\n Lidl-Trek is pleased to announce the appointment of Dirk Baldinger as Sports Director for the Women’s Team.\n <\/p>\n
Baldinger brings a wealth of experience to the role. As a professional rider, the German competed at the highest level of the sport across nearly a decade, riding two editions each of the Tour de France, the Giro d\u2019Italia and the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Since retiring from racing in 2001, he has built a long career as a women\u2019s sports director for more than a decade. Most recently, Baldinger held the role of Sports Director at Ceratizit Pro Cycling Team until the end of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Baldinger joins a Women\u2019s Team programme that continues to grow in ambition, working alongside Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Jeroen Blijlevens, under the leadership of Fr\u00e4nk Schleck.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very inspired to be joining this team,\u201d said Baldinger. \u201cI\u2019ve had a really warm welcome from everyone and it quickly feels like a family in this big team. I know Ina and Jeroen well and I think it\u2019s impressive what they are doing here. I\u2019ve been learning the system, how they work. They\u2019ve welcomed me with open hearts and I\u2019m very happy to join them, give my knowledge and support with my ideas and experiences. I have a lot of passion for women\u2019s cycling and I think I can help to develop the team. My first races will be with Ina in the Navarra Women\u2019s Elite Classic, followed by Itzulia Women and Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria. I\u2019m really excited to begin!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lidl-Trek is pleased to announce the appointment of Dirk Baldinger as Sports Director for the Women’s Team. Baldinger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-430013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}