Team Novo Nordisk confirm ten rider Development Team for 2025

ATLANTA, GA, USA – January 16th, 2025 – Six new riders join the Team Novo Nordisk development squad for 2025 to complete a ten-rider roster and keep the pipeline fresh and above all youthful, with all the new faces under the age of 20.

Ten riders spanning eight different countries and all aspiring athletes living with Type 1 diabetes and sharing the same dream, to turn professional and become part of the Team Novo Nordisk senior squad.

Promising talent Juan Jose Lopez joins from Spain alongside Jeffe Beets from Belgium, Olly Clements from Australia, Richard Rundva from Estonia, Lucas Terrier from France, and Luca Travaglia from Italy. All six are 19 years old and impressed at the teams 2024 Talent ID camp in Tuscany last July.

“Having such a young team presents many unique opportunities for success,” began Development Team General Manager Daniel Holt. “The first goals of the year will be to test the resilience of the riders at our upcoming training camp, and how they adapt to the training load.”

“The second goal will be to see how the riders perform on the big stage against seasoned professionals at the Tour of Rhodes in early March. We were lucky to have such a strong showing at Talent ID Camp in 2024. All six of the new riders were at our 2024 camp, and four out of those six were at camp for the first time.”

The four riders continuing with the Devo team are Dane Hjalte Knudsen, Poland’s Premyslaw Kotulski, Louis-Marie Posnic from France and Evert Schots from Belgium. All will be looking to build on their experience and take the step to the next level with a mixed racing program that will include more opportunities to race alongside the TNN pro team in UCI events.

“Continuing to give riders a chance is another part of the pipeline,” continued Holt. “And our four returning riders were also discovered at previous camps. The Talent ID camps have been a huge success for our team with regards to discovering new talent.”

“The mixed racing program will be a great learning opportunity for the more experienced riders on the Devo team. Throwing the riders into the mix with bigger teams in the pro peloton, while seeing how the ProTeam riders react to the same challenges, should help to fast track the riders through the learning curve of racing at a high level.”

Team Novo Nordisk Development 2025:

Jeffe Beets (BEL, 19)

Olly Clements (AUS, 19)

Hjalte Knudsen (DEN, 22)

Przemyslaw Kotulski (POL, 25)

Juan Jose Lopez (ESP, 19)

Louis-Marie Posnic (FR, 22)

Richard Rundva (EST, 19)

Evert Schots (BEL, 22)

Lucas Terrier (FR, 19)

Luca Travaglia (IT, 19)