\n Canadian champion\u2019s arrival boosts Lidl-Trek climbing strength\n <\/p>\n
Lidl-Trek is thrilled to announce that Derek Gee-West has signed a three-year contract that will see him race in Lidl-Trek colors through 2028.<\/p>\n
The Canadian champion first captured the cycling world\u2019s attention during his Grand Tour debut at the 2023 Giro d\u2019Italia. Gee-West\u2019s relentless attacking style and willingness to animate the race brought him agonizingly close to a Grand Tour stage win. While he ultimately finished second on four stages, along with runner-up honors in both the points and mountains classifications, he left the Giro firmly established as one of the peloton\u2019s most exciting climbers.<\/p>\n
Over the following two seasons, Gee-West continued to develop into a well-rounded stage racer, combining his climbing strength with strong performances against the clock. In 2024, he claimed a stage win and overall podium at the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 before backing it up with a top-10 finish at the Tour de France. The next year began on winning terms at O Gran Cami\u00f1o and culminated in a consistent and impressive Giro d\u2019Italia, where Gee-West finished fourth overall after three demanding weeks, underlining his status as a genuine GC contender for the future.<\/p>\n
Gee-West\u2019s move to Lidl-Trek marks the beginning of a new chapter, as he looks to take the next step in his career within a new environment and ambitious long-term project.<\/p>\n
The ambition, the structure, and the depth of talent across the Team are impressive, and it feels like the right environment for the next phase of my career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty special to be joining Lidl-Trek,\u201d said Gee-West. \u201cFrom the outside, you can already see that this is an organisation operating very close to the gold standard in our sport, and that was something that really appealed to me. The ambition, the structure, and the depth of talent across the Team are impressive, and it feels like the right environment for the next phase of my career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to racing with shared ambitions and multiple options within the team. Lidl-Trek have world-class riders across so many areas of the sport, and being part of a group where we can play different cards in stage races and Grand Tours is something new for me. I\u2019m excited to learn from that, to keep developing as a GC rider, and to see what we can achieve together over the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBringing Derek on board is a big boost for us,\u201d said Luca Guercilena, Lidl-Trek General Manager. \u201cOver the last three years he has shown an incredibly high level in stage races, and we\u2019re sure we haven\u2019t even seen his limit yet. Derek will have the full support of our performance resources to fully realize his potential. As a Team, we have big goals across the entire season, and recruiting Derek brings us one step closer to achieving them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian champion\u2019s arrival boosts Lidl-Trek climbing strength Lidl-Trek is thrilled to announce that Derek Gee-West has signed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355148","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=355148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}