 The team at the 2023 Fyen Rundt | |
| Team information | |
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| UCI code | RKT |
| Registered | France |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
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| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Julia Soek |
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The Unibet Tietema Rockets are a Dutch UCI ProTeam status cycling team on a French license focusing on road bicycle racing. [1] Bas Tietema created the team in 2023. The team upgraded from UCI Continental to UCI ProTeam status in 2024. [2] [3]
The main sponsor of the team is Unibet who sponsored a team back in 2006/2007 (Unibet.com) but because of a dispute with the UCI over gambling companies being sponsors they pulled out. Now with other teams having sponsors which are lotteries, Unibet decided to come back to professional cycling, [4] although from 2028 teams sponsored by gambling companies will not be able to race in Belgium. [5]
Hugo Haak joined as Team Manager in 2023 after coaching on the Track for the past few years. [6]
The team's calendar for 2023 consisted of mostly Belgian and Dutch races. [7] The team's biggest victory was stage 1 of the ZLM Tour by Yentl Vandevelde. Despite this success, Vandevelde was let go by the team for 2024. [8]
On 17 October 2024 the team announced that it would be renamed to Unibet Tietema Rockets and would ride on a French license from 2025 on.
The team uses Cannondale bicycles in a bright yellow-pink colour scheme. [9] The bike has Shimano Ultegra Di2 12 speed gearing with Scope wheels [10] and Pirelli tires. [11]
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Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites, Hartthijs de Vries 
Overall Oberösterreich Rundfahrt, Adrien Maire 
Rob Harmeling is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer. Harmeling rode the Tour de France three times: in 1991 he was the lanterne rouge, in 1992 he won a stage, and in 1994 he was disqualified for hanging onto the team car. As amateur, Harmeling competed in the road race at the 1988 Summer Olympics and finished in 38th place. He won the world title in team time trial at the 1986 UCI Road World Championships.
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.
Odd Christian Eiking is a Norwegian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Adam Ťoupalík is a Czech cyclo-cross and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. He won the silver medal in the men's under-23 event at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Heusden-Zolder, being beaten in the sprint by Eli Iserbyt.
Martijn Budding is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Andreas Stokbro Nielsen is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. He previously competed for UCI WorldTeam NTT Pro Cycling for the 2020 and 2021 seasons.
Giovanni Carboni is an Italian cyclist, who rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia.
Kevin Inkelaar is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.
Zeb Montague Kyffin is a British cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Lukáš Kubiš is a Slovak racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Lander Loockx is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Bas Tietema is a Dutch former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2022 to 2023.
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Hartthijs de Vries is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Yentl Vandevelde is a Belgian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Flanders–Baloise.
Abram Stockman is a Belgian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
Davide Bomboi is a Belgian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. Bomboi is the cousin of a former professional cyclist Tom Boonen.
Wessel Mouris is a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets.
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