CANYON AND SIDI HEADLINE PARTNERS FOR ELITE MTB MARATHON TEAM
One of the most successful elite mountain bike marathon racing teams has announced a new name and ambitious plans for the start of the 2024 racing season.
Team CANYON NORTHWAVE MTB, has announced a new title partner: SIDI, the top italian footwear brand for cycling and motorsports.
The team, who won during the last 4 years 4 world championship medals including one gold by Andreas Seewald in 2021 will remain led by Kristian Hynek, a former top world racer, three-time medalist from world championships and winner of the 2014 Cape Epic, it will be named CANYON SIDI MTB TEAM. The relationship between Sidi and the Team has been signed for two seasons.
“I am honored to welcome SIDI among our partners and look forward to this new collaboration. SIDI has big plans for growth in MTB market and we are happy to join forces with them in order to help to achieve these goals. We visited their headquarters in Italy where their main production is and we were amazed by their new development and crafts. Now with SIDI we are entering the 2024 season in new colors, in a proven line-up and with great ambitions to score a great and succesfull year.” says Kristian Hynek.
“Offroad is already a major part of our business and we have significant investments in this category for the next years. We are really happy to team with Kristian and his team: we feel completely aligned and they will be a greater input and testing for next generation of offroad footwear“ says Sidi CEO, Davide Rossetti.
The CANYON SIDI MTB team will continue to feature Andreas Seewald (DE), the 2021 world champion, Martin Stošek (CZ), the 2023 world vice-champion, Marc Stutzman (CH), the current Swiss champion and Stefanie Dohrn Walter (DE).
The team is currently undergoing its first stage race, the Mediterranean Epic in Spain, followed by the 6-day Andalusia Bike Race. The highlight of the team’s spring campaign will be the Cape Epic in South Africa. For Cape Epic, the team will again be strengthened by former World Tour racer and current Canyon gravel rider Petr Vakoč.
The season highlight for Canyon SIDI MTB will be September‘s World Championships in the USA, where Seewald, Stošek, Stutzman and Dohrn Walter will be gunning for success. Several other important events include the Gdynia’s European Championships in June, the various national championships and the XCM World Cup series, which begin in Nové Město na Moravě in May.
In addition to SIDI, the team is also welcoming new partner Stages, for the supply of highly accurate MTB power meters. Stages join an impressive list of equipment and accessory suppliers including CANYON, Future Cycling, DT Swiss, Force, Shimano, Paul Lange, Topeak, Schwalbe, Koscom, Alpina and 226ers.
Team line-up for the 2024 season:
- Kristian Hynek - team owner and manager, 3x world championship medalist, 2012 European champion, 2014 Cape Epic winner
- Andreas Seewald - 2021 marathon world champion, 2021 European champion
- Martin Stošek - 2023 marathon world vice-champion, bronze from the 2021 European Championship, bronze from the 2020 World Championship
- Marc Stutzman - 2023 Swiss champion, 2023 Swiss Epic winner
- Stefanie Dohrn - German marathon runner belonging to the wider world top
- Robert Novotný - mechanic and co-founder of the team
- Torsten Walter - physiotherapist
- Kateřina Hemerková - Team support
