Cycling transfers: Gianni Vermeersch and Xandro Meurisse extend until 2025 | cycling

The experienced South African Daryl Impey (37) will also play for Israel – Premier Tech in 2023. “I may be old, but I can still do it. Not being there in the Tour made me really want to keep racing,” Impey said on the team’s website.

After a difficult 2021 with only 29 race days, Impey resurfaced this season. He won another stage in the Tour de Suisse after beating Michael Matthews and Soren Kragh Andersen in the sprint.

Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert is not sitting still on the transfer market. It previously announced the arrival of the Dutchman Mike Teunissen, the Portuguese Rui Costa and the Belgians Tom Paquot and Laurenz Rex.

Our young compatriots Rune Herregodts (24) and Arne Marit (23) also get a chance with Hilaire Van der Schueren’s team. Both riders make the switch from Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise.

Marit is a sprinter with an aptitude for the cobbled classics. Herregodts – a medical student – is a time trialist and baroudeur. This year, Herregodts already triumphed in the opening stages of the Ruta del Sol and the Tour of the Czech Republic.

Bob Jungels, stage winner in the past Tour de France, switches from AG2R-Citroën to Bora Hansgrohe. The Luxembourger signs a multi-year contract with the German cycling team.

“I find it very exciting,” he says. “I’m looking forward to playing a big part in the team’s victories next season. I’m sure I can develop even further and I’m willing to work hard for it. This feels like the start of something big.”

Ethan Hayter has extended his contract with Ineos Grenadiers until the end of 2024. A nice reward after his overall victory in the Tour of Poland. Hayter won his first stage race in the WorldTour on Sunday.

Hayter turned pro at Ineos in 2020 and has since won 16 wins. He is also a successful track cyclist. Hayter, for example, won silver in the Olympic team race last year and became world champion in the omnium.

Team BikeExchange-Jayco strengthens its roster with German European U23 champion Felix Engelhardt. He signs a two-year contract with the Australian cycling team.

The 21-year-old Engelhardt won the European title last month in Anadia, Portugal. He was the fastest of a small group. In June he finished sixth in the baby Giro.

The German comes from Tyrol KTM, an Austrian continental team. So now he is taking the step to the WorldTour.

EF Education – EasyPost has recruited 21-year-old Andrea Piccolo. The Italian is a former European junior time trial champion, in 2019. A year earlier, he won bronze at the World Championships against the clock, where Remco Evenepoel was the best.

Piccolo comes over from the Italian procontinental Drone Hopper – Androni Giocatotoli with immediate effect.

19-year-old top talent Juan Ayuso extends his contract with UAE Team Emirates for another six years, until 2028.

Ayuso has been driving for the formation from the United Arab Emirates since June 2021. According to the team, his first contract was part of their “objective to develop young talented riders”.

Last year he won the Tour of Italy for U23, where he also took home the mountain jersey, the points jersey and the jersey for best youngster. At the European U23 Championship, won by Thibau Nys, he took the bronze medal.

Jacopo Guarnieri (34) will make the switch from the French Groupama-FDJ to Lotto-Soudal next season. The Italian signed a two-year contract with the team that will be called Lotto Dstny from 2023.

Guarnieri must offer extra support to sprinters Caleb Ewan and Arnaud De Lie with his experience as lead-out.

“This is a team with a long history of top sprinters and sprint trains. The team is completely focused on winning bunch sprints and with Caleb Ewan and Arnaud De Lie there are two very fast riders I can work for,” Guarnieri said at his presentation. .