While one PROTOUCH™ 5-man Team takes on the second half of the Tour du Rwanda, another returns to Asia to take on five stages in the UCI 2.1 Tour de Taiwan from the 1 – 5 March 2020, with a total of 684.4km on the cards.
The strong 5-man Team Roster includes: Jayde Julius, Reynard Butler, Rohan du Plooy, Calvin Beneke and Callum Ormiston [U23].
Rohan du Plooy, who had a successful season last year in Asia with the Team commented, “we have a really solid team for the sprint and climbing stages. I am really looking forward to returning to ASIA so that we can begin our 2020 Asia Tour Campaign. This will be my first Tour of Taiwan and I am excited to see what our TEAM can do here”.
PROTOUCH™ Continental lines up alongside international Continental and Pro Continental Teams including: Burgos BH – Spain; Nippo Delko Provence – France; Memil Pro Cycling – Sweden; Team Ukyo – Japan; PGN Road Cycling Team – Indonesia; ST George Continental Cycling Team – Australia; Chinese Taipei Cycling Team – Taipei; Terengganu INC. TSG Cycling Team – Malaysia; and, the Utsunomiya Blitzen Team – Japan.
Sunday 01 March 2020
Stage 1 : Taipei City > Taipei City – 83.2 km
Monday 02 March 2020
Stage 2 : Taoyuan City > Jiaobanshan Park – 118.88 km
Tuesday 03 March 2020
Stage 3 : HSR Hsinchu Station > Taichung City Shigang Visitor Information Center – 156.5 km
Wednesday 04 March 2020
Stage 4 : Pingtung County Hall > Dapeng Bay National Scenic Area 180.6 km
Thursday 05 March 2020
Stage 5 : Kaohsiung City > Kaohsiung City – 145.62 km
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About PROTOUCH™
Founded in 2016, PROTOUCH™ Continental ProCycling is the number one team in Africa, ranked in the Top 5 (based on UCI Points) in Asia and is ranked in the Top 40 Continental Teams in the World.
Competing in 2019 alongside top African, Asian, American and European Continental and Pro Continental Teams, PROTOUCH™ has competed in twenty UCI events, in thirteen countries on four continents and completed over 11 500km of racing. The Team finished off the season with four stage wins, four Sprinters Classification Jerseys, nine Top 10 General Classification finishes, sixty-eight Top 10 stage finishes, thirty-two Top 20 finishes and, a Gold/ Silver Medal at Africa Games.
PROTOUCH™ is a brand, focussed solely on enabling South African Road Cyclists to perform on the World Stage. Its aim is to revolutionize Professional Cycling for South African riders, by building a sustainable business that supports high performance cycling. While the initial focus is on professional road cycling, the business model has been designed to scale to include other sporting codes, with key players that have a stronghold in these verticals.
PROTOUCH™ has identified and developed a range of commercial components, to leverage revenue streams [beyond sponsorships] and drive annuity income from fans and brands, in addition to offering Investors the ability to generate a return from their investment. PROTOUCH™ is inviting Investors – passionate about high performance sports, such as road cycling – to invest in the further development and management of a platform, focussed on getting more South Africans onto international podiums and maximising their tax allowance, under Section 12J of the Income Tax Act.
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