UCI WorldTeam

Jumbo-Visma

Formerly Rabobank, Superconfex and Kwantum, as well as a host of others since starting life in 1984, Team Jumbo-Visma is the second longest running team at the top of the sport, beaten only by Movistar, which began as Reynolds in 1980. Over the past couple of years, the Dutch outfit have emerged as the new successors to Team Sky/Ines and cemented their position as the best team on the men’s WorldTour.

Their meteoric success isn’t just attributed to their superstars Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard, and Primož Roglič, but also their entire team structure - from part-time staffers to full-time managers - and newfound focus on emerging young talent. Last year the team didn’t just achieve their big goal of winning the Tour de France, they smashed it out of the park.

Through the leadership of Vingegaard and Van Aert, but also the efforts of riders like Christophe Laporte, they came home with the yellow, green and polka-dot jerseys, as well as six individual stage victories. They’ve set an even loftier goal for the 2023 season: shepherd Vingegaard to a second Tour title and place Roglič on the top step of the Giro d’Italia’s podium.

On top of that, the team is also on the hunt for a Monument and, with the likes of Van Aert, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benootm and new-recruit Dylan van Baarle on their roster, will be able to muster one of the great one-day racing squads the sport has ever seen. Looking ahead to the future, the team has snapped up one of Great Britain’s hottest young prospects in Thomas Gloag.

They’ll be hoping that the London-born lad can hit the ground running in 2023 and, before long, prove to the world that he’s a worthy successor to Vingegaard and Roglič.

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