Bob Jungels will be part of Ineos Grenadiers in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with the crew. The Luxembourger arrives from Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, the place he has spent the previous two seasons.
“This can be a crew that I’ve at all times admired, and this chance has come alongside on the excellent time,” Jungels stated on Friday.
“I actually imagine that inside this surroundings I’ll be capable to take my efficiency to the subsequent stage, whereas on the identical time sharing my expertise inside the group.”
Now 31, Jungels loved appreciable success throughout his lengthy tenure at QuickStep, profitable Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2018 and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne the next yr. He additionally confirmed potential as a Grand Tour rider in that interval, twice inserting within the prime 10 total on the Giro d’Italia.
Jungels left QuickStep for AG2R in 2021, however his maiden season with the crew was disrupted by surgical procedure for iliac artery endofibrosis. He loved a return to type in 2022, profitable a stage of the Tour de France and inserting eleventh total.
Throughout his time at Bora-Hansgrohe, Jungels largely eschewed the Classics, and he was deployed in a supporting function on the Grand Excursions. Ineos efficiency director Scott Drawer steered Jungels would carry out an analogous assist and mentoring job at his new crew subsequent season.
“Bob’s palmares could be very spectacular and the expertise and expertise that he’s going to deliver to our crew goes to be invaluable,” Drawer stated.
“We’ve obtained a big variety of extremely gifted youthful riders who look as much as the expertise we have now inside our rider group, and Bob will type an necessary a part of that mentoring tradition.”
Jungels is the second new signing introduced by Ineos for 2025, following the information that Danish expertise Peter Øxenberg Hansen will be part of as a neo-professional in January. The 18-year-old is presently driving for Continental outfit ColoQuick.
