CERATIZIT - WNT PRO CYCLING TEAM

Founded by WNT in the United Kingdom in 2014, the team is led by Dirk Baldinger, a former Polti and Telekom rider with two Tour de France appearances (1995 and 1996). It gained pro team status in 2017 and was strengthened three years later by the arrival of a co-sponsor, Ceratizit, an industrial group specializing in cutting tools and hard material solutions.

From humble beginnings, the team scored its first World Tour victories with Kirsten Wild (Gent–Wevelgem and De Panne) and Lisa Brennauer, who won back-to-back races sponsored by her two employers, the 2019 WNT Challenge by la Vuelta, renamed Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta in 2020. The squad has long focused on classics and sprints. It also has the track racer Katie Archibald, the Olympic gold medallist in the Madison in Tokyo. Signing Cédrine Kerbaol last season turned it into more of an all-terrain squad. The Frenchwoman, who feels equally at home in the mountains and in time trials, finished twelfth overall and claimed the white jersey in the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.