Team Sunweb are proud to reveal the
latest two signings to their WorldTour roster as Louis Vervaeke (BEL) and
Edward Theuns (BEL) who will join the team from next season onwards. The duo
will ride in the team's colours for both the 2018 and 2019 season.
Team Sunweb have recognised the potential of Vervaeke and Theuns over the
previous years and their addition to the team will add strength to their
WorldTour roster for the coming two racing seasons. Vervaeke is a promising
climber with versatile qualities that will provide important support with
Team Sunweb's general classification ambitions, whilst also getting the space
to take steps of development in this area himself. Theuns, a talented classics
rider with fast legs, has taken some strong results throughout his professional
career which demonstrate his sheer power on the bike. These results include
second places at Scheldeprijs and Dwars door Vlaanderen in 2015 and most
recently a stage win at the BinckBank Tour.
Speaking of joining the team Vervaeke said: "I am thrilled to be joining
Team Sunweb for the next two seasons. Their success through this season has
been brilliant and I'm excited to play a part of that for the coming years. In
the mountains I want to be of added value and hope to learn a lot from the
current GC riders in the team. I feel that this challenge, way of working and
professional structure at Team Sunweb is precisely what I need and I am very
pleased with the opportunity. My first aim will be to come back up to my
previous level after a year with bad luck and then I hope to show my full
potential. I am very much looking forward to pulling the jersey on at the start
of 2018.”
Theuns said: "I am very happy to join Team Sunweb. I have gotten to know
the team during our talks over the previous years and I feel like now is the
right time to make the move across to Team Sunweb. The most important reason
for my decision is how the team operates and how they strengthen their riders
to bring them to a higher level. Together with the team I hope for many
successes, with a focus on the Flemish races. On top of this, our goal is to
add strength to the lead-out and develop my sprint further, which I feel like
is entirely achievable with fast men around me and the knowledge within the
team. I am confident I can make the next step in my career at Team
Sunweb."
Team Sunweb coach Marc Reef (NED) said: "We're pleased to welcome both
Louis and Edward into the team. Louis has already been professional for a few
years and is still very young at only 23 years old. He will strengthen our GC
squad bringing crucial support and and we want to work together with him over
the coming years and continue to develop his strengths on the climbs and GC to
grow step-by-step to go for the classification in the future himself.
"Edward is someone who we have been following for quite some time and we
are really happy to start our cooperation. He is a strong classics rider who we
believe can take steps forward when working within the team's structure. He
will be our leader in the Flemish classics and his power will be of added value
to the team's sprint train."
Kev Monks for Digital Sports Group
Source: DSG
