Quick-Step Floors

Quick-Step Floors
Team information
UCI code QST
Registered Belgium
Founded 2003 (2003)
Discipline Road
Status UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles Specialized
Components Shimano
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager Patrick Lefévère
Team manager(s) Brian Holm
Davide Bramati
Wilfried Peeters
Rik Van Slycke
Tom Steels
Jan Schaffrath
Team name history
2003–2004
2005
2006–2007
2008–2011
2012–2014
2015–2016
2017–
Quick-Step–Davitamon (QSD)
Quick-Step–Innergetic (QST)
Quick-Step–Innergetic (QSI)
Quick-Step (QST)
Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (OPQ)
Etixx–Quick-Step (EQS)
Quick-Step Floors (QST)

Jersey

Quick-Step Floors (UCI Team Code: QST) is a Belgian UCI World Tour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke, Tom Steels, Brian Holm and Jan Schaffrath.[1]

History

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.

In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he admitted to doping in a sworn affidavit to USADA.[2] This was despite the team statement that "commended" Leipheimer for his "open cooperation" in the USADA investigation that exposed Lance Armstrong long term cheating in cycling via doping. The team's action was described by USADA head Travis Tygart as "The classic Omertà move right? Actions speak louder than words. On the one hand, they say they congratulate him on coming forward, [but] their action terminating him for being truthful speaks a lot louder than their words." CyclingNews reported in the same article that the team’s claim to have only recently learned of Leipheimer’s past doping was according to Tygart "absolutely not true...Leipheimer and a USADA attorney told the team months ago of the investigation, and of Leipheimer’s role". Cyclingnews noted that Omega Pharma general manager Patrick Lefevere "had admitted in 2007 to having used doping products, including amphetamines, during his own career". Lefevere is still CEO of Etixx as of September 2015.

On 17 July 2014, the team announced that Iljo Keisse had been given a 2-year contract extension.[3] Tony Martin confirmed via his Twitter account that he had signed a 2-year contract extension.[4] On 19 August the team announced that Pieter Serry had signed a 2-year contract extension,[5] on 27 August the team announced the signing of Maxime Bouet on a 2-year deal[6] and on September 1 the team announced the signing of David de la Cruz on a 2-year contract.[7] In 2014 Michał Kwiatkowski won a rainbow jersey in 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race in Ponferrada, Spain.

In February 2015, the team announced it had signed 2015 UCI World Omnium champion, Fernando Gaviria, and fellow Colombian, Rodrigo Contreras, on two-year deals set to commence at the start of the 2016 season.[8] In August 2015, the team signed Davide Martinelli for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.[9]

Sponsorship

On the second rest day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced a change to one of their main sponsors from 2015 onwards for 3 season. Omega Pharma will be exchanged for one of its subsidiaries, Etixx, giving a new team name: Etixx–Quick-Step.[10] Etixx is a brand of supplements and nutrition products by Omega Pharma (the previous title sponsor), while Quick-Step is a manufacturer of laminate flooring.

On the eve of the 2015 Tour of Flanders Quickstep confirmed their sponsorship of the team would be extended to the end of the 2017 season.[11] In September 2015, the team announced that supermarket chain Lidl would sponsor the team, becoming the teams "Fresh food supplier".[12]

In August 2016, the team announced a minor sponsorship agreement with Janom, for two years.[13] Later, in October of the same year Latexco announced it had signed on to sponsor the team into the 2017 season.[14] Later in the same month, Quick-Step announced they would take over as sole naming sponsor of the team, with Etixx remaining on board with respect to the team's nutrition.[15]

Team roster

Rider Date of birth
 Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) (1992-06-11) 11 June 1992
 Jack Bauer (NZL) (1985-04-07) 7 April 1985
 Tom Boonen (BEL) (1980-10-15) 15 October 1980
 Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) (1987-08-22) 22 August 1987
 Eros Capecchi (ITA) (1986-06-13) 13 June 1986
 Rémi Cavagna (FRA) (1995-08-10) 10 August 1995
 David de la Cruz (ESP) (1989-05-06) 6 May 1989
 Laurens De Plus (BEL) (1995-09-04) 4 September 1995
 Tim Declercq (BEL) (1989-03-21) 21 March 1989
 Dries Devenyns (BEL) (1983-07-22) 22 July 1983
 Fernando Gaviria (COL) (1994-08-19) 19 August 1994
 Philippe Gilbert (BEL) (1982-07-05) 5 July 1982
 Bob Jungels (LUX) (1992-09-22) 22 September 1992
 Iljo Keisse (BEL) (1982-12-21) 21 December 1982
 Marcel Kittel (GER) (1988-05-11) 11 May 1988
Rider Date of birth
 Yves Lampaert (BEL) (1991-04-10) 10 April 1991
 Dan Martin (IRL) (1986-08-20) 20 August 1986
 Davide Martinelli (ITA) (1993-05-31) 31 May 1993
 Enric Mas (ESP) (1995-01-07) 7 January 1995
 Maximiliano Richeze (ARG) (1983-03-07) 7 March 1983
 Fabio Sabatini (ITA) (1985-02-10) 10 February 1985
 Maximilian Schachmann (GER) (1994-01-09) 9 January 1994
 Pieter Serry (BEL) (1988-11-21) 21 November 1988
 Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) (1985-12-11) 11 December 1985
 Niki Terpstra (NED) (1984-05-18) 18 May 1984
 Matteo Trentin (ITA) (1989-08-02) 2 August 1989
 Petr Vakoč (CZE) (1992-07-11) 11 July 1992
 Martin Velits (SVK) (1985-02-21) 21 February 1985
 Julien Vermote (BEL) (1989-07-26) 26 July 1989

Major results

National and world champions

2003
World Time Trial Michael Rogers
Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini
Hungarian Time Trial László Bodrogi
2004
World Time Trial Michael Rogers
Hungarian Time Trial László Bodrogi
2005
World Road Race Tom Boonen
World Time Trial Michael Rogers
2006
World Road Race Paolo Bettini
Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini
2007
World Road Race Paolo Bettini
Italian Road Race Giovanni Visconti
2008
Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder
2009
Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau
Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen
Slovak Road Race Martin Velits
2010
Belgian Road Race Stijn Devolder
Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder
Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau
Slovak Time Trial Martin Velits
2011
French Road Race Sylvain Chavanel
Curaçao Road Race Marc de Maar
Curaçao Time Trial Marc de Maar
2012
Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen
Irish Road Race Matt Brammeier
Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra
Polish Road Race Michał Gołaś
French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel
German Time Trial Tony Martin
Slovak Time Trial Peter Velits
Italian Time Trial Dario Cataldo
Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle
World Team Time Trial
World Time Trial Tony Martin
2013
Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel
German Time Trial Tony Martin
Slovak Time Trial Peter Velits
Polish Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski
British Road Race Mark Cavendish
Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle
World Team Time Trial
World Time Trial Tony Martin
2014
World Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
Polish Time Trial Michał Kwiatkowski
German Time Trial Tony Martin
Czech Road Race Zdeněk Štybar
World Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski
2015
Colombian Time Trial Rigoberto Urán
German Time Trial Tony Martin
Czech Road Race Petr Vakoč
Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra
2016
World Track (Omnium) Fernando Gaviria
German Time Trial Tony Martin
Luxembourg Time Trial Bob Jungels
Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels
World Team Time Trial
World Time Trial Tony Martin
2017
New Zealand Time Trial Jack Bauer
Belgian Time Trial Yves Lampaert
Czech Road Race Zdeněk Štybar
Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels

References

  1. "Staff". Etixx–Quick-Step. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  2. "Tygart: Code of silence claimed Leipheimer". Cycling Weekly. 17 October 2012.
  3. Cycling News. "Two-year extension for Keisse at Omega Pharma-Quick Step". Cyclingnews.com.
  4. "Tony Martin on Twitter". Twitter.
  5. Sanmax Consultancy BVBA. "Home – Etixx–Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team". omegapharma-quickstep.com.
  6. Daniel Benson. "Maxime Bouet signs for Omega Pharma-QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com.
  7. Stephen Farrand. "Transfers: Omega Pharma–QuickStep signs David de la Cruz". Cyclingnews.com.
  8. Barry Ryan. "Gaviria signs two-year deal with Etixx–QuickStep". Cyclingnews.com.
  9. ProCyclingStats. "Davide Martinelli". procyclingstats.com.
  10. "Omega Pharma-QuickStep to become Etixx-QuickStep from 2015". Cycling Weekly. 21 July 2014.
  11. Brecht Decaluwé. "Quick-Step extends sponsorship for two years". Cyclingnews.com.
  12. Cycling News. "Lidl to sponsor Etixx-QuickStep in 2016 and 2017". Cyclingnews.com.
  13. "Capecchi signs for Etixx-QuickStep". cyclingnews.com.
  14. Projects, Sanmax. "Latexco to continue with Etixx – Quick-Step in 2017". etixx-quickstep.com.
  15. "Quick-Step Floors steps up as title sponsor of WorldTour team". cyclingnews.com.

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