Michael Valgren has eight pro wins to his name, including Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the Amstel Gold Race. The races he loves most are the classics. Michael shines on the cobbles and on short, punchy climbs.

He grew up in Østerild, on the west coast of Denmark, and when he was a kid, he would race between towns by the North Sea, pretending that he was in the Tour de France. His favorite road is still the stretch through the dunes between the fishing villages of Klitmøller and Hanstholm, where he got started. He lives in Denmark with his family and enjoys taking his kids out on the local roads whenever he is home.

In 2025, Michael raced into the top ten at Strade Bianche and returned to the Tour de France for the first time since his comeback from a career-threatening injury in 2023. He wants to get back to his winning ways in 2026.

In his first year in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Danish classics star Kasper Asgreen added a Giro d’Italia stage win to his impressive list of victories, which includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, E3 SaxoBank Classic, and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, as well as a stage at the Tour de France and four Danish time trial titles.

Kasper joined our team because he was impressed with our squad’s attacking style. That’s how Kasper loves to race, too – when the peloton explodes, and he has to make split-second decisions on the fly, pick his moment to go, and then ride with everything he has to the line, he comes into his own. That’s why he loves the spring classics and hard breakaways.

Kasper learned how to race when he was a kid in Denmark, where he started out riding for the local club in Kolding, the small university city where he now lives with his wife and which he will always call home. Before he took up cycling, Kasper rode horses. From the age of four, he competed in dressage. He still draws on his childhood equestrian experience now as a pro bike racer. It taught him discipline: the value of showing up and putting in the work, no matter what.

Bike racing was tough for him at first. Kasper didn’t win a race for his first three years. He loved the sport nonetheless and was soon making fast progress. Now, he is one of the best one-day racers in the world.

Still, Kasper’s love of the sport is what drives him. Being a pro comes with pressures and hard times, but he knows that it is a privilege to be a bike racer. He races better when he is enjoying the sport, and he enjoys the sport most on a winning team.

Mikkel Honoré loves to light up races in EF Education-EasyPost pink. The Dane is a very versatile rider. He has the horsepower and skill to shepherd our GC captains through a racing peloton during the hardest grand tour stages. A great climber with a strong finishing kick, who can hold his own on the cobbles, Mikkel has sprinted to stage victories at the Tour of the Basque Country and Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali — two of the hilliest stage races on the calendar. He is consistently at the front of the biggest races and always ready to do his turn for his teammates. We count on Mikkel to be there for us at crucial moments in grand tours and attack the finales of the great one-day races. He’ll go for more victories himself.

Mikkel lives in Switzerland, near the shores of Lake Como. He loves to travel and always has a book with him on the bus. Reading takes him away from the bubble of racing and training. He enjoys philosophy and novels and will always read up on the places where we race to better understand the people who live in the countryside that we pass through.

Mikkel is a great basketball fan. He and his wife will go watch a game together whenever they get the chance. He is also a polyglot and enjoys learning new languages.

Aussie talent Alastair MacKellar is excited for his second season in the WorldTour.

The 2023 Australian under-23 road and time trial champion was a consistent competitor in his rookie year. After making his debut at the Tour Down Under, Alastair proved that he can be a valuable teammate in some of the hardest races on the calendar. Competing in events like Milano-Sanremo and the Critérium du Dauphiné gave him confidence and experience that he will build on in 2026, as he works towards his long-term ambition of racing the Tour de France.

That dream began in Australia, where Alastair first saw the Tour Down Under. His dad was a cyclist and would take Alastair and his mates to see the race from the roadside. As soon as he saw the peloton race past, Alastair knew that was where he wanted to be.

He tore through the youth and junior ranks and at 19 moved to Europe to pursue a pro contract. A win on the fourth stage of the Alpes Isère Tour in 2024, as well as top class results in races such as Flèche Ardennaise and the Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta-Mont Blanc, earned him his spot on our squad.

For his second year as a pro, Alastair wants to keep his momentum rolling. He will focus on controlling what he can control and making the most of every chance he gets.

He still spends his winters in Australia, hanging out on the beach and rallying cars with his mates. Before the end of the Aussie summer, he’ll head back to Europe, where he now lives, just outside of Nice, France. He has found beautiful mountain roads to ride there, alongside a great group of training buddies, and lots of sun and sea. It’s a great place for Alastair to unwind and get ready to throw himself into all of the WorldTour action.

Madis Mihkels’ favorite races are the northern classics. The Estonian champion loves competing in the wind and muck in Belgium and France and flies over the cobblestones. In 2024, he raced into the top-ten at Paris-Roubaix. Last year, in his first season in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Madis finished third at the Classic Brugge-De Panne. He thrives at high speed, brushing elbows with his competitors on the roughest, smallest roads. But Madis' ambitions will never stop, even after he's rounded the last corner of the Roubaix velodrome. He wants to go for wins throughout the year. One-day races, stages in the biggest tours—he wants to cross their finish lines first. He has already won stages at the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Estonia. He has ridden the Giro and the Vuelta, finished on the podium at the European championships, and raced the Olympics. Now, he wants to step up his game.

Madis honed his speed on the BMX track, where he raced until he was 15. He's always been an athlete. He started competitive swimming at four years old and did all kinds of sports when he was a kid. He was pretty good at them all, but it was on a bike that he started to dream of being great.

Madis balances his need for speed and rough-and-tumble racing with a quiet life in Estonia. He was born and raised in Tartu and, despite his home country's harsh winters, still opts to live there, though he has recently moved to Tallinn, the capital. He enjoys spinning out into the forests on his bike, passing lakes and rivers on quiet, smooth, nearly car-free roads. Before the thermometer dips too far below freezing and the snow plows come out, he can always escape somewhere warm. As soon as the ice is gone, he wants to go home, where he can fish for pike in fresh, clean water.

Harry Sweeny joined our team in 2024 and quickly became a key rider for us in the classics and grand tours. This is the Australian’s sixth season as a pro.

Harry is still discovering his limits as a racer. As a U23, he won Il Piccolo Lombardia and has since ridden the Tour de France twice. As a rookie, he finished third on a stage and rode onto the Champs-Élysées in the break, as jets trailed bleu, blanc, et rouge streaks into the sky overhead. In 2025, he played a huge role for our squad, pulling hard for his buddy Ben Healy to ride Ben into the yellow jersey and almost winning a stage out of the break himself.

Harry believes that his best is yet to come.

He came to cycling late. As a kid growing up in Brisbane, where his family moved when he was a child, he played soccer and rugby and did gymnastics and swam. He took up triathlon as a schoolboy, but focused on cycling when he was a junior and was recovering from a running injury. He started out racing local crits. His athleticism soon shone and he was picked to race the world championships in Richmond, Virginia for the Australian national team.

He moved to Europe to race, first for a small junior team in Belgium, and then for two years with the Australian Institute of Sport squad, which was then based in Italy, before moving back to Belgium for his final year as an U23. Those years opened up new worlds for Harry.

EF Education-EasyPost’s open-minded international character is a big draw for him. On the teams he has raced for in the past, he has often been one of the few foreigners. Our team is made up of riders and staff from dozens of nationalities. Most of them know what it is like to build a life far from home and can help with all of the little difficulties that come with that. Our multicultural make up helps us to expand our outlook and think beyond traditional ways of doing things too.

Harry is a lot more than a bike racer. He is a keen cook and he loves to go camping and hiking near his adopted home in Andorra. In the winter, he loves to ski. And he is a YouTuber.

We know that we can always count on Harry to be where we need him to be when it counts – and to bring a laugh to the bus.

Still in her early 20s, Solbjørk is excited to develop as a racer. She adores racing the spring classics as she loves punchy climbs and one-day races, though she dreams of becoming an all-rounder.

Her top results include placing fifth on the general classification in the 2024 edition of the Volta a Catalunya Femenina and sixth at the GP Oetingen that year. Last season, she finished third in the Danish road race national championships.

Solbjørk has been a fan of cycling since she was a small child when her parents turned on the TV for her and it happened to be a cycling race. She was hooked and soon evolved from fan to rider to racer. When she was eight, her dad took her to see Paris-Roubaix in person for the first time and it soon became an annual tradition for the two of them.

Solbjørk’s name is as unique as she is. It’s a combination of sol, the Danish word for sun, and Bjork, the Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her mother grew up on Solvej (Sun Street) and always liked how sol sounded. Her father, a longtime fan of Bjork’s music, enjoyed the idea of creating a unique name for their first child and they came up with Solbjørk.

She is an avid reader known to have multiple books on the go. Solbjørk’s bookshelves are full of fantasy and crime titles. She also experiments with watercolors, particularly nature scenes. Growing up, Solbjørk danced ballet for several years. Though she happily traded her pointe shoes for cleats, she still enjoys going to the ballet.

Henrietta fell in love with the sound of cycling. She heard the distinct sound of cleats walking on concrete and knew this was the sport for her. She then convinced her parents to let her take up the sport and the rest is history. She quickly discovered she was a powerful rider who excelled on climbs.

She knew she would have to leave New Zealand for Europe if she wanted to become a pro and she knew this would be expensive. To save money, she baked and decorated gourmet homemade cakes and sold them locally.

Her hard work – both on the bike and in the kitchen – soon paid off. Last season she was third at the Gran Premio Ciudad de Eibar. She has won the best young rider competition at the Tour Down Under and the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l’Ardèche. Her top ten GC results include the Tour Down Under, Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, the Vuelta Ciclista Andalucía, and the Clasica de Almeria. She is a former junior and under-23 time trial national champion.

Henrietta returns for her second season with EF Education-Oatly and she has quickly become an essential teammate. In 2025, Henrietta’s support was vital in Noemi’s stage and GC wins at Tour Down Under, as well as in Kim’s win in the New Zealand road race national championship.

On the team bus or at home, when Henrietta has spare time you’ll find her dreaming up new recipes and cake designs, working on embroidery, and planning get-togethers with her friends. She loves to express her creativity through arts and crafts.

Stina joins EF Education-Oatly as the current time trial champion of Sweden. With two additional time trial victories in her palmarès, Stina wants to continue to strengthen her talents against the clock while also developing her abilities in the cobbled classics.

She got her racing start as a mountain biker and only participated in road racing when her mountain bike program began to field a road racing team. Stina has always thrived on strength and support from her large family and the experience of racing as a team felt the same to her. It wasn’t long before the Swede left mountain biking to dedicate herself to the road.

When she’s at home, Stina loves to spend time with her family. She and her three siblings live with their parents and their dog so the house is always bustling with energy. Stina enjoys cooking and getting her family’s feedback on new recipes. To relax, Stina goes for walks in the forest or swims in the lake near her home.

This season, Stina’s main goal is to continue to grow. The 20-year-old has been riding since she was just three years old and every year, she seeks to learn and develop, knowing that consistent, small improvements can lead to big results.

It’s hard to pin Cédrine down. She is from France but often trains in Andorra, though she spends a lot of time traveling around Europe in her van in search of adventure (surfing in Portugal is one of her favorites). She prefers spontaneity to plans. You’re more likely to find Cédrine out on the dance floor than going to bed early. She is a dreamer, but she also takes action.

In her first year on the squad, Cédrine made an undeniable impact. She finished in an impressive eighth place at the Tour de France Femmes. After strategically moving up on the GC in the opening days, an ill-timed crash on the final stage meant the overall podium slipped out of her grasp but Cédrine continued to race with all of her heart right up to the finish line. Cédrine won the French time trial national championship, taking her first elite title. She finished in fourth place at Liège-Bastogne-Liège and on the overall classification at the Vuelta a España, narrowly missing out on the podium in both races.

Cédrine is a natural leader and is equally happy to be the team’s designated leader or to support her teammates. Her confidence and race savvy make her an ideal teammate.

Cédrine is very close with her family and loves to spend time with them. Lucky for her, they started a fan club and often travel around Europe to watch her race. Keep your eyes peeled for a group of fun-loving fans singing and dancing in yellow t-shirts.

When the day comes that Cédrine retires from cycling, look for her tending a flock of sheep somewhere deep in the mountains.

In Noemi’s first two seasons at EF Education-Oatly, the former Swiss national champion has started by winning her first race of the season: in 2024, she outsprinted the field at Trofeo Felanitx-Colònia de Sant Jordi to take the first ever win for the squad. Then in 2025, at the Tour Down Under, Noemi soloed to victory on the queen stage and then went on to win the overall general classification. She podiumed at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and had top ten results at Strade Bianche and Trofeo Alfredo Binda before she sprinted to third place at the first modern edition of Sanremo women. Noemi finished the 2025 season with another podium, this time at Tre Valli Varesine.

Noemi is a punchy rider who can get over hard climbs. She is still trying to find out where her limits lie.

She came to bike racing through her family. At first, her goal was simply to keep up with her older brother. Their dad was involved with a local cycling club and Noemi slowly grew more and more curious. When she was 13, she finished her first cyclocross race and was hooked.

Noemi turned professional on the road as a 19-year-old, leaving her full-time job caring for disabled people in a home. She is a two-time U23 Swiss time trial national champion but her heart belongs to the classics. Noemi loves a tough course, the more chaotic, the better. She is not afraid to be aggressive in the peloton and loves the excitement and energy of a hectic race.

Her ultimate goals are to podium in one of the classics and to develop as a stage racer. Noemi is only just getting started.

Alice joins EF Education-Oatly this year with five seasons of pro racing already to her name. She enjoys seeing the progress in her racing and training day after day, year after year as she works toward her goals. This year, Alice wants to start gaining experience as a leader in select races and to see what kind of a racer she becomes. She loves a hard day of attritional racing, even more so if it is in the Ardennes.

Life as a bike racer has taught Alice that race programs and tactics can change in an instant, so she’s learned to be flexible in order to adapt to the situation.

Because fueling is so important as an athlete, Alice likes to have fun preparing her meals and loves to get creative in the kitchen. She enjoys preparing tasty meals and ride food, but her current project is mastering the traditional Sunday roast dinner.