Team roster
- As of 31 March 2018. [1] [2]
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| Team Sunweb | |
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| 2018 season | |
| UCI code | SUN |
| Status | UCI WorldTeam |
| Manager | Iwan Spekenbrink |
| Main sponsor(s) | Sunweb |
| Based | Germany |
| Bicycles | Giant |
| Groupset | Shimano |
| Season victories | |
| One-day races | 4 |
| Stage race stages | 7 |
The 2018 season for Team Sunweb began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
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Team dsm–firmenich PostNL is a Dutch professional cycling team at UCI WorldTeam level. The team is managed by Iwan Spekenbrink. The team is sponsored by the health, nutrition, and fragrances company DSM-Firmenich.
Team Qhubeka was a UCI WorldTeam based in South Africa. The team rode to raise awareness and funds for Qhubeka, a South African not-for-profit organisation. The team was founded in 2007 and was the first-ever African team to ride the Tour de France (2015).
Michael James Matthews is an Australian professional road and track cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.
Lidl–Trek is a professional road bicycle racing team at UCI WorldTeam level licensed in the United States. Formerly RadioShack–Nissan, in 2014, Trek took over the ownership of the team and its ProTeam License.
Wilco Kelderman is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.
Georg Preidler is an Austrian cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019. He won the Austrian National Time Trial Championships in 2015 and 2017, and was stripped of a third title won in 2018.
Julia Soek is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Women's WorldTeam Team DSM. She competed in the 2013 UCI women's team time trial in Florence. In September 2021 Soek announced that she would retire from competition at the end of the season. The following month it emerged that she would join Drops–Le Col as a directeur sportif for 2022. In the same year she followed a directeur sportif course at the World Cycling Centre in Switzerland. In 2023 she joined the new Dutch UCI Continental team TDT–Unibet Cycling Team as directeur sportif, and took over the role of head sports director the following year.
Chad Haga is an American professional road and gravel racing cyclist, who currently rides for the Pas Racing Gravel Team.
Sam Oomen is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lidl–Trek.
Louis Vervaeke is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. In November 2021 Vervaeke announced that he would be joining Deceuninck–Quick-Step on a two-year deal from 2022, with a role as a climbing domestique for Remco Evenepoel in Grand Tours.
Robert Power is an Australian former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2016 and 2021 for Mitchelton–Scott, Team Sunweb and Team Qhubeka NextHash.
Casper Philip Pedersen is a road and track cyclist from Denmark, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step.
The 2017 season for Team Sunweb began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
Marc Hirschi is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.
The 2018 Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 28 January 2018 in Australia. It was the fourth edition of the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and the second event of the 2018 UCI World Tour.
The 2018 season for the Astana cycling team began in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
The Women's team time trial of the 2018 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 23 September 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the fifteenth edition of the championship, and the seventh since its reintroduction for trade teams in 2012. Dutch outfit Team Sunweb were the defending champions, having won in 2017. 12 teams and 72 riders entered the competition.
The 2018 season for the Lotto–Soudal cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
The 2019 season for the Mitchelton–Scott cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
The 2019 season for Team Sunweb will begin in January with the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they will be automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
Sunweb confirmed the 2018 line-ups for their elite men's and women's squads as well as their development team on Friday, while announcing one last addition to the latter in Taiwan's Sergio Tu.
