Visma-Lease a Bike Head of Racing Grischa Niermann Set to Leave Team for Lidl-Trek – Reports
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Grischa Niermann leaves Team Visma after almost ten years. Which station now awaits him and what his track record looks like.
The Departure of Team Manager Grischa Niermann From Cycling Team Visma Feels Like the End of an Era.
Team manager Grischa Niermann of the Dutch team Visma-Lease A Bike is unexpectedly moving to German rival Lidl-Trek. With him, a third heavyweight leaves the technical staff of the country's most important cycling team in a relatively short time.
Visma-Lease a Bike’s ‘good news show’ has recently been interspersed with painful losses. A few days after Jonas Vingegaard’s Giro victory, it was announced that Head of Racing Grischa Niermann will leave the team on September 1, 2026. After Merijn Zeeman at the end of 2024 and Tim Heemskerk in February of this year, Niermann is the third top executive from the coaching staff to leave the Dutch cycling team.
Jonas Vingegaard's confidant and the sporting linchpin of Visma-Lease a Bike is leaving the successful Dutch team. Grischa Niermann is immediately...
Visma announced the start of its race director Grischa Niermann, great craftsman of the success of Danish Jonas Vingegaard on the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023.
The Visma Lease a Bike is one of those teams whose success lies not only in its cyclists, but also in its meticulous preparation, in its exhaustive analyses and in its sports directors. In the latter group emerges the figure of Grischa Niermann, the great architect of a structure that, under his mandate, has won two Turns of Italy, a Vuelta a España and a Paris-Roubaix, among many other achievements.
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