Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team is a Swiss UCI ProTeam focusing on road bicycle racing.^[1] Douglas Ryder created the team which rode its first season in 2023.^[2] The team is sponsored by clothing brand Q36.5.^[3]

Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

The team bus at the 2023 Tour de l'Ain
Team information
UCI code	Q36
Registered	Switzerland
Founded	2023 (2023)
Discipline(s)	Road
Status	UCI ProTeam (2023–)
Website	Team home page
Key personnel
General manager	Douglas Ryder
Team manager(s)	Kurt Bogaerts
Team name history
2023–	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
Current season

History

Formation

After Team Qhubeka NextHash folded in 2021, Douglas Ryder said he always wanted to come back to cycling at the top level. In 2022 Ryder was looking for riders to race for his team in 2022.^[4] The team was formed with riders who already rode for UCI WorldTeams plus some riders from the second and third divisions.^[5] Retired professional Vincenzo Nibali joined as the team's technical advisor.^[6] In December 2022, Union Cycliste Internationale announced that Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team was granted a UCI ProTeam licence for 2023 season.^[7]

2023 season

Q36.5 made an immediate impact with seven professional wins in its first season. Mark Donovan took overall victory at the 2023 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Matteo Moschetti had one-day victories at Clásica de Almería and Grand Prix d'Isbergues, and Nickolas Zukowsky was the Canadian National Road Race Champion. There were also stage victories for Matteo Badilatti at the Tour du Rwanda, Damien Howson at Vuelta a Asturias and Nicolò Parisini at CRO Race.^[8]

2024 season

The team followed up a successful debut season with a further five victories including two national titles. Jannik Steimle and Jelte Krijnsen took one-day wins at Grand Prix de Denain and Druivenkoers Overijse respectively, and Giacomo Nizzolo won stage four at the Sibiu Cycling Tour. David de la Cruz was the Spanish National Time Trial Champion and Negasi Haylu Abreha won the Ethiopian National Road Race title.^[9]

2025 season

In December 2024, it was announced that Tom Pidcock would leave Ineos Grenadiers to join Q36.5. Tom's younger brother Joe Pidcock and Kurt Bogaerts, Ineos assistant directeur sportif and long-time personal coach of Tom, also joined the team.^[10] The moves paid immediate dividends, with Tom Pidcock taking two stages, the points competition and the first general classification victory of his career at his first race for the team, the 2025 AlUla Tour. Matteo Moschetti also won a stage to round out an excellent start to the season.^[11]

Fabio Christen took the first professional victory of his career at the 2025 Vuelta a Murcia, a one-day race in Murcia, Spain. Christen sprinted to the front with 200m to go and held off Aurélien Paret-Peintre and Christian Scaroni to take the win.^[12] Tom Pidcock added another early-season Spanish win with victory on stage two at Vuelta a Andalucía on his way to third place overall.^[13] Matteo Moschetti took his second win of the season on 8 March at Grand Prix Criquielion, the same day that Tom Pidcock finished second to reigning World Champion Tadej Pogačar at Strade Bianche.^[14][15]

On 31 March it was confirmed that Q36.5 would compete in its first Grand Tour race at the 2025 Giro d'Italia after being invited to participate by race organisers RCS Sport.^[16]

Matteo Moschetti took his third and fourth wins of the season in April at the Tour of Hellas, outsprinting Dylan Groenewegen to the line twice to win stages one and five at the Greek race. The stage one result was the team's eighth win of the season, ensuring that 2025 would be its most successful year to date in terms of race victories.

Team roster

As of 10 January 2025.^[17]

Rider Date of birth  Enekoitz Azparren (ESP) (2002-08-05) 5 August 2002 (age 22)  Xabier Azparren (ESP) (1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 26)  Matteo Badilatti (SUI) (1992-07-30) 30 July 1992 (age 32)  Sjoerd Bax (NED) (1996-01-06) 6 January 1996 (age 29)  Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) (1987-08-22) 22 August 1987 (age 37)  Walter Calzoni (ITA) (2001-08-08) 8 August 2001 (age 23)  Marcel Camprubi (ESP) (2001-09-15) 15 September 2001 (age 23)  Fabio Christen (SUI) (2002-06-29) 29 June 2002 (age 22)  David de la Cruz (ESP) (1989-05-06) 6 May 1989 (age 36)  Mark Donovan (GBR) (1999-04-03) 3 April 1999 (age 26)  Frederik Frison (BEL) (1992-07-28) 28 July 1992 (age 32)  David González (ESP) (1996-02-21) 21 February 1996 (age 29)  Damien Howson (AUS) (1992-08-13) 13 August 1992 (age 32)

Rider Date of birth  Emīls Liepiņš (LAT) (1992-10-29) 29 October 1992 (age 32)  Kamil Małecki (POL) (1996-01-02) 2 January 1996 (age 29)  Matteo Moschetti (ITA) (1996-08-14) 14 August 1996 (age 28)  Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA) (1989-01-30) 30 January 1989 (age 36)  Nicolò Parisini (ITA) (2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 25)  Joe Pidcock (GBR) (2002-03-20) 20 March 2002 (age 23)  Tom Pidcock (GBR) (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 (age 25)  Jannik Steimle (GER) (1996-04-04) 4 April 1996 (age 29)  Rory Townsend (IRE) (1995-06-30) 30 June 1995 (age 29)  Milan Vader (NED) (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996 (age 29)  Harm Vanhoucke (BEL) (1997-06-17) 17 June 1997 (age 27)  Nickolas Zukowsky (CAN) (1998-06-03) 3 June 1998 (age 26)

Major wins

2023

Clásica de Almería, Matteo Moschetti

Stage 6 Tour du Rwanda, Matteo Badilatti

Stage 1 Vuelta a Asturias, Damien Howson

 Canada National Road Race Championships, Nickolas Zukowsky

Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour, Mark Donovan

Grand Prix d'Isbergues, Matteo Moschetti

Stage 3 CRO Race, Nicolò Parisini

2024

Grand Prix de Denain, Jannik Steimle

 Spain National Time Trial Championships, David de la Cruz

 Ethiopia National Road Race Championships, Negasi Haylu Abreha

Stage 4 Sibiu Cycling Tour, Giacomo Nizzolo

Druivenkoers Overijse, Jelte Krijnsen

2025

Overall AlUla Tour, Tom Pidcock

Stages 2 & 4, Tom Pidcock

Stage 5, Matteo Moschetti

Vuelta a Murcia, Fabio Christen

Stage 2 Vuelta a Andalucía, Tom Pidcock

Grand Prix Criquielion, Matteo Moschetti

Stages 1 & 5 Tour of Hellas, Matteo Moschetti

National champions

2023

Canada Road Race, Nickolas Zukowsky

2024

Spain Time Trial, David de la Cruz

Ethiopia Road Race, Negasi Haylu Abreha

Supplementary statistics

Sources:^[1]

Grand Tours by highest finishing position
Race	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	–	–
Tour de France	–	–
Vuelta a España	–	–
Major week-long stage races by highest finishing position
Race	2023	2024
Tour Down Under	–	–
Paris–Nice	–	–
Tirreno–Adriatico	17	89
Volta a Catalunya	–	–
Tour of the Basque Country	–	37
Tour de Romandie	–	15
Critérium du Dauphiné	–	24
Tour de Suisse	18	14
Tour de Pologne	24
Benelux Tour	–
Monuments by highest finishing position
Monument	2023	2024
Milan–San Remo	42	–
Tour of Flanders	50	14
Paris–Roubaix	85	18
Liège–Bastogne–Liège	–	–
Il Lombardia	72
Classics by highest finishing position
Classic	2023	2024
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad	–	49
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne	29	28
Strade Bianche	53	45
E3 Harelbeke	56	29
Gent–Wevelgem	–	31
Dwars door Vlaanderen	47	42
Amstel Gold Race	58	23
La Flèche Wallonne	–	29
Clásica de San Sebastián	–
Paris–Tours	53

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNS	Did not start
DNF	Did not finish
NH	Not held