{"id":143368,"date":"2025-09-17T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:30:08","slug":"visma-lease-a-bike-strengthen-grand-tour-climbing-group-with-italian-talent-davide-piganzoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143368\/","title":{"rendered":"Visma-Lease a Bike strengthen Grand Tour climbing group with Italian talent Davide Piganzoli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visma-Lease a Bike have signed talented Italian climber Davide Piganzoli<\/a> as they strengthen their group of Grand Tour riders.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three-year-old Piganzoli will step-up to WorldTour level in 2026 after three seasons with Polti VisitMalta. Piganzoli is part of the same generation as Giulio Pellizzari and finished third in the Tour de L’Avenir behind Isaac del Toro<\/a> and Pellizzari in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Piganzoli won the Tour of Antalya in 2024 and was second in this year’s O Gran Cami\u00f1o and the La Route d’Occitanie in the French Pyrenees. He finished 13th in the 2024 Giro d’Italia and 14th this year. He was third in last year’s Giro dell’Emilia behind Tadej Poga\u010dar and Tom Pidcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“This is a big step in my career,\u201d Piganzoli said when Visma announced his signing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited to race for a new team and to meet all the new teammates and staff. I was really drawn to the project at Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a> because I believe I can truly continue developing here as a GC rider.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s so much expertise in this team: experienced riders, top equipment, strong support staff, and more. Step by step, I want to keep growing as a general classification rider.”<\/p>\n

He will join Visma-Lease a Bike’s development group within the WorldTour set-up, that includes Cian Uijtdebroeks<\/a>, British sprinter Matthew Brennan<\/a>, J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen, and Niklas Behrens. Piganzoli will eventually play a role alongside Grand Tour leaders Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson.<\/p>\n

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“Davide is a rider in whom we see a lot of potential,\u201d said Head of Racing Grischa Niermann.<\/p>\n

“He will initially strengthen our Grand Tour squad in a supporting role, but he will definitely have opportunities of his own as well. We want to grow with him to the next level as a GC rider, and we\u2019re happy he chose us and our project.”<\/p>\n

Visma have also signed French rouleur and national time trial champion Bruno Armirail from Decathlon AG2R<\/a> La Mondiale, Filippo Fiorelli from VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizan\u00e8 and Timo Kielich from Alpecin-Deceuninck.<\/p>\n

The team has lost sprinter Olav Kooij to Decathlon<\/a>, while Dylan van Baarle will move to Soudal-QuickStep and Tiesj Benoot to also goes to Decathlon in 2026.<\/p>\n

Cyclingnews\u00a0will cover all of the 2026\u00a0cycling transfers<\/a>\u00a0from around the men’s and women’s pelotons with news, analysis, and an updated\u00a0transfer index<\/a>, to make sure you don’t miss a thing this transfer season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visma-Lease a Bike have signed talented Italian climber Davide Piganzoli as they strengthen their group of Grand Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-143368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}