Omega Pharma-Quick Step

Omega Pharma-Quick Step

Team information
UCI code	OPQ
Based	Belgium
Founded	2003 (2003)
Discipline	Road
Status	UCI ProTeam
Bicycles	Specialized
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Patrick Lefévère
Directeur sportif	Brian Holm
Team name history
2003–2004 2005 2006–2007 2008–2011 2012–	Quick Step – Davitamon (QSD) Quick Step – Innergetic (QST) Quick Step – Innergetic (QSI) Quick Step (QST) Omega Pharma-Quick Step (OPQ)
Jersey
Current season

Omega Pharma-Quick Step (UCI Team Code: OPQ) is a Belgian UCI ProTour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directors are Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke, Tom Steels, Brian Holm and Jan Schaffrath. Omega Pharma is a Belgian pharmaceutical company, while Quick Step is a manufacturer of laminate flooring.

History

Quick Step team bikes at the 2007 Tour of California

Quick Step team support car

The team was created as Quick Step-Davitamon in 2003 from staff and riders of Domo-Farm Frites and Mapei-Quick Step when the latter disbanded after nine years in the sport. Paolo Bettini won the UCI Road World Cup in 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics road title in 2004. In the 2005 UCI ProTour season, renamed Quick Step-Innergetic, the team won a large number of classics: Tom Boonen won Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, Filippo Pozzato the HEW Cyclassics, and Paolo Bettini the Züri-Metzgete and the Giro di Lombardia. In late 2005 Tom Boonen won the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, where Michael Rogers won the time-trial.

In 2006 Boonen retained the Tour of Flanders and held the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de France during stage 3–6, and Filippo Pozzato won 2006 Milan – San Remo. Paolo Bettini won the world championship in Salzburg and retained his Giro di Lombardia crown. In 2007 Tom Boonen won the points classification in the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix.

Team roster

As of 1 January 2014.^[3]

Rider Date of birth  Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) (1992-06-11)11 June 1992 (aged 21)  Jan Bakelants (BEL) (1986-02-14)14 February 1986 (aged 27)  Tom Boonen (BEL) (1980-10-15)15 October 1980 (aged 33)  Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) (1987-08-22)22 August 1987 (aged 26)  Mark Cavendish (GBR) (1985-05-21)21 May 1985 (aged 28)  Thomas De Gendt (BEL) (1986-11-06)6 November 1986 (aged 27)  Kevin De Weert (BEL) (1982-05-27)27 May 1982 (aged 31)  Andrew Fenn (GBR) (1990-07-01)1 July 1990 (aged 23)  Michał Gołaś (POL) (1984-09-29)29 September 1984 (aged 29)  Iljo Keisse (BEL) (1982-12-21)21 December 1982 (aged 31)  Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) (1990-06-02)2 June 1990 (aged 23)  Nikolas Maes (BEL) (1986-04-09)9 April 1986 (aged 27)  Tony Martin (GER) (1985-04-23)23 April 1985 (aged 28)  Gianni Meersman (BEL) (1985-12-05)5 December 1985 (aged 28)  Serge Pauwels (BEL) (1983-11-23)23 November 1983 (aged 30)

Rider Date of birth  Alessandro Petacchi (ITA) (1974-01-03)3 January 1974 (aged 39)  Wout Poels (NED) (1987-10-01)1 October 1987 (aged 26)  Mark Renshaw (AUS) (1982-10-22)22 October 1982 (aged 31)  Pieter Serry (BEL) (1988-11-21)21 November 1988 (aged 25)  Gert Steegmans (BEL) (1980-09-30)30 September 1980 (aged 33)  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) (1985-12-11)11 December 1985 (aged 28)  Niki Terpstra (NED) (1984-05-18)18 May 1984 (aged 29)  Matteo Trentin (ITA) (1989-08-02)2 August 1989 (aged 24)  Rigoberto Urán (COL) (1987-01-26)26 January 1987 (aged 26)  Petr Vakoč (CZE) (1992-07-11)11 July 1992 (aged 21)  Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (BEL) (1991-02-14)14 February 1991 (aged 22)  Stijn Vandenbergh (BEL) (1984-04-25)25 April 1984 (aged 29)  Martin Velits (SVK) (1985-02-21)21 February 1985 (aged 28)  Julien Vermote (BEL) (1989-07-26)26 July 1989 (aged 24)  Carlos Verona (ESP) (1992-11-04)4 November 1992 (aged 21)

Major results

National & World Champions

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

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