Human Powered Health signed eight riders in September, including Gijs Van Hoecke of the AG2R Citroën team and Barnabás Peák of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, who are both on the World Tour.
The duo played an important role in the one-day race, with Sasha Wimaes transferring from Sport Vlaanderen Baloise, Stanislaw Aniowkowski from Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB, and HRE Mazovce Selce Polski team Alan Banashek, who moved from the HRE Mazovce Selce Polski team, will be supported. They are joined by the Norwegian Embrett Svedstad-Boldsen from Team Koop, Benjamin Perry, who raced in Astana Premiere Tech in 2021, and the Canadian pairing of Charles-Etienne Chrétien, who raced as a stadialler in HPH this year.
"I am here to put the train on rails," Van Hocke said in a team statement. 'I have worked with Dylan Groenewegen in the past and have experience with sprint trains.'
"The sprint train is most important, but with Human Powered Health you have the chance to ride for yourself in other races as well. The Cune Brussel Cune, Le Samin, and Nokélé Coase are races I really like, where I get to show what I am capable of, but also where I get to mentor young athletes."
The 30-year-old Belgian will enter his 12th professional season next year, and in his last two years with AG2R Citroën he trained and led out 2016 Olympic road race champion Greg van Avermaet. Van Hoekke himself was a 2012 track Olympian, winning gold in Madison at the UCI Track World Championships that same year.
"It's not easy if you're not from Flanders and you have to learn everything yourself. 'Every town you go through has a race. In other countries there is soccer, but in Belgium there is cycling. I live with the bike."
At just 23 years old, Peake made his Grand Tour debut at the 2022 Giro d'Italia, helping Intermarche teammates Jan Hilt and Domenico Pozzovivo to top-10 finishes. 24-year-old Weymouth has been a part of the Spot Vlaanderen program for the past four and a half seasons, finishing in the top five in the Tour de Hongri three times, with two podium finishes in one-day races, the Trofeo Playa de Palma and the Dorpenomloop Lukpen. Banashek is currently competing against HPH teams in CRO races, and earlier in the year he took the overall win in the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's Cup Tour of Thailand.
Perry was fourth in GC at this year's Tour of Britain with the British Continental team WIV Sun God. Fellow countryman Chrétien, 23, competed full time with HPH last year, finishing ninth overall in the Tour de Normandie.
Aniwokowski, Wiemers, Kretien, and Svestad-Boldsen all signed two-year contracts through 2024.
British all-rounder Alice Burns has signed a two-year contract with Human Powered Health for 2023 and 2024; the 2019 British national champion in road and time trial, she has been active the past five seasons with Canyon-SRAM She moves from Racing.
This year, the 27-year-old earned a points prize at the EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour and four top-10 finishes in one-day races, including sixth at the Women's World Tour Ronde van Drenthe and eighth at Brugge-De Panne.
"I think I've learned a lot over the last five years and throughout my racing career so far," Barnes said.
"I am really looking forward to this new challenge at Human Powered Health. I like the steps the program has taken over the last few years and feel it is a good place to continue to grow, not only for myself, but also to help other athletes step up."
[26The Englishman began racing mountain bikes at a young age and turned pro on the road in 2016.
Joining her in 2023 is 25-year-old Polish sprinter Daria Pikulik of ATOM Deweloper Posciellux.pl Wrocław.
A road sprinter with a track background, Pikulik won this year's Districtenpijl - Ekeren-Deurne and has four top-five finishes in the Baloise Ladies Tour.
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