Alexander Kristoff will spend 2022 with Intermarke Wanty-Gobert before signing with Uno-X, dropping down the pro team level next year and returning to his native Norway.

At 35 years old, Kristof has signed a three-year contract with an up-and-coming Norwegian professional team for 2025 and his 38th birthday.

Before turning pro with BMC Racing in 2010, Kristoff raced at the Continental level in Norway. Since then, he has won more than 80 races in his career, including four stages of the Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, and Tour de France.

Christophe spent six years with the Katusha team and four years with UAE Team Emirates before moving to Intermarque Wantigover in early 2022. [After the Belgian team received its CCC license and WorldTour status in 2021, he helped revitalize the team by winning stages at Scheldepri, Clasica de Almeria, and the Tour of Norway.

Christophe has shared the Classical and Sprint leadership with Biniam Girmay, but next year he will move to Uno-X on a three-year contract.

"I will be racing for Uno-X for the next three years. I hope I can help the team take a new step forward in the coming years," Christophe wrote on social media.

"However, the move from Intermarque Wanty-Gobert was not an easy decision! And I am very motivated to do my best with my friends in the remaining races this season."

The Uno-X team started as a continental-level team in 2010 to train Norwegian riders, but has made great strides in recent years and has set a goal of joining a professional team in 2020, followed by a World Tour.

They have indicated that they intend to apply for a World Tour license starting in 2023, but if all the current top teams continue, they will not earn enough UCI points to achieve that goal. Licenses are awarded on a three-year cycle, so the next opportunity would come in 2026.

Since the team is currently ranked 22nd in the 2022 ranking, it will not receive an automatic wildcard to next year's big race and will have to rely on an invitation from the race organizers. However, over the past two years, the team has increased its participation in major classics and stage races, often trying to boost its racing.

Kristoff joins a young team that includes Rasmus Tiller and Anton Scharmig, as well as highly regarded young Norwegian rider Tobias Halland Johannessen.

Intermarke will not feel the loss of Christophe too keenly, given Gillmay's emergence as a top Classics contender and versatile sprinter, and Gerben Theissen, who this week at the Tour de Pollogne has a number of big beat the sprinters. The French team is also expected to sign a number of new riders for 2023.