After two and a half strong seasons with the Development program, Casper was promoted to the Men’s program midway through the 2022 campaign, one of the plethora of riders to make the step up with the team.
Coming from an active household, Casper is the first one in the family to race bikes with hockey and tennis the more popular past times; sports which Casper himself used to play too. Like many, he watched cycling on TV as a kid during the summer and for his seventh birthday he went to a local club and fell in love. Cycling more and more, he eventually stopped with tennis and hockey – the latter of which he didn’t enjoy “because we always lost, and I hate losing.”
A true fan of cycling, Casper enjoys the freedom aspect of the sport; being able to go out wherever you like on your bike and see a lot of different places, riding with friends and socialising so that the time flies by. He also however likes the competitive side of the sport and being able to test himself in races or training, and the adrenaline that comes from it.
Looking back on 2022, he thinks it was a good season where he made a lot of progress and “learned a lot of stuff”. That “good season” saw Casper take two stage wins at Tour de Normandie, a fighting fourth place at Scheldeprijs, a win at Tour de Bretagne plus victory at the Tour de l’Avenir.