Quick-Step Floors

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"Quick Step" redirects here. For the dance, see Quickstep.
Etixx–Quick-Step
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Team information
UCI code EQS
Registered Belgium
Founded 2003 (2003)
Discipline Road
Status UCI WorldTeam
Bicycles Specialized
Components Shimano
Website Team home page
Key personnel
General manager Patrick Lefévère
Team manager(s) Brian Holm
Rolf Aldag
Davide Bramati
Wilfried Peeters
Rik Van Slycke
Tom Steels
Jan Schaffrath
Team name history
2003–2004
2005
2006–2007
2008–2011
2012–2014
2015–		 Quick-Step–Davitamon (QSD)
Quick-Step–Innergetic (QST)
Quick-Step–Innergetic (QSI)
Quick-Step (QST)
Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (OPQ)
Etixx–Quick-Step (EQS)
Quick-Step Floors jersey
Jersey
Current season

Etixx–Quick-Step (UCI Team Code: EQS) is a Belgian UCI World Tour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke, Tom Steels, Brian Holm, Rolf Aldag and Jan Schaffrath.[1] Etixx is a Czech producer of supplements and nutrition products, while Quick-Step is a manufacturer of laminate flooring.

History

The team was created as Quick-Step–Davitamon in 2003 from staff and riders of Domo-Farm Frites and Mapei–Quick-Step when the latter disbanded after nine years in the sport. Paolo Bettini won the UCI Road World Cup in 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics road title in 2004. In the 2005 UCI ProTour season, renamed Quick-Step–Innergetic, the team won a large number of classics: Tom Boonen won Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, Filippo Pozzato the HEW Cyclassics, and Paolo Bettini the Züri-Metzgete and the Giro di Lombardia. In late 2005 Tom Boonen won the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, where Michael Rogers won the time-trial.

In 2006 Boonen retained the Tour of Flanders and held the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de France during stage 3–6, and Filippo Pozzato won 2006 Milan – San Remo. Paolo Bettini won the world championship in Salzburg and retained his Giro di Lombardia crown. In 2007 Tom Boonen won the points classification in the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix.

In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he admitted to doping in a sworn affidavit to USADA.[2] This was despite the team statement that "commended" Leipheimer for his "open cooperation" in the USADA investigation that exposed Lance Armstrong long term cheating in cycling via doping. The team's action was described by USADA head Travis Tygart as "The classic Omertà move right? Actions speak louder than words. On the one hand, they say they congratulate him on coming forward, [but] their action terminating him for being truthful speaks a lot louder than their words." CyclingNews reported in the same article that the team’s claim to have only recently learned of Leipheimer’s past doping was according to Tygart "absolutely not true...Leipheimer and a USADA attorney told the team months ago of the investigation, and of Leipheimer’s role". Cyclingnews noted that Omega Pharma general manager Patrick Lefevere "had admitted in 2007 to having used doping products, including amphetamines, during his own career". Lefevere is still CEO of Etixx as of September 2015.

On 17 July 2014, the team announced that Iljo Keisse had been given a 2-year contract extension[3] On the second rest day of the 2014 Tour de France the team announced a change to one of their main sponsors from 2015 onwards for 3 season. Omega Pharma will be exchanged for one of its subsidiaries, Etixx, giving a new team name: Etixx–Quick-Step.[4] Further, Tony Martin confirmed via his Twitter account that he had signed a 2-year contract extension.[5] On 19 August the team announced that Pieter Serry had signed a 2-year contract extension,[6] on 27 August the team announced the signing of Maxime Bouet on a 2-year deal[7] and on September 1 the team announced the signing of David de la Cruz on a 2-year contract.[8] In 2014 Michał Kwiatkowski won a rainbow jersey in 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race in Ponferrada, Spain.

In February 2015, the team announced it had signed 2015 UCI World Omnium champion, Fernando Gaviria, and fellow Colombian, Rodrigo Contreras, on two-year deals set to commence at the start of the 2016 season.[9] On the eve of the 2015 Tour of Flanders Quickstep confirmed their sponsorship of the team would be extended to the end of the 2017 season.[10] In August 2015, the team signed Davide Martinelli for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.[11] In September 2015, the team announced that supermarket chain Lidl would sponsor the team, becoming the teams "Fresh food supplier".[12]

Team roster

As of 1 January 2015. view · edit · talk
Rider Date of birth
 Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) (1992-06-11)11 June 1992 (aged 22)
 Tom Boonen (BEL) (1980-10-15)15 October 1980 (aged 34)
 Maxime Bouet (FRA) (1986-11-03)3 November 1986 (aged 28)
 Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) (1987-08-22)22 August 1987 (aged 27)
 Mark Cavendish (GBR) (1985-05-21)21 May 1985 (aged 29)
 David de la Cruz (ESP) (1989-05-06)6 May 1989 (aged 25)
 Michał Gołaś (POL) (1984-09-29)29 September 1984 (aged 30)
 Iljo Keisse (BEL) (1982-12-21)21 December 1982 (aged 32)
 Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) (1990-06-02)2 June 1990 (aged 24)
 Yves Lampaert (BEL) (1991-04-10)10 April 1991 (aged 23)
 Nikolas Maes (BEL) (1986-04-09)9 April 1986 (aged 28)
 Tony Martin (GER) (1985-04-23)23 April 1985 (aged 29)
 Gianni Meersman (BEL) (1985-12-05)5 December 1985 (aged 29)
 Mark Renshaw (AUS) (1982-10-22)22 October 1982 (aged 32)
Rider Date of birth
 Fabio Sabatini (ITA) (1985-02-10)10 February 1985 (aged 29)
 Pieter Serry (BEL) (1988-11-21)21 November 1988 (aged 26)
 Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) (1985-12-11)11 December 1985 (aged 29)
 Niki Terpstra (NED) (1984-05-18)18 May 1984 (aged 30)
 Matteo Trentin (ITA) (1989-08-02)2 August 1989 (aged 25)
 Rigoberto Urán (COL) (1987-01-26)26 January 1987 (aged 27)
 Petr Vakoč (CZE) (1992-07-11)11 July 1992 (aged 22)
 Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (BEL) (1991-02-14)14 February 1991 (aged 23)
 Stijn Vandenbergh (BEL) (1984-04-25)25 April 1984 (aged 30)
 Martin Velits (SVK) (1985-02-21)21 February 1985 (aged 29)
 Julien Vermote (BEL) (1989-07-26)26 July 1989 (aged 25)
 Carlos Verona (ESP) (1992-11-04)4 November 1992 (aged 22)
 Łukasz Wiśniowski (POL) (1991-12-07)7 December 1991 (aged 23)

Major results

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Main article: List of Etixx–Quick-Step wins

National and world championships

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2003
MaillotMundialCrono.PNG World Time Trial Michael Rogers
MaillotItalia.svg Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini
MaillotHungary.png Hungarian Time Trial Laszlo Bodrogi
2004
MaillotMundialCrono.PNG World Time Trial Michael Rogers
MaillotHungary.png Hungarian Time Trial Laszlo Bodrogi
2005
Jersey rainbow.svg World Road Race Tom Boonen
MaillotMundialCrono.PNG World Time Trial Michael Rogers
2006
Jersey rainbow.svg World Road Race Paolo Bettini
MaillotItalia.svg Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini
2007
Jersey rainbow.svg World Road Race Paolo Bettini
MaillotItalia.svg Italian Road Race Giovanni Visconti
2008
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder
2009
MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen
20px Slovakian Road Race Martin Velits
2010
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Road Race Stijn Devolder
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder
MaillotBielorrusia.PNG Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau
20px Slovakian Time Trial Martin Velits
2011
MaillotFra.PNG French Road Race Sylvain Chavanel
20px Curaçao Road Race Marc de Maar
20px Curaçao Time Trial Marc de Maar
2012
MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen
MaillotIrlanda.PNG Irish Road Race Matt Brammeier
MaillotHolanda.PNG Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra
MaillotPolonia.PNG Polish Road Race Michał Gołaś
MaillotFra.PNG French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel
MaillotAlemania.PNG German Time Trial Tony Martin
20px Slovakian Time Trial Peter Velits
MaillotItalia.svg Italian Time Trial Dario Cataldo
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle
MaillotMundialCrono.PNG World Time Trial Tony Martin
2013
MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
MaillotFra.PNG French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel
MaillotAlemania.PNG German Time Trial Tony Martin
20px Slovakian Time Trial Peter Velits
MaillotPolonia.PNG Polish Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski
MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Road Race Mark Cavendish
MaillotBélgica.PNG Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle
MaillotMundialCrono.PNG World Time Trial Tony Martin
2014
Jersey rainbow.svg World Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar
MaillotPolonia.PNG Polish Time Trial Michał Kwiatkowski
MaillotAlemania.PNG German Time Trial Tony Martin
MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Czech Road Race Zdeněk Štybar
Jersey rainbow.svg World Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski
2015
MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Time Trial Rigoberto Urán
MaillotAlemania.PNG German Time Trial Tony Martin
MaillotRepúblicaCheca.PNG Czech Road Race Petr Vakoč
MaillotHolanda.PNG Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra

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