IAM Cycling was a Swiss registered UCI WorldTour cycling team. It was managed by former French road race champion Serge Beucherie. The title sponsor was IAM Independent Asset Management SA, a Swiss financial company.
History
2013
The team was officially launched in January 2013. IAM Cycling is a member of the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible. IAM Cycling was selected as a wild-card entry for the 2013 Paris–Nice race.
2014
On 22 August 2013 the team announced that it had signed Sylvain Chavanel and Jérôme Pineau from , Mathias Frank from and Roger Kluge from for the 2014 season. On 28 January it was announced that IAM Cycling had been granted a "wild card" entry to Tour de France 2014, its first Grand Tour. It also raced the Vuelta a España. Subsequently, in December 2014 the UCI announced that the team would be granted a WorldTour licence for the 2015 season.
2015
2016
In May 2016, the team announced they would fold at the end of the season due to not being able to secure a secondary sponsor.
Final roster (2016)
Major wins
2013 Overall Tour Méditerranéen, Thomas Löfkvist Stage 1 Circuit de la Sarthe, Matteo Pelucchi Tour de Berne, Marcel Wyss Time Trial Championships, Matthias Brändle Stage 5 Bayern Rundfahrt, Heinrich Haussler Time Trial Championships, Gustav Larsson Road Race Championships, Aleksejs Saramotins Trofeo Matteotti, Sébastien Reichenbach Overall Tour du Limousin, Martin Elmiger Stage 1, Martin Elmiger Tour du Jura, Matthias Brändle Tour du Doubs, Aleksejs Saramotins
2014 Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico, Matteo Pelucchi Stage 3 Critérium International, Mathias Frank Stage 3 Four Days of Dunkirk, Sylvain Chavanel Tour de Berne, Matthias Brändle Stage 1 Bayern Rundfahrt, Heinrich Haussler Stage 2 Bayern Rundfahrt, Mathias Frank Time Trial Championships, Sylvain Chavanel Time Trial Championships, Matthias Brändle Road Race Championships, Martin Elmiger Stage 2 Vuelta a Burgos, Matteo Pelucchi Stage 5 (ITT) Vuelta a Burgos, Aleksejs Saramotins Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Sylvain Chavanel Stage 4 (ITT), Sylvain Chavanel GP Ouest–France, Sylvain Chavanel Stages 5 & 6 Tour of Britain, Matthias Brändle Chrono des Nation, Sylvain Chavanel
2015 Road Race Championships, Heinrich Haussler Trofeo Santanyi-Ses Salines-Campos, Matteo Pelucchi Trofeo Playa de Palma-Palma, Matteo Pelucchi Stage 6 Tour of Oman, Matthias Brändle Prologue Tour of Belgium, Matthias Brändle Prologue Ster ZLM Toer, Roger Kluge Time Trial Championships, Jérôme Coppel Road Race Championships, Aleksejs Saramotins Stage 1 Tour of Austria, Sondre Holst Enger Stage 2 Tour of Austria, David Tanner Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie, Jonas van Genechten Stages 2 & 3 Tour de Pologne, Matteo Pelucchi
2016 Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, Dries Devenyns Clásica de Almería, Leigh Howard Overall Étoile de Bessèges, Jérôme Coppel Stage 5 (ITT), Jérôme Coppel Stage 6 Tour of Croatia, Sondre Holst Enger Stage 17 Giro d'Italia, Roger Kluge Overall Tour of Belgium, Dries Devenyns Stage 2, Dries Devenyns Stage 9 Tour de Suisse, Jarlinson Pantano Road Race Championships, Matthias Brändle Time Trial Championships, Matthias Brändle Road Race Championships, Jonathan Fumeaux Stage 15 Tour de France, Jarlinson Pantano Overall Tour de Wallonie, Dries Devenyns Stage 5, Dries Devenyns Stage 7 Vuelta a España, Jonas van Genechten Bretagne Classic Ouest–France, Oliver Naesen Stage 16 Vuelta a España, Mathias Frank
Supplementary statistics Race2013201420152016 Giro d'Italia — — 36 40 Tour de France — 32 8 18 Vuelta a España — 61 38 21 Race2013201420152016 Tour Down Under — — — 30 Paris–Nice 29 7 11 40 Tirreno–Adriatico — 56 38 28 Volta a Catalunya — — 11 16 Tour of the Basque Country — — 66 85 Tour de Romandie 10 4 12 8 Critérium du Dauphiné — 14 38 15 Tour de Suisse 16 2 13 4 Tour de Pologne — — 12 7 Eneco Tour — — 15 2 Race2013201420152016 Milan–San Remo 13 21 23 7 Tour of Flanders 6 19 10 22 Paris–Roubaix 11 44 5 6 Liège–Bastogne–Liège 22 20 24 116 Giro di Lombardia 26 29 55 DNF Classic2013201420152016 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 6 26 25 13 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne 12 10 9 Strade Bianche 5 25 — — E3 Harelbeke 11 29 20 11 Gent–Wevelgem 4 52 20 14 Amstel Gold Race 50 36 35 35 La Flèche Wallonne 24 15 17 29 Clásica de San Sebastián — — 37 10 Paris–Tours 6 5 7 3
National champions
2013 Austrian Time Trial Matthias Brändle Swedish Time Trial Gustav Larsson Latvian Road Race Aleksejs Saramotins 2014 French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel Austrian Time Trial Matthias Brändle Swiss Road Race Martin Elmiger 2015 Australian Road Race Heinrich Haussler French Time Trial Jérôme Coppel Latvian Road Race Aleksejs Saramotins 2016 Austrian Road Race Matthias Brändle Austrian Time Trial Matthias Brändle Swiss Road Race Jonathan Fumeaux
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