The fairy tale of the Dutch peloton: two years ago Biesterbos was riding gravel and club races for BEAT Cycling, then a stunning silver medal at the 2025 Gravel Worlds — beaten only by Florian Vermeersch — earned the Apeldoorner a WorldTour deal at 24. Top-five finishes in his very first pro road season followed, and now he makes his Tour debut as the team's second sprint card.
Palmarès
- Silver medal, UCI Gravel World Championships — ahead of Matej Mohorič (2025)
- 3rd Veenendaal-Veenendaal Classic (2026)
- 4th Brussels Cycling Classic (2026)
- 7th Copenhagen Sprint (2026)
Cut-out factHe is a first-year professional at 24 — Picnic PostNL signed him straight from club level after he nearly became gravel world champion against full-time WorldTour pros.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Warren Barguil, Pavel Bittner, John Degenkolb, Robbe Dhondt, Niklas Märkl, Julius van den Berg, Frank van den Broek — see the full Picnic PostNL team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: teampicnicpostnl.com, author: see source, license: see source.
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