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; South African Road Race Daryl Impey; Ethiopian Time Trial Tsgabu Grmay
2020: Australian Time Trial Luke Durbridge; Australian Road Race Cameron Meyer; South African Time Trial Daryl Impey; Hungarian Time Trial Barnabás Peák
2021: Australian Criterium, Kaden Groves; Australian Road Race Cameron Meyer
2022: American Time Trial, Lawson Craddock
2023: Australian Criterium, Kelland O'Brien; Ethiopian Time Trial Tsgabu Grmay
2024: Australian Time Trial Luke Plapp; Australian Road Race Luke Plapp