Ecuadorian champion Jhonatan Narvaez joins UAE Team Emirates from 2025 onwards

After beating Tadej Pogacar in the opening Giro d'Italia stage, Jhonatan Narváez joins the Slovenian at UAE Team Emirates on a two-year deal from 2025 onwards. His sixth season at Ineos Grenadiers was arguably the best of his career, beating compatriot Richard Carapaz for the sought after Olympic Games nomination. However the Ecuadorian champion reached a new agreement at the team from United Arab Emirates.

"Since the beginning of my career I’ve always wanted to be involved at the highest level of cycling and we can say that UAE Team Emirates is the best team in the world in the last years so it’s an honour to be moving there," Narváez said in press release. "I feel I’ve taken big steps at Ineos but I think I still have margin to take another step in the coming years."

"From the outside UAE looks like a well organised team with a really good ambiance amongst the riders, and with a very experienced and specialised staff who are the best at what they do and look to dispute each race they go to.
I feel like I still haven’t reached my full maturity as a rider and hope to keep progressing and improve both as a classics rider and as an all-rounder."

UAE Team Emirates CEO Mauro Gianetti adds: "We are very pleased to welcome Jhonatan to UAE Team Emirates for the coming years. He’s shown his ability both as a winner and as a worker and we feel he can slot in well to our team. Jhonatan is an aggressive rider with lots of experience at the top level so we are confident to see the best of him over the next years with us."