Rider	Wage	Points	RDs	PTS/Wage	PpRD	PCT Rank
Beltran	€ 520k	1171	37	2.25	31.65	1st
Alarcon	€ 300k	469	41	1.56	11.44	37th
Saber	€ 330k	326	44	0.99	7.41	66th
Gaudu	€ 125k	232	57	1.86	4.07	96th
Pogacar	€ 140k	185	65	1.32	2.85	107th
Gilanipoor	€ 75k	110	66	1.47	1.67	168th
Zordan	€ 50k	106	63	2.12	1.68	171st
Penko	€ 50k	99	59	1.98	1.68	178th
Rajovic	€ 50k	54	15	1.08	3.60	258th
Poljanec	€ 65k	38	70	0.59	0.54	303rd
Blikra	€ 50k	38	51	0.76	0.75	305th
Vysna	€ 50k	33	65	0.66	0.51	330th
Katrasnik	€ 75k	29	67	0.39	0.43	344th
Cepeda Hernandez *	€ 25k	27	50	1.08	0.54	356th
Ardila	€ 180k	20	91	0.11	0.22	383rd
Christodoulos	€ 50k	19	36	0.38	0.53	391st
Siric	€ 60k	19	80	0.32	0.24	392nd
Le Gac	€ 50k	19	63	0.38	0.30	398th
Buitrago	€ 80k	11	82	0.14	0.13	437th
Mestric	€ 50k	10	25	0.2	0.4	442nd
Groselj	€ 50k	9	65	0.18	0.14	450th
Lopez *	€ 0k	6	68	N/A	0.09	482nd
Antonijevic	€ 50k	2	54	0.04	0.04	520th
Evans *	€ 0k	2	56	N/A	0.04	527th
Hocevar **	€ 10k	2	15	0.2	0.13	530th
Stojnic **	€ 10k	0	15	0.00	0.00	N/A

*	Loanee
**	Stagiare

Eduard Alexander Beltran

Beltran came back to his best form this season. He won several stages and classifications, winning the individual scoring title. He posted a team high 2.25 pts/wage ratio while scoring 1171 points total. Improved planning and added support are huge reasons for his success.

Best result(s):

Tour de Pologne (HC)	2nd Overall, 2x Stage win, 1st Points
Balkans International (PTHC)	2nd Overall, Stage win
Hong Kong Challenge (C1)	1st Overall, 2x Stage win, 1st Points
Tour of Chile (C1)	2nd Overall, 1st Points
Clasica San Sebastian (PTHC)	4th
Tour of Lithuania (HC)	4th Overall
Strade Bianche (HC)	5th
Milano - Torino (C1)	3rd

Jose Alarcon

Alarcon came to us late in the transfer window as a short term option to bolster our climbing ranks and give us what we thought would be some much needed scoring. He certainly did that as he excelled in the hardest mountain stages and did well in the hills also.

Best result(s):

Tour of East Java (PTHC)	6th Overall
Tour d'Andorra (C1)	5th Overall, 2nd Points
Tour of Eritrea (C1)	3rd Overall
Tour du Maroc (PTHC)	9th Overall

Lahcen Saber

Saber's season can be explained pretty easily. Going to the Tour of America was a huge mistake! Apart from that he was okay, but when you waste nearly half of your race days on one bad race. Well that's how it was. Another learning experience for next year.

Best result(s):

Baltic Chain Tour (C1)	2nd Overall, Stage win
Veenendaal - Veenendaal (HC)	6th
Circulo de Juarez (C1)	7th Overall

David Gaudu

With limited finances available Gaudu was a late signing brought in to act as super domestique for Eddy Beltran, as well have a few of his own chances in different races. He accomplished both with aplomb, cracking the top 100 in the individual ranking and being one of the more cost efficient riders on the team.

Best result(s):

GP Wallonie (PTHC)	8th
Benelux Challenge (HC)	1st KOM, 2nd Stage
Tour of Norway (PTHC)	21st Overall
Japan Cup (PTHC)	19th

Tadej Pogacar

Tadej finally returned to us after spending two years on loan. His role for this season was similar to Gaudu's. A domestique at times and with freedom to ride for himself otherwise. He excelled at the time he had that freedom and took full advantage of scoring in the U25 classification. An excellent season to offset his still higher wage.

Best result(s):

Tour of Norway (PTHC)	10th Overall
Tour de Pologne (HC)	19th Overall, 3rd Stage, 1st U25
Vuelta al Pais Vasco (HC)	20th Overall, 1st U25

Abolfazl Gilanipoor

Gilanipoor pretty much picked up where he left off last season in terms of his scoring. Which might actually be more impressive this time. He spent a significant part of his time shadowing Alarcon. He did well there and when he had his own opportunities.

Best result(s):

Tour de Vineyards (HC)	13th Overall
Tour of America (C1)	14th Overall
Sakartvelo Trophy (C2)	11th

Andrea Zordan

Zordan was brought in as one of Beltran's key domestiques, but he also spent some time supporting Alarcon and even Gilanipoor. He got himself in a fair few breakaways across the season and scored most of his points at the Tour of America.

Best result(s):

Tour of America (C1)

26th Overall, Stage win, 5th KOM

Izidor Penko

This was Izidor's first season as a maxed rider. While he was mostly in a supporting role, he didn't really do much of anything early in the season and late in the season. But he 'exploded' at the Tour of Norway where he paired a good day on the TT stage with his all round climbing ability.

Best result(s):

Tour of Norway (PTHC)

7th Overall, 3rd U25

Dusan Rajovic

For Dusan this season was just for completing his development and to do that he didn't need many race days. Still he was eligible for a C2 sprint stage race where he won the first race of his young career.

Best result(s):

Ras Tailteann (C2)

5th Overall, Stage win, 1st U25

Miha Poljanec

Miha is another rider who finished his development. He's an allround domestique that is always there to support others. Perhaps next year he gets more breakaway chances.

Best result(s):

Rheden GP (PTHC)	24th
Benelux Challenge (HC)	27th Overall

Havard Blikra

Blikra was signed for his dual ability to help on the hard hills and in the mountains. He spent most of the season in a domestique role.

Best result(s):

Tour de Pologne (HC)

26th Overall

Matej Vysna

Vysna has a similar story to Blikra. Brought in for similar reason's and spent most of the season working for others.

Best result(s):

Tour of East Java (PTHC)

33rd Overall

Gasper Katrasnik

Gasper was a rider we really liked for a long time and were happy to acquire him. His season didn't go to plan, as we expected more production from him in the flat classics. Still he's a useful rider for us and we're looking forward to seeing more from him next year.

Best result(s):

Paris Tours (PTHC)

19th

Jefferson Cepeda Hernandez

Jefferson came here on loan from ISA - Hexacta to learn and get more experience in the pro peloton. He had great opportunities to learn from riders like Eddy Beltran. We loved having him here and we wish him all the best at his parent team.

Best result(s):

Japan Cup (PTHC)

14th

Andres Camilo Ardila

Andres Camilo was brought in as a highly rated neo pro. His goal for this season was simply to learn and gather as much experience as possible. Despite that he managed to contribute a bit of scoring, which was very nice to see.

Best result(s):

Hong Kong Challenge (C1)

1st U25

Michael Christodoulos

This was the final year of development for Michael. Our calendar wasn't built around time-trial races so he didn't get a ton of chances. Perhaps that changes next season.

Best result(s):

Tour of Ukraine (HC)

33rd Overall, 3rd U25

Ivan Siric

Ivan again got plenty of race days to continue his development. He's still far from where we envision him, but he contributed well in a number of helper roles, including some lead out work.

Olivier Le Gac

Olivier was another rider brought in as part of the 'hills brigade' to support Eddy Beltran. While he didn't get many individual results, he certainly did help towards the overall team success.

Best result(s):

Giro dell'Emilia (HC)

17th

Santiago Buitrago

Santiago raced a lot this year to gain as much experience as he could. Similar to Ardila he found a way to score some points. He looks to have a bright future.

Best result(s):

Euskal Bizikleta (C2)

1st U25

Matija Mestric

Matija didn't need to race too much this season to complete his development into a maxed rider. Still he got into some breakaways and scored a few points in the mandatory cobbled races.

Matic Groselj

Similar as with Christodoulos, Groselj didn't have too many opportunities in TT races, but he did race a lot and didn't make much of an impact. His development is now finished and we hope to see some better results from him next year.

Juan Pedro Lopez

Lopez came here on loan from Zwift Pro Cycling. He is a young climber that raced quite a lot and was present in plenty of mountainous and hilly races. We loved having him here and we wish him all the best at his parent team.

Goran Antonijevic

Goran is a rider that works for others rather than scoring himself. He had some breakaway moments this season, but he couldn't quite pull off a result. He did gain the experience needed to complete his development, so we're looking forward to seeing him next year.

Alexander Evans

The Aussie joined us on loan from Amaysim - Cervelo. He contributed most of his domestique work in the mountains, but was also included in the TTT group on the rare occasions it was required. We loved having him here and we wish him all the best at his parent team.

Kristjan Hocevar

Finally let's mention our stagiares. Kristjan managed to score some minor points in his limited race days. We look forward to seeing more of him next season.

Veljko Stojnic

Veljko is our other stagiare. He pretty much followed the same programme as Kristjan. As with any young rider it'll take some time for him to develop, but we like his upside as an all round rider and expect to see more of him next year.


Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita

Always like reading a rider analysis I know Avenir didn't give you any points or anything, but I still believe Pogacar deserves a mention for winning it that easily Looking forward to how you'll tackle renewals, and what you'll do with your 'bigger earning' riders during renewals and/or transfer season.

Renewals are pretty straightforward. Either they're renewed or not.

In the first part of rider development we will take a look at the riders that are finishing their development.












Stay tuned for part 2 where we will look at the progress of our two most promising Balkan talents.


Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita

In the second part of rider development we will take a look at perhaps two future team leaders, Tadej Pogacar and Ivan Siric.






Stay tuned for the last past, there we will review the progress of the youngest talents remaining.


Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita

Loving the two regional talents, will be awesome to see then next season.

Pogacar will be mad handy at level 4 next year, have fun

Pogacar is going to score a criminal amount of points next year, going to be super fun to watch.

Thanks, I guess they balance out the other crappy ones



I'm not sure if I share the same optimism as you guys, but hopefully he does well enough to keep me safely in PCT for one more season.

The last part of the development series covers the three youngsters that are still the furthest away from realising their potential.








This wraps up our 3 part series on rider development. We managed to max out 5 regional riders this season, which was and still is the main aim of our cycling project. As our resources get stretched we might have to cut down on rider development a bit, but it's still a major part of what we intend to do.


Bostjan Mervar,
team representative and general manager of Cedevita