Lotto–Soudal

"Lotto (cycling team)" redirects here. For the Dutch cycling team, see Team LottoNL–Jumbo.
Lotto–Soudal
Team information
UCI code LTS
Registered Belgium
Founded 1985 (1985)
Discipline Road
Status UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles Ridley
Components Campagnolo
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager Cees Pille
Team manager(s) Marc Sergeant
Team name history
1985
1986
1987
1988
1988–1989
1990
1991
1992
1993–1994
1995
1996
1997
1998–1999
2000–2002
2003–2004
2005–2006
2007
2008–2009
2010–2011
2012–2014
2015–
2016
Lotto
Lotto-Emerxil–Merckx
Lotto–Merckx
Lotto
Lotto–Vlaanderen–Jong–Mbk–Merckx
Lotto–Superclub
Lotto
Lotto–Mavic–MBK
Lotto
Lotto–Isoglass
Lotto
Lotto–Mobistar–Isoglass
Lotto–Mobistar
Lotto–Adecco
Lotto–Domo (LOT)
Davitamon–Lotto (DVL)
Predictor–Lotto (PRL)
Silence–Lotto (SIL)
Omega Pharma–Lotto (OLO)
Lotto–Belisol (LTB)
Lotto–Soudall
Lotto Fix ALL[N 1]

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Lotto–Soudal (UCI team code: LTS) is a Belgian professional cycling team sponsored by the Belgian lottery and Soudal, an adhesives manufacturer. The same organisations also sponsor a women's cycling team, Lotto Soudal Ladies.

Sponsorship

For the 2015 Tour of Belgium the team changed their kit from red to orange to reflect one of their sponsors, Joker+.

Lotto has a long history of cycling sponsorship, they began sponsoring 1984 with Tönissteiner-Lotto-Mavic-Pecotex. In 1985, it became prime sponsor of a team bearing only its name. Walter Godefroot and Patrick Lefevere were early directeurs sportifs. The fusion of the Lotto-Adecco and Domo-Farm Frites teams for the start of the 2003 season created the current team and structure in the guise of Lotto-Domo.

Omega Pharma had previously been a co-sponsor of the Quick Step-Davitamon team in 2003 and 2004. Omega Pharma became the main sponsors in 2005, under their Davitamon brand name. The team name switched to Omega Pharma's Predictor brand name in 2007 and the Silence brand in 2008. From 2010 the team became known as Omega Pharma-Lotto, before moving to the Quick-Step setup for the 2012 season.

Belisol became co-sponsors in 2012, and are a Belgian company making windows and doors and solar panels.

On the final day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced that they had secured new sponsorship for the team with Soudal. Soudal was founded in 1966 and produces a range of sealants, adhesives and foams. Soudal will become a co-naming sponsor for the next six seasons, ensuring the team continues until the 2020 season, the team name becoming Lotto Soudal. Lotto will continue to sponsor the team, as well as the women's team and under-23 team.[1] For the 2016 Paris–Nice the team confirmed they would change their team name to Lotto Fix ALL and the team kit to a grey colour. This is to reflect one of Soudals key brands.[2]

Current team structure

The team is managed by Marc Sergeant and Bill Olivier and they are assisted by Herman Frison, Jean-Pierre Heynderickx, Bart Leysen, Marc Wauters, Mario Aerts and Michiel Elijzen. Johan Mordijck is the media officer.

Team roster

As of 29 March 2016.
Rider Date of birth
 Sander Armée (BEL) (1985-12-10)10 December 1985 (aged 30)
 Lars Bak (DEN) (1980-01-16)16 January 1980 (aged 36)
 Tiesj Benoot (BEL) (1994-03-11)11 March 1994 (aged 22)
 Kris Boeckmans (BEL) (1987-02-13)13 February 1987 (aged 29)
 Stig Broeckx (BEL) (1990-05-10)10 May 1990 (aged 25)
 Sean De Bie (BEL) (1991-10-03)3 October 1991 (aged 24)
 Jasper De Buyst (BEL) (1993-11-24)24 November 1993 (aged 22)
 Bart De Clercq (BEL) (1986-08-26)26 August 1986 (aged 29)
 Thomas De Gendt (BEL) (1986-11-06)6 November 1986 (aged 29)
 Jens Debusschere (BEL) (1989-08-28)28 August 1989 (aged 26)
 Gert Dockx (BEL) (1988-07-04)4 July 1988 (aged 27)
 Frederik Frison (BEL) (1992-07-28)28 July 1992 (aged 23)
 Tony Gallopin (FRA) (1988-04-19)19 April 1988 (aged 27)
 André Greipel (GER) (1982-07-16)16 July 1982 (aged 33)
Rider Date of birth
 Adam Hansen (AUS) (1981-05-11)11 May 1981 (aged 34)
 Greg Henderson (NZL) (1976-09-10)10 September 1976 (aged 39)
 Pim Ligthart (NED) (1988-06-16)16 June 1988 (aged 27)
 Tomasz Marczynski (POL) (1984-03-06)06 March 1984 (aged 32)
 Maxime Monfort (BEL) (1983-01-14)14 January 1983 (aged 33)
 Jürgen Roelandts (BEL) (1985-07-02)2 July 1985 (aged 30)
 Marcel Sieberg (GER) (1982-04-30)30 April 1982 (aged 33)
 Rafael Valls (ESP) (1987-06-27)27 June 1987 (aged 28)
 Tosh Van der Sande (BEL) (1990-11-28)28 November 1990 (aged 25)
 Jelle Vanendert (BEL) (1985-02-19)19 February 1985 (aged 31)
 Louis Vervaeke (BEL) (1993-11-06)6 November 1993 (aged 22)
 Jelle Wallays (BEL) (1989-05-11)11 May 1989 (aged 26)
 Tim Wellens (BEL) (1991-05-10)10 May 1991 (aged 24)

Major results

National champions

1985
Belgian Road Race Paul Haghedooren
1986
Belgian Road Race Marc Sergeant
1988
Belgian Track (Individual Pursuit), Benjamin Van Itterbeeck
1990
Belgian Road Race, Claude Criquielion
1992
Belgian Road Race, Johan Museeuw
1995
Belgian Road Race, Wilfried Nelissen
2000
Belgian Time Trial Rik Verbrugghe
2002
Australian Road Race Robbie McEwen
Dutch Road Race Stefan Van Dijk
2005
Australian Road Race Robbie McEwen
Belgian Road Race Serge Baguet
Dutch Road Race Leon Van Bon
2007
Belgian Time Trial Leif Hoste
2008
Australian Road Race Matthew Lloyd
Belgian Road Race Jurgen Roelandts
2009
World Road Race Cadel Evans
2011
Belgian Road Race Philippe Gilbert
Belgian Time Trial Philippe Gilbert
2013
German Road Race André Greipel
2014
German Road Race André Greipel
Belgian Road Race Jens Debusschere
2015
Belgian Time Trial Jurgen van den Broeck
2016
German Road Race André Greipel

References

Notes

  1. For the 2016 Paris–Nice only.

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