UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad announced for Paris-Roubaix

After a hugely successful start to the year for UAE Team Emirates-XRG, the team slowly makes the transition from the Flanders Classics to the Ardennes in Belgium with a brief but important stop in France for the legendary Paris-Roubaix on Sunday (April 13).

With 24 victories on the board already this season, the team are on a roll with the latest of those wins coming last weekend at the Tour of Flanders through the flying World Champion, Tadej Pogačar.

Pogačar will make his long-awaited debut on the gruelling 260km course from Compiegne to the velodrome in Roubaix and will go into the race as one of the firm favourites given his victory last weekend in Flanders.

The Slovenian will be supported this weekend by an ensemble cast of talent, including two former podium finishers at Paris-Roubaix through Florian Vermeersch (2nd, 2021) and Nils Politt (2nd, 2019)

Pogačar: “Paris-Roubaix is a completely different race, it’s new territory, but I fully accept the challenge. I’ll try to do my best. We have a very strong team for this race, with guys who have lots of experience and we can use this to our advantage. It will be a very hard race but I think with the shape I have now that this is the right moment to give it a try at least. We had a great battle last weekend at Flanders and I hope we can put on a good show again this Sunday.”

 
Sports Directors Fabio Baldato (Ita) and Marco Marcato (Ita) will take charge for the race.

 
Paris-Roubaix [1.UWT] – 13-Apr-2025

Mikkel Bjerg (Den)

Sebastian Molano (Col)

Antonio Morgado (Por)

Tadej Pogačar (Slo)

Nils Politt (Ger)

Florian Vermeersch (Bel)

Tim Wellens (Bel)