Junior racing - The stars of the future

[hayneplane]

Pavel sumpik - does anyone of you know more about this Rider?
Some very good results this Season

Front group today was full of riders who feel like we will be hearing a lot about in the elite pros in the coming years.

 

[Bushman]

King Albert is back! Probably has not quite matched the expectations after 2023 so far, but not for a lack of legs. In Paris-Roubaix he crashed at Carrefour de ’larbre but managed to catch up with the leading group and probably would have won if his chasers had not taken a shortcut in the vélodrome. At E3 Saxo Classic recently he went solo on the Paterberg and distanced the chasers by a minute, then he punctured, was caught and messed up the sprint (that’s his own words anyway). Seems like luck is finally on his side again!

Edit: forgot to add some context. Philipsen just won the tt of the Peace Race and took the leader’s jersey.

 

[RedheadDane]

Movistar junior Cat Ferguson won stage 1 of the Occtanie Junior stage race

(Felt this belonged here)
BTW, she's not on Movistar yet.

The Ag2R Junior team was having a great day:
Seixas won LBL, while the amazingly named Ron Rooni won the final stage of Coupe du President in Poland.

Szymon Beben won the GC.

 

[ingsve]

BTW what idiot has made the mens junior calender and put Liege Bastogne Liege on the same day as the Peace Race is still going on?

 

[RedheadDane]

Scandi day at the Peace Race, with Louw Larsen winning ahead of Innhaug Dahl and Withen.
Ørn-Kristoff 4th, and Møller 5th.
Denmark
Norway
Denmark
Norway
Denmark

 

[Potomac]

@DNP-Old where are you?

Ashlin Barry in West Viginia is like Godzilla in Tokyo.

Date	Result			Race	Distance	Points PCS	Points UCI
18.05	1			National Championships United States MJ - Road Race (NC)	87	20		more
16.05	2			National Championships United States MJ - Criterium (NAT)				more
14.05	1			National Championships United States MJ - ITT (NC)	16.9	10

 

[hayneplane]

Just seen the result of Junior Men’s Flanders and 12 riders DSQ. Anyone know what happened?

 

[proffate]

@DNP-Old where are you?

Ashlin Barry in West Viginia is like Godzilla in Tokyo.

Date	Result			Race	Distance	Points PCS	Points UCI
18.05	1			National Championships United States MJ - Road Race (NC)	87	20		more
16.05	2			National Championships United States MJ - Criterium (NAT)				more
14.05	1			National Championships United States MJ - ITT (NC)	16.9	10

The tt win was pretty far from dominant. Lots of riders went close.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Just seen the result of Junior Men’s Flanders and 12 riders DSQ. Anyone know what happened?

Riding on the pavement instead of the cobbles.

 

[Wyndbrook]

The tt win was pretty far from dominant. Lots of riders went close.

Great that he is showing big potential, but that's all it is at the moment.
In a few years his life may go in a different direction altogether.

 

[hayneplane]

Insane ride from 17 year old Paul Seixas to win Classique Des Alpes juniors 1 day race by over 4 minutes to 2nd placed Adria Pericas who is also highly regarded as a climbing prospect.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The rivalry between Cat Ferguson and Célia Gery has continued this weekend with the former winning the sprint to the line on both stages of Bizkaikoloreak in the Basque country.

First year junior Paula Ostiz was hyped ahead of this season, because she had managed to get decent results in some male junior races in Spain last year, and today she finished 3rd. However it's been the 11 month younger Irati Aranguren who's impressed the most among the local riders by finishing 4th overall.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Hello, the party of the thread has returned, on a different name due to a forgotten password. Although this was from a good ten days ago, I'd still like to dedicate a post to it. Because while one Dane was bleeding minutes throughout the Tour de France, another one was winning it, albeit the junior version. Before the race I was quite intrigued to see how Albert Withen Philipsen and Ashlin Barry would fare on this terrain compared to the featherweights, but the latter (and his entire team) caught covid and were forced to abandon the following days.

The former, however, remains off the charts. Truth be told, this wasn't the hardest route they had ever drawn up in Valromey, but I did not expect AWP to compete, let alone drop the likes of Seixas, Pericas and Finn basically every day. Not to mention his team was crap and his two best teammates (Magnus Åhman and specifically Hugo Rishøj) abandoned the race the day before the queen stage. As expected, Seixas attacked an basically every vertical meter and AWP hardly broke a sweat. He is still miles and miles ahead of the rest in pure power. He is now 2/2 on big stage races this year. I guess the only thing left to do is to become 3x world champion in one season.

p.s. Some pro team needs to sign Pavel Sumpik, now.

 

[Netserk]

Hello, the party of the thread has returned, on a different name due to a forgotten password.

@DNP-Old?

 

[Coffeeplanter]

@DNP-Old?

The one and only.

 

[Netserk]

Nice. Very nice.

 

[RedheadDane]

The one and only.

But are you, planting coffee?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

But are you, planting coffee?

DNP-New was probably not available.

 

[Berniece]

Hello, the party of the thread has returned, on a different name due to a forgotten password.

Why not use the "I forgot my password" feature?

 

[Samamba]

. Some pro team needs to sign Pavel Sumpik, now.

Not sure if he's signed but hasn't he been riding on a DSM bike all season long?

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Not sure if he's signed but hasn't he been riding on a DSM bike all season long?

He has, and it is the most likely scenario he will make the jump with them. However, I keep hoping someone like Lefevere feels the need to add another Czech to please the Bakala connection. It would be a travesty if DSM get to perform another disasterclass on such a talented rider.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

As far as confirmed transfers go, this is all I have gathered up to now:

Albert Withen Philipsen: Lidl-Trek
Hector Alvarez: Lidl-Trek Development
Andrea Bessega: Lidl-Trek Development
Cedric Keppens: Visma | Lease a Bike Development
Patryk Goszczurny: Visma | Lease a Bike Development
Hakon Eiksund Oksnes: Visma | Lease a Bike Development (2026)
Elliot Rowe: Visma | Lease a Bike Development
Ian Kings: Visma | Lease a Bike Development
Matisse Van Kerckhove: Visma | Lease a Bike Development
Kasper Borremans: Bahrain - Victorious (2027, via CTF Victorious)
Jakob Omrzel: CTF Victorious
Felix Orn-Kristoff: Wanty - ReUz - Technord
Axel Van Den Broek: Wanty - ReUz - Technord
Edouard Claisse: Wanty - ReUz - Technord (2026)
Senna Remijn: Alpecin-Deceuninck Development Team
Erazem Valjavec: Soudal - Quick-Step Devo Team
Jasper Schoofs: Soudal - Quick-Step Devo Team
Matijs Van Strijthem: Soudal - Quick-Step Devo Team
Aldo Taillieu: Lotto Dstny Development Team
Lucas Van Gils: Lotto Dstny Development Team
Wil Holmes: Hagens Berman Axeon - Jayco
Karl Sagnier: Groupama-FDJ Conti (2026)
Baptiste Gregoire: Groupama-FDJ Conti
Eliott Boulet: Groupama-FDJ Conti
Camille Charret: ARKEA-B&B HOTELS Development Team
Adria Pericas: UAE Team Emirates Gen Z
Finlay Tarling: Israel Premier Tech Academy
Lucas Menanteau: Vendée U (Total Energies)

 

[SafeBet]

Auto Eder top talents like Fietzke, Finn and Casey should join the new RedBull U23 team, right?

 

[Samamba]

Gotta wonder, is Dutch cycling dead? Like will Visma even have any Dutch young riders in their devo team in the future? Ofcourse there's a few, but they are at Alpecin (Del Grosso, Remijn for example) and there's still DSM but I feel like the Netherlands have a problem with development right now.

 

[Offline]

Gotta wonder, is Dutch cycling dead? Like will Visma even have any Dutch young riders in their devo team in the future? Ofcourse there's a few, but they are at Alpecin (Del Grosso, Remijn for example) and there's still DSM but I feel like the Netherlands have a problem with development right now.

Remijn said he say no to Visma because Visma didn't want him to do cyclocross!
Del Grosso is probably the same story.