Team Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe: Zak Dempster becomes new sports director as Aldag's successor

Germany's top professional team has also set the course for the future in the background. Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe will start the coming season with double Olympic champion and time trial world champion Remco Evenepoel at the helm. The winner of the 2022 Tour of Spain joins the already strong group of cyclists around Primoz Roglic, Jai Hindley and Alexander Vlasov. It has now also been decided who will lead the riders in the coming season. Australian Zak Dempster is the new Head of Sport with immediate effect, succeeding Rolf Aldag in this role. "Zak knows our team like few others. He has written an important part of our history himself and, despite his young age, already has a lot of international management experience. I am convinced that his fresh impetus, his clear leadership style and his fearlessness will help us to write the next chapter in our sporting development," says team manager Ralph Denk about the new signing. The 38-year-old Dempster was already part of the German team as a professional cyclist from 2013 to 2016.

Again with Poitschke - without Aldag, Haussler, Eisel

After the Tour de France, the 57-year-old former pro Aldag left the team unexpectedly and at short notice - despite the success of Florian Lipowitz in third place overall. The Italian Enrico Gasparotto, who was responsible for the team's only grand tour victory to date with Jai Hindley at the Giro d'Italia in 2022, was also no longer part of the sporting management team. Oliver Cookson is also new to the Red Bull team as Head of Racing, responsible for race operations and planning. Like Dempster, the Briton, son of the former President of the Cycling World Federation Bryan Cookson, most recently worked for the British team Ineos Grenadiers. Enrico Poitschke has rejoined the sporting management team after an intermezzo with Bahrain Victourious and will once again take on the role of sporting director in the races in addition to his role as Head of Performance Structure Alignment. Sven Vanthourtenhout, former Belgian national coach and Evenepoel's confidant, had already joined the team during the current season. Klaas Lodewyck (Belgium/from Soudal Quick-Step) and the former French Tour stage winner Tony Gallopin (from Lotto) are new to the team of sporting directors.

The new team at a glance

Chief of Sports: Zak Dempster
Head of Racing: Oliver Cookson
Sports Directors - WorldTour: Shane Archbold, Tony Gallopin, Roger Hammond, Klaas Lodewyck, Enrico Poitschke, Christian Pömer, Sven Vanthourenhout, Patxi Villa; U23/U19: Cesare Benedetti, Gregor Gazvoda, Pello Olaberria

According to the team's press release, the Austrian Bernhard Eisel is no longer part of the sporting performance alongside Aldag, Gasparotto and Heinrich Haussler.