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Fabian Cancellara: The growth of his Tudor Pro team, and how he spends his days now

Fabian Cancellara: The growth of his Tudor Pro team, and how he spends his days now

Fabian Cancellara retired seven years ago, but his presence in cycling is as strong as ever. The former world and Olympic champion started Tudor Pro Cycling in 2022, a Swiss-based ProTeam, as well as the development u-23 team, with big goals for the future.

The team brought over many riders to join for the 2023 season, including Sébastien Reichenbach from Groupama – FDJ, Danish champ Alexander Kamp from Trek – Segafredo, and Arvid de Kleijn from Human Powered Health.
The team has already had some big wins in 2023. Tudor Pro Cycling has taken five victories thus far, including a win at the Giro di Sicilia, Région Pays de la Loire Tour, Tour of Hungary, Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste, and most notably, Milano – Torino. It was de Kleijn who took the result in Italy, and Cancellara was thrilled with it, and how his team operated. “It’s the team’s biggest win and the first win where we won with a proper leadout,” he said. “We played our strategy well and we took the oldest bike race in the world with the youngest team.”


The three-time Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders winner knows that the team can continue to develop with good planning and preparation.

2023 season progressing well for Tudor Pro Cycling

“We are super happy and proud about how things are going. But we need to keep our feet on the ground. We’ve had fine wins that we didn’t expect, but we can continue to grow,” he said. “We have a good team of people, both riders and staff, and that’s how we can continue to evolve. We believe in our staff and riders, and that’s important: trust. Of course, it’s a sport, but we also have to care about each other. We want to do things differently, our way, not copy other teams. We have a mix of young and old people on our team.”

Fabian Cancellera’s Tudor Pro cycling team grows for 2023 season

For 2023, the team also brought on a few new staff members. Ricardo Scheidecker, the former technical and development director of Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, joined Tudor, and Sebastian Deckert, who is the head coach.

“Of course, sports is a business. But I don’t like to say that Tudor is just our sponsor, but a partner. We believe we can make decisions together, and we can win bike races that way,” the Swiss rider says. “We will win with the best riders, but by riding together and making decisions as a team.”

Sponsors as partners

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