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Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team to national championships

This week is traditionally the week that the national titles on the road and time trial will be awarded across Europe. We have riders in ten different countries in action for some of the most coveted jerseys in the peloton.

23 June 2025

The last weekend of June is traditionally the time for the national championships. The Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team is an international team with 12 nationalities. Canadian Nick Zukowsky is still recovering from his collarbone fracture, and the Australian championships are always in January. This means we have riders fighting for the champions’ jerseys on road and time trial in ten different countries.

Time trial championships

In Spain David de la Cruz is the defending time trial champion. The time trial is only 14 kilometers long but it’s a hard, uphill effort.

“Wearing the Spanish jersey for a year has been a real privilege,” David de la Cruz said. “I remember how Q36.5 and I worked together to make a full white kit with my flag on it. It is a real beautiful skinsuit! This year the time trial national championships look a bit different because they are a 14-kilometer uphill effort.”

24 June – Surhuisterveen, the Netherlands: Sjoerd Bax

25 June – Riga, Latvia: Emīls Liepiņš

27 June – Granada, Spain: individual time trial: David de la Cruz, Marcel Camprubí and David González

27 June – Ramstein, Germany: Jannik Steimle

27 June – Brasschaat, Belgium: individual time trial: Frederik Frison

Road race championhips

The road race championships are always a special day because in cycling it means you have the chance to earn a jersey you can wear every day of the year. Emīls Liepiņš won the title in Latvia for the past three years and knows what it means to wear a national champion’s jersey.

“We have a great regular kit design with the team,” Emīls Liepiņš said. “But wearing the flag of your country is really special. I am a very proud Latvian and to represent and honour my country means a great deal to me. We always have joint championships with Estonia and Lithuania but this year they are in Cesis, in Latvia. That’s only 70 kilometers from my home. I won the title three times now but it never gets boring so I will try again. Now with my daughter Beatrise and family present it means even more if I would win it again.”

28 June – Ede, the Netherlands: Milan Vader, Sjoerd Bax

29 June – Gorizia, Italy: Gianluca Brambilla, Walter Calzoni, Matteo Moschetti, Giacomo Nizzolo and Nicoló Parisini

29 June – Granada, Spain: Marcel Camprubí, David de la Cruz, David González

29 June – Fischingen, Switzerland: Matteo Badilatti, Fabio Christen

29 June – Binche, Belgium: Frederik Frison

29 June – Cesis, Latvia: Emīls Liepiņš

29 June – Linden, Germany: Jannik Steimle

29 June – Aberystwyth, Great Britain: Mark Donovan, Joey Pidcock

29 June – Dobczyce, Poland: Kamil Małecki

29 June – Navan, Ireland: Rory Townsend

Line-ups subject to last-minute changes.