Lotto-Soudal

Lotto–Soudal

Team information
UCI code	LTS
Registered	Belgium
Founded	1985
Discipline(s)	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 Lotto 1986 Lotto-Emerxil–Merckx 1986[N 1] Joker–Emerxil–Merckx 1987 Lotto–Merckx 1987[N 2] Joker–Merckx 1988 Lotto 1988–1989 Lotto–Vlaanderen–Jong–Mbk–Merckx 1990 Lotto–Superclub 1991 Lotto 1992 Lotto–Mavic–MBK 1993–1994 Lotto 1995 Lotto–Isoglass 1996 Lotto 1997 Lotto–Mobistar–Isoglass 1998–1999 Lotto–Mobistar 2000–2002 Lotto–Adecco 2003–2004 Lotto–Domo (LOT) 2005–2006 Davitamon–Lotto (DVL) 2007 Predictor–Lotto (PRL) 2008–2009 Silence–Lotto (SIL) 2010–2011 Omega Pharma–Lotto (OLO) 2012–2014 Lotto–Belisol (LTB) 2015– Lotto–Soudal[N 3]
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Lotto–Soudal (UCI team code: LTS) is a Belgian professional cycling team at UCI WorldTeam level sponsored by the Belgian lottery and Soudal, an adhesives and sealants manufacturer. For the 2016 and 2017 editions of Paris–Nice, the 2018 Giro d'Italia, and the 2019 Tour de Pologne, the team raced under the name Lotto Fix ALL, and in a different colour of kit, to promote a particular product from the Soudal range. The same organisations also sponsor a women's cycling team, Lotto–Soudal Ladies.

History

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, manufacturers of sealants, adhesives and foams. Soudal signed a deal lasting six seasons, the team name becoming Lotto Soudal: in 2019, they extended the deal for two more years.^[1] Lotto continue to sponsor the team, as well as the women's team and under-23 team.^[2]

For one stage race each year since 2016 (at the 2016 Paris–Nice, 2017 Paris–Nice, 2018 Giro d'Italia, and 2019 Tour de Pologne), the team raced under the name Lotto Fix ALL and changed the team kit to a grey colour to reflect one of Soudal's key brands.^[3]

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.

After Tosh Van der Sande accidentally listed the wrong nasal spray brand in the paperwork at the 2018 Six Days of Ghent where he returned a positive test for prednisolone, a substance found in the nasal spray Sofrasolone,^[4] he was temporarily suspended by the team.^[5] Van der Sande was later cleared of any wrongdoing by the UCI.^[6][7][8]

Team roster

As of 1 January 2021.^[9]

Rider Date of birth Filippo Conca (ITA) 22 September 1998 Steff Cras (BEL) 13 February 1996 Jasper De Buyst (BEL) 24 November 1993 Thomas De Gendt (BEL) 6 November 1986 John Degenkolb (GER) 7 January 1989 Caleb Ewan (AUS) 11 July 1994 Frederik Frison (BEL) 28 July 1992 Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 5 July 1982 Kobe Goossens (BEL) 29 April 1996 Sébastien Grignard (BEL) 29 April 1999 Matthew Holmes (GBR) 8 December 1993 Roger Kluge (GER) 5 February 1986 Andreas Kron (DEN) 1 June 1998 Kamil Małecki (POL) 2 January 1996

Rider Date of birth Tomasz Marczyński (POL) 6 March 1984 Sylvain Moniquet (BEL) 14 January 1998 Stefano Oldani (ITA) 10 January 1998 Harry Sweeny (AUS) 9 July 1998 Gerben Thijssen (BEL) 21 June 1998 Tosh Van der Sande (BEL) 28 November 1990 Maxim Van Gils (BEL) 25 November 1999 Brent Van Moer (BEL) 12 January 1998 Harm Vanhoucke (BEL) 17 June 1997 Florian Vermeersch (BEL) 12 April 1999 Viktor Verschaeve (BEL) 3 August 1998 Xandres Vervloesem (BEL) 13 May 2000 Tim Wellens (BEL) 10 May 1991

Major wins

National champions

Notes

References

External links

• Official website
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