Servais Knaven confirmed as AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep sports manager
Dutchman joins daughters' tea💎m after twelve years with Ineos

Former Ineos directeur sportif 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Servais Knaven has been confirmed as the sporting and technical manager of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep women’s team for 2023.
Knaven’s wife Natascha van Ouden, a four-time Dutch cyclo-cross champion, is already the team manager, while hi♓s daughters Britt, Mirre and Senne Knaven are all part of the roster for the next season.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ashleigh Moolman Pasio is the team’s marquee signing for 2023, joining from SD Worx, while the recently retired Jolien D’Hoore will be a direc🉐teur sportif.
The Dutch-registered team was founded as a development squad in 2019, while AG Insurance came on board as title sponsor last year followiꦓng the 🐼beginning of a collaboration with QuickStep manager Patrick Lefevere.
For 2023, the women’s team will now share back🏅ers with Lefevere’s men’s squad, with Soudal and QuickStep signing on as sub-sponsors. AG Insurance-Soudal QuickStep recently missed out on a place in the UCI Women’s WorldTour for next season.
“All the parties who 𝓀are putting their shoulders to the wheel of our women's team have been active in cycling for several years, so they are fam🍌iliar with the ins and outs of the cycling world,” Lefevere said.
“It’s a factor that is obviously extremely important♎ if you want to build something together.”
The latest🉐 race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!
Servais Knaven raced for Lefevere for six seasons at Domo and QuickStep, . Following his retirement, the Dutchman spent twelve years in the team car at Team Sky and Ineos, where he was the team’s lead directeur sportif in th🃏e cobbled Classics.
Knaven and fellow directeurs sportifs Gabriel Rasch and Brett Lancaster left Ineos this winter during an overhaul of the team’s staff. Ineos recently announced that Ian Stannard would join as൲ a directeur sportif for 2023, while Dutch coach Dajo Sanders🌱 arrives from DSM.

Barry Ryan was Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Indep📖endent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of , published by Gill Books.