2012 Team Skil–Argos season

The 2012 women's road cycling season was the second for Team Skil–Argos (started the season under the name Skil 1t4i, UCI code: SKI), which began as Team Skil-Argos in 2010.

2012 Team Skil–Argos
UCI Team ranking	14th
Season victories
One-day races	3
Stage race overall	0
Stage race stages	0
Best ranked rider	Adrie Visser (26th)
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Roster

See also: List of 2012 UCI Women's Teams and riders

Ages as of 1 January 2012.^[1]

Rider Date of birth  Regina Bruins (NED) (1986-10-07)7 October 1986 (aged 25)  Suzanne de Goede (NED) (1984-04-16)16 April 1984 (aged 27)  Anne de Wildt (NED) (1989-10-29)29 October 1989 (aged 22)  Janneke Kanis (NED) (1985-02-15)15 February 1985 (aged 26)  Kelly Markus (NED) (1993-02-07)7 February 1993 (aged 18)

Rider Date of birth  Amy Pieters (NED) (1991-06-01)1 June 1991 (aged 20)  Esra Tromp (NED) (1990-10-15)15 October 1990 (aged 21)  Monique van de Ree (NED) (1988-03-02)2 March 1988 (aged 23)  Linda van Rijen (NED) (1988-06-15)15 June 1988 (aged 23)  Adrie Visser (NED) (1983-10-19)19 October 1983 (aged 28)

Season victories

See also: 2012 in women's road cycling

Single day and stage races 2012^[2]

Date	Nation	Race	Cat.	Winner
29 February	Belgium	Le Samyn des Dames	1.2	Adrie Visser (NED)
15 April	Netherlands	Ronde van Gelderland	1.2	Suzanne de Goede (NED)
4 August	Belgium	Erpe-Mere (Erondegem)	1.2	Adrie Visser (NED)

Results in major races

See also: 2012 in women's road cycling

Single day races

Results at the 2012 UCI Women's Road World Cup races^[3]

Date	#	Race	Best rider	Place
10 March	1	Ronde van Drenthe	Adrie Visser	6th
25 March	2	Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio	Adrie Visser	16th
1 April	3	Tour of Flanders	Adrie Visser	5th
18 April	4	La Flèche Wallonne Féminine	Adrie Visser	31st
13 May	5	Tour of Chongming Island	-	-
17 August	6	Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT	Team Skil-Argos	7th
19 August	7	Open de Suède Vårgårda	Amy Pieters	11th
25 August	8	GP de Plouay	-	-
Final individual classification			Adrie Visser	12th
Final team classification			Team Skil-Argos	7th

Pieters (left) riding the team pursuit at the Summer Olympics together with Ellen van Dijk and Kirsten Wild.

Other major single day races

Date	Race	Rider	Place
29 July	2012 Summer Olympics – Women's road race[M 1]	-	-
1 August	2012 Summer Olympics – Women's time trial[M 2]	-	-
3-4 August	2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit[M 3]	Amy Pieters (NED) (With Ellen van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder)	6th
16 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial	Team Skil-Argos	11th
18 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial[M 4]	-	-
22 September	UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race[M 5]	Adrie Visser (NED)	69th

1. Riders are part of the national team^[4]
2. Riders are part of the national team^[5]
3. Together with Ellen van Dijk, Kirsten Wild and Vera Koedooder as part of the national team
4. Riders are part of the national team^[6]
5. Riders are part of the national team^[7]

Grand Tours

Results of the team in the grand tours

Grand tour	Giro d'Italia Femminile
Rider (classification)	DNS[8]
Victories	0 stage wins

UCI World Ranking

Main article: 2012 UCI Women's Road World Rankings

The team finished 14th in the UCI ranking for teams.^[3]

Individual UCI World Ranking^[3]

Rank	Rider	Points
26	Adrie Visser (NED)	236.5
72	Amy Pieters (NED)	82.25
125	Suzanne de Goede (NED)	40.5
151	Janneke Kanis (NED)	27
363	Monique van de Ree (NED)	4.25
367	Esra Tromp (NED)	3.75
368	Kelly Markus (NED)	3.75