Author Archives: Roy Moberg

The Dutch Boels-Dolmans team is the world’s best professional team among the ladies. This year neither of the two previous winners of LToN – Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen and the American champion Megan Guarnier – are in the line-up this far. Instead, the team puts the pressure on the 21 year old reigning World Champion Amalie Dideriksen from Denmark.

She was just 20 years when she surprised all the favourites and won the gold medal and the rainbow jersey in a tight sprint in Doha, Qatar in October. Dideriksen outsprinted the favourite Kirsten Wild of Holland and Lotta Lepistö of Finland, who both ended up on the podium as well. Actually, being just 20 years Dideriksen should be too young to be a World Champion among the seniors.

This season she has already won the World Tour race Ronde van Drenthe wearing her rainbow jersey, a jersey she will display in the Ladies Tour of Norway in August.
One of her forces is her ability to strike when it really matters. The Danish super talent became Danish champion already in 2015. Before that, she was Junior World Champion both in 2013 and 2014, so the gold in Doha 2016 was actually her third!

But representing the best team in the world means she has to justify herself between team mates Anna van der Breggen, Megan Guarnier, Lizzy Deignan, Chantal Blaak, Christine Majerus and Katarzyna Pawlowska.

Amalie won the Best Young Rider jersey at LToN in 2015, finishing as number 11 on the general classification. She was 10th on the first stage between Strömstad and Halden.

Boels Doelmans is of course one of the favourite teams this year, even without van der Breggen and Guarnier. The team has so far entered the following names in addition to Dideriksen: Chantal Blaak, Jip Van Den Bos, Amy Pieters, Christine Majerus och Karol-Ann Canual.

Boels Doelmans will of course be one of the favourite teams in this years LToN even if van der Breggen and Guarnier are not turning up. The team has so far entered the following names beside Dideriksen: Chantal Blaak, Jip Van Den Bos, Amy Pieters, Christine Majerus och Karol-Ann Canual.

Ladies Tour of Norway is just growing and growing, and now the American TV audience will have the opportunity to follow the race live via the american TV company FloSport.

This contract is a big step further for LtoN. It will not release a very high economical profit yet, but even more important, it will make Ladies Tour of Norway more public and well-known worldwide.
As a beginning, the contract is valid for 2017.

Here in Norway the race will be broadcasted live on TV2, and it will also be livestreamed via UCI’s international distribution channels.

The stages are now updated with a full description of where to go and with estimated hours for final laps and finish.

Go to “Stages” in the main menu for further description.

Ladies Tour of Norway has now signed a sponsorship agreement with the charity team Team Rynkeby, who annually cycles to Paris for the purpose of collecting money for children with cancer and their families. The money is collected through funds from benevolent sponsors.

When 1,750 athletes and 450 assistants from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland set the course against Paris in favor of the fight against childhood cancer, it is now also supported by Ladies Tour of Norway.

Previous years, we have also worked together with Team Rynkeby and the Children’s Cancer Society via our children’s race, where half of the race fee goes to this purpose. This cooperation will of course continue this year, but we have now also signed an agreement for a bronze sponsorship with Team Rynkeby.

-Ladies Tour of Norway is proud to be able to contribute and cooperate with such an important project as this is, and we hope as many children as possible will participate in the children’s races which will be arranged from 18. – 20. August in order to send as much money as possible to the Children’s Cancer Society, says Roy Moberg, Race Director of Ladies Tour of Norway.

In 2016, Team Rynkeby had 5.500 sponsors who contributed either money or services to the project. Because of these, Team Rynkeby could donate 76.9 million Norwegian crowns to the fight against childhood cancer in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the Faroe Islands.

Team Rynkeby is operated on a voluntary basis, which means that the sponsors cover a large part of the necessities needed for the trip, including cars, fuel, food and beverages. Besides, the participants themselves cover their own expenses.

Team Rynkeby’s main sponsor Rynkeby Foods A/S covers the main costs of the project, which means that 100 percent of the funds collected are transferred to the child-raising organizations they cooperate with in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland.

Check out the web-site www.team-rynkeby.no for further information.

– This must be one of the quickest ways to the World Tour ever, says race director of Ladies Tour of Norway (LToN), Roy Moberg.
After just three years the race reaches the top level of international cycling in 2017. That means live TV coverage and all the best ladies on Norwegian roads between 17-20 of August next year.

This will be the first ever whole stagerace at World Tour-level in Scandinavia. With the exception of the three first stages of Giro d’Italia in Denmark 2012, there has never been a whole race at this level, neither in Denmark, Sweden, or Norway.

– We started up three years ago in the town of Halden, and have taken steps every year. This summer we spread out to most of the Østfold region south east in Norway, and we plan to stay in this region also next year, says Moberg.

– We do have great support both from the state and the region as well as local communities and sponsors. We have already started planning the stages for 2017, aiming at presenting them before Christmas, says the race director.

In 2017 there will be one more day of the races, making it a total of four stages. The first stage will be a short prologue, probably in the town of Halden, where the race was born in 2014.

Roy Moberg, together with Heidi Stenbock-Haakestad initiated the race. Much thanks to his dotter Emilie Moberg being the best female cyclist in Norway. In addition to Emilie, LToN has already seen famous winners such as Anna van der Breggen, Megan Guarnier and Lucinda Brand.

– Next year, LToN is the last major race in Norway before the World Championships in Bergen in September, so I think all the best ladies would be interested in testing the Norwegian roads at this time, says Moberg

Live on TV in Norway
Being a rather new race, and a women’s race, Ladies Tour of Norway has so far not attracted the same media attention as the three big Norwegian stageraces for men; Tour of Norway, Tour des Fjords and Arctic Race of Norway. But this will change in 2017.

– We have a deal with the Norwegian broadcaster TV2, saying they will send the race live on their main channel, just as they do with the men’s races. This means a lot for us and it will be a total different ballgame when it comes to coverage.

And, as Ladies Tour of Norway now is included in the Women’s World Tour, Roy Moberg is confident that the race will be broadcasted in other countries as well.

LToN 2016 is just over,  and we are back in daily routines for the most of us.
But if you would like to relive some of all the  moments from this  great party, check out the following links and enjoy:)

Stage 1 Friday 12. August 2016 – Eventfotografene

Stage 2 Saturday 13. August 2016 – Eventfotografene

Stage 3 Sunday 14. August 2016 – Eventfotografene

Ladies På Tur Sunday 14. August 2016 – Eventfotografene

Here you will find the results from Stage 3.

Stage 3

Points

Young

Climber

Team

General

Here you will find the results from Stage 2.

Stage 2

Points

Jerseys

Young

Climber

Team

General

Here you will find the results from Stage 1.
Further information and photos will come during the evening.

Stage 1

Points

Jerseys

Young

Climber

Team

General