2012 Orica–GreenEDGE season
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The 2012 season for the Orica–GreenEDGE cycling team began in January at the Bay Classic Series. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
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The team formed for the 2012 season as part of a scheme to promote cycling talent in Australia, and not come into such difficulties suffered by another Australian team – Pegasus Sports – which folded without contesting a race due to sponsorship issues.[1] Much of the team's ridership is Australian, almost entirely anglophone, and the team competes under an Australian licence; as such, becoming the first Australian team to be part of the top-tier of professional cycling.[2] Its manager is Shayne Bannan, the former Performance Director of Cycling Australia, while team's senior Director Sportif is ex-professional road cyclist Matt White, who had a similar role at Garmin–Cervélo before being sacked.
Known simply as GreenEDGE for the first four months of 2012, the team acquired Orica as a title sponsor shortly before the Giro d'Italia.[3]
2012 roster
Ages as of 1 January 2012.[4]
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Riders' 2011 teams
One-day races
The week after the Bay Classic Series,[33] the team swept the Australian national championships in Buninyong, Victoria, as Gerrans – one of 16 GreenEDGE riders in the race – won the road race title,[34] and Durbridge won the time trial title ahead of team-mate Cameron Meyer.[35]
Stage races
The team made its debut on New Year's Day, in the Bay Classic Series in Victoria, Australia. Davis won the men's classification racing for GreenEDGE's second team in the race, Mitchelton Wines/Lowe Farms.[36]
In January, Gerrans won the Tour Down Under, giving the team an overall victory in its first World Tour event.[37]
Season victories
| Date | Race | Competition | Rider | Country | Location |
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| 22 January | Tour Down Under, Overall | UCI World Tour |  Simon Gerrans (AUS) | Australia | |
| 7 March | Tirreno–Adriatico, Stage 1 | UCI World Tour | Team time trial[N 3] |  Italy | Donoratico |
| 17 March | Milan–San Remo | UCI World Tour | Simon Gerrans (AUS) | Italy | Sanremo |
| 19 March | Volta a Catalunya, Stage 1 | UCI World Tour |  Michael Albasini (SUI) |  Spain | Calella |
| 20 March | Volta a Catalunya, Stage 2 | UCI World Tour | Michael Albasini (SUI) | Spain | Girona |
| 25 March | Volta a Catalunya, Overall | UCI World Tour | Michael Albasini (SUI) | Spain | |
| 3 April | Tour of the Basque Country, Stage 2 | UCI World Tour |  Daryl Impey (RSA) | Spain | Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| 4 April | Circuit de la Sarthe, Stage 3 | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) |  France | Angers |
| 6 April | Circuit de la Sarthe, Overall | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | |
| 6 April | Circuit de la Sarthe, Young rider classification | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | |
| 29 April | Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Points classification | UCI Europe Tour | Matthew Goss (AUS) |  Turkey | |
| 7 May | Giro d'Italia, Stage 3 | UCI World Tour | Matthew Goss (AUS) |  Denmark | Horsens |
| 18 May | Glava Tour of Norway, Stage 3 | UCI Europe Tour |  Aidis Kruopis (LIT) |  Norway | Elverum |
| 3 June | Critérium du Dauphiné, Prologue | UCI World Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | Grenoble |
| 15 June | Tour of Slovenia, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour | Daryl Impey (RSA) |  Slovenia | Metlika |
| 16 June | Tour de Suisse, Stage 8 | UCI World Tour | Michael Albasini (SUI) | Switzerland | Arosa |
| 13 July | Tour de Pologne, Stage 4 | UCI World Tour | Aidis Kruopis (LIT) |  Poland | Katowice |
| 7 August | Eneco Tour, Stage 2 | UCI World Tour | Team time trial[N 4] |  Netherlands | Sittard |
| 11 August | Eneco Tour, Stage 6 | UCI World Tour |  Svein Tuft (CAN) |  Belgium | Ardooie |
| 21 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 1 | UCI Europe Tour | Aidis Kruopis (LTU) | France | Royan |
| 21 August | Vuelta a España, Stage 4 | UCI World Tour | Simon Clarke (AUS) | Spain | Valdezcaray |
| 22 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour | Aidis Kruopis (LTU) | France | Melle |
| 23 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Stage 4 | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | La Roche-Posay |
| 24 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Overall | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | |
| 24 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Points classification | UCI Europe Tour | Aidis Kruopis (LTU) | France | |
| 24 August | Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Young rider classification | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) | France | |
| 7 September | Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | UCI World Tour | Simon Gerrans (AUS) | Canada | Quebec City |
| 9 September | Vuelta a España, Mountains classification | UCI World Tour | Simon Clarke (AUS) | Spain | |
| 10 September | Tour of Britain, Stage 2 | UCI Europe Tour | Leigh Howard (AUS) |  Great Britain | Knowsley Safari Park |
| 30 September | Duo Normand | UCI Europe Tour | Luke Durbridge (AUS) Svein Tuft (CAN) | France | Marigny |
Footnotes
- McEwen retired from the competitive aspect of the sport on 20 May, at the conclusion of the Tour of California, and became a technical advisor for this team.[6]
- The riders on the squad were Matthew Goss, Stuart O'Grady, Sebastian Langeveld, Jens Mouris, Baden Cooke, Tomas Vaitkus, Svein Tuft, and Cameron Meyer
- The riders on the squad were Sebastian Langeveld, Leigh Howard, Jens Keukeleire, Aidis Kruopis, Luke Durbridge, Jens Mouris, Svein Tuft, and Fumiyuki Beppu