# Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

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

## 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. The team was formed with riders who already rode for UCI WorldTeams plus some riders from the second and third divisions. Retired professional Vincenzo Nibali joined as the team's technical advisor. In December 2022, Union Cycliste Internationale announced that Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team was granted a UCI ProTeam licence for 2023 season.

### 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.

### 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.

### 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. 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.
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. Tom Pidcock added another early-season Spanish win with victory on stage two at Vuelta a Andalucía on his way to third place overall. 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.

## Team roster

    As of 10 January 2025.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Enekoitz Azparren (ESP) | Enekoitz Azparren (ESP) | (2002-08-05) 5 August 2002 (age 22) |
| Xabier Azparren (ESP) | Xabier Azparren (ESP) | (1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 26) |
| Matteo Badilatti (SUI) | Matteo Badilatti (SUI) | (1992-07-30) 30 July 1992 (age 32) |
| Sjoerd Bax (NED) | Sjoerd Bax (NED) | (1996-01-06) 6 January 1996 (age 29) |
| Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) | Gianluca Brambilla (ITA) | (1987-08-22) 22 August 1987 (age 37) |
| Walter Calzoni (ITA) | Walter Calzoni (ITA) | (2001-08-08) 8 August 2001 (age 23) |
| Marcel Camprubi (ESP) | Marcel Camprubi (ESP) | (2001-09-15) 15 September 2001 (age 23) |
| Fabio Christen (SUI) | Fabio Christen (SUI) | (2002-06-29) 29 June 2002 (age 22) |
| David de la Cruz (ESP) | David de la Cruz (ESP) | (1989-05-06) 6 May 1989 (age 35) |
| Mark Donovan (GBR) | Mark Donovan (GBR) | (1999-04-03) 3 April 1999 (age 25) |
| Frederik Frison (BEL) | Frederik Frison (BEL) | (1992-07-28) 28 July 1992 (age 32) |
| David González (ESP) | David González (ESP) | (1996-02-21) 21 February 1996 (age 29) |
| Damien Howson (AUS) | Damien Howson (AUS) | (1992-08-13) 13 August 1992 (age 32) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Emīls Liepiņš (LAT) | Emīls Liepiņš (LAT) | (1992-10-29) 29 October 1992 (age 32) |
| Kamil Małecki (POL) | Kamil Małecki (POL) | (1996-01-02) 2 January 1996 (age 29) |
| Matteo Moschetti (ITA) | Matteo Moschetti (ITA) | (1996-08-14) 14 August 1996 (age 28) |
| Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA) | Giacomo Nizzolo (ITA) | (1989-01-30) 30 January 1989 (age 36) |
| Nicolò Parisini (ITA) | Nicolò Parisini (ITA) | (2000-04-25) 25 April 2000 (age 24) |
| Joe Pidcock (GBR) | Joe Pidcock (GBR) | (2002-03-20) 20 March 2002 (age 22) |
| Tom Pidcock (GBR) | Tom Pidcock (GBR) | (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 (age 25) |
| Jannik Steimle (GER) | Jannik Steimle (GER) | (1996-04-04) 4 April 1996 (age 28) |
| Rory Townsend (IRE) | Rory Townsend (IRE) | (1995-06-30) 30 June 1995 (age 29) |
| Milan Vader (NED) | Milan Vader (NED) | (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996 (age 29) |
| Harm Vanhoucke (BEL) | Harm Vanhoucke (BEL) | (1997-06-17) 17 June 1997 (age 27) |
| Nickolas Zukowsky (CAN) | 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

## 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:
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 |