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[CT] JEWA Tirol on the way back to PCT? | Roster presentation
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Posted on 05-08-2026 13:25
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Welcome back to the 4th season for our team. It's been a wild up and down, with promotions, close saves and a relegation. Let's take a short look at the history of the team before we focus on the 2026 season.
 Team History
| History | Team Name | Division | Points | Rank | | | 2025 | JEWA TIROL | PCT | 1,920 | 20th | Relegated | | 2024 | JEWA TIROL | PCT | 1,824 | 19th | | 2023 | JEWA TIROL | CT | 1,404 | 2nd | Promoted |
After earning promotion in our first year, we managed to stay in the PCT in our second season. Early on, we decided to sign some talented riders who would help us in the long run. We signed Thibau Nys and Yoshiki Terada early in 2024, which took up a large portion of our wage budget. Even so, we tried to build a squad capable of staying in the PCT. It was a close call, but we managed to remain in the PCT at the end of the 2024 season.
In 2025, a large chunk of our wage budget again went to Nys and Terada, whom we managed to develop to level 4. Despite scoring nearly 100 more points than in 2024, we missed the safe spot by just 18 points and were relegated to the CT again.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 13:38
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Main Sponsors
 
For the fourth consecutive year, our main sponsors remain the same. The project of establishing a professional cycling team in the PCT or above remains an important goal for the Austrian state of Tirol, particularly through its tourism brand, Tirol Werbung.
Together with cycling-loving company JEWA and the Stubai Valley tourism brand Stubai, we are entering our fourth year as a cycling team.
Our additional sponsors are KTM and DT Swiss.
However, one thing is already clear: none of our sponsors were happy with last year's relegation and have issued an ultimatum to the management. Either the team earns promotion to the PCT this year, or it will have to look for new sponsors. |
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Posted on 05-08-2026 13:43
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The Roster
The 2026 roster contains of 18 riders, 16 who are already signed and 2 that will come to the team via draft.
The team is a combination of well established riders, that should be able to score big points in their specific categories as well as some future riders.
The GC Leader / Team Captain
Colin Stüssi came to the team via transfer for a 500k fee. He should be one of the premier CT stage racers and the team hopes, that he can shop his skills again this year. Even though he has declined a bit, he has shown some great performances in last years TdF and his capabilities should still be top on CT level.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 13:52
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The Puncheurs and our Hills leader
Simon Yates was signed as a free agent and joins the team after a gread season, where he scored nearly 900 points. He still has great speed and his explosiveness will be needed for the team in hilly stages. He will be our main guy on hilly stages.
Austrian Felix Grossschartner comes back for another year on the team and will be another of our puncheurs, trying to go for some points in hilly stages.
Wilco Kelderman joins us via free agency and fulfills our puncheur squad. He has aged a lot, but still hase good speed on hills and balanced overall skills to hopefully score some points for us!
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Posted on 05-08-2026 13:54
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The Time Trialist
Steven Lammertink stays on the team for another year. His TT skills are among the best in CT and should hopefully score the team some much needed points in their fight for promotion!
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:00
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The Sprinters / The Leadout
Thomas Boudat stays on the team for another hopefully great year. He was the main scorer for the team in ints promotion season in 2023 and scored well in 2024 too. In 2025 his scoring was a bit worse, but with Grosu being the main sprinter back then, he was a in a bit of a reserve role. This year he will lead the sprints again and should still have enough gas in the tank to finish some CT races on the podium.
Max Losch also remains on the team as our secondary sprinter. He is not as explosive as Boudat, but should be able to get some points in sprint races too.
Regan Gough remains on the roster as our main leadout. His sprint skills have already helped us in the past and together with Boudat and Losch we are hoping for some good sprint results!
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:04
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The Classic / Cobble Riders
German Anibal Orue is our cobble leader and remains on the team for another year. He had a hard time scoring in PCT and we are hoping, that he will do better in some CT races.
Orue gets supported by Russian Alexander Sulimov, who will be the main helper on cobble terrain. Together these two should hopefully find some good results in northern classics.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:10
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The Mountain Domestiques
Maximilian Kabas is our biggest Austrian climbing talent. In his 4th season with us, he has finally fully developed his skills and will be a great helper for Stüssi in the mountains. At only 25 years of age, he will have a hopefully great future with us.
Slovakian climber Juraj Bellan will help us in the mountains and in TTTs. He renewed his contract and is among the helping squad for Stüssi.
Croatian Pavel Potocki is the 3rd of our mountain domestiques. He feels well in long ascents and together with Kabas and Bellan should form a 3-headed monster in defending Stüssi for GC rides.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:20
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The Allrounders
Austrian Tobias Bayer comes back to another year of riding for our team. The now fully developed Rouleur should help us in sprint trains and in roling back escape groups in flat stages. He can also be of some help in the mountains to assist our 3 main mountain domestiques.
Gilles Heymes also comes back to ride another year with us. The allrounder can be of help in the mountains but is also needed in TTTs.
US rider Daniel Eaton will be another guy that helps us in flat stages and TTTs. He joins us via free agency on a 1 year contract.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:27
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These riders above will fight for promotion in the hope to keep our sponsors. But promotion will not only be needed to keep the sponsores, but to keep our loaned out riders too.
Here are our two top talents, who are currently on loan with quadsas at DK Zalgiris.
Thibau Nys is already good enough to be a puncheur leader for a PT team. Our goal in the loan is to get him promoted to 4.100 and become one of the best 5 puncheurs in the game. In order to meet his renewal wishes, promotion this year will be needed dearly.
The last of our riders is japanese TT talent Yoshiki Terada, who is currently also on loan at DK Zalgiris. Terada will become one of the premier TTers in the game after his level up and again to meet his renewal wishes, we better gain promotion this year.
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Posted on 05-08-2026 14:48
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Scary team, congrats on a nice transfert season.
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Posted on 06-08-2026 08:09
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Thank you! My goal was to get scorers and I think we did quite well there. We need to get to PCT at any cost, otherwise retaining Nys and Terada will be difficult next year. If we can keep them, it is much easier to build a "future based" team, as we already have 2 great scorers.
FA went well, but it is a 1-year team except for 3-4 riders.
Hopefully as scary as you say 
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Posted on 06-08-2026 08:18
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The goal is clear, should be no problem for you this season Congrats with your transfer window and good luck!
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Posted on 06-08-2026 11:16
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I hope so! But last year we also had a team that was looking better on paper. Hirt and De Bie were punished by the switch to PCM 2024.
This year should be better though, as we looked a bit more into the reasoning for that haha.
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Posted on 06-08-2026 11:23
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Stüssi, Yates, Lammertink and Boudat is an awesome leadership group for CT. Not quite sure what to expect from Orue, but with all that depth behind those guys, you should feel good about your chances, I believe 
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Posted on 06-08-2026 11:44
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Really good team although a few too many declining riders for my taste. But as you wrote, you have really talented future leaders loaned out so possibly no need to worry about all the declines ...
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Posted on 06-08-2026 11:54
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Congrats on a nice roster, I think you really made a step up in terms of roster planning! With your two great talents coming back maxed next year, you have a good scoring core to shape your team around - although as knockout says a lot will have to be done.
Funny to see Stüssi finally end up with an Austrian team, as he's spent pretty much his whole RL career with Vorarlberg He won't finish 2nd in CT again as he did in 2022, but he should still be a very solid scorer for you!
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Posted on 06-08-2026 12:05
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knockout wrote:
Really good team although a few too many declining riders for my taste. But as you wrote, you have really talented future leaders loaned out so possibly no need to worry about all the declines ...
Exactly. Since the day we have signed Nys and Terada we knew, that our goal has to be score now guys untill they are finally developed. Once that is done, we can focus on building a longterm-deal around them. Untill then the only guys I planned on longterm are Kabas and Bayer. I decided to take them with us because they are Austrian. This year is the first year where they can really be of good use for the team, as both are maxed and have their uses now.
Fabianski wrote:
Funny to see Stüssi finally end up with an Austrian team, as he's spent pretty much his whole RL career with Vorarlberg He won't finish 2nd in CT again as he did in 2022, but he should still be a very solid scorer for you!
Haha I though about that too
Didn't know that he was 2nd in CT back in 2022, nice to know. I hope a top 5 result should still be doable for him.
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Posted on 06-08-2026 13:27
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Promotion should be a very strong possibility with this roster, in my opinion. And yes it's a bit old, but with Nys especially out on loan, you won't have any problems going forward. You have the hardest part of your future set, which is your absolute leader.
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Posted on 06-08-2026 18:31
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Really good team. Without having the full overview of the CT, this could very well be early season promotion favourites
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