Soudal Quick-Step

{{short description|Belgian cycling team}}

{{redirect|Quick Step|other uses|Quickstep (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox cycling team

| name = Soudal Quick-Step

| image = Soudal Quick-Step logo.png

| caption =

| code = SOQ

| registered = Belgium

| founded = {{start date|2003}}

| disbanded =

| bicycles = Specialized

| components = Shimano

| website = https://soudal-quickstepteam.com

| generalmanager = Jurgen Foré

| teammanager = {{Ubl

| Davide Bramati

| Iljo Keisse

| Klaas Lodewyck

| Wilfried Peeters

| Tom Steels

| Geert Van Bondt

| Dries Devenyns

| Kevin Hulsmans

}}

| discipline = Road

| status = UCI WorldTeam

| oldname = {{aligned table|cols=2|fullwidth=y|style=white-space:nowrap|col1style=font-weight:bold; padding-right:1em;

| 2003–2004 | Quick-Step–Davitamon (QSD)

| 2005–2007 | Quick-Step–Innergetic (QSI)

| 2008–2011 | Quick-Step (QST)

| 2012–2014 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (OPQ)

| 2015–2016 | Etixx–Quick-Step (EQS)

| 2017–2018 | Quick-Step Floors (QST)

| 2019–2021 | Deceuninck–Quick-Step (DQT){{Cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/quick-step-add-deceuninck-as-new-title-sponsor-for-2019/|title = Quick-Step add Deceuninck as new title sponsor for 2019|date = 8 October 2018}}

| 2022 | Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team (QST)

| 2023– | Soudal–Quick-Step (SOQ)

}}

| kitimage =

| current = 2025 Soudal–Quick-Step season

}}

Soudal–Quick-Step ({{UCI code|SOQ}}) is a Belgian UCI WorldTeam cycling team led by team manager Jurgen Foré. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Iljo Keisse, Klaas Lodewyck, Wilfried Peeters, Tom Steels, Geert Van Bondt, Dries Devenyns and Kevin Hulsmans.{{cite web|url=https://www.soudal-quickstepteam.com/en/team/staff|title=Staff|website=Soudal Quick-Step|access-date=23 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250115093200/https://www.soudal-quickstepteam.com/en/team/staff|archive-date=15 January 2025|url-status=live}}

The team is nicknamed 'The Wolfpack' and has used the term in its branding since 2017.{{cite web|title =The story behind Quick-Step's 'Wolf Pack'|website =VeloNews|date=April 2018|access-date =5 December 2020|url=https://www.velonews.com/news/road/the-story-behind-quick-steps-wolf-pack/}}

History

File:Fourmies - Grand Prix de Fourmies, 6 septembre 2015 (B088).JPG (pictured in 2015) spent almost his entire career with the team and is one of their most successful riders in terms of race wins.]]

The team was created as Quick-Step–Davitamon in 2003 from staff and riders of Domo–Farm Frites and Mapei–Quick-Step when the latter disbanded after nine years in the sport. Paolo Bettini won the UCI Road World Cup in 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics road title in 2004.

In the 2005 UCI ProTour season, renamed Quick-Step–Innergetic, the team won a large number of classics: Tom Boonen won Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, Filippo Pozzato the HEW Cyclassics, and Paolo Bettini the Züri-Metzgete and the Giro di Lombardia. In late 2005 Tom Boonen won the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, where Michael Rogers won the time-trial.

In 2006 Boonen retained the Tour of Flanders and held the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de France during stage 3–6, and Filippo Pozzato won 2006 Milan–San Remo. Paolo Bettini won the world championship in Salzburg and retained his Giro di Lombardia crown. In 2007 Tom Boonen won the points classification in the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart.

In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix.

In October 2012, the team fired their veteran rider Levi Leipheimer after he admitted to doping in a sworn affidavit to USADA.{{cite web|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/10/news/tygart-code-of-silence-claimed-leipheimer_261684 |title=Tygart: Code of silence claimed Leipheimer|date=17 October 2012|work=Cycling Weekly}} This was despite the team statement that "commended" Leipheimer for his "open cooperation" in the USADA investigation that exposed Lance Armstrong's long-term cheating in cycling via doping. The team's action was described by USADA head Travis Tygart as "The classic Omertà move, right? Actions speak louder than words. On the one hand, they say they congratulate him on coming forward, [but] their action terminating him for being truthful speaks a lot louder than their words."

CyclingNews reported in the same article that the team's claim to have only recently learned of Leipheimer's past doping was according to Tygart "absolutely not true... Leipheimer and a USADA attorney told the team months ago of the investigation, and of Leipheimer's role". Cyclingnews noted that Omega Pharma general manager Patrick Lefevere "had admitted in 2007 to having used doping products, including amphetamines, during his own career". Lefevere is still CEO of Etixx as of September 2015.

On 17 July 2014, the team announced that Iljo Keisse had been given a two-year contract extension.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/two-year-extension-for-keisse-at-omega-pharma-quick-step|title=Two-year extension for Keisse at Omega Pharma-Quick Step|author=Cycling News|work=Cyclingnews.com|date=17 July 2014}} Tony Martin confirmed via his Twitter account that he had signed a two-year contract extension.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/tonymartin85/status/491234955134238720|title=Tony Martin on Twitter|work=Twitter}} On 19 August the team announced that Pieter Serry had signed a two-year contract extension,{{cite web|url=http://www.omegapharma-quickstep.com/en/news/show/opqs-extends-contract-with-pieter-serry/1898|title=Home – Etixx–Quick-Step Pro Cycling Team|author=Sanmax Consultancy BVBA|work=omegapharma-quickstep.com|access-date=19 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903091700/http://www.omegapharma-quickstep.com/en/news/show/opqs-extends-contract-with-pieter-serry/1898|archive-date=3 September 2014|url-status=dead}} on 27 August the team announced the signing of Maxime Bouet on a two-year deal{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/maxime-bouet-signs-for-omega-pharma-quickstep|title=Maxime Bouet signs for Omega Pharma-QuickStep|author=Daniel Benson|work=Cyclingnews.com|date=27 August 2014}} and on 1 September the team announced the signing of David de la Cruz on a two-year contract.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/transfers-omega-pharma-quickstep-signs-david-de-la-cruz|title=Transfers: Omega Pharma–QuickStep signs David de la Cruz|author=Stephen Farrand|work=Cyclingnews.com|access-date=1 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904033752/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/transfers-omega-pharma-quickstep-signs-david-de-la-cruz|archive-date=4 September 2014|url-status=dead}} In 2014 Michał Kwiatkowski won a rainbow jersey in 2014 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race in Ponferrada, Spain.

In February 2015, the team announced it had signed 2015 UCI World Omnium champion, Fernando Gaviria, and fellow Colombian, Rodrigo Contreras, on two-year deals set to commence at the start of the 2016 season.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gaviria-signs-two-year-deal-with-etixx-quickstep|title=Gaviria signs two-year deal with Etixx–QuickStep|author=Barry Ryan|work=Cyclingnews.com|date=24 February 2015}} In August 2015, the team signed Davide Martinelli for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.{{cite web|url=http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Davide_Martinelli|title=Davide Martinelli|author=ProCyclingStats|publisher=procyclingstats.com}}

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As of April 2021, the team has won more than 800 races, making it one of the most successful squads in history.{{cite web|url=https://www.deceuninck-quickstep.com/en/news/4858/mark-cavendish-nets-deceuninck-quick-step-s-800th-victory|title=Deceuninck - Quick-Step take 800th win|author=Deceuninck - Quick-Step|publisher=deceuninck-quickstep.com/en/news/4858/mark-cavendish-nets-deceuninck-quick-step-s-800th-victory}}{{cite web|url=https://www.deceuninck-quickstep.com/en/news/4870/mark-cavendish-takes-his-150th-pro-win|title=Deceuninck - Quick-Step take 801st win|author=Deceuninck - Quick-Step|publisher=deceuninck-quickstep.com/en/news/4870/mark-cavendish-takes-his-150th-pro-win}}

With the win in 7th stage of 2024 Tour de France, the team won stages in 12 Tour de France in a row, the longest active streak and second only to TI Raleigh with 17 (1976-1992).

=Sponsorship and ownership=

The team is operated by the company Decolef Lux,{{Cite web|last=team|first=Deceuninck-Quick-Step Cycling|title=Disclaimer {{!}} Deceuninck – Quick-Step Cycling team|url=https://www.deceuninck-quickstep.com/en/disclaimer|access-date=2020-08-30|website=www.deceuninck-quickstep.com|language=en}} based in Luxembourg{{Cite web|title=DECOLEF LUX. s.à r.l.|url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/lu/B143197|access-date=2020-08-30|website=opencorporates.com}} with branches in France{{Cite web|title=DECOLEF LUX|url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/fr/510518731|access-date=2020-08-30|website=opencorporates.com}} and Belgium.{{Cite web|title=Decolef Lux SARL Belgian Branch|url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/be/0837698136|access-date=2020-08-30|website=opencorporates.com}} A majority shareholder of the company is a Czech businessman Zdeněk Bakala.{{Cite web|title=Transactions – TMA Partners|url=https://tmapartners.com/transactions/|access-date=2020-08-30|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=Boonen en co blijven bij Decolef|url=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/ggi3dj3h2|access-date=2020-08-30|website=Het Nieuwsblad|language=nl-BE}} Title sponsors throughout its history have been Quick-Step Flooring, a division of Mohawk Industries, who had previously been co-sponsors of the Mapei team from 1999 to 2003.{{Cite web|title=Quick-Step sponsors professional cycling|url=https://www.quick-step.co.uk/en-gb/cycling|access-date=2021-04-14|website=Flooring-QS-United-Kingdom|language=en-GB}}

Belgian pharmaceutical company Omega Pharma had two spells as title co-sponsors (2003–07 and 2012–16), using either the company name or one of its products. Either side of its first involvement with this team, Omega were sponsors of their Belgian rivals.

Deceuninck, a manufacturer of PVC-systems windows, became the primary sponsors from 2019, with Quick-Step Floors remaining as secondary sponsor.{{cite web|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/quick-step-add-deceuninck-as-new-title-sponsor-for-2019/|title=Quick-Step add Deceuninck as new title sponsor for 2019|date=8 October 2018|publisher=cyclingnews.com}} At the Tour of Flanders in 2020 and 2021, the team carried the name of a Deceuninck product line, Elegant, rather than that of the company.{{cite news|url=https://www.velonews.com/news/road/deceuninck-quick-step-to-race-as-elegant-quick-step-for-the-tour-of-flanders/|title=Deceuninck-Quick-Step to race as Elegant-Quick-Step for the Tour of Flanders|work=VeloNews|publisher=Pocket Outdoor Media Inc.|date=12 October 2020|access-date=8 April 2021}}{{cite news|first=Barry|last=Ryan|url=https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lefevere-optimistic-about-deceuninck-quickstep-sponsorship-talks/|title=Lefevere optimistic about Deceuninck-QuickStep sponsorship talks|work=Cyclingnews.com|publisher=Future plc|date=3 April 2021|access-date=8 April 2021|quote=Lefevere was speaking in a video conference with the Deceuninck-QuickStep squad ahead of the Tour of Flanders, where world champion Alaphilippe lines up at the head of a team, rebranded as Elegant-QuickStep on Sunday [...]}} Deceuninck ended their sponsorship of the team following the 2021 season, while Quick-Step Floors extended their sponsorship until 2027.{{cite web|url=https://cyclingtips.com/2021/05/deceuninck-quickstep-secures-its-future-for-six-years-with-quickstep-deal/|title=Deceuninck-QuickStep secures a longterm deal with one sponsor as another is set to leave|first=Dane|last=Cash|website=CyclingTips|publisher=Outside Interactive, Inc.|date=18 May 2021|access-date=18 May 2021|quote=While QuickStep will stay on board with the team, Deceuninck will call time on its partnership with the team after this season.}}

In 2023 Belgian company Soudal joined as a title sponsor.

Team roster

{{Updated|4 January 2025.{{cite web | url=https://www.uci.org/team-details/20247 | title=Soudal Quick-Step | work=UCI.org | accessdate=4 January 2025}}}}

{{Cycling squad start}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ayco Bastiaens|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1996|6|3}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Mattia Cattaneo|nat=ITA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1990|10|25}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Josef Černý|nat=CZE|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|5|11}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Pascal Eenkhoorn|nat=NED|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1997|2|8}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Remco Evenepoel|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2000|1|25}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Gianmarco Garofoli|nat=ITA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2002|10|6}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Gil Gelders|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|2002|12|16|df=yes}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ethan Hayter|nat=GBR|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1998|9|18}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Antoine Huby|nat=FRA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2001|1|19}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=James Knox|nat=GBR|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1995|11|4}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Yves Lampaert|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1991|4|10}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Luke Lamperti|nat=USA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2002|12|31}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Mikel Landa|nat=ESP|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|12|13}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Junior Lecerf|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|2002|10|15|df=yes}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Paul Magnier|nat=FRA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2004|4|14}}}}

{{Cycling squad mid}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Tim Merlier|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1992|10|30}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Valentin Paret-Peintre|nat=FRA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2001|1|14}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Casper Pedersen|nat=DEN|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1996|3|15}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Andrea Raccagni Noviero|nat=ITA|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2004|1|26}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Pepijn Reinderink|nat=NED|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2002|5|4}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Pieter Serry|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1988|11|21}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Maximilian Schachmann|nat=GER|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|1|9}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Martin Svrček|nat=SVK|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2003|2|17}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Dries Van Gestel|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1994|9|30}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Bert Van Lerberghe|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1992|9|29}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Ilan Van Wilder|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|2000|5|14}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Warre Vangheluwe|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|2001|7|23|df=yes}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Mauri Vansevenant|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1999|6|1}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Louis Vervaeke|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1993|10|6}}}}

{{Cycling squad rider|name=Jordi Warlop|nat=BEL|birthdate={{birth date and age|df=yes|1996|6|4}}}}

{{Cycling squad end}}

Major wins

{{Main|List of wins by Quick-Step–Davitamon and its successors}}

National, continental and world champions

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;2003

:20px World Time Trial Michael Rogers

:20px Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini

:20px Hungarian Time Trial László Bodrogi

;2004

:20px Hungarian Time Trial László Bodrogi

:15px Olympic Road Race, Paolo Bettini

:20px World Time Trial Michael Rogers

;2005

:20px World Road Race Tom Boonen

:20px World Time Trial Michael Rogers

;2006

:20px World Road Race Paolo Bettini

:20px Italian Road Race Paolo Bettini

;2007

:20px World Road Race Paolo Bettini

:20px Italian Road Race Giovanni Visconti

;2008

:20px Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder

;2009

:20px Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau

:20px Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen

;2010

:20px Belgian Road Race Stijn Devolder

:20px Belgian Time Trial Stijn Devolder

:20px Belarus Time Trial Branislau Samoilau

;2011

:20px French Road Race Sylvain Chavanel

:20px Curaçao Road Race Marc de Maar

:20px Curaçao Time Trial Marc de Maar

;2012

:20px Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar

:20px Belgian Road Race Tom Boonen

:20px Irish Road Race Matt Brammeier

:20px Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra

:20px Polish Road Race Michał Gołaś

:20px French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel

:20px German Time Trial Tony Martin

:20px Slovak Time Trial Peter Velits

:20px Italian Time Trial Dario Cataldo

:20px Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle

:20px World Team Time Trial

:20px World Time Trial Tony Martin

;2013

:20px Czech Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar

:20px French Time Trial Sylvain Chavanel

:20px German Time Trial Tony Martin

:20px Slovak Time Trial Peter Velits

:20px Polish Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski

:20px British Road Race Mark Cavendish

:20px Belgian Time Trial Kristof Vandewalle

:20px World Team Time Trial

:20px World Time Trial Tony Martin

;2014

:20px World Cyclocross Zdeněk Štybar

:20px Polish Time Trial Michał Kwiatkowski

:20px German Time Trial Tony Martin

:20px Czech Road Race Zdeněk Štybar

:20px World Road Race Michał Kwiatkowski

;2015

:20px Colombian Time Trial Rigoberto Urán

:20px German Time Trial Tony Martin

:20px Czech Road Race Petr Vakoč

:20px Netherlands Road Race Niki Terpstra

;2016

:20px World Track (Omnium) Fernando Gaviria

:20px German Time Trial Tony Martin

:20px Luxembourg Time Trial Bob Jungels

:20px Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels

:20px World Team Time Trial

:20px World Time Trial Tony Martin

;2017

:20px New Zealand Time Trial Jack Bauer

:20px Belgian Time Trial Yves Lampaert

:20px Czech Road Race Zdeněk Štybar

:20px Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels

;2018

:20px Belgian Road Race Yves Lampaert

:20px Luxembourg Time Trial Bob Jungels

:20px Italian Road Race Elia Viviani

:20px Danish Road Race Michael Mørkøv

:20px Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels

:20px World Team Time Trial

;2019

:20px Argentine Road Race Maximiliano Richeze

:20px Danish Time Trial Kasper Asgreen

:20px Luxembourg Time Trial Bob Jungels

:20px Luxembourg Road Race Bob Jungels

:20px Netherlands Road Race Fabio Jakobsen

:20px Danish Road Race Michael Mørkøv

:20px European Time Trial Remco Evenepoel

:20px European Road Race Elia Viviani

:20px European Track Championships (Madison) Michael Mørkøv

;2020

:20px New Zealand Road Race Shane Archbold

:20px World Track Championships (Madison) Michael Mørkøv

:20px Luxembourg Time Trial Bob Jungels

:20px French Time Trial Rémi Cavagna

:20px Danish Time Trial Kasper Asgreen

:20px Danish Road Race Kasper Asgreen

:20px World Road Race Julian Alaphilippe

;2021

:20px Belgian Time Trial Yves Lampaert

:20px Danish Time Trial Kasper Asgreen

:20px Czech Republic Time Trial, Josef Černý

:20px Portuguese Time Trial João Almeida

:20px French Road Race Rémi Cavagna

:20px World Road Race Julian Alaphilippe

:20px World Track Championships (Madison) Michael Mørkøv

;2022

:20px Belgian Time Trial Remco Evenepoel

:20px French Road Race Florian Sénéchal

:20px British Road Race Mark Cavendish

:20px European Road Race Fabio Jakobsen

:20px World Road Race Remco Evenepoel

;2023

:20px French Time Trial Rémi Cavagna

:20px Danish Time Trial Kasper Asgreen

:20px Belgian Road Race Remco Evenepoel

:20px World Time Trial Remco Evenepoel

;2024

:15px Olympic Road Race Remco Evenepoel

:15px Olympic Road Time Trial Remco Evenepoel

:20px European Road Race Tim Merlier

:20px World Time Trial Remco Evenepoel

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References

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