2024 season reviewFour facts about Intermarche-Wanty

Thomas Goldmann

 · 06.12.2024

2024 season review: Four facts about Intermarche-WantyPhoto: Getty Images/ Tim de Waele
Biniam Girmay was the outstanding rider at Intermarche-Wanty 2024
The 2024 road cycling season is history. Time for TOUR to look back and take stock of the World Tour teams. Four facts about Intermarche-Wanty.

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Victories 2024: 13

With 13 successes, Intermarche-Wanty is only 14th in the ranking of the 18 World Tour teams and also took seven fewer victories than in the previous year, but it was still a good year for the Belgians. After all, three Tour de France stages were won by Biniam Girmay, as well as the green jersey. The only other success at World Tour level was achieved by Louis Meintjes on stage 4 of the Tour of the Basque Country.

Driver with the most victories: 5

The star of the team leads the way: Biniam Girmay has won the most victories for Intermarche-Wanty 2024 with five wins. In addition to the three Tour stage wins, the man from Eritrea also won the Surf Coast Classic in Australia in January and the Circuit Franco-Belge at the end of May.

Most racing days: 85

The team's perennial favourite comes from South Africa: Louis Meintjes spent 85 days in the saddle - six more than Vito Braet and Lilian Calmejane in second place in this statistic. Accordingly, Meintjes also clocked up the most race kilometres within the team in 2024 with 12,958 - 475 more than second-placed Calmejane.


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Transfers for 2025

Additions

  • Huub Artz (Wanty-ReUz-Technord)
  • Luca van Boven (Bingoal WB)
  • Kamiel Bonneu (Team Flanders-Baloise)
  • Louis Barre (Arkea-B&B Hotels)
  • Jonas Rutsch (EF Education EasyPost)
  • Alexander Kamp (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)

Departures

  • Madis Mihkels (EF Education EasyPost)
  • Rune Herregodts (UAE Team Emirates)
  • Boy van Poppel (end of career)
  • Taco van der Horn (?)
  • Lilian Calmejane (end of career)
  • Baptiste Planckaert (Van Rysel - Roubaix)
  • Mike Teunissen (Astana Qazaqstan Team)
  • Rein Taaramäe (Kinan Racing Team)

The most important news for the team: Biniam Girmay has completed his Contract extended until 2028 after the Tour de France. This means that 2025 will once again revolve around the sprinting all-rounder. Georg Zimmermann will also have a German team-mate in Jonas Rutsch. The 26-year-old will strengthen the classics squad at Intermarche-Wanty. The most prominent departure is Mike Teunissen, who scored the third most UCI points for the team in 2024 with 655.

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