Before this year, Uno-X Mobility had never raced more than one Grand Tour in a season, but new to the WorldTour in 2026, the Scandinavian team has thrived.
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Graduation is always a huge deal. It’s the mark of achievement, of long years of hard work, of investment paid off. But intrinsic to graduating is a necessary step upward with all the growth and challenges that entails, whether it’s from one school year to another, from university into the world of work – or from Pro to WorldTour level.
Uno-X Mobility graduated with honours, you might say, at the end of 2025 having secured 23 wins as a ProTeam including Omloop Nieuwsblad and a Tour de France stage, and finished 11th in the season’s UCI rankings. In 2026 as a first-year WorldTeam, the entirely Norwegian-Danish team would have a busier calendar of consistently bigger races, including all three Grand Tours, debuting at two of them. This was a team that started 2026 with an extraordinary amount of motivation. They may not have set out explicitly to prove themselves worthy of the updated WorldTeam designation on the right breast of their jerseys, but oh boy, did they.
The team’s fifth win of the season came on stage 15 of the Giro d’Italia, where Fredrik Dversnes wrote Uno-X into the history books with an unlikely breakaway victory. Two months later, and they did it again, this time with Søren Wærenskjold who robbed the big-name sprinters on stage 11, a win that came just days after Torstein Træen had made more history with a short stint in yellow.
Then on Friday 28th August – on a day Uno-X hoped to honour King Harald V, who’d died the same morning – Andreas Leknessund completed the set at the Vuelta a España.
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