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Alpecin-Premier Tech · staff profile
Team manager / sports director
Christoph Roodhooft

One half of the Roodhooft brothers' cyclo-cross-to-WorldTour project, built around Van der Poel and Philipsen but no longer limited to them.

Christoph Roodhooft paper-collage staff portrait

Christoph Roodhooft and his brother Philip built one of cycling's most distinctive modern teams from cyclo-cross roots. The project that became Alpecin-Deceuninck and then Alpecin-Premier Tech rose with Mathieu van der Poel, but its best version is broader than one superstar.

The Roodhooft model is leaner and more direct than many WorldTour structures. It prizes riders who can win big days, move across disciplines, and handle imperfect races. That mentality has made the team dangerous in Monuments, sprints, and Tour stages without needing to pretend it is a three-week GC machine.

At the 2026 Tour, Christoph's importance is practical: the team must balance Jasper Philipsen's sprint train, Van der Poel's stage-hunting freedom, and the rest of the squad's role discipline. Few teams turn chaos into results as efficiently.

Why it mattersAlpecin's rise is a family-built operating system with cyclo-cross instincts and WorldTour teeth.

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Christoph Roodhooft is part of the Alpecin-Premier Tech story at the 2026 Tour — see the full team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2); text-only/generated reference where no source photo was available. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.