Bob Jungels will be a part of Ineos Grenadiers in 2025 after signing a two-year contract with the crew. The Luxembourger arrives from Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, the place he has spent the previous two seasons.
“This is a crew that I’ve all the time admired, and this chance has come alongside on the excellent time,” Jungels stated on Friday.
“I actually imagine that inside this setting I’ll have the ability to take my efficiency to the following degree, whereas on the similar time sharing my expertise inside the group.”
Now 31, Jungels loved appreciable success throughout his lengthy tenure at QuickStep, successful Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2018 and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne the next 12 months. He additionally confirmed potential as a Grand Tour rider in that interval, twice putting 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 kind in 2022, successful a stage of the Tour de France and putting eleventh total.
During his time at Bora-Hansgrohe, Jungels largely eschewed the Classics, and he was deployed in a supporting function on the Grand Tours. Ineos efficiency director Scott Drawer urged Jungels would carry out an identical help and mentoring process at his new crew subsequent season.
“Bob’s palmares may be very spectacular and the expertise and expertise that he’s going to convey to our crew goes to be invaluable,” Drawer stated.
“We’ve bought a major variety of extremely gifted youthful riders who look as much as the expertise we have now inside our rider group, and Bob will kind an essential 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 a part of as a neo-professional in January. The 18-year-old is at the moment driving for Continental outfit ColoQuick.
